Suddenly Apple's plethora of dongles looks like the better option
Can you elaborate? What are the downsides of built-in ports that would make it preferable to carrying dongle(s)?
VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports
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#62Reminded me somewhat of "A small notebook for a system administrator": https://habr.com/en/post/437912/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19052688
Funny, to me it just reminds me of a standard laptop from a few years ago. I have a consumer lenovo from a few years back, and it has all those ports except the USB-C.
Sadly, the trend has been to copy Apple. Even Lenovo has been taking some Apple design cues into Thinkpads.
While Macs are good, it's better to have more variety and different design compromises to choose from. Especially, if you run Linux as only a tiny proportion of sold models will have trouble-free hardware. So I applaud this move by VAIO.
The same frustrating thing happens in the smartphone market. Practically no small phones left. Interestingly, the Xperia Compact is one of those few. Also by Sony (VAIO is part-owned by Sony only).
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 separat…
Honestly, I disagree with your last point. There may be some "pros" who prefer the clitmouse but I consider myself a "pro user" in that I use my laptop(s) every day for work and for personal stuff, and I greatly greatly prefer a quality trackpad. Apple in particular ships laptops with excellent trackpads. If all you've used is the garbage trackpads that get shipped with most Dell or Lenovo laptops, then sure I can se…
I wasn't clear enough.
I don't mean to say that the trackpoint is overwhelmingly preferred by pros, and other forms of coordinate input (trackpads, trackballs, mice, etc) are not. If anything, pros is likely the group with most diverse and special preferences.
I tried to say that people who prefer trackpoint are mostly pros, not newcomers.
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#65This looks like the same ports, plus a single usb-c and hdmi, that a Thinkpad X230 has.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.…
> it's a real hacker's port, dammit! Oh yeah, the i2c interface disguised as DDC is my favorite part. With a few wires, you can interface any i2c eeprom with command-line tools. But projectors, oh yeah, I hear ya. VGA came out in 1987 and rapidly became ubiquitous. I think the Intel Skylake in 2015 finally shipped without integrated VGA, that's as clear a mark as you'll find for the closing of a chapter. And the cool…
I also really like the raspberry pi hack to use the gpio ports to create a VGA output. It's a simple technology that works well enough for most cases.
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#67Reminded me somewhat of "A small notebook for a system administrator": https://habr.com/en/post/437912/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19052688
Funny, to me it just reminds me of a standard laptop from a few years ago. I have a consumer lenovo from a few years back, and it has all those ports except the USB-C.
Exactly, T-series! I even have a card reader in my T450s.
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#68How cool.
I wonder if I’m the only one: I just placed an order for my first Windows laptop in 11 years. The Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7.
Apple’s overthin design, heavy aluminum, bad thermals, throttled chip, soldered parts scam is over for me. Love macOS but fact is Windows is nice now and I’m back to the fun days of weird and wild hardware. Feels great.
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#69What 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 .
Curious, is a trackball the "glans mouse?"
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#70Reminded me somewhat of "A small notebook for a system administrator": https://habr.com/en/post/437912/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19052688
Funny, to me it just reminds me of a standard laptop from a few years ago. I have a consumer lenovo from a few years back, and it has all those ports except the USB-C.
What laptop is that? Because this laptop has a lot of very weird ports (I'm leaving out USB-C):
2 micro USB-B ports, one with quick charging 3.0, one with USB OTG so the laptop can be used as an external mouse and keyboard for a different computer even when not booted.
2 ethernet ports, one with power over ethernet supporting 3 different standards for POE.
5.5x2.5mm power connector, fullsize SD reader, micro SD reader, 4 USB-A 3.0 ports (one always on), mini DisplayPort, full HDMI, 4 3.5mm audio jacks (in, out, mic, headset), VGA, DB-9 connector supporting many modes, HD Mini SAS, USIM card tray, PBD-12 pin connector, tripod mount, mount for attaching to a wall via screws or via magnets or mounting to your arm.
And on the power supply there are 8 ports.