Laptop Pricing - A small rant.
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@scottalanmiller we have a big push here to switch over, lead by senior manglement. It's pretty funny to watch them get what they ask for.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The answer is... they are much better now. Way better. Useful, actually. But are they great? Nope. Good enough, sure. Useable. But flaky, slow and hard to use. They require way too much "desktop expertise" for basic tasks. With Windows and Linux you never have to do things like "Google how to rename a file." They have obvious, graphical, on screen clues for things. Mac is "if you aren't a Mac expert, go away." Least inviting OS ever.
Agree. Only I think that even if you are a Mac expert, you're still fundamentally constrained in a lot of usage scenarios and forced to do things more slowly and less efficiently than on Windows. On top of that the interface/OS performance in general is just palpably slower in almost all situations. Some things are pretty, others are nightmarishly ugly ( like the new dock and icon set ), but in the end, none of that matters to me personally as much as the ability to do things as close to instantly as possible, while working for money, at least.
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There's a reason this didn't piss me off to much. I'm using a much much older Lenovo T410 with windows 10 Preview and it is more powerful than this Macbook Pro Rentia which was the latest model. I dropped it on some stairs and the aluminum actually curved to the same of the steps. I didn't drop it from very high, it was hip height out of a laptop back that came unzipped and dropped on concrete stairs.
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Some sucker bid (and paid) $200 or $300 for this broken thing on ebay. Don't remember which but it surely wasn't worth either. I removed the PCIE ssd. The thing was so bent the case would be bad, many ports didn't work anymore since they were surface mount. and the board bent pretty bad so it likely damaged some traces.
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@thecreativeone91 Wow that thing is a yard sale after those stairs
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 Wow that thing is a yard sale after those stairs
Yeah they say the aluminum uni-body is suppose to be stronger than plastic laptops. I've found them to be much more malleable than quality built plastic ones. Also every mac laptop I've had has had cooling issues.
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@thecreativeone91 I'd have thought all that Al would conduct the heat pretty well but I suppose it's all in how you set it up. Probably gets too hot to use the body as a sink directly but I bet they could get more creative with heat piping. Having seen their itty bitty mobo's I can see why space for piping might be an issue.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 Wow that thing is a yard sale after those stairs
Yeah they say the aluminum uni-body is suppose to be stronger than plastic laptops. I've found them to be much more malleable than quality built plastic ones. Also every mac laptop I've had has had cooling issues.
The one that I have goes crazy trying to stay cool while just browsing the web!!
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 I'd have thought all that Al would conduct the heat pretty well but I suppose it's all in how you set it up. Probably gets too hot to use the body as a sink directly but I bet they could get more creative with heat piping. Having seen their itty bitty mobo's I can see why space for piping might be an issue.
There is a heat pipe. over the cpu and fan (a small one.) but it exhausts to a vent that hits the the bottom of the LCD when open and takes air in from between the keys on the keyboard.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 Wow that thing is a yard sale after those stairs
Yeah they say the aluminum uni-body is suppose to be stronger than plastic laptops. I've found them to be much more malleable than quality built plastic ones. Also every mac laptop I've had has had cooling issues.
Totally agree. One time I had a retina MBP on my bed and got into a tickle fight and it was a low profile box-springless frame, and it fell literally like 3 feet or so, the corner was dented beyond repair and I had to sell it at a huge loss. The unibody looks good, but as far as durability, I've noticed no difference.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 I'd have thought all that Al would conduct the heat pretty well but I suppose it's all in how you set it up. Probably gets too hot to use the body as a sink directly but I bet they could get more creative with heat piping. Having seen their itty bitty mobo's I can see why space for piping might be an issue.
There is a heat pipe. over the cpu and fan (a small one.) but it exhausts to a vent that hits the the bottom of the LCD when open and takes air in from between the keys on the keyboard.
And invites ants to live in there.
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@creayt that seems really crappy to me, we have a huge fleet of plastic fantastic Dell Latitudes and they take HUGE abuse. Drops, spills (of weird chemicals on occasion), bodily fluids.... just the worst possible stuff you can imagine. We do suffer some attrition but it's typically because I refuse to clean it (human hazmat I am not) or someone has one stolen.
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@MattSpeller said:
@creayt that seems really crappy to me, we have a huge fleet of plastic fantastic Dell Latitudes and they take HUGE abuse. Drops, spills (of weird chemicals on occasion), bodily fluids.... just the worst possible stuff you can imagine. We do suffer some attrition but it's typically because I refuse to clean it (human hazmat I am not) or someone has one stolen.
That's impressive. The day the very first retina MacBook Pro came out I got one and took it to my office, and someone spilled some coffee on it ( the lid was shut, thank god ) and it permanently nuked the displayport jacks ( can't remember if they were Thunderbolt or not yet ). Had to pay a pretty penny to get stuff replaced at the Apple Store.
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If you lease an apple watch I wonder if you have to pay for any damage.. hmm. That could be really profitable for apple.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
If you lease an apple watch I wonder if you have to pay for any damage.. hmm. That could be really profitable for apple.
Apple isn't the one doing the leasing. So no, it wouldn't make Apple money. The leasing business doesn't seem to be a viable one at all.
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http://www.applewatchlease.com/
They only have TWELVE watches. Pretty small company
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what was the name of his shop... 720SWAG? Rent-a-SWAG? Seems applicable.
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@scottalanmiller said:
http://www.applewatchlease.com/
They only have TWELVE watches. Pretty small company
That's just plain stupid.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
http://www.applewatchlease.com/
They only have TWELVE watches. Pretty small company
That's just plain stupid.
Yup. Twelve watches and they hope to make what, $20 on each if they are lucky? You can't lease $350 items in small quantity and even pay to keep the lights on, let alone employ anyone.
