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Re: My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]

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Post by cr0sh »

ethereal_int wrote: post #24

Personally I'd like a heavy and large desktop that fits in a typical backpack complete with batteries, with a thin ultrabook like wireless screen+keyboard, detachable like the surface. I know i'm in a very tiny minority, but eventually with streaming solutions like the TPCast for Vive it might be viable (you can diy a 12volt desktop from 18650s, but probably not a good wireless hdmi yet). Or if not, hopefully when we…

If it's already in a backpack, why would you need a wireless connection to the HMD?

Understandable, though, if you want to sit the pack down but still use the system.

Probably what would be better would be some kind of wireless datalink to the HMD, and have the video processing on the HMD itself (instead of sending frame/interframe data - just send the data to render the frame, and let the HMD do the processing - essentially moving the video card to the HMD - this would, though, still require more than a bit of bandwidth, but maybe not as much as HDMI?).

Re: My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]

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Post by elbrian »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #57
elbrian wrote: post #48

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Would you care to elaborate a bit? In terms of build quality, the 2015+ XPS line is comparable (at least) to any Mac laptop offering.

Screen hinge is a big deal to me. My '14 rMBP can be opened while on a desk with one hand and the screen never moves even during furious typing, and I really like that. I work with someone who just got a 13" XPS and his screen wobbles quite a bit.

I am replying to you on an XPS 13 (model # 9350) and there is zero wobble.

Re: My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]

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Post by balls187 »

bluedino wrote: post #43
balls187 wrote: post #20

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(12:46) ~/src/landedcost/main-site/app/utils [vikram7119-master] $ uptime 12:47 up 15 days, 17:26, 4 users, load averages: 2.09 2.15 1.95 Sierra has been an absolute rock for me. My last reboot was due to an OS update.

I'm not sure I'd brag about a 15 day uptime. I found I had to reboot Snow Leopard every 30-40 days, but running 3 web browsers with a ton of tabs open will do that.

Who's bragging?

Re: My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]

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Post by ethereal_int »

cr0sh wrote: post #61
ethereal_int wrote: post #24

Personally I'd like a heavy and large desktop that fits in a typical backpack complete with batteries, with a thin ultrabook like wireless screen+keyboard, detachable like the surface. I know i'm in a very tiny minority, but eventually with streaming solutions like the TPCast for Vive it might be viable (you can diy a 12volt desktop from 18650s, but probably not a good wireless hdmi yet). Or if not, hopefully when we…

If it's already in a backpack, why would you need a wireless connection to the HMD? Understandable, though, if you want to sit the pack down but still use the system. Probably what would be better would be some kind of wireless datalink to the HMD, and have the video processing on the HMD itself (instead of sending frame/interframe data - just send the data to render the frame, and let the HMD do the processing - ess…

Yes, basically have it somewhat stealthy, where i would use the laptop as a laptop and sit the backpack anywhere in the room. And moving the video card to the HMD wouldn't make that much sense for me because that's the main desktop part i would like to stay desktop class.

And I think Google and Microsoft are hoping to get a version of this with hololens and tango, where they run machine models and cloud resources when needed and just get the results/models to run on the mobile devices. Still very much in its infancy though.

Re: My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]

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Post by ethereal_int »

ianai wrote: post #38
ethereal_int wrote: post #24

Personally I'd like a heavy and large desktop that fits in a typical backpack complete with batteries, with a thin ultrabook like wireless screen+keyboard, detachable like the surface. I know i'm in a very tiny minority, but eventually with streaming solutions like the TPCast for Vive it might be viable (you can diy a 12volt desktop from 18650s, but probably not a good wireless hdmi yet). Or if not, hopefully when we…

Something like that was my day dream when the original iPod came out. I even emailed sjobs suggesting it.

Glad to know i wasn't the only one :)

Re: My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]

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Post by Shikadi »

kk_cz wrote: post #60
Shikadi wrote: post #51

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Yup, I love my keyboard on my Thinkpad Yoga 15. Though since it's a 15 inch laptop, my fn keys are grouped by 4, I have a full num pad, and the key spacing feels correct. I went through four laptops before this one and kept returning them because either their keyboard was literally poop and didn't pick up the spacebar all the time, or the screen was so flimsy I didn't trust it in a backpack. The HP Spectra was really…

The point is not that it's not better compared to other brands (it mostly is). The point is that it used to be better.

Personally I prefer the new Lenovo keyboards better than their old ones. But it's a close call imo

Re: My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]

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Post by balls187 »

jlgaddis wrote: post #32
balls187 wrote: post #20

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(12:46) ~/src/landedcost/main-site/app/utils [vikram7119-master] $ uptime 12:47 up 15 days, 17:26, 4 users, load averages: 2.09 2.15 1.95 Sierra has been an absolute rock for me. My last reboot was due to an OS update.

Get ready to reboot again.

Currently at 24 days. :/
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