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How slim do you want your laptop to be? Slimmer than 17mm? Why? What advantage does this give you? Your backpack is 30mm thick and wouldn't fit a sandwich anym

by tasuki 4y ago

How slim do you want your laptop to be? Slimmer than 17mm? Why? What advantage does this give you? Your backpack is 30mm thick and wouldn't fit a sandwich anymore? You want to slide your laptop under the door and there's only a 12mm hole? You want to look hip in a café and 17mm doesn't cut it? Weight makes a difference, sure. Apart from that I care about the thermals and ability to replace parts, both of which are better on thicker laptops.

Silica6149 4y ago
In addition, this has an ethernet port. Many companies these days remove the ethernet port to make their laptops thinner so at least this one is doing something with the extra thickness.
gabereiser 4y ago
The advantage is not needing a backpack but just a small bag. The advantage is less weight. The advantage is being able to hold your laptop and a coffee without one arm feeling heavy and throwing off your balance. The advantage of having a laptop that feels powerful yet elegant. If this laptop got rid of the Ethernet port in favor of wifi only and it got rid of the hdmi and USB ports in favor of USB-C, and it upgraded to at least a 1440p display, I’d probably buy one as my daily driver. No one can come close to what my MacBook Air can do and how it feels. I wish they would. It’s thin, quiet, comfortable, elegant, but it’s arm64 in a world of x86 and that has issues still. I’d love an x86 version (even if it’s a few mm thicker to support a fan).
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  > If this laptop got rid of the Ethernet port in favor of wifi only and it got rid of the hdmi and USB ports in favor of USB-C, and it upgraded to at least a 1440p display, I’d probably buy one as my daily driver. And by ripping out useful features, they'd lose a different part of the market. Some of us like having ports.

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How slim do you want your laptop to be? Slimmer than 17mm? Why? What advantage does this give you? Your backpack is 30mm thick and wouldn't fit a sandwich anym

by tasuki 4y ago

Silica6149 4y ago
In addition, this has an ethernet port. Many companies these days remove the ethernet port to make their laptops thinner so at least this one is doing something with the extra thickness.
gabereiser 4y ago
The advantage is not needing a backpack but just a small bag. The advantage is less weight. The advantage is being able to hold your laptop and a coffee without one arm feeling heavy and throwing off your balance. The advantage of having a laptop that feels powerful yet elegant. If this laptop got rid of the Ethernet port in favor of wifi only and it got rid of the hdmi and USB ports in favor of USB-C, and it upgraded to at least a 1440p display, I’d probably buy one as my daily driver. No one can come close to what my MacBook Air can do and how it feels. I wish they would. It’s thin, quiet, comfortable, elegant, but it’s arm64 in a world of x86 and that has issues still. I’d love an x86 version (even if it’s a few mm thicker to support a fan).
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  > If this laptop got rid of the Ethernet port in favor of wifi only and it got rid of the hdmi and USB ports in favor of USB-C, and it upgraded to at least a 1440p display, I’d probably buy one as my daily driver. And by ripping out useful features, they'd lose a different part of the market. Some of us like having ports.