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by mjankowski 4142 days ago
If you are a developer compare the screens - my T420 is pain for the eyes and the screen ratio sucks for coding.

My next PC is going to be MBP or MS Surface Pro. No more crappy screens.

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Screen, keyboard and touchpad are super important. It's what you use most in a laptop after all.

Lenovo offers different screens for the same models. Be careful to pick the better one.

I found that using a trackpoint and 3 physical buttons has eliminated any carpal tunnel like pains in my hands.

While the touchpad on MBPs is nice, I found clicking a button which isn't a button quite stressful on the hands. Also, moving my hand to the touchpad and then back up to the ASDF-JKL; typing position is uncomfortable having gotten used to just moving one finger to the trackpoint.

The trackpoint does have one major flaw though - drift. Sometimes, it seems to move itself and you have to correct it. Apparently there is some kind of calibration going on, but it's quite annoying and I wish/hope there is some kind of fix.