Twelve months back, I needed/wanted to upgrade my ten-year-old much-loved Lenovo T410 to something newer that was faster and had a better display. It took me a long time.
I hate the modern 'use a hub and dongle to make your laptop useful' policy. I want a laptop that has things like HDMI, Ethernet, and quite a few USB connectors built-in.
I also wanted something that was 'Linux-friendly'. That means the peripherals like WIFI and the display work with standard Linux distros. To do that, I find that what works for me is to select a Lenovo laptop and then use the 'customise' feature on the order-page to adjust the specs to something that's suitable for me.
Try as I might, I just couldn't find anything that had a keyboard as good as my trusty T410's. So when I finally plumped on my P53 and Lenovo asked me to review it, I told them straight out that the keyboard was nowhere near as good as the T410's. For some reason they said "Thank you but your review is not a good match for what we were looking for."<grin>
I hate the modern 'use a hub and dongle to make your laptop useful' policy. I want a laptop that has things like HDMI, Ethernet, and quite a few USB connectors built-in.
I also wanted something that was 'Linux-friendly'. That means the peripherals like WIFI and the display work with standard Linux distros. To do that, I find that what works for me is to select a Lenovo laptop and then use the 'customise' feature on the order-page to adjust the specs to something that's suitable for me.
Try as I might, I just couldn't find anything that had a keyboard as good as my trusty T410's. So when I finally plumped on my P53 and Lenovo asked me to review it, I told them straight out that the keyboard was nowhere near as good as the T410's. For some reason they said "Thank you but your review is not a good match for what we were looking for."<grin>