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CentOS developer Dag Wieers chooses a Lenovo Thinkpad

By Steven Rosenberg on January 9, 2009 1:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

I'm very interested in Dag Wieers' recent post on why he chose a Lenovo Thinkpad X200s as his new laptop.

Using what developers use is always a good idea. Chances are that more things will work at the beginning, and then it will only get better as those developers start fixing what's broken.

Among the interesting features on the X200s:

80 GB solid-state hard drive
Small and light, yet with full-size keyboard
Complete hardware-maintenance manual available (VERY important, since laptops tend to break)
Trackpoint instead of touchpad (I really like the trackpoint on my Compaq Armada 7700dmt; both the functionality and the saving of space with no touchpad) Wi-fi, Bluetooth, fingerprint reader, media-card reader (it would be great if this all worked under Linux)

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