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Stymied on Computers...
So I went to Costco last night to buy the more expensive Toshiba laptop.
No Toshibas.
The sales person said they aren't on the list as coming in. He apologized, since he likes Toshibas and Apples best, too.
I write a comment card explaining that they'd lost an $864 dollar sale, bought berries and left.
*sigh*
I can order it from Toshiba, but only get a one year warranty that way. Maybe I will wait a couple days, see if it comes back to the web site.
No Toshibas.
The sales person said they aren't on the list as coming in. He apologized, since he likes Toshibas and Apples best, too.
I write a comment card explaining that they'd lost an $864 dollar sale, bought berries and left.
*sigh*
I can order it from Toshiba, but only get a one year warranty that way. Maybe I will wait a couple days, see if it comes back to the web site.
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Try Fryes! just go up there and look around!
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Since Half Price is also having a sale right now, this is a great reason to drop by the Parmer location, if I get other things done today first!
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or
https://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=37&Code=E430_BASIC_SAP&category_id=77160E70986F3A542955F35F555662EF
if you're wanting to keep costs down, but the form factor of the first is really nice. (My last laptop was an earlier version of their tablet version of that. My current one is a souped up w530, but then I'm doing pretty computationally expensive simulations for my research right now.)
Really, the build quality can't be beat (with the possible exception of apple, and apple is kind of changing their philosophy there), and the pricing is great, too.
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Both of those are very big things for me right now.
Otherwise, they are clearly a competitive computer!
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One of the reasons I buy Lenovo is because of the screen, so I'd be really interested in what criteria was used to pan it, because frankly it's better than the Macs we have in the lab (including some very high end boxen, though I haven't seen the new retina displays).
Now, keep in mind, I'm talking about Thinkpads, not their other machines. (But then, the links I sent you were for Thinkpads.)
Last I checked, they had better color accuracy than Macs, but I haven't been following that closely (Apple made a few decisions that make most of their hardware essentially non serviceable so I didn't even look at it this time out). One of the reasons I got my w530 is that it offered a higher res screen - because I'm a massive resolution snob. And the backlights are very bright and easily adjustable, the screens are matt finish by default (why the *hell* do so many manufacturers make high gloss screens? they look pretty when off, I guess, but they're horrible to use, glare city) and the keyboard lights are wonderful (I mean the little bitty light on top that lights your keyboard in a dark room, not the glowing keys, which I didn't get).
For more general eye-ease, I would look seriously at a color temperature package - which is to say f.lux on Windows or Mac, redshift on linux or Neyetlight on android - easier on the eyes and means that your computer won't screw up your diurnal cycle. (Which is way more important to health than most people realize. klf15, a major signal molecule for regulation of metabolism and all kinds of stuff is controlled via diurnal regulation, just to name one - and there's more here that we don't know than we do.)
Re: the chiclet keyboard. So, the old Thinkpad keyboards were generally acknowledged to be the gold standard in the industry - my last computer had them, people were buying them to use as stand along keyboards, everyone loved them. So I was pretty dubious when I heard about the keyboard redesign and was pretty ready to dislike it.
So far, I'm really pleasantly surprised. They promised the community that they spent an awful lot of time and testing on the redesign, and darn, it's a good keyboard. Sometimes I think I like it better than my old Thinkpad keyboard - but I'll get a better sense of that after I set up my old computer as a web server. Really good key feel.
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Here's the one I found while researching laptops:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6524&review=lenovo+ideapad+z580
My desktop is 7+ years old, so this new machine will become my dominant writing machine.
PS--
I do not trust the Cloud, and there are places I go I can't reach it. And I can lose a flash drive in a heartbeart.
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Now, I must go get a duplicate of my voter registration and research a DBA....
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The resolution on either of these isn't as high as I'd like, but it's useable. What are you used to now?
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An old Dell. The problem is, the Lyme affected my eyes, and I am trying to get the best monitor I can, in case the current treatment doesn't improve things anymore than the status quo.