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suction wrote: post #409
nemothekid wrote: post #390

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> In East Asia, novelty or "cuteness" of a product, i.e. the look of things, is mostly what counts. I find it hard to believe that this is an exclusively an east asian thing. Apple spent a decade chasing thinness over all else.

Guess why - because the East Asian customers want thinness and lightness over power. I know because in Japan, when people saw my Mac (a 2013 MBP), first they were like "oh a Mac, can I try it?", but as soon as they held it, they were extremely surprised by its weight (compared to some 11" Toshiba notebook they preferred). It's understandable because in Japanese and Chinese cities, city people rarely drive but lug aro…

Complete bullshit.

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darkteflon wrote: post #159
nailer wrote: post #132

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Same here - a photo would be great! I want a portal monitor but it has to be at eyeheight. Otherwise I will use a crappy laptop raiser thing.

Yep, this is at eye height. For me this solution is better than using a laptop raiser because: you get two displays instead of one, and in a setup no wider than a laptop, and you don’t need to pack an external keyboard, mouse and/or trackpad. Plus a tripod and portable display packs way better than most laptop raisers I’ve seen. The upper display becomes your main display, the lower one your secondary. You still have…

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Post by byteflip »

Jcowell wrote: post #486
Terretta wrote: post #244

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I advocate this as well. It’s superior in almost all ways to the portable screens of which I’ve tried many, and you also have an iPad, ideally with cellular chip. :-) On many short trips you can leave the actual laptop at home.

The caveat is that to can’t be used without an Apple ID , making it unusable for work devices. (Amazing for personal devices though)

Yea that’s been a problem for me when I don’t use my personal Apple account on my work laptop.

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Post by a-saleh »

drcode wrote: post #505
a-saleh wrote: post #316

This looks very simmilar to the thinkpad one. And I can't seem to find the price?

It's sorta different in that the thinkpad one is portable even unfolded, but then becomes ultraportable when folded This one is much bigger, making it completely unportable unfolded and only portable when folded.

Aha, the keyboard made me thing they are simmilar size, but you are of course right!

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ansgri wrote: post #450
suction wrote: post #411

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Uhm, I have the iPad Pro 12" and that "magic" Apple keyboard cover (that crazy expensive one) and use Japanese, English, German as my input languages, switching often. Zero lag whatsoever.

Good, maybe it was related to the Logitech keyboard. How do you switch layouts, cmd+space? It opened a small window that blocked all input until it auto-closed half a second later.

It has a dedicated key with a globe symbol in the lower left corner. I know what pop-up you are talking about, but that's non-input-blocking, i.e. the language is active when you press the button, and you can continue typing without any wait.

It's possible that your iPad is not performant enough to both render that popup and and deal with keystrokes at the same time. I'd recommend the Pro iPads for any kind of serious work.

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ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #319
citizenpaul wrote: post #293

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IDK if ASUS has been doing it longer than others. However I find that this is common practice now days for most companies. I exchanged some sony headphones the other week and the ones I got back literally had dirt smeared in them, like some construction worker or mechanic had them and returned them. I had some issues with a corsair power supply a couple years ago I had to do 5 returns before they finally sent me one…

> Apple does this as matter of practice. You go in they will give you an "new" phone that is in some weird box that is not the retail box. Those are returned phones. That sounds like a replacement refurb. They won't tell you that it's "new." Apple does that, when they can't fix the problem. I've gotten a couple of those, over the years, and never had a problem. I get AppleCare, by habit. I seldom need it, but when I…

They are used and it is intentionally disingenuous to give a customer a used/refurb phone to replace a defective brand new retail price phone. Keep being an apologist though they need people like you to keep those stock prices soaring.

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

citizenpaul wrote: post #578
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #319

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> Apple does this as matter of practice. You go in they will give you an "new" phone that is in some weird box that is not the retail box. Those are returned phones. That sounds like a replacement refurb. They won't tell you that it's "new." Apple does that, when they can't fix the problem. I've gotten a couple of those, over the years, and never had a problem. I get AppleCare, by habit. I seldom need it, but when I…

They are used and it is intentionally disingenuous to give a customer a used/refurb phone to replace a defective brand new retail price phone. Keep being an apologist though they need people like you to keep those stock prices soaring.

That was a good point, until this:

> Keep being an apologist though they need people like you to keep those stock prices soaring.

I gather that you have had a bad experience, buying from Apple?

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Post by bedast »

case wrote: post #568
bedast wrote: post #366

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Late last year going into early this year I had to deal with ASUS RMA with my ROG Flow X13 and the dock. The dock started failing. They wanted both the laptop and the dock sent in, so I sent both in. It took a while, but they got it taken care of. The only problem I ran into is apparently FedEx treated the return as a soccer ball. The sturdy packaging was very damaged, and I'm surprised the damage to the laptop and d…

@bedast if you don't mind my asking, how do you like the Flow X13? It looks like an interesting machine -- thin, light (so it's very portable), but with the option of an external GPU and display.

It's okay. I probably won't do this setup again in the future, though. I think Asus had the right idea, but not the right execution. Future standards may make their proprietary solution unnecessary, also. Not say that's where I think Asus failed on execution. I would have preferred if the laptop didn't have discrete graphics at all to cut back on power requirements on the go. But I get it, they were aiming to try to keep gaming performance up when undocked. This just isn't my priority.

I suspect when I'm itching for an upgrade in a couple of years or so that I'll go back to a SFF desktop with desktop class graphics and separate thin and light laptop. I might even forego the laptop altogether, depending on how things look at the time.

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