Reminded me somewhat of "A small notebook for a system administrator": https://habr.com/en/post/437912/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19052688
ok notebook design, but I want it to work in space.
VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports
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#42VGA?!
Although we all think Japan is futuristic, it's also very old school in a lot of ways. Regular Japanese office life can feel surprisingly backwards.
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#43VGA?!
Lots of (very, very expensive) projectors still use it, and a good VGA cable will work well beyond 1080p resolutions, so why not. The connector is also more robust than the effete HDMI/DisplayPort/etc. ones that have tiny pins, purely by being bigger.
Lots of old equipment a system administrator might work with also uses VGA.
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#44What are the practical and functional use cases that benefit from a clit mouse vs, say, a trackpad? Genuine question, I've seen them on older laptops but I always assumed they were purely vestigial from a time when trackpads were no good. Also, mandatory: in Russia, clit mouse is blue .
A ton of upsides.
* The hand does not leave the hone row.
* It never by mistake registers your hands as a click or a movement.
* Your skin can be extremely wet or dry without consequence.
* You can continue a motion without being limited by the size of the trackpad, because you don't modulate the position directly, but its first derivative. This removes tension between being precise and having the range.
* It separates motion and clicks by having dedicated hardware buttons, often three of them. (Middle button click on most trackpads is tricky, and middle button drag, impossible.)
* Wheel emulation is generally fine, again without moving your hand off the keyboard.
There are downsides, too, of course.
* No multiple-finger gestures, like the pinch.
* Harder to make extremely flat.
* Does not mimic the mobile phone. I think this is the kicker: a trackpad is more intuitive for newcomers and casual users. Trackpoint is preferred by pros who are much less numerous.
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#45It's pretty funny how this has basically the same ports (besides the USB C for charging) as my 2010 VAIO Z. VGA is the most surprising one to still see. I wonder what the reasoning behind that is. I can't really see them targeting the corporate market.
VGA is incredible to have, yes, even in 2019. As a sibling comment says, it's "for the people who actually have to solve problems". Nearly all projectors, even new and expensive ones I've used, do not have HDMI. So there's an adapter. But maybe the damned fragile thing is broken, or it's missing, or it doesn't adapt to what you have (mini display port? USB-C? Who even knows!) or it requires power, or God knows what.
There are a number of times I've had to present something, and the "non-VGA" laptop crowd was unable to, for various reasons, but a VGA port will cut the crap and get you an image on screen no matter what. It's wet? Stepped on it? Bent pins? It'll still work, dammit. Maybe your slides will have a blue tint, but you'll get em up there.
I'll give a personal example. I was at a party and the movie dude didn't show. Only thing available was a banged up projector from the 90s with analog only inputs. Everyone had new fancy laptops with no VGA. Someone had a totally destroyed old laptop with water damage, screen falling off, but you know what it had? Most of a VGA port. I bent off a few pieces of a paperclip, shoved em in there, pointed that old projector at the side of a house, and filled the night sky with sixty feet of glorious analog pixels.
I'd expect more support for VGA in a place like this. It doesn't just guarantee your slides will get up on screen, it's a real hacker's port, dammit!
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#46It's pretty funny how this has basically the same ports (besides the USB C for charging) as my 2010 VAIO Z. VGA is the most surprising one to still see. I wonder what the reasoning behind that is. I can't really see them targeting the corporate market.
Most projectors ( the installed base ) only accept VGA. VGA is old it's analogic and works. The target demography for this laptop are the people who actually have to solve problems that people with laptops with one port create. So they have no tolerance for more problems. ( This is a caricature, but.. )
Really? I feel like I haven’t seen a projector with only VGA in years. Could be a biased sample though.
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#47What are the practical and functional use cases that benefit from a clit mouse vs, say, a trackpad? Genuine question, I've seen them on older laptops but I always assumed they were purely vestigial from a time when trackpads were no good. Also, mandatory: in Russia, clit mouse is blue .
I always have loved ThinkPads because of the pointer thing. I got used to it and it’s comparable to a MacBook trackpad for me in comfort and productivity.
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#48I love the title of this article. Is it just me?
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#49Reminded me somewhat of "A small notebook for a system administrator": https://habr.com/en/post/437912/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19052688
It is actually almost physically painful how much I want this thing. "Software dev" for me takes on quite a few roles from debugging hardware/IoT devices in the field, to programming lighting shows or interactive art installations. This thing might seem like overkill, but for me and lots of people who do a job like mine, I actually don't think it really is.
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#50Ultra premium compact laptops is what they have been known for since the early 2000s. I remember oogling over one around that time for similar reasons as this one.