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Why do you prefer the laptop to be thicker and heavier?
by highfrequency 6mo ago
Why do you prefer the laptop to be thicker and heavier?
- jonhohle 6mo agoI think the preference is to have a battery that can run a CPU that's compiling, AI-ing, or rendering for an entire day (16+ hours) without having to worry about where an outlet is or being tethered to a wall or be thermal throttled. Right now that's a volume tradeoff. If there was something that ran as fast for as long and was MacBook Air (or the last Intel generation) thin, I don't think anyone would complain.
- petu 6mo agoNobody said that. MacBooks of that period made compromises for useless gain in thinness. You can't with straight face tell that butterfly mechanism was a good tradeoff for .3 mm.
- hombre_fatal 6mo agoI don't want to think about how long I used that macbook where the keycaps would come off with my fingers as I typed, the switches were that broken. It's like thinking about how much time I lost using a 2010 10" Atom netbook for development as a poor student where I'd close down all apps to watch a youtube video, and "rails server" took five minutes to boot on hello world.
- saghm 6mo agoThat's a false dichotomy; there are plenty of keyboards that don't require recalls due to issues like the butterfly ones but also don't have the issues you're describing.
- eloisant 6mo agoI'd be fine with a thinner and lighter laptop if it was without compromises. But having a shitty keyboard, losing the HDMI port, wasn't worth it.
- anonymars 6mo agoRight? What was the point of a laptop with no "ugly ports" if everyone instead needed to carry around a stupid dongle to hang off it?
- et-al 6mo agoLuckily there are two lines: the Air and the Pro. The issue people had was from 2016-2019, the Macbook Pros sacrificed a lot of usability for thinness, when that should only happen for the Airs.
- soperj 6mo agoMy old thinkpad was thicker but not heavier. Way more ports, didn't need dongles.