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What a weird thing to be concerned about. This is like writing an article that a Macbook Air can't play the latest Call of Duty Game

walrus01 6y ago
Not weird at all, and here's the rationale: Something based on full "open source" principles will stand on its own merits based on the full details of its specifications and capabilities, or it won't. Your analogy is also a poor one because it's well known in the "thin and light" class of laptop that all of them use CPU integrated/low TDP graphics, designed first and foremost for 2D desktop performance (plus H264+HEVC encode and decode acceleration), and none of them are particularly capable of playing intensive 3D games. If you want to game at 1080p and anything close to 60Hz with high texture details it's a fact that no matter what brand/model of laptop you buy, you're going to be buying something thicker, a bit heavier, with a discrete GPU on the PCI-E bus. Fact is that laptops in the $1300+ class were shipping with 802.11ac 3x3 capable interfaces seven years ago. The wifi performance of a mid-2014 macbook pro will run circles around this thing.
- ganafagol 6y ago
  So buy a macbook then. What a weird detail to make so much noise about.
- globular-toast 6y ago
  You were told the hardware just isn't available. It's as simple as that. You are surely aware of the concept of tradeoffs. This is one of them. For some, using free/open source software that respects their freedom is more important than convenience.
- baybal2 6y ago
  WiFi performance went down on average through the decade. Most WiFi products these days never go to an RF lab for fine tuning.
- ActorNightly 6y ago
  Sure but the whole thing of "being able to transfer large files over wifi" is a very niche thing. If that is something that you need, then you obviously are going to select hardware for it, just like you would for gaming.

walrus01 6y ago

Not weird at all, and here's the rationale: Something based on full "open source" principles will stand on its own merits based on the full details of its specifications and capabilities, or it won't. Your analogy is also a poor one because it's well known in the "thin and light" class of laptop that all of them use CPU integrated/low TDP graphics, designed first and foremost for 2D desktop performance (plus H264+HEVC encode and decode acceleration), and none of them are particularly capable of playing intensive 3D games. If you want to game at 1080p and anything close to 60Hz with high texture details it's a fact that no matter what brand/model of laptop you buy, you're going to be buying something thicker, a bit heavier, with a discrete GPU on the PCI-E bus. Fact is that laptops in the $1300+ class were shipping with 802.11ac 3x3 capable interfaces seven years ago. The wifi performance of a mid-2014 macbook pro will run circles around this thing.

ganafagol 6y ago
So buy a macbook then. What a weird detail to make so much noise about.
globular-toast 6y ago
You were told the hardware just isn't available. It's as simple as that. You are surely aware of the concept of tradeoffs. This is one of them. For some, using free/open source software that respects their freedom is more important than convenience.
baybal2 6y ago
WiFi performance went down on average through the decade. Most WiFi products these days never go to an RF lab for fine tuning.
ActorNightly 6y ago
Sure but the whole thing of "being able to transfer large files over wifi" is a very niche thing. If that is something that you need, then you obviously are going to select hardware for it, just like you would for gaming.