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Unless they have a store in every major city where I can walk in, say "my laptop is broken" and walk out with the issue resolved, or a firm plan to have it reso

by mmel 10y ago

Unless they have a store in every major city where I can walk in, say "my laptop is broken" and walk out with the issue resolved, or a firm plan to have it resolved, then no, it is not a macbook killer.

quakenul 10y ago
Even just looking at the picture, that is shown after opening the page: No, this is not going to be a macbook killer :) It might be a macbook substitute for you, if you do not care about or fail to acknowledge the difference in design execution, that is very apparent to others (i.e. me) even at first glance. I assume the author knows that though. I also assume, he knows a thing or two about click bait :)
- abeyer 10y ago
  I don't mean this as an attack, but I really just don't get this attitude unless you're buying a laptop primarily as a social symbol or display piece. I use a laptop as a tool, and suspect that's true for more people here than not. I would argue that for a tool the primary element in design execution is achieving fitness for purpose. You want an aesthetically pleasing tool too, but no amount of pretty makes up for inferior function. It's debatable where macbooks fall on the fitness for purpose scale, and if they are the best solution to your needs, then by all means use them. But I don't understand how you can evaluate that and come to a conclusion just by looking at a picture on a marketing bit.
sudosteph 10y ago
Does that happen to you a lot with your mac? Not being snarky, but in years of using mid-tier windows laptops with Linux on them, I've never needed or wanted to get someone else to fix anything. There have been little things (a key fell off, wanted to replace the hdd with something bigger), but those were always pretty trivial to fix on your own. If anything really bad happened, like a random catastrophic hardware failure, I don't think hourly employees at a store would be able to fix it anyhow.
sigmar 10y ago
>“like our other laptops you can replace most of the parts easily” >“open hardware warranty” which says you can replace pretty much anything (except the motherboard) and not void the warranty.” Don't want to come off as a snarky techy, but I'd much prefer having this over having to pay a premium to have Apple's techs do the repair.

by mmel 10y ago

quakenul 10y ago

Even just looking at the picture, that is shown after opening the page: No, this is not going to be a macbook killer :) It might be a macbook substitute for you, if you do not care about or fail to acknowledge the difference in design execution, that is very apparent to others (i.e. me) even at first glance. I assume the author knows that though. I also assume, he knows a thing or two about click bait :)

abeyer 10y ago
I don't mean this as an attack, but I really just don't get this attitude unless you're buying a laptop primarily as a social symbol or display piece. I use a laptop as a tool, and suspect that's true for more people here than not. I would argue that for a tool the primary element in design execution is achieving fitness for purpose. You want an aesthetically pleasing tool too, but no amount of pretty makes up for inferior function. It's debatable where macbooks fall on the fitness for purpose scale, and if they are the best solution to your needs, then by all means use them. But I don't understand how you can evaluate that and come to a conclusion just by looking at a picture on a marketing bit.

sudosteph 10y ago

Does that happen to you a lot with your mac? Not being snarky, but in years of using mid-tier windows laptops with Linux on them, I've never needed or wanted to get someone else to fix anything. There have been little things (a key fell off, wanted to replace the hdd with something bigger), but those were always pretty trivial to fix on your own. If anything really bad happened, like a random catastrophic hardware failure, I don't think hourly employees at a store would be able to fix it anyhow.

sigmar 10y ago

>“like our other laptops you can replace most of the parts easily” >“open hardware warranty” which says you can replace pretty much anything (except the motherboard) and not void the warranty.” Don't want to come off as a snarky techy, but I'd much prefer having this over having to pay a premium to have Apple's techs do the repair.