Ask HN: What is the most valuable factor of your laptop?

Post by thangnguyennhu » Mon, Sep 03, 2018, 2:30 AM UTC

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I haven’t thought of this before. That’s fantastic! I have always been concerned with securities of public wifis.

Not only security (which is obviously very important), but also frictionless experience. You open the laptop and it automatically connects to the mobile network, just like your phone or tablet. Before that, I had to not forget to take with me my USB modem, I had to search for it in my bag, insert it into USB port and then to dial. I frequently had problems with dialing. With the phone, you need to make sure, you have…

Awesome! I will get that on my next ThinkPad. And what data plan do you use?

Post by gaspoweredcat » Tue, Sep 04, 2018, 9:02 AM UTC

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my path was toshiba > 3 vaios > 2 thinkpads, sure premium laptops are pricey new but they last well, most of my laptops have managed at least 4 years of useful life, im hoping the x1 extreme will last me the next five years (notice i typed five as the five key died this morning) my only current questions are of the screen and cpu, i was thinking of getting the i7 model but there are 2 on offer the higher model is onl…

I have to admit 4K is battery-hog, especially portable laptop that doesn’t have a good battery life. I got a T series ThinkPad T580, it has front and rear batteries, built like tank with nuclear powerplant. That’s why I am not so worried about my 4K screen.

i looked at the T580 as a possibility myself before the x1 extreme was announced but id pretty much settled on the dell as it was a fair amount smaller and lighter.

i thought long and hard about the 4k screen but i think ill just get myself a separate 4k screen as really the only thing id need 4k for is movies, i dont really have a need for a high resolution for anything else

thankfully they have now added the x1 extreme to the UK website and its not quite as pricey as i was expecting, i fully expected a 1:1 $ to £ conversion but the base model comes in at just over 1400, bumping the cpu up to i7 brings it up to just over 1600 but thankfully my sister works for the NHS so i can get a 10% discount, im keeping the rest of the specs at base, i can add extra ram and a second ssd at a later date

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