A T495s to replace my aging T430. The T430 is still quite usable, but the original battery with 34% health isn’t great, though it gets through a 2 hour lecture no problem.

I do miss the trackpoint buttons and smaller trackpad, I tend to move the mouse with my palm while using the trackpoint, but otherwise the new one is better in every way.

  • vaionko@sopuli.xyzOP
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    3 months ago

    I’ve only had it for a day, but so far seems to work very well. Will see next week when I need to do some actual work with it, so far I’ve been just playing around. No problems with sleep so far, though it take quite a bit longer to wake up that the T430, though that might have to do with libreboot also, not available for the new one unfortunately. I rarely use bluetooth, but I just tried pairing up a mouse and it went smoothly.

    Haven’t needed to do any tinkering, everything including the fingerprint reader works out of the box.

    • the_weez@midwest.social
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      3 months ago

      I have had pretty good luck with fingerprint scanners, most just seem to work. If you have some Bluetooth headphones I would be interested to hear how those do, that’s mostly what I had issues with. Good to hear about sleep though, it’s kinda rough to have a laptop without working sleep mode.