BillMorrow wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 06, 2019 1:44 am

i should add, here, that your chosen member name does not exactly inspire trust among some..

Why do you think his name was chosen. It might be his real name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasir_Ara ... icketer%29

I still mainly use Pale Moon without problems. My pet peeve is browsers that force you to include icons on the bookmark toolbar. On Pale Moon, I have 30 links visible on the horizontal bar; with icons+text I could only include about 20.

It depends on what you are doing. For example, the i7-2640M used in the T520 has somewhat better single-core performance than the i7-6500U found in many 2016 laptops, and somewhat worse mult-core performance. Not everything can use multiple cores. http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6500U-vs-Intel...

For office type stuff, the T60p is still very fast, but modern web pages are hogs. Check to see if you are running out of ram --- unfortunately, 3 GB is the most it can use. (This is a major advantage of the Frankenpads, which can use 8 GB).

X1 Carbon 1st gen. Excellent condition except for damaged (20% unusable) screen. Win 7 Pro. Updated Model 34442HU, CPU i5-3317U; Memory 4GB SSD 128GB; Intel graphics 4000; Screen 1600x900. Lenovo power adapter Optronics screen Model B140HAN01.2 IPS 1920x1080 New (untested). X1 Carbon 1st Gen FHD upg...

The X220/T520 are the last with the classic 7-row keyboard. They are also faster than some later laptops with low power chips. The 1900x1080 screens on the T520 are quite good (but 16:9).

Thanks to ethernext! The Frankenpad (T601) I bought from him was very well put together, in excellent condition (as described), and arrived quickly.

this is an entirely different laptop, with the best screen-size to size/weight ratio seen on a Thinkpad in years, if not ever. Not ever, but getting close. Screen area/laptop area X1C 77% T25 69% T60/T61 (4:3) 14.1in 77% T60/T61 (4:3) 15in 78% X60/X61 (4:3) 82% Switching to 3:2 would help. Matebook...

CONSUMER CELLULAR

I used 115 minutes; 0 texts; 13MB data; av bill $15.96.

So you win.

I have a smartphone because I could never remember how to make the nonsmartphone work.

It all depends on how many watts the cpap requires. This should be noted on it. I assume the battery is 12 volts, so 50aH means it can provide 12x50=600 watt hours. If the cpap requires 50w, it should run but only (theoretically) for 12 hours (in practice, significantly less).

In response to the first post, I present this here without comment [no, I'm not going to get involved in this stuff] Police chief shoots himself in the foot. By Matt Durr mattdurr@mlive.com CARELTON, MI -- The police chief in a small town roughly 45 minutes southwest of Detroit shot himself in the f...

It throttles, it fries, and it blow dries.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/le ... ,5865.html

MikalE wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 06, 2018 7:52 am

Fourth Amendment

Fourth Amendment does not apply on entering the U.S. (nor does any other protection) because you are not officially in the country. And of course N.Z. has protections against unreasonable searches.

Does this affect Australia citizens since there's reciprocity EU style freedom of travel etc.? Where have you guys been? The U.S. has been forcibly examining incoming people's gadgets for years. And this affects everyone, including returning citizens. I'd be interested to see how dr_st is planning ...

Calm down folks. Last year they only examined 575 phones out of several million visitors. This is no worse from anywhere else.

WarhawkCZ wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 22, 2018 8:47 am

Just for sake of my curiosity, which are the cheap knock-offs?

Cube Thinker m3

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Cube-Thin ... 312.0.html

TPFanatic wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:03 pm

If this is how you are calculating area,....

No, that's not how I (or anyone else) calculates area.

Among genuine 3:2 laptops, there are only the Matebooks, the Microsoft Surface laptop, and a few cheap knock-offs that don't look promising. The X61 has the best screen-area to laptop-area ratio of any Thinkpad ever made: T60/T61 (4:3) 14.1in 77% T60/T61 (4:3) 15in 78% X60/X61 (4:3) 82% ------------...

But I do suspect that the ThinkPad 25 was a failure overall, because it launched with already obsolete CPUs and had a very high price-point Lenovo is currently selling the Thinkpad 25 for $8 more than a similarly equipped 6th gen X1, which has an 8th gen Intel CPU, is 1.2lbs lighter, and has a 10% ...

Windows 10 updates are shoddy, and break things. Who says so? Microsoft MVP Susan Bradley. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-in-denial-about-concerns-regarding-shoddy-Windows-10-patches.320860.0.html But don't worry, the next version "is expected to restart the PC only when the user has steppe...

As far as I can tell, this is all about the threat of US sanctions and penalties on Chinese companies for alleged violations of US law --- first ZTE, now Huawei, next ??? There's a story in this morning's NY Times saying ZTE maybe forced to close because the US "has blocked its access to American-m...

As far as I can tell, this is all about the threat of US sanctions and penalties on Chinese companies for alleged violations of US law --- first ZTE, now Huawei, next ???

This site is very useful for comparing different shapes:
http://www.displaywars.com/14,1-inch-4x ... 1-inch-3x2

I think 3:2 is the best we can hope for since the manufacturers have spent the last decade pushing 16:9 as !!!new!!! and 4:3 as obsolete. Perhaps 3:2 will become the !!!newnew!!!.

It is encouraging to see people advertising the ratio of the screen area to the laptop area (91% for the new Matebook vs 69% for the Thinkpad T25). This is a number that really matters, and may encourage taller screens.

We are not resisting change for the sake of resisting change. I've tried 16x10 and even 16x9 laptops for quite long periods, and can work with them, but I always heave a sigh of relief when I go back to 4x3. Tall screens are simply are better for what I do. When Thinkpads had 4x3 screens, the area o...

There is also the problem that only about 1% of purchasers know that a 15 inch 4:3 screen is bigger than a 15.4 inch 16:10 screen, which is bigger than a 15.6 inch 16:9 screen (in area). Also a 13.3 inch 4:3 screen is bigger than a 14 inch 16:9 screen.

Apparently the German courts have decreed that it is legal to sell Win 7 OEM Activation codes without hardware. As a result you can find them on ebay for about $6. I've bought several from "cheapercodes" and they have all worked.

once again the millennials screwed us over.

Indeed:

[The millenials] liked the proposal because it is authentic, it is different, it is anti-type company with fruit name.

It's not about having "sexy thin bezels". It's about having the largest screen for a given laptop size.

Ratio of screen area to that of laptop:
TP25 (16:9) 69.1%
T60 (4:3) 14.1in 77.2%
T60 (4:3) 15in 78.3%
X60/X61 (4:3) 81.7%
Matebook X (3:2) 88%.

@IBthink. What are you talking about? A 12.25x8.15 screen in a 13.35x9.15 computer would allow half-inch bezels on all sides. They could do that 10 year ago. Are you arguing they can't do it now?