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Opening my iPad anywhere and having LTE internet feels absolutely God-damn magical. It feels like I'm living inside the Matrix. I'm constantly plugged i
by znpy 6y ago
Opening my iPad anywhere and having LTE internet feels
absolutely God-damn magical. It feels like I'm living
inside the Matrix. I'm constantly plugged in.
I smiled at this. Non-apple laptops have had a sim slot for years. On ThinkPads, there has been a sim slot on most models for at least ten years. On my dell Latitude 7390 (13") i have one too.
I mean... This is why Apple users are often joked upon: Apple comes ten years late to the party and users joy and spam the web as if it brought the greatest innovation since hot water.
- jiofih 6y agoI haven’t ever met a ThinkPad owner. Can’t remember ever seeing a consumer grade laptop with a SIM card on a store. That sound of joy is the feature coming into mainstream tech.
- culopatin 6y agoMillions of people have a Thinkpad at work. Tech or non tech companies use them every day. Maybe they are not the users themselves but they are exposed to the technology on a daily basis regardless.
- brokenkebab 6y ago>I haven’t ever met a ThinkPad owner. There's always a huge world outside of one's bubble.
- oaiey 6y agoA consumer grade laptop with SIM card at the cost of a Apple product. Oh yeah, easy to find. In doubt, check the business section ;)
- madeofpalk 6y agoI mean its a minor point in a long article...
- MikusR 6y agoIts the first one.
- Nextgrid 6y agoOn the other hand, laptops (especially Windows ones) have a horrendous battery life compared to an iPad.
- michalf6 6y agoI'm getting 8-16 hours depending on use from my T480, and that's 2 CPU generations behind. I expect 20h+ from the new Ryzens.
- Ballas 6y agoThat seems to have been changing quite a bit in the last couple of years. Just look at the Zephyrus 14.
- chrismorgan 6y agoThe iPad and iPad Pro advertise “up to 10 hours of battery life”. Many laptops advertise, and get, more than this. (As an example, my Surface Book can just get 12h on light usage, and when it was new I could get 14h if I was a little bit careful. They advertised it as up to 12h. As it stands, I tend to prefer performance to battery life, so I leave it on the better or best performance power profiles, often using it fairly heavily, e.g. compiling Rust code, and so I tend to get only 5–8h. If thrashing it truly as hard as I can, recording high-quality video so that CPU and dGPU are both working at close to 100% the whole time, I can drain the battery in around 3h.)
- nvarsj 6y agoMacbooks don't have cellular modems. iPads have had them for a long time since they are derived from the mobile iOS. Not that anyone should really even care about this - phone tethering works perfectly fine for almost anyone unless you are too lazy to connect to your phone's wifi.
- michalf6 6y agoDrains battery. I can easily work all day on a T480 with LTE, I doubt that a Macbook could last that long while simultainously charging an Iphone (drains very quickly when I use it as a hotspot)
- scarface74 6y agoWay back in 2013 an iPad could last over 24 hours on one battery charge as a hotspot. https://www.imore.com/yup-ipad-air-still-gets-24-hours-battery-life-wi-fi-hotspot-same-previous-generations https://www.imore.com/yup-ipad-air-still-gets-24-hours-batte... I doubt the newer iPads would perform worse.
- jankotek 6y agoMy Toshiba laptop from 2006 has build in cellular modem. It is pretty common.
- jedieaston 6y agoLast time I saw an air card in a laptop, you had to turn it off whenever you sleeped the computer to save battery life (because it would die in your bag) and the connection took a long time to boot. That was in 2011 or so though, is it better today?
- rimliu 6y agoHow exactly Apple comes ten years late to the party, when the first iPad had mobile connectivity ten years ago? Did Toshiba, or Lenovo had tablets with cellular connection 20 years ago? Maybe Apple came out with iPhone ten years too late as well: not that's a great reason to make fun of Apple users, for sure.
- brudgers 6y agoThe difference, and I am not an Apple fanperson, is that Apple makes it as easy to buy an iPad with a SIM card in it as it is to buy a phone with a SIM card in it. Lenovo does not. In practice, the equivalence is only theoretical. I can buy an LTE iPad at Walmart at 2am on Tuesday (or at least I could prepandemic). Wireless in a ThinkPad is much less straightforward.
- znpy 6y agoBruh. You can buy literally any ThinkPad (choose your size, choose your spec) then get a ThinkPad-compatible LTE/whatever compatible card off eBay for 50$ or less. Try doing that (adding/replacing hardware) on an iPad.
- rcarmo 6y agoIt is incredibly hard to buy laptops with LTE. Either they're not even stocked in stores or they have to be shipped direct, sometimes depending on the vagaries of the countries and providers involved. Source: 11 years at Vodafone doing mobile broadband for enterprises in a previous lifetime. It was MUCH easier with PCMCIA cards, let me tell you...
- scarface74 6y agoIt’s just like the whole “no wireless less space than the Nomad, lame” comment. Geeks don’t get it. But the iPad has had a cellular option since 2010. My iPad has a 30 day stand by time. When it is in stand by, it still gets notifications, it’s instant on, I can granular control which apps can use cellular data. It has 10+ hours battery life, it’s light, no fan and faster than most laptops. It’s the totality of the experience.