Trends in tech you don't understand, or just don't like

I'll start with touchscreen laptops, especially when they aren't even stupid 2-in-1s. Also 15 inch 2-in-1s, who thought that would be a good idea?

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It wasn't necessary but it reeled in money and that's all that matters.

It seems dumb till you have it, you'll find yourself using it here and there and will end up missing it when you use someone's non-touchscreen computer.

Oh, I have a convertible tablet with a keyboard, and it's pretty useful, I just haven't seen a design for a full laptop that looks comfortable to use, between all the different hinge designs

This is the only convertible design I've liked and nobody does it anymore

Touchscreen is useful for productivity. I can pinch in and out with excel cells and avoid fucking around with the tiny ass zoom bar on the corner.

doesn't ctrl+scroll up do that?

I can see how that would be useful, but is it worth the extra weight and glossy screen?
I like those designs too, if they have a stylus

that just software being written badly.

just think about it. touch exists for a couple of years, and they had to write an entire subset of functionality to detect finger positions on touch screens, while they could have just adjusted the mouse pointer. this is 21th century tech

What are you even talking about? Touchscreen can be used for everything else too.

>Touchscreens
>Backlit keyboards
>Chiclet keys
fucking stupid useless shit

Have a 13 inch Zenbook 2 in 1 and actually love it. Possibly because I need the mobility for creating presentations etc. while also reading lots of papers and books as pdf in the evening (using tablet mode in bed).

I thought I don't need it either but I love it. Sitting at a table and reading this stuff and I never get tired... which is rather bad when it's 3 a.m. and you have to work at 7-8 a.m. again.

But I agree, for most people, this feature is useless, hence it is only a niche product.

The reasons nobody does them is because they're clunky, add more weight, hard to fix and the earlier ones were prone to failure... Otherwise they were great!

Well I've got the one in the pic and it's eight years old, still sturdy as fuck. You'd think if Dell could get it right in 2009 they could get it right in 2017

I'm probably too autistic

>put trackpad into laptop
>make the whole thing a button
inb4 but muh force touch!! It's shit and always will be. I can live with that design choice but most manufacturers use garbage pads so it turns the whole experience into torture...

how about touch screens at all?
some people actually don't want greasy fingerprints all over their screen.

>using anything else but the keyboard for excel

>tfw your laptop has a matte touchscreen

real autists have an account in each and every one of these.

That's the think. It was made by dell.. Sadly I doubt they want to since they'd rather go for the cheapest option possible these days. Also I bet a lot of people would bitch about the "bulge" at the back and how it's not streamlined enough...

the only thing good to come out of the touchscreen revolution is hidpi, glossy screens. otherwise, it's practically useless for any sort of productivity, since keyboard shortcuts can do much of what a touchscreen allows, and the ui that microsoft is trying to push is decidedly a step backwards with the copious amounts of wasted space and padding between elements in a window.

16:9 displays.

I have one of those but in netbook form. Shit specs. Wish I knew where the charger was...

or coat it in a material that rubs off after a while of use so it becomes too grippy and impossible to use

+1 on touchscreen laptops. Also, fanless ((((Ultrabooks)))) with 4 watt processors that can't out perform a 7 year old celeron. Also emmc.

glossy screens are fucking shit, using them at night or really everything except ideal lighting makes me get headaches and eye strain

At night is the only time they're useful. During the day they're glare magnifiers

this

16:9 displays start to make sense when you start getting them big enough that the lack of horizontal space doesn't matter as much and the economies of scale from the TV market keeps the cost down.

24" 1080p 16:9 is disgusting and needs to go away.
40" 2160p 16:9 on the other hand is glorious.

But then what do I know, I'd kind of like a 2 in 1 laptop for Gnome 3 and Pathfinder.

small tablets with keyboards windows 10, 2 GB RAM and 32 GB EMMC

literally fucking why

It's impossible to use those for anything serious

Probably should have said 'vertical' there, but I usually used monitors rotated and 1080 wide was disgusting, and even the 1200 of 16:10 wasn't that much better.
Large format 2160p is mostly awesome being its like having two 1920x2160 displays side by side with no bezels.

Still doesn't make sense, though. 16:9 is only good for watching 16:9 video (and even 16:9 video over 4:3 video is quite debatable), but for anything else whatsoever, 4:3 is objectively superior.

