I'm considering switching from my 2013 rMBP 13" to

>>55691820
I have a T500, not a W520, but you oughta be fine. Part of the reason thinkpads of that era are liked is that Linux generally just werks. Only thing I had that didn't just werk was the SD card reader. Big deal, I bought a USB one.

I think the screen is fine in terms of color, but idk how picky you are about that, I'm not.

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>>55691820
>but I'm worried the color will be really bad

If you're coming from a memebook you can only go up.

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I have a w520. Thinkpads, especially non skylake models are very friendly when it comes to installing linux. As far as the screen, Thinkpads are generally known for having mediocre screens, but coming from a ips Dell ultrasharp to the w520 it wasn't that bad at all. The w520 1080p screen actually has slightly better color accuracy and viewing angles that its t420 counterpart.

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>>55691820
I've run Linux on my work laptop W520 for about five years. W520 works great with Linux.

I never bothered with the fingerprint reader.

I never bothered with the dual GPU thing either. My W520 has both NVIDIA and Intel GPUs, and I guess under Windows there is some mechanism to switch between them. I just disabled the Intel one in the BIOS.

There is some support for this (look up "optimus" and "bumblebee"), but I'm not sure how well it works. When I set up the machine it didn't look stable enough... if it was my personal laptop I would have given it a try.

The W520 is the last one to have a good keyboard.

Can't speak to the color... mine has a 1440x900 screen, but I 99% of the time I used it plugged into a dock with dual 1920x1200 montiors.

Hope this helps.

>>55692236
>>55692562
Well you guys didn't really answer my second question, but I'm sure I can overlook it for Linux compatibility. Thanks for the info!

>>55691999
Seconding the screen for this one. Haven't used Linux on my W520 yet, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far on wangblows.

>>55691820
What the fuck is with your thread title?

Would a Lenovo Yoga 3 i7 have any issues with linux? Just thinking about its touch screen display, havent ever tried linux properly but I want to try, maybe pick up a 750GB ssd and dual boot it

>>55691820
Hopefully you have given this some thought but you are exchanging a pebble with a brick. Think weight and size. Not that that is necessarily bad just beware that a W520 is hardly a 'I'll just whip this out and sit with it comfortably in my lap' machine. I have an Elitebook 8560W which is comparable in size and weight and sometimes I feel it is a bit too bulky for lap-browsing.
But welcome to the mafia buddy ;)

>>55691820
>>55692236
W520's 1080p panel has 95% gamut which is actually damn good, and even the viewing angles are great for TN

It's the T420, or the non-FHD screens for T520/W520 that have the notoriously terrible screen

>>55692562
is that the stock image meme man?

>>55693752
Fuck, I wasn't paying attention. I guess you know OP browses /co/, now.
>>55695937
No, that's not hide the pain harold.

>>55695055
Thanks! that's just the kind of info I was looking for.

>>55694882
The W520 is actually not so heavy or massive that the device itself is non-portable. What makes it hard to use on the go is the ridiculous 170W AC adapter. That thing is a real fucking brick, especially compared to the 90W adapters that are more than enough to power any non-W series Thinkpad.

>>55691820
W520 here. Not a regular /g/ user, so I've only dabbled, but I tried a Fedora dual-boot a while back. Worked all right, but never could get it to play nicely with the pre-existing graphics card,

Im sitting next to a ~2013 rmbp that im trying to unfuck and a W520 that I have configured as our Design Studio laptop/floating workstation.

The Macbook has a slightly better screen if you like glossy but if you like matte you will find the W520 screen to be fantastic, great color, great viewing angles.

>>55700468
I'm not as worried about the texture as I am of the saturation. Even some glossy laptops I work with have had really bad color. rMBP is the only laptop I've seen good for this.

>>55691999
>Linux generally just werks
Except for suspend/hibernate on any linux above 4.1

>>55701679
I'll write you a hibernate program for 100$

>>55701938
Will you suck my dick for 100$?

>>55701966
Yeah, probably