Comment on Question: Laptop vendors with long-support for Linux + stylus + powerful CPU?
pglpm@lemmy.ca 3 days agoThis looked really cool and more or less what I’m looking for. But it seems the Z series has been discontinued? Maybe they joined it with the T series.
One problem in the Lenovo website is that you can’t filter laptops by pen-capability. They have a “touch” search filter, but that isn’t the same.
GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I actually bought the Z16 just a few months ago to replace my aging 16" Intel MBP - I wanted good linux support, type-c charging, normal keyboard and a 16" 4k OLED screen, nothing new seemed to be comparable.
If you absolutely need something new, notebookcheck has a pen support filter in their search. Just look for laptops without Nvidia GPUs and maybe check Arch wiki (they have device specific pages) or hardware probes on linux-hardware.org. New hardware generally has worse linux support that improves over time.
pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Thank you for netobookcheck, great resource! 🙏 So you bought your Z16 for some store? I’ll look around too :)
GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I got mine used from a local ebay-like site. Can’t really justify buying new hardware most of the time. Thinkpads in general are really easy to buy second-hand in great condition when corporations replace them. Z-series were not very popular so getting it was a lot harder than a T14 or P1, but still, there were some great options.
pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Completely agree there. New models too often turn out to have some mass-produce flaws. I one waits a little, these problems come out and a little search reveals them. So one can buy a slightly older but safer model. I have one of the very many Carbon gen 9 that turned out to have defective Thunderbolt ports; if only I had waited a little before buying a brand-new model…