I realized something recently. The only reason I’ve been happy with PC (and specifically, desktops) is that I get to control all the “UI hardware” that matters. The screen. The keyboard. The mouse. The speakers. The primary input and output of a computer. Behind those devices is just a box with cpu, memory, and a […]
I like this laptop a lot. It’s got a few issues, but nothing fatal. Pros: Light. Lighter than the 13inch mbp I had before. Probably about the same as the MBA 13 Amazing battery life. I don’t work too much on the weekends, but it often gets me through to monday without recharging. Top notch […]
Hurray for totally random sketchy utilities that make or break your computing experience. Enter TwoFingerScroll, a modded version of an old google code project that brings fairly decent two finger scrolling to windows. This thing is _WAY_ better than my x220’s built in scrolling, provided by the ultranav driver. It’s quite embarassing really. Synaptics engineers […]
PCs are tools, and Macs are appliances. Fundamentally, when Apple designs a Mac, they’re making a device that looks like a computer but is targeted at very specific use-cases. At one point, it was the “digital hub” idea. Now it’s added a “internet client” flavor. Their high-end stuff is arguably targeted at content creation. In […]
The symptom of this problem is that when you use your system in english mode, it displays a bunch of Japanese characters as squares (like the font doesn’t exist), but only in certain areas like window titles, task bar, tab titles. It usually doesn’t show in browser rendering, since those engines seem to know how […]
Test driving this smaller thinkpad at work. Seems plenty fast, even to drive the 30 inch screen (unlike the previous x201 which had the crappy old intel graphics). I didn’t get an IPS screen so can’t tell how that is. Bummer. Screen is also definitely lower contrast than Apple display. Touchpad is awful as usual. […]
The two-fingered swipe left to right feature to go back a page is cool, and the animation is slick, but it sucks that a lot of times, the revealed page doesn’t react to further scrolling for a few seconds. Feels glitchy. If the previous page needs to load somehow, I wish there were some visual […]