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kermi3

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My Next Laptop
« on: August 08, 2012, 12:46:10 PM »
Finally!  An ultrabook that competes on spec with MacBook Air, has a reasonable screen for working on, and fantastic input devices!

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/7/3226495/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon-price-availability
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6536&review=lenovo+thinkpad+x1+carbon+business+ultrabook
http://www.zdnet.com/thinkpad-x1-carbon-able-macbook-air-competitor-review-7000002294/

If The Verge's review holds up to these, I seriously will consider buying one of these on launch day.  I'll probably skip the 3G option, but I haven't decided on processor or HD yet.  If I get the 250, I can probably get most of the media collection I use day to day onto it...and thus effectively replace my current laptop for everything except gaming (new one won't have games - or will have a minimal number....

Just wish there was an option for more than 4GB of ram
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2012, 01:14:51 PM »
Quote from: kermi3 on August 08, 2012, 12:46:10 PM
Finally!  An ultrabook that competes on spec with MacBook Air, has a reasonable screen for working on, and fantastic input devices!

Why not just buy the macbook air, which comes with full disk encryption out-of-the-box?
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/28/inside_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_file_vault_full_disk_encryption_and_cloud_key_storage.html
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2012, 02:23:47 PM »
I'm a Windows guy....and, more importantly, I tend to find MS Office works better in Windows...and since I spend about 90% of my work time in Office....
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2012, 05:30:14 PM »
Open Office (or Libre Office)

Problem solved, no comparability issues.
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2012, 06:19:59 PM »
Yea - no.  It's not compatibility, it's features and interface.  Granted I haven't tried Open Office in several years...but I'm pretty sure I need more polish than that.  Most importantly - I need a fully functioning Excel, and I recall - the Open Office version isn't to kind to Excel's higher level features.  I also need fully compatible commenting and track changes....not sure if Open Office has that.....I also have my dissertation written with a citation manager that appears to support Open Office, but it's tricky enough in Word....
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2012, 06:48:11 PM »
The MS office suite for mac is good, I like the interface better than the windows version (although my opinion could be biased being a mac user).
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2012, 07:57:41 PM »
You need to try a new version.

Quote from: kermi3 on August 08, 2012, 06:19:59 PM
Yea - no.  It's not compatibility, it's features and interface.  Granted I haven't tried Open Office in several years...but I'm pretty sure I need more polish than that.  Most importantly - I need a fully functioning Excel, and I recall - the Open Office version isn't to kind to Excel's higher level features.  I also need fully compatible commenting and track changes....not sure if Open Office has that.....I also have my dissertation written with a citation manager that appears to support Open Office, but it's tricky enough in Word....
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2012, 01:16:38 AM »
Just did....doesn't work that well with my citations and is a bit finiky with some of my Excel stuff :-/
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2012, 01:18:35 AM »
I don't get into Excel much so I was guessing there. It has been great for me with everything from the college so i figured maybe it had progressed since your last usage. Libre Office is essentially the same thing but there are some differences. You may try that as well just to see.
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2012, 09:52:12 AM »
Perspective - I'm just not quite ready to make that much of a change lol....plus I'm not sold on the new document handling system...What do you think?  I know it's very iCloud based...and I also know that I can't allow any of my confidential stuff to be uploaded to iCloud....
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2012, 09:57:17 AM »
You have to enable iCloud to use it, I'm not using it right now, mostly because I havent had a chance to read up on it.
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2012, 10:17:50 AM »
Fair enough....What about the whole duplicate thing?
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« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2012, 12:15:16 PM »
Duplicate thing? I use my mac just like a regular computer. No backups other than what I do manually to an external HD (although you can use Time Machine to auto-backup to an external HD if you want). No cloud synching, no duplicating any files. Just me and my hard drive.
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2012, 12:27:03 PM »
I like this one. This one definitely goes on my list of possible next computers. Then I could get rid of my little netbook and my 14" latitude for one combo unit. Slap Linux on that bad boy and you're set (and upgrade the RAM).
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Re: My Next Laptop
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2012, 02:22:13 PM »
Awesome line Kermi.
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