I feel quite old and stupid that I clicked on this expecting shave technology.
I'm only 22 and I clicked hoping for better shaving cream tech. Even though I'm not a hairy person shaving is such a pain.
The New Razer Blade
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#12Razer needs to do the right thing and make Blades that are less gamer-friendly and more business-friendly. If you can tame the battery life with a more sane graphics card, you could give Apple a serious run for its money.
I would say Apple is more artist friendly than business friendly, and that's a perfect place for these high end Razor Blade machines to give them a run for.
I think GP was referring to how are Macs are engineer-friendly, since they run *nix and work well with Linux.
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#13Looks beautiful. How long does it run on battery? The specs are nice, but if you can't really be mobile you may as well get a desktop.
Even if you have to plug it in, a laptop is still far more portable than a desktop. If you're moving about and working in different areas, but still have access to power then a laptop could still be a better solution.
An iMac is portable, a Macbook is mobile. I'm hoping this is mobile, but knowing the PC laptop world my guess is My question is will this need to be tethered to a power outlet to use? Is the battery just so your machine doesn't shut off while moving from room to room?
Personally MacBooks have a good battery but I'm _still_ debating buying an external battery to keep that running longer. I wonder if you could modify the HyperShop batteries to work with PC laptops...
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#14I feel quite old and stupid that I clicked on this expecting shave technology.
I assumed that's what it was too.
If that's what you're looking for, though, Bevel[0] was just launched.
(I used to get terrible razor burn - switching to a double edge razor has made a huge difference. Bevel didn't invent the concept, obviously, but they do make it very convenient.).
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#15Page design made me dizzy.
But seriously, I really wouldn't mind if laptops were a centimeter or two thicker and the battery held far more than 2 hours on heavy usage. My backpack designed for laptops could easily carry two or three, so that is not a problem, and when the laptop is in use, the extra thickness doesn't really matter.
I just don't see why this craze for thinness.
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#16Does nearly every laptop these days look like a Mac Book Pro? Once in a while I see things like the Yoga, but from the radius of the rounded corners, indents for opening the lid, shape/size of the keyboard keys, placement of inputs... They might as well have spray painted the MBP black and called it a night. Maybe they did...
It's nuts. Every laptop I see now is a plastic MacBook knockoff, and this is no exception.
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#17Most of the specs look great, but like most made-for-Windows-8 laptops on the market there is a fixed limitation of 8GB of RAM.
Its 2014. I want 32GB of RAM as an option, and 16 GB minimum.
I am still looking for a great Linux development laptop but this is not it.
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#18I feel quite old and stupid that I clicked on this expecting shave technology.
I thought it was going to be a scooter.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would say Apple is more artist friendly than business friendly, and that's a perfect place for these high end Razor Blade machines to give them a run for.
I think GP was referring to how are Macs are engineer-friendly, since they run *nix and work well with Linux.
They run (an old version of) the FreeBSD userland, but I would hesitate to say that the "work well with Linux".
It's tolerable, but it's hardly a stellar experience. Things like suspend/hibernate, fan control, etc. are problematic, even though they're fine on most other pieces of hardware on the market.
I always sigh a bit when I hear people recommending installing Linux on a Macbook, because they're not getting the full experience - they end up thinking that Linux is buggy and doesn't support these functionalities well, when the truth is that it does, as long as you use hardware that is actually supported.
There are a number of reasons that Apple hardware will probably always be a sub-optimal platform for Linux. There was a HN comment a while back from one of the Linux kernel developers responsible for maintaining the MPB drivers who explained why this is the case, though I can't find it.
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#20Most of the specs look great, but like most made-for-Windows-8 laptops on the market there is a fixed limitation of 8GB of RAM. Its 2014. I want 32GB of RAM as an option, and 16 GB minimum. I am still looking for a great Linux development laptop but this is not it.
16GB minimum is still a little silly. My desktop has 16GB, kind of on accident, and my machine literally has no idea what to do with so much RAM. Most of the time it spends 8-10GB on disk cache.
There are absolutely use cases for more. I would love to have my home machine at my desk at work, for example, for EDA tools. But that's why you make 16GB (or even 32GB) an option.