Especially bad is that part above the screen where the antennas are mounted inside. The chassis has a bunch of weak points so build quality is not overall excellent and that shows after some time. I was hooked on the series ever since.Īs someone who used the X220 for quite a long time I can agree. I pulled the battery in a panic, but after taking everything apart and drying it all out - it worked fine for at least a decade. I started my first real 'professional' job in tech, and while packing/moving for said job I somehow had an entire gallon of windshield wiper fluid spill directly into the (running) fan port of my work-issued T42 I had left on the floor of my minivan. A cracked bezel happened, but was a 10 minute and $20 repair. Both in parts availability and design of the laptop itself. The repairability just was second to none. I have a stack of T60 series laptops I think I could keep going for another 50 years just by robbing parts from donor laptops as needed. The T series was built like a tank - a WWII era tank that could take a beating, have bits and pieces crack and break, but chug along until you could get the (cheap!) replacement part shipped. I was a 100% Thinkpad fanboy up until the T410S finally pissed me off enough with battery life and keyboard changes to move to Apple.

(would love if they remove the XPS 13 fan and there are more non-moving part notebooks) Also, this obsession from Apple about not having touch screens in notebooks because they also sell iPads is disturbing.įinally, an XPS 13 with good battery support (assuming ARM) and good Linux power handling will, probably, be the best notebook available. The issue with the Airs is that you cannot currently connect three external monitors (without doing very hacky things), but this is just a question of time.

In that context the MacBook Airs excel at a point that more expensive and powerful Apple notebooks such as the MacBook Pro cannot sustain a 'marathon' without a charger. The crux for all of these was the battery daily duration and replacement after a few years. Then the XPS 13 was more perfect for me because I could attach three external monitors and have power just via a single Thunderbolt cable (no more custom docks). To be sincere, the form-factor and practicality moving from home to work and having the dock.

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