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I haven't wanted to upgrade the RAM in a laptop in at least half a decade now.
What about paying the OEM markup for the RAM they install? god knows if I paid Lenovo for maxing out the RAM specs instead of just pay it from newegg at the like I'd be in the poor house!
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Yep I had to get a dock, but it's fine. I just plug in one cable and everything is connected.
Which dock? I have a dock and still have all four ports on my MBP 16 filled up too.
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What’s the battery life like on your PC? It sounds like the things you care about are raw performance per £, and other factors are not important. If that’s what you are looking for then the Air is not for you, but it doesn’t mean it’s expensive. It just means you don’t need the things it offers for the money. If you do care about battery life, then the M1 Air is cheaper than the only comparable alternative - the M1 M…
> What’s the battery life like on your PC? Actually not too bad - not good , but good enough for it to last long enough to write up lab data for 5 hours or so which is all I needed it to do. It's pretty diabolical in Linux, but I think that's partly my fault because I've not bothered to fettle with the power (not an unreasonable requirement given that the rest of the distro has been fiddled with)
If 5 hours will do for you, no need to spend the extra money.
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It's expensive and is still not upgradeable is the point.
Laptop upgradbility is a game of luck and a guessing game, in general. Laptops are, by design, a finished product, and it is a lucky happenstance, if it (and what) can be upgraded for a variety of reasons. My 2008 Sony Vaio VGN-Z17GN laptop is, technically, upgradable. But, the chipset does not support more than 4Gb of RAM, and I already have 4Gb installed. So I do not have the RAM upgrade option. I replaced a HDD wi…
Soldered ram, soldered SSD, unremovable batteries etc. all are designed with planned Obsolescence in mind. We should all boycott such products to protect our RIGHT TO REPAIR.
tldr; I got a Macbook Pro M1 for $975 in mint-condition at a Best Buy and already put the return label on it. While Geekbench showed great results, actual usage of the machine and headaches ensued were contrasting. To put it bluntly - M1 machines are currently unstable. There are numerous Bluetooth issues [1], formatting issues [2], Wifi 6 issues [3], VPN issues [4], firewall issues [5], and shocking security issues…
To be fair, none of these issues seem to be related to the M1 hardware, but to some issues and choices made with Big Sur.
So to actually be fair any criticism of the OS certainly applies to "the laptop", which would be a brick without the OS.
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Did you view the links? There are core problems with Bluetooth, Wifi 6, and security of the device (not workflow). I don't think my workflow is flawed, here's what it produces: https://github.com/niftylettuce
But who's correct? My sample size of 100+ or yours of 1?
The other guy provided evidence.
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Yep I had to get a dock, but it's fine. I just plug in one cable and everything is connected.
Which dock? I have a dock and still have all four ports on my MBP 16 filled up too.