I need a computer that can be used as a desktop for 90% of the time, but is also a laptop for traveling. Why shouldn't I get this beautiful puppy, with a dock and monitor?
Currently using a 2010 iMac and a 2011 Macbook Pro and I've simply had enough.
Cheaper, have absolutely zero interest in owning/using a tablet. Why would I pay more for a feature I neither would use or want?
Levi Davis
>glued soldered unupgradeable piece of shit get something like a W520 or W530 with a quad core upgradeable processor and a docking station like a real man
Parker Russell
Why have you "had enough"?
Anyway you shouldn't get it because if(or when) any of the parts fail, including the battery, you have to throw it out.
Dylan Stewart
>T560 Price: $1,367.99
Brody James
2015 13" Macbook Pro or die
Landon Hughes
>2 hour battery life >100 degrees celcius if you watch a youtube video >soldered trash
No thanks.
Brayden King
>2 hour battery life No >100 degrees celcius if you watch a youtube video The fan won't even turn on just from video, granted I have a 2016 model but still no. >soldered trash like the surface book? At least you can replace the SSD and battery in a macbook, you know the parts that will inevitably need replacing long term.
>b-but mactoddler
Liam Robinson
the new surface pro is the world's first disposable laptop, not designed to be repaired, but replaced
Evan Davis
This.
It's literally macshit with a different logo.
Owen Nelson
Do Macs not exist in your universe?
Easton Wood
>t. mactoddler
Aiden Butler
Uhh
Nathan Thompson
>$680 >$40 for extended battery >20h battery life actual use
God bless IT budgets and retard upper management that have forced IT budgets to work the way it does now.
Sebastian Scott
Granted I've only owned like 1 pre-built Windows computer and 2 Macs, but I've literally never had a part "die" on me. Is this really a thing that happens?
Sebastian Rivera
>*tips 1366x768 TN screen*
Samuel Johnson
Having serviced thousands of laptops, the most common failures on laptops in order is:
1. HDD/SSD 2. Wifi module 3. USB 4. Display (failure, not user damage)
1 and 2 are easily fixed fortunately on most laptops. Macs go straight to the garbage for any problem 1-4.
Eli Hill
Don't you have a designated street you need to be shitting at Sanjay?
Anthony Ward
Why would a SSD die? Is there any preventative measure that can be taken to avoid that?
Oliver Diaz
Technically you are meant to replace the battery in a laptop every 2 years, some say 1. They inevitably degrade over time and eventually funny things happen like inflation, exploding etc. If it's a desktop you won't have this problem.
SSDs also fail inevitably after a number of years depending on usage, but a lot of people replace them before then.
Keep in mind when people say the Surface Laptop isn't repairable they don't mean by yourself, they mean period. You cannot fix this thing if it breaks unless you are some literal microsoft engineer with glue. With the Macbooks you simply can't replace the SSD yourself very easily, although it's actually still doable from what I hear.
They could get away with not having the SSD replaceable but the battery makes it
Aiden Carter
>after a $300 upgrade Fuck of Rajesh.
Jonathan Campbell
>although it's actually still doable from what I hear. lmao
Robert Williams
>being this poor
James Myers
SSDs literally just wear out. There is nothing you can do. They inevitably just fail, that's why you always need to have a back up.
It is replacable. If not easily by the user it can be replaced by Apple. Good luck getting any support for a surface when it fails.
Mason Barnes
>it's ok when apple solders ssds >it's the end of the world if ms does the same
This is how delusional mactoddlers are.
Angel Campbell
>proprietary trash connector >only place to get a replacement is pay $800 for a 128GB drive from applel
Brandon Johnson
>only place to get a replacement is pay $800 for a 128GB drive from applel Even if this was true it's better than the Surface
Jonathan Watson
>b-b-b-but look how macshit is just a tiny infinitesimally less shit than surface trash
I feel sorry for you pathetic fruit religion zealots. You're so stuck in your "holy war" against "M$" you can't even see how much shit you're eating. You literally wallow in a pit of shit along with MS while we all laugh at you.
Tyler Williams
Hey faggot, did you forget what this thread this is? Of course I am going to compare other laptops to the surface you fucking retard.
Nolan Richardson
>god-tier keyboard (for a laptop) >god-tier trackpad >god-tier display
How can winfags compete?
Parker Wood
>2006-2015 >trackpad impossible to click near upper edge >extremely loose near bottom edge >overall flimsy diving board piece of shit >even applel admitted it's shit and went back to solid non-click touchpads >still has no real buttons >relies on pressure sensitive gimmick bullshit >if you press too lightly or too hard it does something completely different than what you intended >shit tier 1mm travel chiclet kb >OSX is a steaming pile of shit with horrendous battery management >applel's solution is to cram in a massive heavy 95WHr battery to make up for it >even XXXTREME GAMER cancer like razer blade with 4X the CPU/GPU power and 70WHr battery matches it in battery life in same tasks >gets BTFO by 55WHr Yoga 2 in battery life in same tasks >the battery takes up the space where a cooling system would've been in a laptop not designed by the world's thinnest and lightest gay hipsters >overheats constantly from abysmal crippled cooling system >throttles to 800mhz due to chronic overheating problems >retina meme for "pros" have have gloss mirror coating impossible to use with overhead lighting >blurry as shit retina meme scaling >shitbook air even worse with glossy 1366x768 TN eye cancer >systemic battery explosion problems for over a decade
>2016+ 9to5mac.com/2016/11/03/2016-macbook-pro-thunderbolt-compatibility-issues youtube.com/watch?v=NYVjIjBMx6o >can't use any existing TB3 devices >can't use USB and wifi at the same time >ultra shit tier zero travel kb >keyboard louder than WWII cricket >memetouch emojibar >no USB-A >no escape >soldered ram >soldered SSD >tamper tape on battery screws >applel falls for their own thin meme and uses 54WH battery >2 hour battery life
>macshit is good Can we finally put an end to this meme?
