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This site is just becoming ridiculous. You understand what a portable device is right? That you can UNPLUG the laptop from the external monitor and still use it.
But you do understand that owning a desktop does not preclude also owning a laptop, right? I have a desktop, and a laptop used as a thin client. The laptop can be inexpensive or have nice features (like a touchscreen), while the real power, storage, etc, is on the desktop.
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>There’s a policy for everything. The other thing to mention is that regardless of policy, humans are humans. If you're acting like a Karen to the guy behind the counter, they are going to give you the absolute bare minimum service. They know the policy, and they know exactly how it can be applied to make sure you have a shit day. If you help them help you, they'll often go above and beyond to make sure you're looked…
I worked that job, and in my view it's part of being a professional to not let emotions interfere with the level of service provided.
Every time you say to yourself “I like this guy, I’ll break the rules and hook him up” you’re setting the next tech up for a really bad day.
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? I explained in my post I take it to car washes on hot days. Cold water conducts way better than your idea of "shock" via air and sun rays. Your winter water idea shows you might almost understand water conducts better than air. So it's just proof you don't read well. And either way, it's 1000x more extreme than what an laptop screen experiences.
Again, what you are describing will not produce thermal shock. Car wash water isn't "cold water" and is probably less than 10° colder than the ambient temperature, and it is applied relatively slowly, allowing the glass to equalize before it is stressed. What is required is a sudden change in temperature. For something as thick a car windshield, you'll need a near instantaneous 40° temperature change. If your car win…
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This site is just becoming ridiculous. You understand what a portable device is right? That you can UNPLUG the laptop from the external monitor and still use it.
But you do understand that owning a desktop does not preclude also owning a laptop, right? I have a desktop, and a laptop used as a thin client. The laptop can be inexpensive or have nice features (like a touchscreen), while the real power, storage, etc, is on the desktop.
This isn't even an argument, the decades of the laptops continued popularity say enough.
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For many people outside of HN demographic $500 is a lot of money for "a computer" A macbook would be like buying a top spec Mercedes when all they need is a no frills base model Ford.
> For many people outside of HN demographic $500 is a lot of money for "a computer" It would be but it's also kind of overkill based on the specs you can get nowadays for general computer usage. I recently picked up a $399 15.6" Lenovo laptop new on Amazon for a family member. It has all of the important stats for a regular user. A 1080p display, fairly light, 11th gen Intel CPU (i3), 8gb of memory and most important…
We have a bunch of $400 Lenovos at work and their trackpads are absolutely atrocious. When someone is using one of those, they almost always use an external mouse with them, because otherwise, mouse cursor handling is just too frustrating.
Is this a defect that's also in the MacBook Pro 16" M1 model? Or is it limited to the MacBook Air M1s? Does anyone know?
I'm somewhat afraid for it because there is no AppleCare+ in our country, and I had to pay up to 700 euro for the keyboard problems in the last model before they replaced it for free.
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> And that’s why most people buy $500 laptops. Most people is a sketchy expression, but I would venture a guess that "most people" buy cheap laptops because they don't really care, they don't know how to adequately judge which ones are worth more, and they also just don't want to spend much on a computer. It's hard to imagine, but "most people" actually care little about computers.
For many people outside of HN demographic $500 is a lot of money for "a computer" A macbook would be like buying a top spec Mercedes when all they need is a no frills base model Ford.
I got this from my brother, so it's really not that far away from us.
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> For many people outside of HN demographic $500 is a lot of money for "a computer" It would be but it's also kind of overkill based on the specs you can get nowadays for general computer usage. I recently picked up a $399 15.6" Lenovo laptop new on Amazon for a family member. It has all of the important stats for a regular user. A 1080p display, fairly light, 11th gen Intel CPU (i3), 8gb of memory and most important…
With these cheap computers, the manufacturers typically cut corners on things that are not listed on the spec sheet, though, especially the quality of the trackpad. We have a bunch of $400 Lenovos at work and their trackpads are absolutely atrocious. When someone is using one of those, they almost always use an external mouse with them, because otherwise, mouse cursor handling is just too frustrating.
I can't speak for the trackpad. When setting up the laptop I found it to be ok but I only have 2 occasions of using it for 20 minutes (2 different laptops) which isn't enough time to really evaluate it since so many things can be hit or miss with trackpads. The people who use it do use an external mouse, mainly because using a trackpad is too foreign to them.
Both Lenovos are IdeaPads that were purchased a few years apart. The latest one wasn't to replace the first one, it was for someone else. The first one is still going strong. I had forgotten I even picked a Lenovo the first time around and ended up picking the same brand / model when researching "what is a really good budget'ish laptop for general computer use".
I can say without a doubt, the Mac minis are really good though. It should be illegal to sell a desktop computer with a hard drive that can never be replaced. All hard drives go bad eventually, and while my 2012 Mac mini allowed me to keep swapping out the hard drive. Which made it a great computer up until I kind of retired it when I bought a new m1 Mac mini. The current m1 Mac minis are all guaranteed to die within…
> I imagine depending on your usage, you might blow out your unreplaceable hard drive even sooner. It's possible, but seems unlikely since TBW ratings are super-conservative. > Say you make a lot of 4K and 5K movies, I can't imagine a tiny 256 SSD getting files written to it, and delete it from it over and over again will last that long. Honestly, that wouldn't be enough to do much anyway. I'd venture that pros are m…
You've only had your computer did a year and it's lost over 10% of it's lifetime.
Plus since SMART is only an estimation tool, it would probably be a good idea to replace the hard drive before it hits 50%
So if your usage, you're going to probably get nervous and replace your MacBook within 5 years .
At least with laptops, and cell we've phones have sort of accepted. This is the deal.
There's no reason for a stationary object, to have a hard drive welded into it. Not even game consoles do this.
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I mean, x1 carbon (new) isn't much cheaper (in fact, more expensive, at the time of my googling) than a MacBook Air. The linux ecosystem (which I love) has it's own fair share of problems - gnome vs. KDE, deb vs. rpm, X vs. Wayland, pulseaudio vs. pipewire, systemd vs. (the world). Sure, installing ubuntu and not worrying about any of it is a great option, but I think you've painted a slightly too pretty picture :-)…
Huh? We've been asked for our experience and that was mine. I feel strongly that if I were using fedora or debian that experience would be strikingly similar. Gnome vs kde (and there's /plenty/ of other options) is a choice, make it. Done. No further issues. And as a happy gnome guy I'm very sure KDE is excellent and will serve well. deb vs rpm. That choice is made when you choose your distro, never to be revisited o…
I can vouch for Linux in laptops, I've been running Debian+xfce (recently switched to Debian+lxde, for maybe slightly less ram usage) on my Acer Aspire One for probably more then 10 years now! It's my go-to machine whenever any hardware needs testing, be it networking or just a printer.