I'm buying a laptop, interested in reviews?

Nepofigist2012-03-01 11:41:02

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Nepofigist, 2012-03-01 11:41:02

Greetings,
In the near future I am going to buy a laptop Lenovo T420 (Core i3 / 2.2 GHz / 4096 MB / 320 GB / 14.0'' / 1600 × 900 / LED / NVS 4200M / 1024 MB / DVD±RW DL SM / BT / / 6 Cell / Win 7 Pro 64 / 2.24 kg). The main purpose is a ruggedized mobile workstation for office needs, work in not very civilized places, with a good display, comfortable keyboard and DVD drive.
If suddenly you own / use a similar laptop, please tell us about your impressions - what do you like, what not, does it make a lot of noise, does it get very hot, is it really reliable, does Linux work under it normally (Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian or Arch).
Thank you.

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Shizz, 2012-03-01
@Shizz

I have a T420 (the second one, 1600×900 / LED / NVS 4200M / 1024 MB / DVD±RW DL SM / BT / / 6 Cell / Win 7 Pro 64 / 2.24 kg).
I'll tell you right away - I work on Ubuntu. Everything works, including fingerprint and keyboard backlight. The backlight brightness adjustment does not work, but this is a common disease of all laptops, as I understand it. Doesn't bother much.
Pros - ease of upgrade to the desired state. I bought a four gigabyte memory bar, unscrewed one bolt, inserted it - now I have 8 gigabytes of memory. I plan to buy an additional battery instead of a DVD drive.
Minus - the lid hinges are a little loose. Whether this is because my laptop once already fell with the clave-lid down (in the open form), or I don’t know if it’s a design feature. I want to repair/replace the case.
Another small minus is that the trackpoint quickly got dirty. Spare parts are not included, you will have to order in China.
As for the noise, you can't hear it. If you are going to run something graphically heavy, such as games (for example, World of Tanks runs well, Minecraft too, Counter-Strike runs without lags), then it is better to enable turbo blowing in the BIOS. Then the laptop starts to whistle like a jet plane - by the nature of the sound, and not by the volume :) The volume is within the normal range.
It heats up near the Esc button (bottom), under it there is a radiator and a cooler.
It seems like he described all his impressions. The laptop is good. Matte surfaces are especially pleasing. Wipe it with a damp cloth and it's like new.
Yes, and more. I spilled beer on my keyboard once. The beer leaked from the bottom. Turned off, left to dry overnight - works.

Antares19, 2012-03-01
@Antares19

I use T420 on Core i7. For me personally, the best laptop from a large stack of laptops that I have used in recent years. No noise, strong and reliable. Work tool.
I put a microscopic mSATA hdd (into the wwan card slot) as a system disk:
www.storagereview.com/new_lenovo_thinkpad_notebooks_announced_msata_ssds_everyone
Water was accidentally spilled into the keyboard once. It was nice to realize that the risk of damage to the laptop in this case is not great :) I dried it - everything is ok, it works.
The only inconvenience is that quite often, when carrying, I touch the cd-rom open button (not very well located), when I get bored, I will replace it with an additional battery and the question will go away.

Mikhail Lyalin, 2012-03-01
@mr_jok

forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=17:42822-20 _

Sergey, 2012-03-02
@Dzorogh

I have an e420. There was a problem with setting up wifi in ubuntu (intel 1000n card), which I can’t say for sure, but someone blocked the device and didn’t let it turn on.
I solved it by adding
rmmod -f acer-wmi
rfkill unblock all
rfkill list all
to /etc/rc.local.
Yes, and the matte screen is an "amateur". I have huge pixels and some scuffs appeared.

Nepofigist, 2012-03-04
@Nepofigist

Thanks a lot, everyone. All the opinions were very useful, in the end I decided to take a laptop from Lenovo, except that I changed the T420 to the X220 - weight reduction turned out to be more critical for me than power and the presence of a drive. Thanks again.

Nepofigist, 2012-03-07
@Nepofigist

Once again, thank you all for the information and detailed feedback. I bought an x220 yesterday, installed Ubuntu, and I'm damn satisfied: everything works quite fast, nothing slows down, the case strength is impressive, the design pleases. And, yes, a matte display, even if TN is an amazing thing.