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All his points are bogus. It's a freaking laptop, how many USB ports does he need? While I can come up with tons of use cases, I honestly don't recall an actual

by tx 19y ago

All his points are bogus. It's a freaking laptop, how many USB ports does he need? While I can come up with tons of use cases, I honestly don't recall an actual visual image in m head of a laptop with 2+ USB devices connected at the same time. And the only time I see someone sticking a CD/DVD into a laptop is to watch a movie, which doesn't stop me from thinking about replacing my CD/DVD tray with an extra bay battery (ThinkPads rock). And Duo 2 1.6Gz is too weak? That's just insane. Software has stagnated for at least 10 years, lagging behind hardware like crazy. What is that guy running today that he wasn't running 10 years ago? I have a CPU scaling frequency indicator in Gnome menu that 99.9% of the time shows me freaking 800Mz - yes, that's a typical frequency my 2.2Gz Duo 2 is running at. The only time I wish I had a faster PC is when I do batch conversion of a bunch of RAW files from my camera. But it's like doing backups - pushing gigabytes around... And even that I am doing on my "big" PC where I need more screen real estate. The only thing this laptop is missing is UltraNav found on ThinkPads. An enormous productivity/ergonomics booster, something that will keep pe glued to Lenovo forever.

xenon 19y ago
I think the blogger is just not in the market for a small laptop. I have a white Macbook that I'm very happy with, and I couldn't imagine carrying around anything larger. I'd have bought a 12" Powerbook if those had survived the Intel switch. In contrast: > And lastly, let's be honest: did we really need things to get that much thinner? My MBP is a great size, not too heavy, and it's thin enough that there's quite a lot of leftover room in the laptop compartment of my bag. There's obviously much more room for ports and other little conveniences at 15", but it's unfair to call a machine "useless" if it makes compromises to get smaller than that.
Goladus 19y ago
I regularly use 4 USB devices with my laptop. Keyboard, Mouse, Camera, iPod. Even if keyboard+mouse go together, and Camera and iPod are swappable, I still need at least 2 ports simultaneously. Maybe the keyboard won't be necessary, but I doubt it. I have yet to find a laptop keyboard I didn't hate.

by tx 19y ago

xenon 19y ago

I think the blogger is just not in the market for a small laptop. I have a white Macbook that I'm very happy with, and I couldn't imagine carrying around anything larger. I'd have bought a 12" Powerbook if those had survived the Intel switch. In contrast: > And lastly, let's be honest: did we really need things to get that much thinner? My MBP is a great size, not too heavy, and it's thin enough that there's quite a lot of leftover room in the laptop compartment of my bag. There's obviously much more room for ports and other little conveniences at 15", but it's unfair to call a machine "useless" if it makes compromises to get smaller than that.

Goladus 19y ago

I regularly use 4 USB devices with my laptop. Keyboard, Mouse, Camera, iPod. Even if keyboard+mouse go together, and Camera and iPod are swappable, I still need at least 2 ports simultaneously. Maybe the keyboard won't be necessary, but I doubt it. I have yet to find a laptop keyboard I didn't hate.