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> I really hope this ultrabook meme ends. is that really necessary? my "work" is a complicated desktop c++ application. short of a 17" desktop replacement, the
by leetcrew 6y ago
> I really hope this ultrabook meme ends.
is that really necessary? my "work" is a complicated desktop c++ application. short of a 17" desktop replacement, there simply isn't enough thermal budget in any conceivable laptop design to compile this program in under an hour. thus, all I want out of a laptop is the thinnest lightest x86 machine that offers decent performance for web browsing, playing movies, and editing word documents.
I really hope for a future in which we can both get laptops that fit our needs.
- Karunamon 6y agoMy issue with ultrabooks proliferating is that they've made other, more capable machines more niche and more expensive. It's similar to the way that mobile phones standardized on featureless glass slabs after the entire industry decided to take after Apple, with shockingly little innovation happening outside of software. It lowers the lowest common denominator, in other words. The gulf between "consumption machine" and "work machine" is now higher.
- leetcrew 6y agothat's understandable, but it sounds like what you're really saying here is that you want to take advantage of economies of scale for products that don't make the trade-offs that most consumers actually want.