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"Get a notebook with at least 8GB of RAM" *Opens Chrome* "Hey, where did 60% of my available RAM go??"
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Still using a 2012 13" macbook pro as my main computer but these days I just use my phone for 90% of what I used my laptop for when I first got it. I'm probably never gonna upgrade from this thing. The aesthetics and portability of the little macbooks they got now are appealing but the keyboard is super garbage and ditching magsafe for usbc was insanely loving dumb like what were they thinking. Plus osx is kind of a trash fire now with stuff like finder in high sierra refusing to write files bigger than 2GB onto fat32 volumes even though the actual filesystem limit is 4GB so you gotta use forklift or some other third party file manager instead. All of the above combined with them supposedly planning on ditching intel in favour of their own chips makes me sad because drat I would really love to pick up a new apple laptop that doesn't suck but there is literally no such thing.
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Aug 13, 2018 06:58
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:This is actually the worst thing about Macbooks. I mean other than the zero USB ports thing and the fact that pressing enter on a file renames it instead of opening. Fun fact: German workplace ergonomics guidelines require non-glossy screens. If your company gives you a glossy screen, that is in violation of these guidelines. Therefore Macs would not ne considered fit for the workplace. Of course the sheeple prefer to pay out the rear end for form over function and workers would never complain because they want to be hip and trendy.
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Aug 13, 2018 07:22
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naem posted:I've been waiting a decade for someone else to add cintiq functionality to their product, it's incredibly frustrating What do you mean? There are multiple Cintiq-likes on the market. Frenden reviews them occasionally: http://frenden.com/tagged/review
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Aug 13, 2018 08:32
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Hopper posted:Fun fact: German workplace ergonomics guidelines require non-glossy screens. If your company gives you a glossy screen, that is in violation of these guidelines. Therefore Macs would not ne considered fit for the workplace. Of course the sheeple prefer to pay out the rear end for form over function and workers would never complain because they want to be hip and trendy. I never knew that. Basically everyone where I work is issued a macbook with a glossy screen. I declined the work-issued one though and got an Asus Zenbook, which I personally think looks cooler and has the benefit of not being a mac. At least I can hook my laptop up to a projector without having to gently caress around for a couple minutes with the refresh rates or whatever like half the mac users at conferences.
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Aug 13, 2018 09:11
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The Huawei matebook pro looks very nice but I can't afford it.
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Aug 13, 2018 09:47
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The last Surface has a glossy screen too for what it's worth And I hate that too. gently caress glossy screens
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Aug 13, 2018 10:14
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Hopper posted:Fun fact: German workplace ergonomics guidelines require non-glossy screens. If your company gives you a glossy screen, that is in violation of these guidelines. Therefore Macs would not ne considered fit for the workplace. Of course the sheeple prefer to pay out the rear end for form over function and workers would never complain because they want to be hip and trendy. Giving your employees extreme headaches is probably against some of their plentiful worker's rights and it makes me wanna go to Germany to live Zidrooner posted:I think glossy screens look better The only time a matte screen gives a rainbow effect is if you put a matte screen protector or cover over the glossy screen. Screens that start out matte don't have that issue at all. Jose Oquendo posted:Which MacBooks have no USB ports? They all have at least one. The newest ones. You need a dongle to plug in any normal USB device. And you need a friggin hub if you wanna plug in two devices lol Verisimilidude posted:I know people who had theirs for years with no problems. It sounds like an unlikely issue, but in that regard I’ve had windows laptop keyboards crap out on me far more easily than any of my MacBook’s. Actual service bulletin from Apple
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Aug 13, 2018 10:19
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Actual service bulletin from Apple It just works™
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Aug 13, 2018 11:18
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I have some old HP business laptop I got off Newegg for $150 and I put lubuntu on it so it's still fast. I'm not spending 2k on a stupid computer. That extra 1850$ can go to cheap booze.
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Aug 13, 2018 11:45
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Keychain corruption and password resets remain the bane of my existence. Also the new MacBooks seem to have a lot fewer ports and they're all Thunderbolt now because gently caress standard peripherals I guess.
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Aug 13, 2018 12:45
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You don't understand innovation. You idiot. You absolute moron.
