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They sell like hot breads for kids in school.
Who immediately 1. Turn them into toys 2. Break them 3. Lose them Gargantuan waste of money that does nothing to advance education.
Recording math notes or diagrams with a keyboard just sucks, and a phone is too small.
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Add a Bluetooth keyboard, & then the two being separate products becomes a farce. I love the new MacBook Air's looks, but I can't help but constantly imagine how much better it would be as a detachable, or as a 2-in-1 convertible. The thing is, the laptop is just a bad format period. Ideally you don't want to be looking just above where you type: good ergonomics requires distance between those two. An elevated tablet…
The thing is, the laptop was originally intended for on-the-go uses. Do you know when a lap top's screen is at the right distance? When you use it in your lap. Or when you place it on something kitchen counter height and use it standing. If you're using it as a desktop replacement just put it on a stand and use a wired keyboard. Maybe even plug in a larger monitor to protect your eyes. It will still be cheaper than a…
If you could elevate the screen - put it on top of a big can of oatmeal, use a cheap tablet mount clamp or stand - you'd have better results.
Coupling the keyboard to the laptop is an anti-feature. A folio keyboard cover will work better for most people. For those who actually need to do this for any amount of time, a ThinkPad TrackPoint Bluetooth keyboard & a tablet arm will make a very acceptable workstation anywhere.
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Let’s not pretend that Apple could come up with some sort of dual windowing system (or just dual boot) scheme. We’re not limited by drive space anymore. They don’t because it would hurt macbook sales.
Maybe they don't because they've seen what happens when Microsoft tried to build an OS that was both touch screen and mouse & keyboard.
What happened?
(I've seen them. Thought that they were pretty cool as hardware, pity about the OS. I'm not aware of what's transpired, though obviously it hasn't dominated the mobile/tablet market.)
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Nah, it's just corporate greed on apple's part. They want to sell you both the MacBook and the iPad. Apple is the only major notebook manufacturer which still doesn't offer touch on any of their notebooks. Yes, Windows 8 was a failure, but Windows 10 and 11 are successful products and they are also built around touch + m&k. GNOME and KDE on Linux also support touch input. Take a look at this device: https://rog.asus.…
Windows 10/11 it's a shit show. The last good Windows was 8.1. And the last great Windows was 7.
But how they handle touch input is not one of them.
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Windows OS is bad for a tablet compared to iPadOS. iPadOS is bad as a laptop compared to Windows. Nobody yet has been able to fully square the two different paradigms.
ChromeOS balances the different paradigms reasonably well with Crostini and the ability to run Linux-based applications with native hardware virtualization. Solves for every power-user case you can't get from Android or the browser.
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Windows OS is bad for a tablet compared to iPadOS. iPadOS is bad as a laptop compared to Windows. Nobody yet has been able to fully square the two different paradigms.
I recommend the starlite if you don’t depend primarily on battery power. Personally won’t be going back to Apple’s golden handcuffs, and would never consider the user-hostile MS.
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If there were no way to know in advance if you were buying a gaming appliance or a gaming computer, you might have a point. Some people prefer the simplicity and reliability of an appliance. Some people embrace complexity in the name of having the freedom to do anything (including the freedom to shoot yourself in the foot). The notion that consumers shouldn't be allowed to make decisions that are different than your…
> The notion that consumers shouldn't be allowed to make decisions that are different than your own... THAT is user hostile. Having the choice is fine, but if there's no way to opt-out then it's not a choice. While far from perfect the Xbox One is a good example of the video game platform that offers an opt-out. And it works, it is one of the most secure gaming consoles on the market and yet it still offers consumers…
Don't buy it.
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How would ignoring the ipad not have solved OP's problem? They could have just replaced their old macbook with a new macbook. Not that there's anything wrong with trying something new, IMO. But if you do so without doing any research, and it turns out to not be what you expected, there's nothing to complain about. Hopefully OP just returned the ipad and got a macbook upon realizing their mistake. You seem to be sugge…
All of the limitations of the iPad are coming for your macbook, too. Already, it's difficult (not yet impossible) to install software outside the confines of Apple's app store. Already it's difficult (not yet impossible) to develop software for a mac without paying Apple for the privilege of "signing" your code.
Honestly embarrassing reactions from people pretending not to understand the difference between a machine you control and a machine Apple generously (for now) allows you to use in the way you wish.
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Yes, the iPad is a vending machine, owned and run by Apple, but paid for by you, the customer.
I have the option of paying for every subscription service I use on my iPad without paying Apple a dime - ChatGPT, Google drive, Office 365, every streaming service, Kindle books etc
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Isn't that kind of a cop out answer? I'm sure it's a great daily driver for someone who wants to do almost nothing on their phone. I mean we are talking about a $800 phone with no 5G modem. That's already a dealbreaker just from a carrier spectrum allocation aspect alone. This is a phone that will not get as good of a connection to do basic things like make calls and exchange texts/images/vidoes compared to any other…
> I'm sure it's a great daily driver for someone who wants to do almost nothing on their phone. It has a full desktop Firefox with all addons, for one. Can your phone do that? See also: https://forums.puri.sm/t/nine-months-librem-5-as-my-only-pho... , https://forums.puri.sm/t/a-l5-review-1-week-to-my-ready-to-s... > no 5G modem What exactly do you get out of 5G? Watching 4k videos live?
I don't know if this is a resolved problem with 5G LTE and/or how backwards compatible 5G is with 4G (can they share spectrum? I honestly don't know, and perhaps it all depends on the particular carrier and how they allocate their deployments), but in the past you could notice that your 3G service would be a lot worse in its latter years of deployment than the 4G service simply because most customers had 4G and the carrier was allocating way more spectrum and bandwidth to 4G LTE service.
So you think about the median person replacing their phone every 3 years and you can figure that basically everyone in the US now has a phone with 5G capability, that's the service that cellular carriers are going to prioritize. That's also the level of service I am paying the carrier every month for.
And yes, 5G does get me a lot of great stuff like that. I actually tether my phone to my laptop or gaming handheld and play streamed games on it. I also work with large files so I can upload/download those large files to a server while I'm on a commuter train or in the passenger seat of a car. I can join video conference calls and things like that without issue.
I also personally switched from Android to iPhone specifically because so many carriers test iPhones so extensively (and there aren't an overwhelming amount of SKUs to test). The iPhone seems to have fewer carrier-related glitches in my experience. For example, I have a family member who switched from iPhone to Android and subsequently experienced call drops to their international calls consistently on their Android device (even after replacing the SIM card and other troubleshooting), but they resolved it entirely by switching back to an iPhone. Their carrier just didn't test out that particular Android phone that well, I guess. But the underlying reasons were irrelevant, they just need a phone that works for the purpose it's supposed to perform.
Considering that cellular service is the most expensive part of phone ownership, it seems to me that having a shitty device that can barely utilize the network's functionality is a way bigger problem than the device not being open source or not being Linux based or whatever line in the sane that Librem markets their very expensive phone under.
And of course I haven't even gotten into convenience features that depend on the proprietary app stores or carrier-integrated features like banking, transit cards/boarding passes/wallet functionality, CarPlay/Android Auto, visual voicemail, having a camera on hand that competes well with standalone point and shoot cameras, but I guess a Linux/Open Source die hard doesn't mind going back to the previous decade for those things. Still, those features are pretty damn enticing.
I can understand if you don't want those things but we have to remember that Librem is charging iPhone money for a device that does less things and has worse specs than a basic $100-300 Android phone.