Even if large 16:9 monitors "aren't as bad as" small 16:9 monitors, they're still worse than 4:3.

just the new minimum netbook standard. I wonder what the most limiting factor in those, whether its the 2gb of RAM or the shitty emmc

old netbooks at least were usable, I used my old 12'' EEE netbook for years and it had way more storage space than this crap

I'd say the EMMC is the worst part of it because you can't even upgrade windows with it without wiping the whole OS (and the shitty restore partitions they got by default)

When you turn those on you get like 15 GB of storage you can use

Think about it this way, what's the largest highest resolution 4:3 display you can find today, and how much does it cost?
I can make a 2667x2000 window that's also physically larger than any 4:3 monitor I'm aware of and my display was $600 a few years ago.

That's part of why I like this display it can stand in for basically any other smaller displays on the market.

4k, touch screens, 1 port on a laptop

Not that user but I'd like to tack something onto what you wrote: you can't even upgrade Windows on these netbooks without wiping the whole thing UNLESS you give it an external drive to use temporarily. I did that to go from 8.1 to 10. The installer had an option for using my USB flash drive to cobble enough space for an in-place upgrade.

not even if you use the external drive, I tried it on one of those and it kept complaining about not enough spece despite it having recognized the drive as useable

>not even if
I just said I did it when upgrading the computer I'm writing this reply on to Windows 10. Sorry if it didn't work out for you but that's not grounds to say it can't be done.

yours is the exception that confirms the rule

I know that 16:9 displays are a trend, duh. Thread is about trends you don't understand, in case you didn't read OP.

But its a trend that makes perfect sense.
>standardize on a single aspect ratio
>costs go down
>screen sizes go up

If you want a trend that doesn't make any sense, its 21:9.
They're always more expensive than a similar larger/higher resolution 16:9 display

>tfw fanless ultrabook outperforms a stock i5 2500

4k on anything smaller than a 24inch monitor I will never understand

For phones and tablets in particular its generally because of apps designed for 720p, and content designed for 1080p.
2160p is the smallest resolution that can handle both cleanly with integer scaling factors.

Clean scaling on mobile devices went away with pentile screens

Speakers on laptops that are any better than the bare minimum.
I always see reviewers complaining about them, but what's the point really?
If you care about good audio, you already have external speakers.
If you don't care about good audio, you're not gonna care anyway.
I don't even use my laptop without headphones.
Not that I want bad audio, but I'd rather that money/space be used for more important things.

Yes, but all that said, the fact remains that it would have been better if they had kept the standard at 4:3.

Unfortunately people started using their high quality displays to watch videos
I mean nobody in the market could've seen that coming

>backlit keyboards
aren't those useful for typing in the dark?

>aren't those useful for typing in the dark?
Not just the dark.
Some of us aren't touch-typists. Just mid-level gloom can wreck my typing accuracy.

It's a non-issue, only retards can't touch type in 2017.

I can't believe there are people older than 10 these days who actually look at their keyboards. Since I switch between different layouts, I've been running blank caps for ~10 years now.

I kind of get that laptops for normies might have backlit keyboard since they can perhaps somewhat reasonably be expected to not be able to type like a man, but what really gets me juices flowing is when mechanical keyboards are rated on their backlighting.

One might expect buyers of mechanical keyboards to be able to actually use the premium products that they're buying, and at that point, a backlit keyboard just produces distracting light in the dark anyway, and yet review sites give mechanical keyboards lesser scores if they aren't fully blinged out with programmable RGB backlighting. Jimmies status: Rustled.

Not really a trend but I still don't like Intel ME and UEFI. How we ever allowed our hardware to be completely owned out of the box is beyond me

More modern stuff probably high end smart phones and social media in general. Someone that has a $600, 9" phablet phone with toaster attachment is the modern equivalent of a fanny pack to be. Also the fact that now it makes you weird (especially at work) if you choose not to share every detail of your life with a corporation that mines and sells that information pisses me off

Never thought of that, thanks

I hate reviewers that get focused on little useless shit, especially comparing low end devices to expensive top end devices, instead of other products in the same price range.

I don't have any social media and because I don't take vacations to only post photos to Facebook, nobody knows who I am.

well actually, the laptop im using is touchscreen and a 2-in-1

>hidpi
>good

>I can't believe everyone isn't like me!

Stop.

hidpi gives makes text and ui much crisper. on a linux or mac machine, anyway. MS continues to shit the bed on proper integer scaling and subpixel rendering.

It's pretty disgusting to not be able to see individual pixels though.

