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Major news organisation provide a couple of paragraphs about the latest development and the interesting part is not the journalists opinion, but what the thousands of people reading the article have to say about it.

This holds for good sites, for e.g. youtube and some others - the comments are mostly worthless.

Comment · 10 years ago

Addictions can be multiplied, cross addiction is common. Substance abuse and internet addiction can go hand in hand.

Comment · 10 years ago

I have a hard time distinguishing someone's behaviour from their innate personality. Perhaps forgiveness is the key.

Comment · 10 years ago

In no uncertain terms I absolutely detest the x230 keyboard. I am none too happy about the location of Insert on the x220.

It is like using a cheap acer/toshiba laptop from Argos. A common question I have using them is 'where have the HW UX geniuses decided to put this button I want to use?'.

Cheap laptops are fine by me, but that's not what I want from a thinkpad.

The fact that there is a difference at all is the inherent superiority, a standard layout that stood the test of time and changed for the sake of saving a few pennies.

The fact that you would consider replacing it if it dies with an x220 keyboard (thanks for the info I didn't know that was possible) shows that you do mind it to a small extent.

The keyboard is a very common complaint: http://blog.the-compiler.org/?p=134 - also see the comments.

Also in addition to my prior whining about lenovo, their customer support and returns policy is nowhere near as good as IBM's was. A friend was sent the wrong laptop and after returning it & huge delays lenovo failed to source the correct laptop. He bought a dell.

Richard Sapper, the German industrial designer who orchestrated the look of the iconic laptop for IBM, died 83 years old. I'm blaming lenovo, he's probably spinning in his grave.

Comment · 10 years ago

The new lenovo thinkpads are nearly as bad. I'm an x series user, the last model with a good keyboard for programming was the x220.

From the x230 onwards they have stupid chicklet keys, no visual representation of caps lock or numlock, bad trackpads, and 'modal' function keys - (visually represesented with LEDs of course). Abandoning traditional insert/delete/home/end/pgup/pgdn layout.

Superfish on thinkpads, this battery thing, this bios thing: