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The screen seem to be low res and the aspect ratio is awful..
Created an account just to comment - what is awful about 16:9, or "low res" about 1920x1080, for a laptop?
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The Perfect Laptop
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#162>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…
One good plastic build that people praise about is Valve's Steamdeck
But that's also a more niche audience. The people who've bought a steam deck (myself included) are more likely to care about, and know about, hardware. When selling to an audience that can't evaluate the build quality as easily you have to rely on shorthand. One common shorthand is that plastic things are bad build quality
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
The screen seem to be low res and the aspect ratio is awful..
Created an account just to comment - what is awful about 16:9, or "low res" about 1920x1080, for a laptop?
> 16:9, or "low res" about 1920x1080
Nothing if you're mainly going to use it to watch HD movies. I don't mind the resolution on a 13-14 inch screen to much to be fair, but IMHO 16:9 is really quite awful on such a small screen (and tolerable on 15-17 inch ones)
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#164MacBook Pro is near perfect. Just needs one USB-A port.
You're not wrong. They pulled the A ports way too early. I upgrade more aggressively than a normal user (though less than a real cutting-edge enthusiast) and have only recently passed the 50/50 mark for devices in semi-regular use that use A vs C. A-terminated cords are still at least as popular on devices on store shelves, as C. This, years after Apple made a hard transition. If they'd at least brought the rest of t…
Yeah and the biggest problem with that hard transition was that even as a well-behaved Mac user going all-in on USB-C, you'd quickly run out of ports, and there were literally no USB-C hubs on the market for years. Now they exist but cost a lot more than -A ones and have caveats due to varying capabilities. So -A peripherals still make sense even with -C laptops, and most things I see are still -A.
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#165I don't like that Lenovo is put shoulder to shoulder with Apple here. I have never personally owned a macbook, but my SO has and they are multiple classes above anything Lenovo has made in the past decade. My work gives me a P1 and I liked it for the first year (especially with that mobile xeon with every ISA extension on the block), but I am growing tired of it. Here is the short list: the touchpad drops out, blue screens, thunderbolt dock driver issues, docked displays needing to be unplugged/replugged multiple times, waking from sleep mode without my input (good reason to never use this for a laptop that is used on the road), failure to wake from sleep mode (full speed fan and black screen until the power button is held for 30 seconds), the laptop deciding to say "locking" for a split second then going to sleep while you are in the middle of working or presenting.
Macbooks are not perfect, but lenovos are not good.
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#166> 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 tried one the other day at an Apple store. The click feedback is too weak, and the stepless acceleration is not what my brain expects, so I found it frustrating.
You can customize the intensity of the click feedback as it's not actually a click but a linear actuator tapping back at your finger from the other side.
Mouse acceleration intensity and curve are editable as well.
Perfectly fine for it to not be your cup of tea, but there is some customizability.
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#167>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…
"Why?"
I'd suspect it is related to the thinness push. I share with the author a lack of need for my laptop to shave every last millimeter off, and I've had sturdy plastic laptops in the past... but those laptops are from many years ago now. Shaving every millimeter and still feeling solid requires non-plastic.
chazeon observes the Steam Deck feels quite solid, and I'd agree, but it is also definitely a device that isn't shaving millimeters. Compared to the Switch it is quite the chonk. But it also feels solid. So does the Switch, but the Switch does it with metal.
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#168>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'…
Exactly. I don't care how it's built I care that it survives some daily use that is not sitting on a desk.
My job many years ago provided me a Lenovo x220. I used to haul that thing from NJ to Arkansas with me twice a year and all over. It was not pretty but it literally took anything I could give it.
My current M1 MacBook Air goes with me on my bicycle daily, goes camping and goes everywhere with no issues.
My Starlabs linux "star lite" laptop had screws back out of it the first time I took it on my bicycle. After replacing screws over and over and eventually taping them in place to avoid the hassle the display stopped working. After fixing the cable for this eventually my keyboard began acting up and now the machine is just a desktop. Mind you this was in about 1.5 years.
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#169I'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.
Personally, for me, the best laptop ever made is:
14 inch M2 Macbook Pro.
Combine it with the Anker 737 Power Bank, and it's a match made in heaven.
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#170>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…
> Of course I understand the value of e.g. good hinges, keyboards etc., but pretty sure that's not what people are generally referring to.
When people say good build quality what else do you think they are referring to?