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Great that in some months there will be a high-end laptop that you don't have to throw in the garbage bin once a ram chip fries. High expectations.
by wpwpwpw 3y ago
Great that in some months there will be a high-end laptop that you don't have to throw in the garbage bin once a ram chip fries. High expectations.
- CarVac 3y agoMy girlfriend has had a $3000 gaming laptop die twice. Feels really bad to own e-waste.
- verall 3y agoI have seen this happen to many friends, older gaming laptops either dying or running much slower than expected while my desktop just chugs along.
- _2z1p 3y agoGaming laptops are particularly prone to this because of all the heat they generate. Desktops have much better mechanisms for dealing with heat.
- Hextinium 3y agoThis is where buying "professional grade" does often save you. I have seen tons of Dell Latitudes and Lenovo Thinkpads that look like a black brick but are still going 5+ years later. They actually invested in thermals and it shows. (Written on a 7 year old Thinkpad).
- nerdponx 3y agoI had to repaste the CPU in my old Thinkpad after a couple of years, but overall I got several years of hard use out of it (including playing games on it in hot apartments) before I destroyed it with an unplanned rapid deceleration.
- ItsBob 3y agoIt's funny you should say that... I just bought a 6? year old Latitude E7470 for £189 last week. I had one years ago and it was built like a tank. Also, the screen (2560x1440) is possibly the best I've had on a laptop and the keyboard has particularly deep and solid travel making it the best typing experience I've had on a laptop too. So, best laptop I've had tbh. It's only an i7 6600U so not mega powerful but I don't write 2M LOC apps anyway so it's fine. Just waiting on 32GB RAM arriving (official support is 16GB but the chipset supports 32). I agree 100%... business-class laptops (and printers for that matter) all the way.
- Narishma 3y agoAgreed. I'm typing this on a 15 years old Latitude that still works fine.
- stavros 3y agoWell, there already is. I really like my Framework 13.
- scarface_74 3y agoMy definition of “high end” in 2023 is a battery that last 14+ hours of general use, doesn’t sound like a 747 when I open two Chrome tabs side by side and won’t fry my nuts when I put it on my lap.
- devsegal 3y ago"Frying of the nuts" has been in the changelog quite some time.
- DreamFlasher 3y agoFullack. Returned my framework laptop because of 3 hours battery life (streaming Netflix, measured multiple times), the 747 sound (customer support told me "works as expected"), and if I want to fry eggs I have other devices for that. I'd say "there's room for improvement".
- 111111IIIIIII 3y agoCan you name a laptop that meets your expectations and lets me connect an external GPU? (not for gaming)
- scarface_74 3y agoI hate to be that guy. But why do you want a laptop for that? While my above list of requirements is basically implying a MacBook, if I wanted a really performant computer with a good GPU either internal or external for a high end use case, I would get a non-Mac desktop.
- 111111IIIIIII 3y agoWhy own a macbook when you could just have a non-Mac desktop instead?
- lockhouse 3y agoMaybe they prefer macOS or need it for iOS development. Also, there really isn't anything out there like a MacBook Air. Thin, light, fast, fanless (silent), and truly all day battery life.