Best Laptop for Holidays?

titanium777

titanium777

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If you are looking for a rock solid laptop that isn't going to fall apart in 2 years.. I would go on ebay and get a Lenovo T430 - you should be able to find one for under $500.

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It doesn't have a touch screen - but seriously, who the fuck wants one and who is going to use one. But it does have a steel alloy body construction and doesn't feel like some cheap asian crap.
 
imbo55 said:
If you are looking for a rock solid laptop that isn't going to fall apart in 2 years.. I would go on ebay and get a Lenovo T430 - you should be able to find one for under $500.
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Except this might make you want to throw it out a window sometimes if you use a lot of keyboard shortcuts...

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Especially if you switch between that laptop and another computer often. Some people don't mind it, but I hate it. Lenovo laptops are nice except for that damn Fn key placement.
 
Netphase said:
Except this might make you want to throw it out a window sometimes if you use a lot of keyboard shortcuts...

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Especially if you switch between that laptop and another computer often. Some people don't mind it, but I hate it. Lenovo laptops are nice except for that damn Fn key placement.
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Mac's also have the Fn key first and then control. Though it can get annoying, thankfully there is a setting in the lenovo bios to swap the keys around.
 
imbo55 said:
Mac's also have the Fn key first and then control. Though it can get annoying, thankfully there is a setting in the lenovo bios to swap the keys around.
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The location isn't as annoying to me on a Mac unless using Windows on it. OSX keyboard shortcuts are Command+whatever instead of Control+whatever and the command keys are always right next to the spacebar on both sides.

It is good that Lenovo added a bios swap, I had one as a work computer before that was an option and a Dell personal laptop with the opposite keys. Switching between the two daily sucked.
 
Lenovo must have changed this. Mine have the Fn and CTRL keys opposite of what the picture above shows.

+1 for Lenovo
 
jhoffy22 said:
Lenovo must have changed this. Mine have the Fn and CTRL keys opposite of what the picture above shows.

+1 for Lenovo
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Interesting. Which model is it? I have never seen a Lenovo with CTRL to the left of Fn. I think they should at least offer each keyboard layout as a configuration option on the website.
 
jhoffy22 said:
Lenovo must have changed this. Mine have the Fn and CTRL keys opposite of what the picture above shows.

+1 for Lenovo
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Netphase said:
Interesting. Which model is it? I have never seen a Lenovo with CTRL to the left of Fn. I think they should at least offer each keyboard layout as a configuration option on the website.
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I just checked out the Lenovo website...

The Essential and IdeaPad models have CTRL on the left. I didn't know that until now.

The ThinkPad models still have Fn on the left.
 
Netphase said:
Interesting. Which model is it? I have never seen a Lenovo with CTRL to the left of Fn. I think they should at least offer each keyboard layout as a configuration option on the website.
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I have a Yoga 2 Pro puchased about a month ago and here is the key layout:

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Side note: if your budget was double OP I would recommend this laptop. Haswell processor, 8 gb ram, SSD and an insane 3200x1800 resolution display. Only downside is that I get around 6 hours of battery life due to the display.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/yoga/yoga-2-pro/
 
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