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That's a good guess ... but I still think there's a bit of hyperbole going on. I'd think a gigantor-laptop would be similar enough to an ultrabook that the kid
by danjayh 12y ago
That's a good guess ... but I still think there's a bit of hyperbole going on. I'd think a gigantor-laptop would be similar enough to an ultrabook that the kid would figure it out. If I recast the question of 'what it was' to 'what is that hunk-of-junk looking laptop?', then I guess I could believe it.
On that topic ... many of the chunky plastic boxes are actually great machines. We have a choice from a few machines at work ... and almost no engineers choose an ultrabook. While ultrabooks are good for some things (watching videos, basic productivity like word, small excel workbooks, etc.), I wouldn't want to compile an operating system on one. I have a gigantic brick of a 'laptop' at work (I think it's a Precision M6700), and I wouldn't trade it for anything. It's nice to be able to slap it on and off a dock, to be able to connect it to four monitors without any janky USB video cards, and to be able to install tons of RAM.
- pyre 12y ago> I wouldn't want to compile an operating system on one The number of laptop users that actually "compile an operating system" are relatively small. This seems like a poor choice for an example.
- bitwize 12y agoI compile operating systems on a 2010 ThinkPad. It's not fantastic for today's standards, but it's not terrible either.
- dekhn 12y agoI compiled operating systems (linux) on my clunky 486/100 MHz laptop 19 years ago. Ditto.
- icebraining 12y agoEven the number of developers who compile an operating system on any regular basis is extremely small. For me, developing software is much less resource intensive than a light web browsing session.
- mc32 12y agoNot only that but it implies that a young person was an expert on what was derigueur technology and not. It's a pretty shallow assertion and hard to take the article seriously after that.
- gaius 12y agoRelevant: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-sad-world-of-adults-pretending-to-be-kids-for-retweets http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-sad-world-of-adults-prete...