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I have been looking at these computers forever and am continuously waiting for them to come up with a nice looking laptop. I don't want to buy something that lo

I have been looking at these computers forever and am continuously waiting for them to come up with a nice looking laptop. I don't want to buy something that looks like a Dell I had in 2002. I want something that is comparable to my brand new MBP. Also, I hate to be that guy, but if you are trying to compete in this market, why even spend time doing a Desktop computer. It is a super shrinking market... the only folks that still buy these are gamers (where sadly you just have to live with the proprietary stuff to squeeze every cycle for performance) or something hyper niche that doesn't matter anyway. Concentrate on one product (probably laptops) and make something outstanding there. There are some of us that want to buy it.

ekianjo 8y ago
The latest Xiaomi laptops are pretty much like Macbooks and you can easily run Linux on them too. As for gamers of course the majority will use Windows but Win10 is such a shitshow that Linux is going to get progressively more popular, especially now that Steam Play/Proton makes it super easy to run Windows games in Linux.
sontek 8y ago
I don't play games and have both a Linux desktop and an iMac. When you are doing a lot of distributed systems and large datasets the beefier machines help a lot. I also have two laptops obviously but my main workhorses are the desktop computers. I'll even to shell into them when I'm on my laptop. I don't have any data on it but I feel like the desktop market is getting bigger as datasets are growing and software is becoming more distributed. My 2015 macbook sounds like an airplane taking off when I code on it. The fan is at full throttle 100% of the time.
whydoineedthis 8y ago
i think they sell a several laptops that are as beautiful as the macs now.