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> another Apple can’t put my finger on why this is so much better than everyone else things Once you’ve used a Mac touchpad, it’s impossible to go back to a Windows/Linux laptop. I’ve tried…
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I'm just surprised that people feel so passionately about touchpads/trackpads. Apple can have the best one, sure, I believe it. But they still are bad pointing devices as a type of pointing device. People have gotten used to them, because what else can you really fit into a laptop?
> because what else can you really fit into a laptop? The nipple! I have no idea what IBM actually called it, but that's what it was. I would take it 10 times out of 10 over a touchpad (which I appreciate but cannot use properly)
>good quality DAC or audio interface (headphone jack), this is also something Apple tends to do a little better than competitors No laptop has a decent DAC. If you want a good dac, just get something external. Don't need to spend a lot either, even a relatively cheap ~$70 product will vastly outperform anything in a laptop, desktop or phone.
To be clear, unless you are in the > $2,500 headphone space, DAC quality has a hard limit of actual hearable use. Under that point, most external DACs are pure snake oil. If A user has $200 to spend on a pair of over-ear headphones. they should spend $9 on the DAC and $191 on the headphones. Hell, the $9 headphone adaptor vastly outperformed a number of $100+ DACs. The primary limitation of headphone quality onboard…
Thankfully most motherboard manufacturers have this figured out well enough that noisy audio jacks are a thing of the past.
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What are you talking about? Being one item, and not even the first, in a bullet-pointed list at the bottom of the article is hardly “shilling”. Outside of that, Framework aren’t mentioned.
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What are you talking about? Being one item, and not even the first, in a bullet-pointed list at the bottom of the article is hardly “shilling”. Outside of that, Framework aren’t mentioned.
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What are you talking about? Being one item, and not even the first, in a bullet-pointed list at the bottom of the article is hardly “shilling”. Outside of that, Framework aren’t mentioned.
> another Apple can’t put my finger on why this is so much better than everyone else things Once you’ve used a Mac touchpad, it’s impossible to go back to a Windows/Linux laptop. I’ve tried…
I have an M1 and several thinkpads and the M1 always feels like such a chore to use, so no, not even remotely in my case.
Recently got a 14" mbp m2 Pro for work. So far 3 months in, I "think" it is the perfect work/personal laptop (excluding gaming).
> the body of a 12" laptop I've always owned 15" laptops, and i've never had any trouble fitting them in bags, even in a sleeve. I understand why people might want 7" or 10" netbooks, but a 12" machine just seems like a waste of space to me. I understand that most people feel very differently, though! > webcam that doesn’t make it look like your laptop (or you) are a potato during a videoconference And also doesn't l…
I remember loving my ~8 inch netbook during university. With virtual desktops it was more than adequate for coding projects even if the best seat I could find was on the floor against a wall.
The added rigidity feels good too, even something really cheaply built out of plastic will have little to no flex, and probably survive being dropped at that size.