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I (as a decade long MBP user) still think that Thinkpads nailed notebook design.

Since I moved more and more to Arch on a cheap Chinese notebook which seems to replace my MBP for 90% of my tasks I hope to get a Thinkpad with Arch as my next main notebook.

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I switched to Thinkpad/Arch this year and so far it's been great. Neatest laptop design I've had, paired with a great setup for development.

Best of all, they're not too pricey for the specs.

What wm do you use (I use plain i3)?

I've been on Gnome 3 for quite some time now, haven't checked out other WMs in a while. I've heard some very good things about i3 though.

I also just switched from a MBP to a Thinkpad with Arch this year. After some minor hesitation I pulled the trigger and am still very happy with the decision. I got nearly twice the specs of a MBP for a significantly smaller price.

Initially I loaded Cinnamon (I think?) but replaced it with Gnome after some unresolved -to me- issue with my volume buttons. Everything works wonderfully now. And I'm having zero issue with any developmental experimentation (Android, web, traffic analysis, etc.)

Highly recommend the switch.

holy hell, this is Exactly what I've been looking for. Ive been saving up for a replacement for my 2010 MBP, and it's been between a new miscellaneous thinkpad, and a $3,000-priced 2017 MBP, which I believe would've been justified if the god bedamned thing had a mechanical power button! I don't want to bet a ~$1200 premium on the TouchBar/ID power button providing the same "At least it turns on" reliability that I've grown from adolescence to love, and more recently I've come to depend on, for safe mode and single user mode booting. Hell! Take away a man's power button, and you take away his power...

I tried going from a MBP at home to a ThinkPad last month (bought the T470p). The problem is that at work I'm still on a MBP.

In Linux, I tried to get my T470p to emulate the MBP key mapping but was unable to get all apps, terminal to work properly. I really thought there would be a low level tool (kernel maybe) to switch Alt with Ctrl.

After 1 week of trying, I sent the T470p back...

And probably could work with hackintosh:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/wiki/os/hackintosh

What model notebook did you move to?

Not the OP, but I'm moving from a 2017 MBP-touchbar to the GDP Pocket, which is .. almost .. the perfect Linux machine for my needs. I only hope GPD scale up and keep this up - its beyond time for Apple to have competition in the unibody-laptop department ..

It's the Xiaomi Mi 12.5". It's a great subnotebook, Arch working flawlessly since all parts are from Intel but sometimes I need a bigger screen thinking that 14" of a Thinkpad X1 might be the sweet spot.

I came here to say exactly the same thing. This machine is absolutely great. Do you own the fanless m3 one?

Where do you buy Xiaomi laptops?

First couple of sites that came up after a basic search were either selling Chinese versions or priced in HKD. Is there a preferred USA based distributor?

I would like to know as well.

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