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Aug 13, 2018 13:08
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:The only time a matte screen gives a rainbow effect is if you put a matte screen protector or cover over the glossy screen. Screens that start out matte don't have that issue at all. Nah, my previous goon recommended dell ultrasharp (an otherwise great monitor) had this issue without me putting anything over it. It's very obvious when it was supposed to show white like on a text document, or when side by side with a glossy monitor on a dual screen setup. I hear they acknowledged the problem and toned down the overly aggressive coating on later models though. It was very effective, in my old apartment sunlight was bearing down straight on it and it was still very usable, so I do think matte has a lot of merit but I do find glossy to have better image quality.
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Aug 13, 2018 14:08
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you're not allowed discuss the new mack book keyboard until you know how to properly utilize the term "throw" as it relates to the extent of motion.
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Aug 13, 2018 14:19
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i too get mad at products i don't buy or own
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Aug 13, 2018 14:19
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i was browsing some gaming laptops since i left my gaming pc at home and they cost the same as my pc did with relatively the same specs (i5, r7260x) and they cost like 100 bucks more than that pc did like 4 years ago. notebooks are really expensive
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Aug 13, 2018 14:27
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Notebook i5 has half the cores?
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Aug 13, 2018 14:29
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buy a thinkpad, op
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Aug 13, 2018 14:34
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poverty goat posted:buy a thinkpad, op
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Aug 13, 2018 14:44
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Warbadger posted:Keychain corruption and password resets remain the bane of my existence. Also the new MacBooks seem to have a lot fewer ports and they're all Thunderbolt now because gently caress standard peripherals I guess. My zenbook did the same thing. I didn't even know what a USB-C plug was. It's kind of annoying but it does allow it to be thin+light as hell so  the downside is if you forget your "dongle" like the mac people seem to do all the time, nobody is going to have one that works for you to borrow (I've tried the mac versions, they don't work).
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Aug 13, 2018 14:45
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vas0line posted:make sure to get the x240. the trackpad is totally amazeballs the x200 series were good but my 220 is about due for an SSD
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Aug 13, 2018 16:14
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DoctorGonzo posted:i was browsing some gaming laptops since i left my gaming pc at home and they cost the same as my pc did with relatively the same specs (i5, r7260x) and they cost like 100 bucks more than that pc did like 4 years ago. notebooks are really expensive Shockingly, a niche (gaming) laptop with high-end components packed into a comparatively tiny chassis paired with an expensive LCD panel is much more expensive than a desktop with off-the-shelf parts. 
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Aug 13, 2018 16:29
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:Shockingly, a niche (gaming) laptop with high-end components packed into a comparatively tiny chassis paired with an expensive LCD panel is much more expensive than a desktop with off-the-shelf parts. The other thing is that Intel prices their power-restricted CPUs about 50% higher than the desktop ones from the same/similar production line, and that's ignoring the often very large performance cuts when compared to the desktop models It's not that it doesn't make sense though, your entire i7 laptop including the GPU might conceivably have lower consumption than a single desktop CPU on it's own (with fairly typical values of ~50 and ~60 watts respectively)
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Aug 13, 2018 16:52
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Apple users just buy macs because Steve Jobs made that one frowny face once and they are all fascinated by that
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Aug 13, 2018 17:03
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I have one of the new ones at work, the copy and paste will randomly break multiple times per day and I need to manually close the process for the clipboard in terminal every time it happens. Apparently this has been a bug for years gj apple.
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Aug 13, 2018 22:41
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steve jobs is dead and im glad of it OP
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Aug 13, 2018 22:43
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Basically the only mac laptops worth recommending: 1) 2015 MBP which had magsafe, decent non-butterfly keyboard and more ports (USB 3.0, HDMI and SD Card Slot) 2) MBA even though it's a dated heritage design the price has come down and it's still a decent compact laptop.
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Aug 14, 2018 22:48
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etalian posted:Basically the only mac laptops worth recommending: Rumor has it there's a new lost cost MacBook coming later this year. I think this will fill the $1000 price point and the MBA will be gone.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Rumor has it there's a new lost cost MacBook coming later this year. I think this will fill the $1000 price point and the MBA will be gone. The Macbook was the one that pioneered the horrible butterfly design while the MBA has more conventional travel keyboard.
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