College laptops:
Get a Thinkpad and install windows 10 (or 11 if you're willing to be ballsy) and it'll work fine
Get a Thinkpad and install windows 10 (or 11 if you're willing to be ballsy) and it'll work fine
@kirby throw the thinkpad in the trash and get one of HP or dell's business lineup
@skylar is it more affordable than the Thinkpad, because I've been using Thinkpads for some time and being dirt cheap and reliable really makes me like them a lot
@kirby "reliable" died ages ago, now it's cheap chinese garbage that competes with $150 walmart shitboxes but coasts off IBM's reputation
@skylar I'd be inclined to disagree, stuff before like 2018 works just as well lol
@kirby stuff from before 2018 is e-waste, and anything after is hot garbage
bad motherboards, bad wifi cards, bad SSDs, docks that don't work worth a damn, etc. is typical of lenovo's shit. do you want a laptop that will spend more time being shipped back to fucking china for repairs than being used? then go with lenovo.
bad motherboards, bad wifi cards, bad SSDs, docks that don't work worth a damn, etc. is typical of lenovo's shit. do you want a laptop that will spend more time being shipped back to fucking china for repairs than being used? then go with lenovo.
@skylar experienced the exact opposite with both my t470 and x220. the latter actually has a terrible wifi card, so one point to you there, but otherwise it's been perfect
but go off
but go off
@kirby if you had a USB-C dock you could enjoy your external monitors randomly not existing, the ethernet port randomly not existing, just random scuff like that. there's no fix and replacing it with a new one doesn't help either, just reboot continuously until everything happens to be working at the same time.
all of those machines went into the e-waste
all of those machines went into the e-waste
@skylar is that a known issue with the model you had?
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I have MacBook Pro that was one of the first laptops to get a Thunderbolt port — there was no USB-C at the time, it was a different port.
And I got an Apple Thunderbolt Display with it — also one of the first to get all that, it had everything built into it: a wired network adapter, a soundcard with speaker system (it had a subwoofer even), and of course it worked as an external display.
Sometimes on waking the machine from sleep the display didn't come back on.
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You could always unplug it and plug it back in again to fix that — but it was pissing me off as you might have other things connected, like USB storage — I had a Firewire audio card plugged into it. Just disconnecting stuff like that isn't good if you have software that is using that hardware — so it was pissing me off immensely.
This problem never got fixed 😂