The keyboard is missing an Insert key.

But they're advertising an "FHD" screen as though that's a selling feature? That's only 1920x1080 - my Sony Vaio Z laptop from 2010 has the same resolution. People doing any kind of user-facing frontend dev-work pretty-much need a screen capable of 2x/200%/192dpi (i.e. 4K) at least.

...that's a deal-killer for me, as is the lack of a true middle-button on the touchpad.

I'll be sticking with my ThinkPad X1.

Insert is on F10. Maybe the Function keys are hidden behind Fn, pretty common on laptops and compact discrete keyboards these days.

Keep in mind your X1 was at least twice the price of this thing (honestly I feel they are overpriced, Asus do literally the same thing for $1k less)

> Keep in mind your X1 was at least twice the price of this thing (honestly I feel they are overpriced, Asus do literally the same thing for $1k less)

You cannot look at Lenovo sticker price. My conspiracy theory is it exists for the same reason Azure sticker price does: to give procurement managers something to do. My understanding is almost nobody pays sticker on either.

I paid the advertised, full-sticker prices for my ThinkPads and my SaaS biz' Azure subscription. So that's painful to hear.

I know with Dell it's just a matter of tracking down an account-executive who can negotiate 10-15% discounts, even for one-off orders, but I haven't been able to do that with Lenovo yet. As for Azure: our spend is well under 6-figures/yr (I think $20k right now?), so we don't have a (named) account-manager yet (we do get personal emails from rotating account-execs once every quarter, but they don't seem keen on saving us money...)

1920x1080 sounds great to me. I used to have it on an older X1 and battery life was great.

When I got my X1 gen 7 with 4K battery life has become much worse. I have not noticed that I have become a better programmer because the fonts look smoother.

Also, bold of you to assume Linux HiDPI support is up to the task. Evidently HP don't think so.

2x scaling just works, and has been that way for a while on desktop Linux. Not sure about the state of fractional scaling.

Try it with a multi-monitor set up at different resolutions.

my 24" external 4K display no scaling works flawless with my 15" 4K 150% scaling notebook. (fedora 35/wayland)

This guy knows what's up.

Wayland still doesn't solve this problem because many apps (GTK) become blurry as a result of being scaled poorly, and moving them between displays results in weird behavior where they retain their original scale value rather than adapt to the new display's scale. It's not a good experience.

As a sibling comment mentioned, no middle button though, which makes it less useful