http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/02/09/full-text-nokia-...

Major news organisation provide a couple of paragraphs about the latest development and the interesting part is not the journalists opinion, but what the thousands of people reading the article have to say about it.

This holds for good sites, for e.g. youtube and some others - the comments are mostly worthless.

It is like using a cheap acer/toshiba laptop from Argos. A common question I have using them is 'where have the HW UX geniuses decided to put this button I want to use?'.

Cheap laptops are fine by me, but that's not what I want from a thinkpad.

The fact that there is a difference at all is the inherent superiority, a standard layout that stood the test of time and changed for the sake of saving a few pennies.

The fact that you would consider replacing it if it dies with an x220 keyboard (thanks for the info I didn't know that was possible) shows that you do mind it to a small extent.

The keyboard is a very common complaint: http://blog.the-compiler.org/?p=134 - also see the comments.

Also in addition to my prior whining about lenovo, their customer support and returns policy is nowhere near as good as IBM's was. A friend was sent the wrong laptop and after returning it & huge delays lenovo failed to source the correct laptop. He bought a dell.

Richard Sapper, the German industrial designer who orchestrated the look of the iconic laptop for IBM, died 83 years old. I'm blaming lenovo, he's probably spinning in his grave.

From the x230 onwards they have stupid chicklet keys, no visual representation of caps lock or numlock, bad trackpads, and 'modal' function keys - (visually represesented with LEDs of course). Abandoning traditional insert/delete/home/end/pgup/pgdn layout.

Superfish on thinkpads, this battery thing, this bios thing:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov...

Very frustrating! Beyond a joke at this stage.

It's just information but you are right in saying that they should not be making any claims or drawing conclusions!

Also I casually give the wrong gender on websites because on the internet nobody should care.

Look! Somebody wrote an essay about a similar phenomenon:

http://paulgraham.com/bias.html

closely

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2840401/ubuntus-unity-8-deskt...

It's really pretty damn easy.

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8623643&cid=5131356...

Win 7, 8 and 10 are done. OSX has spotlight upload to microsoft in plain sight. What else does OSX have under the hood? Phones are pretty much a foregone conclusion in my estimation, with the exception of cyanogen mod or something.

Your papers were very valuable while doing my undergraduate study. Is Hoard neck and neck with jemalloc and lockless' allocator nowadays?

http://locklessinc.com/benchmarks_allocator.shtml

By making a technically inept strawman, it's reduced to an argument of which is more idiot proof.

The problem with idiot proof is that there's always a better idiot out there.

The argument here by the 'anti cloud' side is 'why not both?'. To argue for one side or the other exclusively is pointless.

Computing at the whim of others aka timesharing.

Smile and nod but your mother has seen a few cycles of the industry.