It's billed as a gaming laptop, but I'd say that the ROG Flow X13 fits the bill as well as any 13" laptop could in 2023.
The Perfect Laptop
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#262>excellent build quality I keep hearing this, also for phones, and people usually associate it with certain materials. Why? I'd rather have a light plastic laptop/phone that works well, is light, and survives a few hits than an overpriced piece of fashion. Bonus points for phones with cracked backs because glass "feels more valuable". Of course I understand the value of e.g. good hinges, keyboards etc., but pretty su…
I bought my current MacBook Pro, used, in 2016. I drove it 54,000 miles around Africa on the worst roads in the world, using it every day in the heat, humidity, dust and sun. I drove it 30,000+ miles around North America using it heavily. I drove it 36,000 miles around Australia, using it at least 30 hours a week in the dust, heat, sun, etc. It's had many dings and bashes and a few drops. It still works great, and I'…
Meanwhile my (new in) 2016 macbook pro overheats if I plug the charging cable in the wrong side, have a bunch of keys that don't register and only moved a total of maybe 300 feet after reaching the office.
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#263I have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 and I'm very happy with it. It's fast, quiet, absurdly light, has a 16:10 screen, a decent selection of ports and the famously good ThinkPad keyboard. I dual boot Windows and Ubuntu without any issues. For me it's the perfect laptop.
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#264For me it's my ThinkPad T14 with Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U and 22 GB of RAM. Before it I had Macbook Pro and Macbook Air.
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#265My addition to the list would be "real mouse buttons so I can tell where the damn right-click is".
So you don't like when cursor is moving on click?
I find it infuriating. I have no idea how people live with those things. There's no reason you can't have buttons below a clickpad. It's like they just hate precision and users being able to right click without moving their thumb.
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#266>excellent build quality I keep hearing this, also for phones, and people usually associate it with certain materials. Why? I'd rather have a light plastic laptop/phone that works well, is light, and survives a few hits than an overpriced piece of fashion. Bonus points for phones with cracked backs because glass "feels more valuable". Of course I understand the value of e.g. good hinges, keyboards etc., but pretty su…
When it comes to laptops, plastic exteriors are often a signal that the machine is lower end with as minimal of an internal frame as the manufacturer can get away with, which means that it’ll have extreme body flex which is bad for motherboard longevity. It also means that the laptop will probably squeak and creak when picked up and handled which subjectively feels cheap, and doesn’t bode well for the laptop being able to take a tumble.
There are exceptions like the older ThinkPads which had robust frames under their plastic, but this is not typical.
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#267I'm no die hard apple fan, but you would think I was if you heard me talking about my 16" m1 pro. It's an absolute beast, battery for days, and I've never heard the fan spin up once. It would take a lot for me to even give another machine a chance.
The thing that's holding me back from getting one is the memory markups. The base configuration is too low and I can't just change the memory myself because everything is soldered.
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a bad pointing device, that's the thing. I can use a Mac with a trackpad for pretty much anything, including image editing. It's precise, doesn't do ghost clicks/taps, and it's BIG I never found a non-Mac with a trackpad I could use _at all_. I always need a mouse to use my windows laptop...
Really? For example as a software dev using Linux as a daily driver (so no gaming), would I not need a mouse at all with a Mac? (considering buying one)
I'm a software dev using a Macbook, and day-to-day I use a mouse, but this week I'm housesitting and only brought the laptop, and I haven't noticed any decrease in productivity by using just the touchpad.
There's actually a few benefits, like touchpad gestures for app and workspace switching being much faster than the equivalent keyboard shortcuts.
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
These days, even mice annoy me. Trackball or bust. Trackpads are better than touchscreen interfaces though.
I find touchscreens fine in the right form factor (handheld, mainly), but I’ll never get the appeal of a touchscreen on a device running a desktop OS. Reaching up to touch a laptop screen feels awkward and laptop screens are some of the worst when it comes to rejecting fingerprints.
Plus, even if the manufacturer gets on board with an OS that is truly touch-friendly on a laptop, getting all the software manufacturers to also update their UIs for touch will be a long, long haul, I'm afraid.
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#270> 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…
> can’t put my finger on why this is so much better than everyone else Because it doesn't move. When you press down on an Apple touchpad, it doesn't displace at all, it vibrates . This gives you an identical touch response across the entire trackpad, plus nifty things like Force Touch and customizable response intensity. Nobody else has done it, and it makes every other touchpad feel awful.
Give me dedicated buttons for clicking, including middle click. God I miss the old Lenovo trackpads.