But Can It Run Nytimes.com?
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But Can It Run Nytimes.com?
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#2Lenovo now offers the X1 Carbon and some other models with Linux, either Fedora or Ubuntu, out of the box. Maybe the author was unaware or ordered shortly before that became available.
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#3"The crucial question about a computer used to be "But can it run DOOM?". Later it became "But can it run Crysis?". These day it is "But can it run nytimes.com?". To which I am happy to report I was able to browse newspaper websites without burning myself."
Is there something I am missing with newer laptops? I have a 2008 Thinkpad x200, and I was able to do this just fine.
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#4> The advantage Apple still holds over its competitors is its willingness to break backward compatibility.
This is a disadvantage, not a feature. There has never been an instance where I have not wanted backwards compatibility, but there have been many where it was lacking and I did want it.
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#5The unboxing thing is kinda weird. Why waste paper and trees for the sake of it?
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#6"The crucial question about a computer used to be "But can it run DOOM?". Later it became "But can it run Crysis?". These day it is "But can it run nytimes.com?". To which I am happy to report I was able to browse newspaper websites without burning myself." Is there something I am missing with newer laptops? I have a 2008 Thinkpad x200, and I was able to do this just fine.
But did you also use Ublock Origin?
With ads sites can be very CPU intensive.
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#7"The crucial question about a computer used to be "But can it run DOOM?". Later it became "But can it run Crysis?". These day it is "But can it run nytimes.com?". To which I am happy to report I was able to browse newspaper websites without burning myself." Is there something I am missing with newer laptops? I have a 2008 Thinkpad x200, and I was able to do this just fine.
But did you also use Ublock Origin? With ads sites can be very CPU intensive.
Ohh good point! I usually forget about ublock origin.
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#8> The advantage Apple still holds over its competitors is its willingness to break backward compatibility. This is a disadvantage, not a feature. There has never been an instance where I have not wanted backwards compatibility, but there have been many where it was lacking and I did want it.
This is a false dichotomy, you don't know what was sacrificed for backwards compatibility or what features were crippled because of it.
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#9> The advantage Apple still holds over its competitors is its willingness to break backward compatibility. This is a disadvantage, not a feature. There has never been an instance where I have not wanted backwards compatibility, but there have been many where it was lacking and I did want it.
Yeah I don't get the author's point either. Is having to always buy the latest software/peripheral an advantage? Maybe for Apple, not for the user.
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#10> The advantage Apple still holds over its competitors is its willingness to break backward compatibility. This is a disadvantage, not a feature. There has never been an instance where I have not wanted backwards compatibility, but there have been many where it was lacking and I did want it.
This is a false dichotomy, you don't know what was sacrificed for backwards compatibility or what features were crippled because of it.
That's a lazy way to justify any anti-consumer practice