[kwlug-disc] ThinkPad P15 -- crap?

[William Park]

Thanks, Ron.  P15 has 3840x2160 resolution, and it's wasted because I 
have to set it to 250% to read anything.  Maybe P series bumps up 
internal specs at the expense of human interface, whereas T series 
concentrates on those human interfaces.
--WP

On 6/26/21 1:30 AM, Ron Singh wrote:
> It is just you and also, it is not just you:-)
> From what I understand, key travel is 1.8mm which is decent these 
> days, not as good as the older classic T420/T520/X220 keyboard with 
> around 2.2mm travel. My tech guy uses a P15 and he has a T450 in his 
> bugout bag, he did not have anything negative to say about the P15's 
> keyboard.
> The trackpad though, yeah, Lenovo's trackpad is just crap regardless 
> of vintage and OS choice. Our people turn that thing off in the BIOS 
> and pretend it is not there and just use the trackpoint.
>
> Not sure if you are still using the W10 that came with it or a Linux 
> distro, but if you have a Linux distro in play, try ripping out that 
> libinput driver set and stuff in the evdev driver set(easy to do via 
> SYNAPTIC), doing this has been a godsend for me on just about 
> everything based on Debian10 that we deploy on P15 and P17 laptops. Be 
> ready to play with settings in the driver via the GUI.
> No idea about Arch-based  distros.
> I am not sure this is terribly helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron S.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 1:08 AM William Park via kwlug-disc 
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi guys,
>
>     I'm using ThinkPad P15 Gen 1 at work.  The keyboard, touchpad, and
>     trackpoint are not what I expected.  They feel cheap.  My old T450 is
>     better.
>
>     Is it just me?  Or, has anyone notice this also?
>
>     --WP
>
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