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What do people use 96GB RAM for? It seems these days I'm happy with cookie-cutter 32 GB and longing for more VRAM that is impossible to get. (And why on earth is there a dedicated USB 2.0 port? To trick people into plugging in a USB 3 device and getting terrible performance?)
With all these desirable cookie cutter Taiwan derivative computers out on the market it really makes you wonder when we’re going start getting BestBuy/Insignia branded laptops being sold like RadioShack used to do.
How does everyone continue to get the keyboard wrong on these? If the left and right arrows are full-size I know it's going to be miserable to use. Probably worse than miserable, because clearly nobody who ever uses the keyboard a serious amount has actually sat down and used it, or the arrow situation would have been fixed _immediately._ Who knows what else is terrible about the keyboard, given that it was pretty ob…
How does everyone continue to get the keyboard wrong on these? If the left and right arrows are full-size I know it's going to be miserable to use. Probably worse than miserable, because clearly nobody who ever uses the keyboard a serious amount has actually sat down and used it, or the arrow situation would have been fixed _immediately._ Who knows what else is terrible about the keyboard, given that it was pretty ob…
Having the Home/PgUp/PgDn/End column on the right is the worst laptop layout to me though. I had a Vaio like that and even after using it as my main computer for 5 years it never ceased to annoy me that I had couldn't just put my hands down centered on the laptop, but had to shift my hands over to the left (or move the whole laptop right and tilt my head). And even Sony wasn't dumb enough to put a power button in the top right that you'll only hit by mistake when trying to delete.
I quite enjoy the tablet - it's a good enough system... Out of date by the time it was delivered; however, nice enough. I wouldn't have bought it at the price point had I known it was going to be so late to deliver.
With all these desirable cookie cutter Taiwan derivative computers out on the market it really makes you wonder when we’re going start getting BestBuy/Insignia branded laptops being sold like RadioShack used to do.
I think Radio Shack had Tandy and Tandy made computers and leather working products. Does anyone know more about this?
What do people use 96GB RAM for? It seems these days I'm happy with cookie-cutter 32 GB and longing for more VRAM that is impossible to get. (And why on earth is there a dedicated USB 2.0 port? To trick people into plugging in a USB 3 device and getting terrible performance?)
Using traces, I can easily run a parse, and then do things like "look at the attempt to parse a hyperlink in the 2nd paragraph after the 3rd headline" pretty trivially using the tree structure that traces naturally are in.
But, depending on the size of the document I am testing with, each execution generates 50+ GiB of traces, so to avoid putting significant wear on my SSD and to keep things snappy (both recording the traces and viewing the traces) I launch jaeger in memory-mode so the trace doesn't getting written to disk.
Also, its super nice being able to casually use /tmp as tmpfs for basically anything without worrying much about space.
Looks nice. Does anyone know how the keyboard feels compared to ThinkPad?
How does everyone continue to get the keyboard wrong on these? If the left and right arrows are full-size I know it's going to be miserable to use. Probably worse than miserable, because clearly nobody who ever uses the keyboard a serious amount has actually sat down and used it, or the arrow situation would have been fixed _immediately._ Who knows what else is terrible about the keyboard, given that it was pretty ob…
Well, speak for yourself. I have a HP ZBook and Metabox laptops with keyboard that is almost identical to that of StarBook and I am very happy with that layout. Can't stand the Mac laptop style keyboards (which makes Framework laptops a no-go for me) that lack separate home/end/pgup/pgdown keys. I will be looking for a new laptop in the next 12 months so StarBook will be on top of my list.