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    From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Andrew Leary on Friday, March 25, 2022 08:01:00
    Hello Andrew Leary!

    ** On Friday 25.03.22 - 00:20, Andrew Leary wrote to Sean Dennis:

    I'd love to get a last-generation IBM Thinkpad. I miss
    those great keyboards.

    I've got a W520, which was the last model before they
    changed to the new keyboards. Intel Core i7, USB 3.0
    support, and the 7 row ThinkPad keyboard.

    That's the machine I probably should have settled for the
    T540p. But.. I was focused on having a keyborad with a built-
    in numeric keypad. I do a lot of numerical entries. Now, I
    see that I could have just as well added a USB numeric keypad.

    The single-key design for Alt-LEFT-Arrow and Alt-RIGHT-Arrow
    for going back and forth on browser pages is very handy too.

    The T540p also replaces the fine 4 button touch-pad with a
    single tilting design. It sticks and feels weird.


    I wouldn't mind finding a ThinkPad 25 (the 25th
    anniversary edition where they brought back the 7 row
    keyboard,) but those are extremely rare and expensive.

    I did not hear of that one. WHEN was it released? 2017?

    $1899 @lenovo. Hmmmm.. not too bad. I paid around $900 for
    my refurbished T540p on Jan 2020, pre-covid. It's an i5
    2.6Ghz, 1TB SSD + DVD/RW. I really wanted and needed the
    built-in DVD/RW too.
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  • From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to Sean Dennis on Friday, March 25, 2022 08:02:00
    Hello Sean Dennis!

    ** On Thursday 24.03.22 - 21:48, Sean Dennis wrote to Mark Hofmann:

    and LED displays.. Just tons of them. I can only keep
    so much stuff.

    I'd love to get a last-generation IBM Thinkpad. I miss
    those great keyboards.


    I am trying SO hard to want to appreciate my newest Thinkpad,
    T540p, but it is had to work with it. The keyboard quality is
    NOT the same as on the T40 or the T60 that I have. The keyboard
    material is lighter, less springy, and chicklet (vertical
    sides, not sloped).

    But..I came up with a little work around. I decided to link up
    the T540p via VNC from my T60. That way I can work the machine
    using the T60 keyboard. It's not a bad hack.


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    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.51
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointface (618:250/1.9)