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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 22:55:19 JST nixCraft 🐧

   On this day in 2004, IBM announced that it would sell its PC division to Lenovo 😟 Since then, quality has gone down for Thinkpad. It is now just following what Apple is doing. IBM had a fully industrial design team for the iconic brand back in the old days. It is sad to see such a legacy ruined by Lenovo

   • Old Man in the Shoe (jenzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 22:56:29 JST Old Man in the Shoe

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     @nixCraft I don't trust Lenovo

   • Joe Brockmeier (@jzb) (jzb@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 23:01:07 JST Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

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     @nixCraft Wow, has it been *that* long? It seems more recent than that.

     I like what @frameworkcomputer is doing these days with upgradeable and repairable laptops. They're not quite the tanks that ThinkPads used to be, nor are their keyboards as nice, but overall - happy with my Framework system I purchased earlier this year.

     I like them enough to recommend to my younger brother, who would _definitely_ complain to me if he wasn't happy with it...

   • aaronage (aaronage@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 23:31:52 JST aaronage

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     @nixCraft I swear 99.99% of “<insert> is doing an Apple” comments I see online make no sense lol

     What does that even mean here? 😅

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 00:34:59 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     @svanschu @anthropy My former employer simply stopped buying ThinkPads because of the bad hardware that kept breaking. They just started getting the cheapest possible Windows machines for everyone. The quality of Lenovo ThinkPads went to /dev/null, and yet they were still charging as if they were a premium brand. LOL. Meanwhile, C C-suites started using MacBooks for their needs, and developers demanded MacBook Pros. It just wasn't worth it for them to pay a premium & get 3rd class service.

   • svanschu (svanschu@mastodontech.de)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 00:35:00 JST svanschu

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     • Anthropy :verified_dragon:

     @anthropy @nixCraft You think so. My T590 had 3 displays, 1 Mainboard, 1 touchpad within 3 years and with less than 4 years the USB C port is broken. The T16 has some faulty pixels till now. But DELL and HP are even worse. I think I will try the frameworks next ...

   • Anthropy :verified_dragon: (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 00:35:02 JST Anthropy :verified_dragon:

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     @nixCraft While I also don't like what Lenovo did with the Thinkpad brand especially with the yogas and all, I do still like the X and T series, they're sold to enterprises with an SLA so they can't really fuck those up (or it'll cost them fortunes they don't have)

     I've been using the X1 Carbon gen 8 for years at work and it's literally the sturdiest laptop I've ever had, I regularly demo throwing it open onto the floor and stomping on the open screen with both feet, never seen anything like it

   • Unauthorised User (theonezero@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:22:35 JST Unauthorised User

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     @nixCraft Wow! Still remember reading this in the news back then.

     Personally, having had enough with below average machines from Acer, I decided to pay a bit more and give TP a try. So far I love it. Lets see how it holds up as time goes on.

   • Milos (doctor_zoidberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 02:36:13 JST Milos

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     @nixCraft They are now absolute shit, at least those that come through Slovakia. At work, the highest rate of broken laptops that we have is among Lenovo, 1 in 22. Dell is at 1 broken in 55. We had whole batches of about a dozen laptops where every single one broke. And they even look shitty, P16 has stinky and cheap plastic where clips break as soon as you try to open it.

   • Skiddro (skiddro@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 03:12:14 JST Skiddro

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     @nixCraft Speaking of Lenovo, I use an IdeaPad Slim 3 laptop. It's not that bad honestly, and it's powerful enough to even run Grand Theft Auto 5 to some extent. I also love how AMD PSP can be disabled on it, which is surprising.

   • Bharathi / பாரதி (bharathis@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 04:49:01 JST Bharathi / பாரதி

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     @nixCraft 100% correct. Started my TP Journey with R50. X13 will be my last TP. Stupid design changes, Poor quality and High cost.

   • BoloMKXXVIII (bolomkxxviii@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 07:37:04 JST BoloMKXXVIII

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     @nixCraft I wish Fujitsu still sold laptops in the US. Those things seemed bulletproof. I kept my last one until I couldn't get drivers for newer versions of Windows. Linux wasn't even considered for laptops back then.

   • nix (nixiu@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 21:31:12 JST nix

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     @nixCraft I honestly think T and X series are the best in class that you can get nowadays. You are 'generalizing' it too much. Name a better alternative!