>tfw i still have one of these

Runs windows 7, touchscreen randomly scrolls and clicks

Still feels comfy

why do you want to see the physical pixels, though? i'll admit there's a certain charm to it, but higher fidelity should be better for virtually every application, no?

Because I want to know where everything is.

same. I just got a laptop that had good specs, was cheap, didn't look autismo, and it just happened to be a 2in1. Tablet mode is horrible, but I sometimes use the touchscreen for zooming or scrolling when im in bed.

the fact that scaling text also scales every other element of the UI on windows kind of makes me mad. I want to be able to quickly change text size system wide for when my vision goes fuzzy late at night, without logging off and having everything closed on me, and the titlebar taking up half the screen.

More like, is there anyone who doesn't use computers often enough to pick up typing just by use? Especially ones who spend time on Sup Forums?

Not necessarily, especially with smartphones that are used more and more, I'm sure people spend more time on them than computers, so they don't learn to type without looking at the keyboard

>imitating apple without understand the reasons that Apple does a thing, or invert the money to do the things properly
>15 inch laptops with numpad
>flat design in anything
>programming in all sorts of languages who employs middleware instead of the old C directly to the API of the OS
>apps for everything
>put wifi to things that don't need it
>not going to fixed dpi instead of fixed resolution
>16:9

Tablets that are not phablets. I know why people would use them if they sit in front of the TV, or for reading pdfs, but I sit in front of my PC all day.

VR.

PC monitors getting larger and larger, and only assigning better technologies to bigger monitors so that people who want small monitors only get low-end ones.

I kind of like backlit for hitting keys that are too far from home row. Especialy on a laptop where the f keys aren't grouped and separated.

I don't get the hate for chiclet keys though. They just look nice and otherwise have no effect on anything.

And touchscreens are kind of nice for comfy scrolling on 4chins and stuff. Definitely not worth their cost and no one should pay a premium for that, but if you happen to have it then it's pretty cool.

>putting wifi in things that don't need it
this, very annoying, also bluetooth
>imitating apple without understand the reasons that Apple does a thing, or invert the money to do the things properly
guh

porn, pretty much just porn, youtube and browsing in bed

Convertibles are nice at least if they are like the TF100 ir Transformer pads in general. Anything else is retarded, especially a touchscreen on a normal laptop.

"Gaming" look.

1366x768
Seriously, that resolution is fucking cancer.

>15 inch laptops with numpad
That's like... your opinion man. Not every laptop is a starbucks facebook machine.
Numpad is absolute must in CAD. 15 inch Chinkpads with quadro (cad oriented) graphics and huge blank space on both sides of qwerty-only keyboard are a fucking joke. Meanwhile 15inch precisions and elitebooks use exactly the same full size keyboards as their 17inch version with just narrower side offset.

...

I thought vr was a meme but a Playstation representative came to my store I work at and let us try out Playstation VR and it actually works, like you feel like you're in the game world. I imagine the more expensive competitors are even better.

15 Inch laptops with numpads cause scholiosis man, that's the problem.
ramblingfoo.blogspot.cl/2013/10/the-stupidest-trend-in-laptop-design-is.html
If you need a numpad, you can buy one. Or buy a 17' inch model where the numpad and the trackpad/trackpoint are correctly aligned, for the fuck's sake.

>15inch vs 17inch
Are you aware that these are the same interchangeable keyboards?

>article written by romanian blogger
Yes. His opinion matters. He surely had filled millions of spreadsheets and drafted whole lotta cad drawings

I have a touch screen laptop. It's my first laptop and I don't want to learn how to use a trackball or a track pad. Deal with it trackfags.

>JavaScript becoming the most popular programming language
>The power that Facebook/Amazon/Google wield
Mobile oriented sites appearing on my desktop browser
>everyone is ok with redhat controlling Linux kernel and userspace development

>implying you have to learn to use something this simple
Wew

And the trackpad isn't aligned properly in most 15 inch moron.

> "learn how to use a trackball or a track pad"
If you have an IQ above room temperature, it takes at most one second.

>an IQ above room temperature
Heheh your funny user

aligned to what?

>1366x768
>On a 15 inch laptop
>Yfw

Ugh, none of the pixels line up I hate that shit

I hate trackpads so god damn much. Especially on windows where the manufacturer has a process running to detect gestures, which don't work half the time.

So remove it?
Windows auto installs a generic mouse driver upon install, no gestures to bother you

Well then no scrolling gestures, or ability to easily zoom, which makes using the trackpad even more annoying