boonhet
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- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 11 hours ago:
More limited options that don’t give you control over what you do, yes.
- Comment on a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations 13 hours ago:
If OP is who she says she is, she’s better off not proving who she is. Probably best for a young woman to not put a face to her name online if she’s making a bunch of sexual posts. People can be nasty.
At the end of the day it doesn’t really matter if she’s actually a woman or not, since it’s highly unlikely any of us is meeting her in person ever.
- Comment on a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations 13 hours ago:
Well the best sex happens when you and your partner both love each other so it might not be very feasible for them if they behave the same IRL as here.
- Comment on a girl can never be hyperfeminine/sexual, chaotic, unfiltered online without ulterior motives allegations 14 hours ago:
I think society at large has a misogyny-as-default problem unfortunately. I guess most of us have been raised with biased we’re not really aware of until we reach a certain level of self-reflection.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 16 hours ago:
Nice troll m8
Try programming on a tablet, or playing any graphics heavy games, or really anything more than simple text editing or media consumption. It’s a shit experience.
Of course if your idea of PC ownership includes an anti-virus subscription, you should indeed limit yourself to devices that limit what you can do with them, as I have suspicions about your tech literacy.
- Comment on Unconventional strategy. 16 hours ago:
They need Lebensraum.
- Comment on Your Phone is an Entire Computer 16 hours ago:
So how fast do you type on your phone? Because I can barely get 50 words per minute and even then my accuracy suffers… So that’s a third of the speed of a proper keyboard and way more typos.
Why would I pay for a tablet and a keyboard to get a second super limited device as opposed to having a proper computer that can do anything I want it to?
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 18 hours ago:
I’ve been using it for ages whenever I need to open PDFs on Windows. Though nowadays browsers handle them too. And I avoid Windows.
It is genuinely excellent software.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 day ago:
There are some Snapdragon laptops but they’re not exactly the same as the snapdragon phone SoCs and they tend to be expensive
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 day ago:
Borderline?
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 1 day ago:
Yeah, everyone knows Coca-Cola. Nobody immediately goes out to buy some when they see the ad with Santa Clause and whatever, but the brand recognition is conditioned into pretty much everyone so you notice it in the store when you’re thinking of grabbing a cool beverage from the fridge.
It’s not even that good, but it’s the default.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 day ago:
Tbf many of us can be real assholes online but all the fellow nerds I know irl are very inclusive and just excited when someone else shares a hobby
- Comment on GTA6 is gonna be crazy 🔥 1 day ago:
I think it’s just engagement/enragement bait a lot of the time. Gets a lot of comments oftentimes.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 day ago:
Not too sure on that. In single-thread cinebench it beats high-end desktop CPUs from AMD and Intel. Now the Ryzen 9950X3D will absolutely DEMOLISH it in anything that can use all of its threads, but it literally lost in single-thread to Apple’s phone SoC. And that CPU costs the same as the entire Macbook Neo.
You can spend 3k on a gaming laptop with a Core Ultra 9 288V right now that is in every other way better performing than the Macbook Neo, but still loses heavily in single thread performance.
Now I’m not saying this makes it the best deal ever, it’s literally just one metric I’m talking about, but for the average user, single thread performance means the computer is more responsive overall, and a lot of applications aren’t optimized to make proper use of 6 threads, let alone 16 or 32, so it might feel snappier than a significantly more expensive laptop from another manufacturer, especially if it’s running Windows.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 day ago:
Computer people might own several devices, some of them (particularly laptops) prebuilt, and don’t usually gatekeep.
But that’s the difference between real computer people and you.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 day ago:
Unfortunately, these particular devices were kinda shit lol
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 day ago:
It’s actually a bit faster than the M1 and most M1 owners are still not upgrading because there’s no real need. So you could reasonably do productivity things that aren’t heavy ass 3D modelling or video editing. But with 8 gigs of RAM it’ll swap a lot, wearing down the SSD eventually.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
Okay I don’t think you’ve actually used MacOS lol
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
Thinkpad P1 Gen 7 and the upcoming T14 Gen 7. The latter got 10/10 in repairability from iFixit, and the T lineup has always been great at longevity, repairability, and drive-over-it-with-a-tractor-or-pour-water-on-the-keyboard-survivability. I’m suspecting most upcoming Thinkpads will have it. Some Thinkbooks do as well, but I don’t trust any Lenovo without a Thinkpad name on it, and not even all of those.
