Do you use a Mac?

I'm feeling very sorry that I was not able to save the op "long" from the hellscape that is AAPL.

USB, Air ecosystems...Alas.

long will be better off with the legacy PC products.

Um, here's a song. :-(

 

Um, @long and the rest of us hangers on will be better off with a music video from you starring briefly clad skinny chics.

 

Sounds like a challenge., Ug.

 

Meh, it's all RTFM-able. However, why should I waste my time trying to polish a turd? If I pay money for something, it should not be a PITA.

Thankfully, I literally only use have to use Windows at work and only because of Bloomberg. For production and research at the fund we use Linux (CentOS). My home research machine runs Linux, in fact Windows would not even run on that box properly unless I pay for an enterprise license. My two laptops are LG Gram running Linux and an MBP. If I am gonna upgrade/change in the near future, I'll probably get a 15" Macbook Air.

 

I've had multiple. The shell is built well, I fell on concrete steps and the laptop broke my fall, barely any marks. But they are not good with liquid at all, I've had them fail with only slight rain and humidity.
Yours is 18 months old, so basically new. Laptops should easily last for 10 years if taken care of, the only failing parts are fans. But in my experience - ports fail, motherboards fail, screens have issues. It's not just me either, it's a common experience.
Lenovo is Chinese and they are now far from the IBM days. They are still designed in Japan I think, so the design is good. But the manufacturing and part selection is in China and it shows, for certain components they choose the absolute cheapest trash that fails quick.

 

Check out Razer Blade if you need a beefy laptop with good build quality. They got 14-18" models too.

 

In Australia they have Lenova chromebook laptops selling new for AU200.

 

These are completely different from the higher range T, P and X series ones.

 

Fair enough I wouldn’t argue with your experience, but for me it’s the best I’ve had so far. I’ll check back in in 3 years

 

I had an IBM laptop back in the day, and the part where you plug the transformer plug into, it went bad. Undaunted of course, I took the thing apart.... and I forget what I did... but I don't forget this part. Long story short, I never thought the juice coming out of one of those 18V (or whatever they are) transformers could cause a fire. Guess again folks. I was just lucky I entered the room in time. Melted that bitch something ugly.

In this particular case though, I guess the manufacturer didn't matter.