The unboxing thing is kinda weird. Why waste paper and trees for the sake of it?
Packaging flourish always feels like a haughty waste of resources on something that's getting thrown away in 30 seconds. Maybe that's what people like about it.
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#22Took a quick look at the X1 line on Lenovo's site. Quite a few of "Gen {x}" labels on the products. Why is a Gen 2 $400 more than a Gen 8?
The X1 Carbon/Extreme series used to be the only products labeled Gen x instead of a 2/3 digit code, e.g. T490.
Starting this year they rebranded all ThinkPad products to use generation numbers (presumably because rolling from something like T490 to the next number would be a little difficult, kind of like when GPUs hit the 9xxx branding mark), so X390 -> X13 gen 1, P53 -> P15 gen 1 etc.
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#23> 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.
One of the few breaking compatibility stories that I would consider positive would be Apple's (temporary) restriction on Flash, which was definitely good for the Internet and mobile ecosystem.
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#24Apple fans really live in a peculiar world, the whole intro made it seem like the author isn't even aware that non-Mac laptops exists so I was surprised with his purchase and even satisfaction with the X1 (I have the same one but one gen older with the same OS).
As if thousands of laptops are just copycats.
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#25Apple fans really live in a peculiar world, the whole intro made it seem like the author isn't even aware that non-Mac laptops exists so I was surprised with his purchase and even satisfaction with the X1 (I have the same one but one gen older with the same OS). As if thousands of laptops are just copycats.
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