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Industry secret: apple throttles those cpu to 20W.
Source?
LOL. This very discussion on HN. And dozens of results after googling with 'apple cpu macbook pro TDP'.
Introducing Surface Book 2
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Dont. I curse the day ive chosen 13” xps with 3200x1800 hdpi screen. Id trade it for fullhd in a blink. Three issues: 1. It is goddamn mirror, and mind you im not picky here 2. Hundreds of apps or system parts (regedit? Wtf?) are complettly messed up by hdpi and scaling leaves you either too small or problems. Keybase desktop client (search for my bug) shows what you can expect. Windows 10 can not handle it. Gnome wo…
Is there anyway to tell if the screen will be like a mirror? I've used a 1080p HP laptop that had the same issue. If I was coding with a dark background I'm staring at my face the whole time.
Can't help here about HP.
I know that dell xps 13" with FHD screen is very good in this regard, while dell xps 13" with 3200x1800 is mirror like.
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Last I heard MS were having reliability problems with the Surface: "The breakage rate for Microsoft Corp’s Surface devices is significantly worse than for other manufacturers’ laptops and tablets, Consumer Reports said, adding that it was removing its “recommended” designation for Surface products." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-surface/microso...
I don't know about the pure statistics, but my experience and other people I know (which actually still run the Surface Pro 1) have had a great experience. In the past, there was a minor issue that the surface tablet didn't understand that you removed the keyboard. But that seems to be fixed now and it didn't happen that often anyway.
Surface pro experience where I work is not good. I had my surface for a few months, after every holiday it had problems starting. After my summer holiday, where it was powered off for 3 week, I could not get it to power on anymore. Had to return it to Microsoft, got a replacement. Replaced that with a thinkpad t470s. Much better experience so far, and having 24gb also helps if you run a number of docker images.
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Source?
LOL. This very discussion on HN. And dozens of results after googling with 'apple cpu macbook pro TDP'.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apple+cpu+macbook+pro+TDP. Don’t see anything in the first three pages...
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It's a "blog" entry from a corporate VP. What did you expect? That is not the marketing site for the SB2.
And that's the problem. Messaging is something that's always been an issue with MS. Why would you leak/release details about a new product on a blog entry?
There is an marketing site available for the product, nothing was "leaked" - the blog is for those who are interested in company news separately.
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You can expect negative comments for every OS in existence. You seem to dislike Windows quite a bit. To the point where it seems personal or you have a vendetta against it. Yes things like settings are silly in modern Windows. But they aren't make or break stuff. There's major positives to be seen from Windows too. They are the only major player trying to get touch working on desktop. That's not easy to do. You don't…
> You seem to dislike Windows quite a bit. To the point where it seems personal or you have a vendetta against it. I have better things to do then have a "vendetta" against either a corporation or a piece of equipment (I don't know which you were insinuating). At the same time I have no reason to defend commercial entities that should do better. Like I said, I use the goddamn thing (SP3) as a daily driver for mobile…
You're making it seem like MacOS and major Linux distros are much better. My issue isn't with Windows [10] not being amazing. It's with the competition having issues of their own.
Apple help for MacOS stuff for example is hilarious from official or major communities. They treat everyone like complete newbies.
Not being too used to Ubuntu except for production servers, I was never able to resolve getting it to work on my Touchpad back in 2010 nor getting my VM to update from 14 to 16 without screwing up. From my pov, in aggregate, all the OSes have their issues
Why not sell the SP3 and get anything else? No one should use something they dislike this much if it isn't mandated.
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#507After reading through the product announcement I had to chuckle a bit... If you'll pardon the shameless plug, I just purchased a used Lenovo X230 Tablet (ThinkPad) a couple weeks ago and my bet is that for the average HN reader use case it scratches all the same itches as the Surface Book. Granted it's bulkier and slower, but it's about $2300 cheaper. On the other hand it's easily repaired and upgraded, and has an ea…
1366x768 itches pretty badly
Especially in a 12" screen, I've been using an X240 for a couple of days and it feels old.
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But when it comes to actually coding, it's much less "easy" than on a MBP. Some people swear by powershell but I just did not jive with having to do that when everyone else is using bash - so I'm using WSL, which has... difficulties. I tried that, then went back to using VirtualBox in seamless mode with Lubuntu. I was very disappointed. I'm still more productive on my 2012 Macbook Pro than I am on my 2017 Windows lap…
I've gone down that road as well, worked "ok" but as soon as the external monitor gets involved, forget about it.
If your development is terminal heavy, then you can have PuTTY on the other screen. It also works if you need to have a browser up as a part of your development. Where I get a bit tripped up, is if I need more than one screen for WebStorm or an application like that.
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You also don't see why someone should jump in to correct a wrong statement? Either way, the potential for damage wasn't that obvious: it could have happened to any company. (Employees often make commercial decisions without understanding the technical ramifications.) Also, Superfish said it wasn't its fault: it blamed Komodo's tool. This amounts to a similar type of buck-passing. I've bought a couple of Lenovo machin…
>I also know that if I wasn't happy with the installation, I could download Windows 10 from Microsoft and do a clean installation. You’d think so. It turns out not though. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov...
Great point!
Luckily I didn't buy any of the models that included that feature (and none of them were ThinkPads) or I would have had to run Lenovo's LSE Windows Disabler Tool from https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/gb/en/downloads/ds104370
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The fact that they did it in the first place is enough for most people. An apology hardly covers the potential for damage. All in the name of some bundled shitware to make them a few extra bucks. Totally inexcusable, and I don't see why people jump in to defend them at all.
Yeah, I wish I could like them, since Lenovo/Thinkpad has been putting out some pretty appealing hardware recently, but that kind of irresponsible behavior demands a response from people who understand the severity. I refuse to buy or recommend Lenovo for my family members for at least another three years yet, no matter how much they seem to have reformed. If they haven't had a repeat incident in that time I'll be gl…
You could boycott Lenovo-branded machines while not boycotting ThinkPads. As far as I know, ThinkPads have been beyond reproach. It's a valuable brand for Lenovo, and it acquired the whole IBM division, not just the name.
I managed to be a ThinkPad fanboy for decades while despising IBM ;-)