Posts by AgentOrange

ThinkPad T14s AMD Gen 1: Workhorse that does the business – and dares you to push that red button

Re: "grille on the bottom"

Yes, it is for airflow, don't set your laptop on a squishy pillow or a fluffly blanket unless you want it to slow down due to thermal loading ... i.e. the CPU throttles its speed when it starts getting hot. Older Thinkpads (T420 era) avoided this design-issue by inhaling cool air from the back and exhaling hot air out the sides but those devices were much thicker than current models due to the inclusion of optical drives (CD/DVD). I suspect the current design was adopted to make the laptops thinner. A good practice is to avoid parking a running laptop anywhere dusty or where lint may get sucked up into the machine's cooling fins, seems like common sense but a lot of people don't think about it.

Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 Gen 8: No boundaries were pushed in the making of this laptop – and that's OK

Yes, the "clit mouse" has kept me from getting carpal tunnel problems after years of mouse usage and I type faster since my hands never leave the keyboard. I turn the trackpads off, I can't stand them. I even have ThinkPad Trackpad external keyboards for my desktop boxes. That said, they are an acquired taste. Several other laptop manufacturers used to use them in their business laptop lines but they seem to be going the way of manual transmissions in cars (i.e. disappearing rapidly).

Video? That's so not what we care about, says Slack, as it signs video deal with AWS

FY2021, really?

re: "Slack has posted strong growth for the first quarter of FY 2021 and declined to measure its performance by comparing adoption rates with Microsoft Teams."

Did you mean Fiscal Year 2020 by chance?