I have been utterly underwhelmed by the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon. The laptop is plasticky, the keyboard is meh, which is really bothersome for a 2k GBP machine.
What I am most annoyed with, though, is the fact that I explicitly chose Fedora as the base OS, and the battery level fluctuates wildly between full and "shutdown in 5 minutes"; but, more importantly: I'm getting random visual artefacts on screen, and I don't know if it's just an Intel GPU fuckup or if it's a broken display connector.
I was already underwhelmed by the fact that I had to use Chrome to buy from the Lenovo website, because it didn't support Firefox…
It's my work laptop so it's insured and has support; and I have fallbacks when working at home. I forked over 2 grand for this machine, though, and I am more than ever convinced I will *never* buy a Lenovo laptop, ever again.
How do they not support Firefox ? It is a web browser, designed to view websites that are meant to be w3c compliant, as in you write a website and it works on any browser.
Shows how standards have fallen when these companies can't get their head around that.
@zleap @ebassi well, this is a very selective remembering of history... IE was revolutionary when it was new and it was only by the time of around IE 5 when MS stopped actively developing and keeping up with standards. Then Firefox came along and did a very similar thing eventually wrt/ stagnant development, then Chrome came along and is having a very similar effect on the web, but via a very different mechanism... Turns out, all browsers(/software?) eventually suck :p
@zleap It's super easy to do: just use one of those frameworks that rely on matching the user agent string, and wait until the matching regular expression breaks.
@ebassi
The rot set in during the Mid 90s when MS eventually wrote a web browser, however it broke websites as they failed to follow standards in an attempt to monopolise the internet