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I'd rather have more closely integrated hardware for a laptop. It's more efficient and leads to a smaller, more powerful device. I have a powerful desktop that

by __jem 6y ago

I'd rather have more closely integrated hardware for a laptop. It's more efficient and leads to a smaller, more powerful device. I have a powerful desktop that I pay for incremental upgrades and it works great. I'm not in the Apple ecosystem, but have been before, and either way my goal is to have high quality ultrabook that serves as thin client to desktop/the cloud. Everyone has a different workflow that works for them, but I'm fortunate enough that upgrading an ultrabook every few years isn't a big deal.

kitsunesoba 6y ago
Spot on. With desktops "loose fitting" software isn't as much of an issue, because there one has an appreciable margin in computing muscle and no concern for things like power efficiency, but with laptops lack of integration degrades the resulting product quite a lot. Software alone can be what makes a laptop good or bad. For someone seeking "the best of both worlds" in terms of integration, power efficiency, and upgradability/overall flexibility, that can sometimes be found in 2-3 generation old (where all of the hardware is solidly supported) high-end business laptops running some flavor of Linux, but knowing which models of laptop are the "good ones" as well as setting up Linux to run optimally on them takes a level of involvement and energy that not everybody is up for.
webmobdev 6y ago
"Closely integrated" doesn't have to mean soldered rams, soldered ssd, or hard to replace batteries and other components.