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Re: Test your product on a crappy laptop

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Post by veermanhas »

> https://twitter.com/davatron5000/status/1429866381831544836?...

As a business having to create ideal scenarios is difficult. Mostly, I would focus on my major target audience which pays me the most and add the optimization to roadmap when I want to experiment and test the said market for my product/service. Running a business is complicated as is.

For SaaS businesses focussing on tech companies wouldn't be an issue. Example, using Figma requires a good machine a score on Speedometer of 80 should suffice as we go below than that things aren't so great. But mostly tech companies using Figma would have a good machine. Yes, there would be an accessibility issue for new comers and college goers who cannot use Figma due to a crappy laptop but even small businesses in services like myself help them buy a new laptop for work.

Re: Test your product on a crappy laptop

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Post by meheleventyone »

nirui wrote: post #91

However, there maybe another darkside of the story. Almost a decades back I talked a game dev, asking him why the game that they released demands such high hardware requirements. The two reasons that he offered was: 1) It costs money to produce & maintain content such as Level of Detail assets to enable support for low end devices, and 2) People cannot afford good computer usually also cannot afford to pay for the ga…

Then Roblox and Minecraft came along and showed everyone there was a large audience of kids on crap PCs and Chomebooks who will also play games and have parents who will spend for them.

Re: Test your product on a crappy laptop

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Post by Sniffnoy »

mwcremer wrote: post #89
animal_spirits wrote: post #85

> British soldiers in World War I were equipped with a Brodie helmet, a steel hat designed to protect its wearer from overhead blasts and shrapnel while conducting trench warfare. After its deployment, field hospitals saw an uptick in soldiers with severe head injuries. > Because of the rise in injuries, British command considered going back to the drawing board with the helmet’s design. Fortunately, a statistician p…

You are thinking of Abraham Wald: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald

Note that the Wald story may not have actually happened: http://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fc-2016-06

(But yes, Abraham Wald is the statistician that the story is about.)

Re: Test your product on a crappy laptop

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Post by tommek4077 »

alkot89 wrote: post #118
tommek4077 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Devs are lazy and wont give up there luxury macs, even for testing.

That's like 10% of the comment - I feel like some point was trying to be made with the dialup caching product but it went over my head. Also back then, Macs weren't so much a luxury like they are today (this is pre Jobs) -- they were just defacto standard in the creative fields. DTP and Photoshop were strictly better on the Mac up until about that point and it would be a number of years for PCs to erode the entrenche…

Thats the same point. When everyone professional is using 8000$ Macs or PC workstations but you customers are on C64s and Amigas, you would like to run some tests on those machines as well.

Re: Test your product on a crappy laptop

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Post by tux »

kome wrote: post #67
nine_k wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buy a 5-years old laptop off eBay, yes. In a good working order, but with a slow CPU, little RAM, and a mediocre screen (not even FHD). A thinkpad is a fine choice because they are usually made to last, so it won't keep breaking at you.

5 years is not that old, i believe

Yeah I agree, I use 10 year old desktop and still don't concider it to be old.

Re: Test your product on a crappy laptop

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Post by normaler »

I had a similar experience building a NAS on a SoC.

Suddenly things like transport or at rest encryption are no longer perceived to be free but really limit your performance.

First time I actually had to be concious about choosing appropriate ciphers and hashing algos and not just using defaults.

Re: Test your product on a crappy laptop

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Post by _kblcuk_ »

zagrebian wrote: post #86
taeric wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Explain Gmail.

Thanks for reminding me why I use HTML Gmail instead. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/

It surely loads faster than speed of light, but with all the keyboard navigation missing, it takes 20x more time to go through each email and archive/delete/reply to. Can't have everything, it seems. :/
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