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by spronkey 11y ago
Latitude isn't entry-level, it's just the business line. Yes, they have the high end Precision workstation line, but Latitude models typically are built as good as or better than XPS models.
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by spronkey 11y ago
... except for things like batteries, cables, and chargers, which have had 1 star reviews for literally years, and Apple has done nothing to change their design. Hrm.
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by spronkey 11y ago
Well, there was also the Lion period where you literally couldn't use fullscreen and multi displays... despite previous versions supporting multiple displays perfectly. Took them until Mavericks to sort that out. I've had lots of
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by spronkey 11y ago
Most Thinkpads have terrible screens. Many used Thinkpads will need shims or otherwise under keyboards to stop them rattling. They also suffer from a number of issues such as electrical noise (i.e. coil whine), If you're thinking about
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by spronkey 11y ago
Hmm. My X220 has a 6-cell battery (almost new though) and I get 4+ hours easily with 70% brightness and medium workload (software dev).
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by spronkey 11y ago
From my experience the matte films are pretty poor, they really do reduce the visual quality of the display to far worse than the actual Matte displays
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by spronkey 11y ago
Just one more thing to add to the list of things Apple do well - quote realistic battery life figures.
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by spronkey 11y ago
Those 2011 quad cores are powerful machines, especially for their size (thickness, mainly). I've used HP Elitebooks with similar CPUs, that are close to twice as thick, yet still have worse heat issues. You've gotta work them pr
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by spronkey 11y ago
Maybe I have the ole' tinted glasses a la Rose, but I don't remember any really bad bugs with 10.4. Spotlight was slow, iTunes broke yet again, but in general it seemed to work OK. Maybe because I was on a PPC machine back then? I
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by spronkey 11y ago
If you remove negative gearing for property investment in isolation, sure, agreed. But I think there are ways via taxation and other policy to effectively nullify any advantages to shifting to assets such as shares. I mean, the general prob
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by spronkey 11y ago
Before Apple started making really amazing machines, I used to be a big fan of the T and X series ThinkPads. But Lenovo haven't impressed me in a long time. Lots of niggly stupid issues - like terrible audio quality, or poor LCDs, or
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by spronkey 11y ago
It's real. Sure, OS X was terrible in the early days. But then we got stuff like Tiger and Snow Leopard. It was clear progress. And now it isn't.
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by spronkey 11y ago
So many little things that Apple just do better. I'd add some things to your list as well - the keyboards are nice and snappy, the machines are silent for general tasks, and the fans are generally quiet unless you're going crazy
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by spronkey 11y ago
It's nice, but I have a pretty long list of gripes that pretty much prevent me from buying one. Mushy keyboard. Average speakers. Lacklustre I/O port selection. Kinda average camera, despite its resolution. Headphone jack in a stu
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by spronkey 11y ago
Tbh, yum and apt both get in the way for other reasons. Homebrew is nice and straightforward. Very much depends on what development you do though - anything web-related, and you're absolutely fine on a Mac.
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by spronkey 11y ago
The EliteBooks aren't even close to Macs in engineering. They're probably the closest thing I've found, but there are teething issues with all of them - like poor speakers, or noisy 3.5mm jacks, or poor display, or iffy keybo
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by spronkey 11y ago
Yes.
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by spronkey 11y ago
MS has had express editions of their IDEs available for quite some time....
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by spronkey 11y ago
So you're saying that in 80 years, we shouldn't have advanced massively as a society? Well the news is in, and we have. But only for those at the top. People at the bottom still work dangerous jobs. Things like mining might be saf
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by spronkey 11y ago
Connected via HDMI? And goes into YPbPr mode because OS X thinks its a TV? And has no override.
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by spronkey 11y ago
Photos.app is atrocious from a UI perspective. It's an iOS app shoehorned onto OS X. How to back up your library to, oh, I don't know, an external disk? Drink the kool aid or else.
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by spronkey 11y ago
That's not a high bar though. The only other high profile desktop OS around at the time, Windows NT, was more stable than any pre-OS X Apple OS for a long, long time.
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by spronkey 11y ago
One of the things about OS X is that most of the time it's put on high quality, but non-exceptional hardware. So things like bad RAM, flakey power supplies, bad GPU drivers etc are almost never an issue with a stock machine. Windows, n
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by spronkey 11y ago
Yeah absolutely. Snow Leopard's multi-display was great. As was Leopard's, Tiger's, and Panther's. Then Apple broke it massively in Lion, and only finally resolved most of the (severe, productivity-destroying) issues wit
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by spronkey 11y ago
Handoff is a really useful feature (when it works). Also SL mamed Expose (that weird non-proportional grid view) that was reverted to the Leopard-style in Mission Control (of which Mavericks/Yosemite had the best implementation, and th
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by spronkey 11y ago
Intel brings such conflicting emotion for me. On the one hand, this sort of behaviour is appalling. But on the other hand, their quality control, validation, longetivity at the front is awe-inspiring.
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by spronkey 11y ago
Well, to ensure uniqueness you always need coordination. If using UUIDv1, you need to ensure your MAC addresses are not cloned. UUIDv4, you need to ensure the generated IDs are not duplicated by ensuring you have not generated each ID befor
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by spronkey 11y ago
What a cluster.. see kay. IANAL, and find the above description of what makes a good lawyer as repulsive as it is accurate. It's a self-fulfilling system, too, thanks to the learning of case law. Law propagates more law. This is why we
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by spronkey 11y ago
Heh, I should qualify that to become an expert some manual-reading is required. But the interface should at least help you with the transition.
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by spronkey 11y ago
Oh god. The back button?

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