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People also wear "wifebeaters" but we don't expect them to beat their wives in them. Also "laptop" is an american term. The rest of the world calls them something closer to "portable".
"laptop" is what they're called in Polish too
Because otherwise the polish term is "komputer przenośny" (portable, movable, etc computer).
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I honestly don't care what "hinting for my emulators" means or why it matters that it's off. This is exactly what I'm talking about. I just want to get work done in a sane way. Linux is insane to any normal human being.
Since when is this a forum for normal human beings?
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XPS is a high-end consumer line. Latitude is an entry-level business line (the consumer equivalent is Inspiron).
Latitude isn't entry-level, it's just the business line. Yes, they have the high end Precision workstation line, but Latitude models typically are built as good as or better than XPS models.
There's also Vostro, which is the small/home office line.
I wasn't making a comment on build quality, just on Dell's branding and pricing.
I feel compelled to bring up how cheap, modular and abundant bad-ass second-hand thinkpads are. Not to mention that even the new-generation keyboards are amazing, and put the shallow crap on my macbook pro to shame. The money you'd spend on even a 'cheap' macbook pro will get you something solidly built with a nice screen that's plenty fast for devlopment work AND money left over for an extra battery or 2 + a brand n…
Most Thinkpads have terrible screens. Many used Thinkpads will need shims or otherwise under keyboards to stop them rattling. They also suffer from a number of issues such as electrical noise (i.e. coil whine), If you're thinking about a Thinkpad to replace a Macbook Pro, consider: - X220, X230 with IPS displays. Most aren't. Check for backlight bleed. - X250 with IPS display, but be mindful that the CPU is actually…
My wife has an X1 2nd gen and the split backspace is something I must have repressed, good call there. Total shit.
I would also make sure not to think of a used, "does enough" thinkpad as a replacement for a new Macbook Pro any more than picking up an early 2000s Acura would be a replacement for a new Mercedes. It's an alternative, with its own trade-offs that may suit some people, but by no means a direct replacement.
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Blogging with an onscreen keyboard is painful, and carrying around tablet + bluetooth keyboard is more cumbersome than a 9" or 11" "ultrabook". The ability to run old binary-only windows/x86 programs comes in handy too. What do you do for a phone? What works for me is: 6"+ phone that does anything I'd use a 7" tablet for (smartwatch means I don't need to take it out my pocket as often), 11" ultrabook for doing things…
>Blogging with an onscreen keyboard is painful I used to think that. But then i got the hang of it and now I do most of my writings on my tablet > What do you do for a phone? I don't have the use case for an expensive phone or even a data plan. I have a low end smart phone ($70) that I use mostly for just texts and calls. Even my whatsapp is on my tablet (needs manual .apk as playstore won't let you do this). I am at…
For me it just meant one less thing to carry (you could see it as less getting rid of the tablet and more buying a tablet that does phone calls so that I don't have to carry a phone around). Public transport especially is where a 6-7" device is really handy, but I don't want to be carrying more than I can fit in my pockets.
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If you're ever in that situation again, take it to the seller, mention the sales of goods act if you have to. Warranties aren't how things are supposed to work in the UK, it's the seller that carries the responsibility and so they're generally a lot better at it.
Of course, I went straight to amazon after the experience with Asus customer support and got a full refund in an hour.
I feel compelled to bring up how cheap, modular and abundant bad-ass second-hand thinkpads are. Not to mention that even the new-generation keyboards are amazing, and put the shallow crap on my macbook pro to shame. The money you'd spend on even a 'cheap' macbook pro will get you something solidly built with a nice screen that's plenty fast for devlopment work AND money left over for an extra battery or 2 + a brand n…
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If Windows gets bad battery life on MacBooks then that's an indictment of Apple's windows drivers. Just one poorly written driver can ruin your battery life, and that's a place where the MS "hardware manufacturers write the drivers for their hardware" model really falls down - there are Windows laptops where you can nearly double the battery life by fixing the touchpad driver, or the webcam driver, or, .... In theory…
On Windows, is there any way to tell if one driver in particular is behaving badly?
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> I live in the command line and use a modern toolchain. Package management has no bearing on my development. mvn, npm, composer, gem, and pip all work just fine. Home brew gets you the OS packages and I've yet to run into an even remotely popular package not in a Homebrew repo somewhere. When you're building for a managed runtime it's fine. When you're building native code not so much.
I would say that the same does apply for native code as well. Developing native code means writing code, reading code and documentation, and interacting with the build system / debugger. Those tasks need to happen directly on the developer's workstation, but not the actual building and execution/testing of that native code. This is better done in an environment with known state, i.e. either an isolated local or remot…
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You'll need an older Mac Pro then. There is quite a bit of proprietary hardware in the new ones that I'm pretty sure have no open source drivers (ie: SMC controller, force touch pad, etc). Not that the community couldn't find a way to reverse-engineer and build an open source version... but a straight up Ubuntu install on a current-generation Mac Pro is probably the fastest way to kill a battery, processor, flash dri…
I know that you know but i read this so often i might as well state it: You mean Macbook Pro, Mac Pro is a different product.