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negated: has star powah
11/19/09

In reply to Super Cheap, Super Small Lenovo X100E Leaks
Black and white are neutral shades, not colors. Only the reds, purples, and blues on thinkpads qualify as colors.

A thinkpad running AMD, and particularly a thinkpad with that nasty excuse for a keyboard leave me less than enthused. Couldn't they have kept the awesome keyboard?
Of all the things they could've screwed up, why'd they fuck with the KEYBOARD?
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blash
11/19/09

In reply to Super Cheap, Super Small Lenovo X100E Leaks
X200 Thinkpad: 12" frame, trackpoint, no trackpad.

X100E leak: 11" frame, trackpoint, trackpad.... + colors + chiclet keyboard.

fake... though I will admit it looks like a nice mid-level netbook competitor if it comes in at under $500 compared to the rest of the crap out there.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/18/09

In reply to Super Cheap, Super Small Lenovo X100E Leaks
I do believe I see my top choice over all netbooks in existence. A lot of people don't like the nub, but I think it's perfect for something like a netbook, where the trackpads are usually small and sucky as hell compared to regular full-size laptops.

I've mentioned my affinity for the Thinkpad aesthetic before but I think it bears repeating that I find them to be industrially lovely.
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Nathan Obbards
11/18/09

@Kaiser-Machead: They are industrially lovely. You look at them and they say to you ''I'm here to get shit done''.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/18/09

@Kaiser-Machead: I agree with the industrially lovely part but I've never been a fan of the nub.
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Nathan Obbards
11/18/09

In reply to Super Cheap, Super Small Lenovo X100E Leaks

I only read 320GB HDD max, not 500GB. But who's nitpicking, I'm just glad to see it comes with the Trackpoint StylePointer mouse.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/02/09

In reply to Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
Awesome. Too bad she didn't wound him instead. Imagine him then having to go back to the rest of the terrorist cell buddies and explain to them that a woman took his AK-47 and shot him with it...
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Aashish Bhagyanagar
10/02/09

@Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®:
Dude these are hardcore al-qaeda affiliated pakistani militants not some nuts with guns......they dont stay down if they just get wounded.They are brainwashed religious zealots.She needed to kill one of them to set an example and scare the others away.
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10/02/09

@Aashish Bhagyanagar: I know. I still think it would have been funnier if he had to explain how he lost his gun. His friends would zing him afterwards by setting him up on a suicide mission to redeem himself and then give him a fake bomb. They'd secretly video tape him trying to set the thing off. Then when he returns to their hideout, cave, whatever they'd play it back while everyone rips on him..
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blash
10/01/09

In reply to Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
Well, it's Skype... decrying this move as putting more crapware on our shipped OS's is like complaining if the vendor installed MS Office (not crappy works) for you for free, or even if Firefox or Chrome were installed for you. It's good software. IT professionals deploying across a fleet and power users like me will just go ahead and wipe off the shipped OS in favor of a clean/custom set up anyways.
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Nathan Obbards
10/01/09

In reply to Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
Am I alone in wondering why people are so obsessed with XP and stuck in using the interface?

When I hopped to Vista I thought the interface was superior, though it faced some issues. W7 is even nicer. The W7 RC is just beautiful to behold, why would you want to uglify it?
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Jake712
10/01/09

In reply to The ThinkPad That Never Runs Out Of Battery
Well now I got this tune in my head.
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Jake712
10/01/09

@Jake712: Ugh, editing your post kills the image? Trying again.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
10/01/09

@Jake712: I'll have four fried chickens and a Coke.
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drewdrawshashtags
10/01/09

In reply to The ThinkPad That Never Runs Out Of Battery
And they have yet to create a modern ThinkPad with half the cool of that one.
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therandomstuff
10/01/09

In reply to The ThinkPad That Never Runs Out Of Battery
That is so weird, I have one of those around my house somewhere.
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Kaiser-Machead
10/01/09

In reply to The ThinkPad That Never Runs Out Of Battery
I find that the video playback is sorely limited by the capacity, and if my thumb is dry, playback can be a little choppy.
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darkshaddow42
10/01/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Yeah, but on the other hand, the entire device is a perfect tablet which accepts infinite levels of pressure and multiple color inputs through the purchase of "markers".
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Kaiser-Machead
10/01/09

@darkshaddow42: Markers? Pfffff. I'd only ever buy Uniball drivers for this pad, or if I'm feeling crazy, a Rapidograph.
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kenny1209
06/27/09

In reply to Lenovo Installs Adware With Latest Automatic Update
Yup - have the T400 and it popped up. They use to do this before but I was able to uninstall the app. I have no idea how to uninstall it now. I have posted this on letsfixthis.com - hope lenovo listens [www.letsfixthis.com]
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doofusgumby
06/26/09

In reply to Lenovo Installs Adware With Latest Automatic Update
I only buy lenovo laptops for most users (and a couple macs) - I always do a system restore on new lappys, custom style, and un-check all the bloatware. other than having to do that, I have no complaints about lenovo.

and none of my users get those ads, since I don't let message center run on anything.
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IgnatiusCabatan
06/26/09

In reply to Lenovo Installs Adware With Latest Automatic Update
I've owned four consecutive ThinkPad Laptops, and I have to say ever since Lenovo took over the ThinkPad Line the ThinkVantage software has gone from helpful to outright crap. I guess this is what happens when the Chinese Gov takes over a good product ( the chinese government owns the majority of Lenovo). I would not be surprised if there is spyware on there too. I wish IBM still made them, too bad really.
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Geraldo
06/26/09

In reply to Lenovo Installs Adware With Latest Automatic Update
and let's not forget the People's Army botnet it's also installing... ;-)
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