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by emptythought 9y ago
If they are, it's still incredibly terrible. An enormous list of common glitches could be written about it, that just never get patched For one, it tends to split group convos into random tabs at random intervals, black hole messages,
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by emptythought 9y ago
Here's to hoping they were actually able to use the battery they intended to this time around, and that the battery life isn't garbage: https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/20/14024322/macbook-pro-b
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by emptythought 9y ago
I really wanna see some benchmarks/real world tests of this new version. it's starting to look like the semi-serious tiny machine i wanted it to be all along.
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by emptythought 9y ago
which then need 2-500 chassis, or overpriced RAID arrays to do anything useful with...
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by emptythought 9y ago
I still can't believe this doesn't have 3g. The basic phone i had 11 or so years ago did. And yes, it was just a flip phone
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by emptythought 9y ago
Another obnoxious one: Employee purchased devices will be denied warranty if you aren't that employee. I'm assuming this is to prevent people from "trading" devices or something. I got one from a friend who worked there,
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by emptythought 9y ago
Honestly this is the number one reason i quit using my SP. I know a lot of people here love them, but it was just too obnoxious to use on my legs, soft surfaces, and lots of other places. I will agree it was awesome on plane tray tables, bu
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by emptythought 9y ago
This design actually continued for quite a while. The last model came out around 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_P_series Unfortunately, it's saddled with probably the worst series of atom intel ma
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by emptythought 9y ago
They removed these settings. That's exactly the point at which i just started losing interest. I still have a huge pile of stuff i meant to list years ago that i just don't have the motivation too now. Too many crap bidders, no wa
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by emptythought 9y ago
I kept mine going for as long as i could until it was just blatantly too underpowered. I upgraded to the 15in retina(magsafe style, not the new one) and i'm still grumpy about the screen size downgrade. Where is the 4k 17in MBP? The ol
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by emptythought 9y ago
Seriously, i wish everyone would stop screaming about USB-C and just mourn this. Both would be fine, but removing magnetic charging was a regression
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by emptythought 9y ago
This will be cracked within days, honestly
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by emptythought 9y ago
Another thing worth noting is that they still support basically every piece of hardware they ever did. Think built in apps on old smart TVs or early blu-ray decks that haven't been patched in YEARS, devices from before 2009~ even. You
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by emptythought 9y ago
I have such a passionate hate for S4B. This also happens to me, and the logging options mentioned below being enabled don't make a reliable difference: the logs don't always save! Additionally, group chats often split in to two wi
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by emptythought 9y ago
Are there even any other "pixel alternatives" out there now that that's dead? By which i mean 3:2 or 4:3 display rather than 16:9/10, relatively small, not a tablet, etc. I'm not really interested in the surface pro
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by emptythought 9y ago
I hear this point all the time, but it's starting to feel like it's just the cool thing to say. Can you quantify this? What do you feel has gotten worse besides "grr some stuff looks iOS-y!"
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by emptythought 9y ago
For what it's worth, this is the exact reason i stopped using my surface pro 2(and tried and didn't buy a SP3/4). I've had more than one surface, and quit using them every time because of how crappy they are to use on an
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by emptythought 9y ago
Don't let your dreams be dreams: https://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/how-to-install-pixel-qis... (A friend of mine is about to order this, i've seen it, it's as awesome as you'd imagine)
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by emptythought 9y ago
I don't understand how this wasn't the bigger news. Touch bar, meh, most people don't care either way. Price increase? it's apple. Everyone i've talked to who got one laments the loss of magsafe, though. I've a
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by emptythought 9y ago
Every MVNO has QOS working against them and caveats, like throttled speeds, no roaming, and basically always soft-caps. Most of the postpaid official carrier plans have soft caps too, but these are often MUCH lower(like 5gb instead of 25)
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by emptythought 9y ago
i would settle for a barebones machine with the basic CPU, onboard graphics, and like 4-8gb of ram but the ability to add in whatever cpu(s) and GPU i wanted, under $2000. Preferably around the price of the base imac.
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by emptythought 9y ago
Easy: One vendor, one support contract/warranty. There's one number to call, and they'll repair any part of the machine up to and including swapping out the whole thing. Anyone buying a machine that expensive they really need
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by emptythought 9y ago
CPUs as well
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by emptythought 9y ago
Nah. We have those at my work, and we also have an iMac with a magic trackpad, and several of us have macbook pros. It's a huge improvement, but it's maybe 75% of the way there. And the points at which it's NOT there are very
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by emptythought 9y ago
Same experience here. Amusingly, 5ghz works halfway down the block outside the building but dies in my bedroom. It's an older building, and the walls are built like bunkers. 2.4ghz works perfectly, and always has. I think the real an
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by emptythought 10y ago
Against the 3 series this could be an issue, but have you been in an i3? The interior is shockingly crappy, and easily bested by something like a hyundai sonata even. The cheap CLA class doesn't feel that great inside either, and is re
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by emptythought 10y ago
They're saying if you need more reliability than a service provides, but choose the cheap option with too low(or no) SLA, then you screwed up. As a former POS engineer, this has been my gripe about these services from the get-go. Real
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by emptythought 10y ago
I wonder how long the 2nd gen will be supported now? they already dropped the first...
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by emptythought 10y ago
Except this is going to be the common response of management at basically any large, or older company. Not everyone here works at startups, and this isn't something that's easy to just immediately change. This is an issue with a l
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by emptythought 10y ago
These SocEng attacks are to retrieve that code from the old provider. It works the same way here

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