Dell Pro Max lineup as well.
They’re only just starting to come out. Within the next few years I imagine most manufacturers will have offerings with LPCAMM.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
It was cheaper because it was not sealed-box new, otherwise it would’ve been more than the lower-spec $895 one 3 months ago when it still existed.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
Tbh Apple laptops were always easier to deal with than non-pro PC laptops when I worked at a refurb shop.
Professional grade PC laptops (Thinkpad T, X series, Elitebook 700 series and up) were very easy to repair (and had more replaceable components than a Mac), but get your hands on a Pavilion and you’ll want to pull your hair out. Using label remover to remove battery cells after removing an 8-10 screw bottom case on a Mac was quicker than even a simple HDD replacement in some PC laptops.
Of course it helped a LOT that Apple’s lineup is pretty standardized and they don’t change everything around every model year, so a LOT of part reuse happened. Which was the same with e.g Elitebooks and Thinkpads, but again, not Pavilions and Ideapads and such.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
I’m a die hard Apple apologist in anti-Apple tech spaces because I love playing devil’s advocate.
I’ve more or less never had WiFi issues on Macs. Bluetooth range was a bit shit on a 2011 Air I once had though. In an environment with dozens of other bluetooth devices in the same room. WiFi still worked fine, despite having probably 50-60 laptops using WiFi in the same room at any given time.
I had one of these famous 8 gig M1 Airs. I managed to hit 20 gigs of swap usage at some point when running several different applications and a lot of docker containers and it still ran just fine.
People often say their devices are shitty, but they’re actually excellent. Their business practices are shitty, but when the M1 came out, it performed better with 8 gigs than any equivalently priced PC laptop with 16, even if it had to swap more often.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
It can also do things and still use the same 6 gigs.
MacOS caches a lot. That memory is freed when it’s needed for other things.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
Don’t most APUs use system RAM for graphics?
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 2 days ago:
They make jira, project management software that is so slow and annoying you’re better off using a chat and shared files on Google drive.
They also make a bunch of other shitty software but jira is the most famous.
- Comment on love venn diagrams🫶 2 days ago:
I hit all 3 but then she said that she’s still broken because of her past trauma and needs to work on herself first. Which to be fair is great that she realizes it, but the issue is now we barely talk anymore because it’s honestly hard for both of us. So now I feel like all 3 have been lost instead of having just the 1, friendship.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
Refurb
You can’t really compare refurb to new. If you do, you might as well consider refurb Macbook Pros instead of the Macbook Neo too.
A new X1 Carbon is 1749 EUR starting price near me. The Neo is 719. A 5 year old X1 Carbon, refurbed, is 725. It’s not a bad laptop by any means, but it also has soldered RAM much like the Mac, so at 5 years of age it may not exactly be super reliable past the warranty which isn’t all that long for either case.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
I don’t know what Asus is doing as I haven’t owned one, but some manufacturers are finally starting to do LPCAMM2. Which near me is actually cheaper than SODIMMs. And is technically superior. One reason (besides being able to sell you a new device when memory goes bad) that manufacturers solder RAM it is that it allows for faster speeds than SODIMMs, at lower power requirements.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 days ago:
I also hate that they no longer ship chargers, but it’s a USB-C charger. Don’t most people have at least one by now? The Neo in particular doesn’t require a very powerful one.
Now the fact that if you get an M5 Max 16" MBP which takes like a 100ish watt charger (can charge with slightly less, but with 20-30 it’ll be hopeless), you still get no charger, is utter bullshit because most people don’t have such a powerful USB-C charger around unless they’ve had a Macbook Pro made in the last decade already.
“care about environment 😉”
Most definitely something they’re doing for improved profit margins, but at the same time, slightly smaller boxes = more boxes per load of cargo = a bunch of CO2 saved on transport. Also they get to manufacture fewer chargers, as repeat customers won’t buy multiple chargers anymore. I do think the impact is significantly more pronounced with phones which get replaced more often and where the charger would take up a bigger percentage of the total box size.