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Linus is guilty of clickbaiting, but I have yet to see anyone accuse him of anything apart from impartial fairness in his reviewing.

dzhiurgis 4y ago
Haven't watched him for a while, but his perspective always seemed from a gamer which makes not much sense for creatives or developers.
- danpalmer 4y ago
  He does very well at the gamer and general tech consumer perspectives. He doesn't talk about the developer perspective much, but when he does it's fine, nothing incorrect from what I've seen. He does talk about the video-based creative side quite a lot particularly for larger video teams, and that content always seems to be excellent – but I guess that's to be expected as his company is essentially a medium sized video production company so they've got a ton of real-world experience.
  - dzhiurgis 4y ago
    I don't think I know any mainstream channel that focus around dev hardware. It's almost like Apple optimised their laptops for YouTubers all they do is review their hardware!
- solardev 4y ago
  As someone's who does all three (gaming, dev, creative stuff), are the hardware implications in terms of usability and performance etc. not similar between them? All might be considered power users, for example, who push the machines to their limits. What would a dev want that a gamer wouldn't? Battery life? Linux support?
  - dzhiurgis 4y ago
    This is only my opinion and centered around laptops, but: GPU: depends on what you do, but pointless for many devs, unless you are into data science, useful for both gamers and creatives, but has different aspects Display: devs - high res & reflection free, creatives - colour accuracy, gamers - refresh rate CPU: not much difference, tho devs would likely prefer faster cores over more cores Memory: dev's are most likely to run out of it, unsure of rest Storage: creatives are most likely to run out of it and most likely to benefit of fast storage Keyboard: dev - something that works more than 1 month (looking at you, 2017 MBP), creative - whatever, gamers - seemingly rgb and mechanical Mice: opinionated, but you can't game on a trackpad Footprint: creatives and devs are likely to prefer slimmer machines, but only to a point Ports: as a dev, I really don't care, gamers aren't likely to care either, but for a creative I can imagine it's absolute dongle life
    - solardev 4y ago
      Yeah! These are all great points I didn't consider in depth. I typically just use my laptop docked except for short stints at the coffee shop, but if you're the type who brings it everywhere and uses it as intended (built in keyboard, mouse, monitor) it does make a big difference.
philistine 4y ago
He's reporting on a consumer product market, and trying to produce fun content when doing that. Make of that what you will, but to me he's way too goofy to consider seriously.

dzhiurgis 4y ago

Haven't watched him for a while, but his perspective always seemed from a gamer which makes not much sense for creatives or developers.

danpalmer 4y ago
He does very well at the gamer and general tech consumer perspectives. He doesn't talk about the developer perspective much, but when he does it's fine, nothing incorrect from what I've seen. He does talk about the video-based creative side quite a lot particularly for larger video teams, and that content always seems to be excellent – but I guess that's to be expected as his company is essentially a medium sized video production company so they've got a ton of real-world experience.
- dzhiurgis 4y ago
  I don't think I know any mainstream channel that focus around dev hardware. It's almost like Apple optimised their laptops for YouTubers all they do is review their hardware!
solardev 4y ago
As someone's who does all three (gaming, dev, creative stuff), are the hardware implications in terms of usability and performance etc. not similar between them? All might be considered power users, for example, who push the machines to their limits. What would a dev want that a gamer wouldn't? Battery life? Linux support?
- dzhiurgis 4y ago
  This is only my opinion and centered around laptops, but: GPU: depends on what you do, but pointless for many devs, unless you are into data science, useful for both gamers and creatives, but has different aspects Display: devs - high res & reflection free, creatives - colour accuracy, gamers - refresh rate CPU: not much difference, tho devs would likely prefer faster cores over more cores Memory: dev's are most likely to run out of it, unsure of rest Storage: creatives are most likely to run out of it and most likely to benefit of fast storage Keyboard: dev - something that works more than 1 month (looking at you, 2017 MBP), creative - whatever, gamers - seemingly rgb and mechanical Mice: opinionated, but you can't game on a trackpad Footprint: creatives and devs are likely to prefer slimmer machines, but only to a point Ports: as a dev, I really don't care, gamers aren't likely to care either, but for a creative I can imagine it's absolute dongle life
  - solardev 4y ago
    Yeah! These are all great points I didn't consider in depth. I typically just use my laptop docked except for short stints at the coffee shop, but if you're the type who brings it everywhere and uses it as intended (built in keyboard, mouse, monitor) it does make a big difference.

philistine 4y ago

He's reporting on a consumer product market, and trying to produce fun content when doing that. Make of that what you will, but to me he's way too goofy to consider seriously.