• Evil_Shrubbery
    16·
    2 months ago

    Twinkpad cockpilot button is replacing the little nipple confirmed!!

    :‘’'(

  • balsoft@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 months ago

    Honestly, thinkpads started to go downhill some time in 2011 or so when they introduced the new chicklet keyboard. And IMHO everything after the T480 are generic modern laptops with a poorly implemented clit mouse, they’re about as serviceable or modular as anything else on the market.

    Such a shame that nb51 stopped making new mobos for X201s, it would be my forever laptop otherwise. Still doing good for now, but the CPU is starting to show its age, especially the lack of hardware decode for new video codecs and the power consumption compared to modern stuff.

    My only hope is that someone starts selling a chassis that fits a classic thinkpad keyboard and a Framework motherboard, a-la this: https://hackaday.io/project/191579-workbook-framework-13-classic-kb-trackpoint

    • Tiger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know, I got the best Thinkpad I could a year ago and I think it’s amazing. ( I can’t remember the model offhand but I cared about power and ports and not caring about weight and size). Keyboard and build quality is wonderfully robust.

      • balsoft@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, they’re alright laptops, but not as special as they were at their peak. The keyboards were (arguably) best in class, they were modular and repairable even by the standards of the time (the CPUs were socketed until T440p!), and really well-built machines overall.

        But I admit that some of my attraction to them is because I prefer how some things were done back then.

        The old laptop keyboards with a lot of travel, and the old-style trackpoints with a big leverage, are tactile and nice to operate. Thinkpads have the best of both from that era IMO. I know where everything is even in the dark, the long travel prevents accidentally pressing a key, the feedback is decisive. The only way to compete is to stick a mechanical keyboard in a laptop. Oh, and if you do have trouble finding a key in the dark, there’s an exceptionally cute thinklight you can turn on.

        Hotswap batteries are amazing, you can take two charged with you and just swap them over quickly without mucking about with powerbanks and such.

        The physical screen latch means it is closed securely enough to throw papers/a yubikey in the closed laptop, and yet you can easily open it with one hand without the body lifting from the table. Closing it produces a satisfying clunk.

        Lack of a trackpad means that you can dedicate more space to a keyboard even on a tiny laptop.

        The old laptops are thick, but they have a lot of ports which can come in handy. (I do prefer framework’s approach to this, though).

        I understand that all this went away because the new way of doing things saves on cost and nobody cares, or people outright prefer it over the alternative. But damn would I pay a few grand for an Theseus-style upgradeable “forever laptop” that would have at least some of those features. I’ll probably cave and get a used framework eventually.

        • Tiger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Cool, well mine does seem to have some of those good qualities, for what it’s worth (good keyboard, tons of ports, very robust). Was also interested in Framework, will try to get one.

      • Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yeah switched mine back to right Ctrl with 5 seconds in MS PowerToys. You can also map a double tap to open an app, so my copilot key is now just ctrl and open a private Firefox window, which is honestly more convenient than just a ctrl key. Accidental win, just not for copilot.

  • OR3X@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    It’s a Microsoft requirement for their new “AI PC” label. That’s why all the manufacturers started doing it.

  • csolisr@hub.azkware.net
    3·
    2 months ago

    Fun fact: the “Copilot” button is just a rebranded “Search” button. You can map it to do actual searches if you need to.

      • csolisr@hub.azkware.net
        4·
        2 months ago

        Not entirely wrong there, but even in stock Windows 11 you can map it to do searches… from the same sources as the button next to the Start menu. Slightly better than nothing.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Just get an old one! My L440 is quite good after some upgrades, thinking about replacing the screen with something better, but no 14" 1080p IPS offering comes with the required tabs. (3D print them maybe?)

  • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Not just laptops. My work got a new Acer desktop that came with keyboard mouse and what have you, and the keyboard also has a copilot button in lieu of the right ctrl.