Lucas Rodriguez
show me one (1) place where anyone brought up the shitshow that is the surface book in this thread
haha wait a second you can't because you only know how to repeat the same three talking points for (you)s guaranteed, just like the "t. mactoddler" guy gets from one of you fuckwits every time
Liam Myers
I've changed fairly recent macbook batteries out and various other parts from coffee damage, it's a pain but possible looks like the new surface laptops are designed to not not repairable
Nolan Long
What is even the OP's image? Granted not a "surface book" but a surface laptop, but are you even reading the thread?
Also try quoting the right thing.
Nolan Brown
hell yeah a rossmann video
Easton Lewis
I'm sorry but these things are beyond sexy. If they ever made one of these with thunderbolt it'd be perfect.
Elijah Green
razor blade pro
Bentley Thompson
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Mason Sullivan
Can't wait to pick one of these up for $1000 in a few years.
Sebastian Reed
Anyone got a recommendation for a laptop to use a s a CAD workstation? I would need an i7, at least 16gb ram and some sort of Quadro.
Gavin Butler
Precision with i7-6000 generation CPU.
Wyatt Cox
Who the fuck needs a 32GB memory on a laptop
Are you running several games at one time??
Gabriel Bell
Get a Latitude or ThinkPad with a real dock.
William Mitchell
Do you have this pasta on a hotkey or something? Jesus fuck you're obnoxious
Angel Martin
Speaking of hardware that's dropped like a rock in price over a couple years, the early Chromebook Pixels are going for pennies now. I'd have picked one up already if it didn't sound like it was difficult to get an actual operating system running, plus I doubt there's much room to change anything hardware-wise
Gavin Morgan
I like this one a lot.
Cheap and upgradable. Easily add more ram for cheap.
12 hour battery life. (I own one, it is more around 10 hours on classic Sup Forums shitposting)
Comes with a M.2 slot for future SSD upgrading.
It's no thinkpad, but it is a good price for a cheap new laptop.
Brandon Foster
Are there any charging bays for the 68+ batteries?
Leo Wood
>surface why would you ever get a dual core in 2017?
Aaron Wilson
Why would you need more than that in a tablet?
Andrew Thompson
Just get a thinkpad
Brody White
botnet, get libreboot thinkpad and gentoo or winfag
Kayden Wood
Lenovo Y520
Daniel Wilson
Thank you user Nice infographic
Ian Lewis
Any modern laptop can be plugged into a monitor, if you want to use it for gaming you'd have to spend more and get something featuring Thunderbolt 3.
Lucas Scott
Very good choice, these are reliable computers.
I personally would choose one with an IPS screeen and with SSD instead of HDD
Wyatt Russell
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Ayden Davis
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Aiden Brown
These are the only good answers here OP.
Wyatt Adams
I guess this would be as good a thread as any to ask. Are the new Thinkpads as Linux-friendly as the 4/530 series and older? How do the newer Latitudes compare?
Using a higher-end model of this line right now. It's pretty reliable and has a good quality hard disk. Not a fan of chiclet keyboards, but it's passable. The only real gripe I have is with the atrocious trackpad, but I've disabled it and mostly use a USB mouse anyways.
That said, if you ever plan to upgrade your computer yourself, it's a bad choice. They are designed to use space as efficiently as possible, so it's a huge hassle to get inside the thing, and even if you do, you'll need specific tools to avoid stripping screws and causing permanent damage and it will take a good while to get where you want to be. Mine has an M.2 socket on the underside of the motherboard, so the entire computer has to be pulled out of the case just to get at it and install an SSD, as there is no underside access. If you don't mind paying some store to install things for you then this should be fine.
Leo Clark
>15.6" FHD ComfyView
Justin Price
Why would I replace my MBP battery if it is still reading 90% design capacity? Battery is 2 1/2 years old
Evan Russell
This pasta was proven wrong so many times that it's not even funny anymore. It just means that you are retarded . So hello retard ;').
Gavin Diaz
>Technically you are meant to replace the battery in a laptop every 2 years, some say 1 What fucking retard told you that? My Surface 3 holds 92% charge and it's more than 2 years old, has done over 400 cycles.
The only laptops I used with such shitty battery durability are Dells from the mid 2000s.
With most modern laptops with Li-Po batteries, you bet you can get 1000 cycles easily.
Michael Stewart
Shill harder you pathetic retard.
Dominic Martinez
get a thinkpad with a dock
Charles Foster
There used to be a time laptop batteries degraded in like 1-2 years, to basically hold no charge at all
People remember that time very well.
Henry Gomez
>buy Surface Laptop for $1,300 >better Surface Laptop comes out a year later >sell old Surface Laptop for $800-900 >buy new one for $400 >rinse repeat
Tell me why this isn't a good idea? Sure you have to put a lot of money up initially, but you get an upgraded laptop every year for cheap. No worrying about outdated parts, upgrading parts or stuff dying.
Owen Phillips
This goes for anything. But 1300 the first year and $400-500 isn't actually cheap. Especially for a weak machine for surfing and typing. If you even can get that much for a used one, which I doubt.
Carter Williams
Get a desktop
Then get a cheaper laptop and use remote desktop / dropbox (whatever you want)
Carson Ortiz
>expecting surface devices to have mac like resell value
Dylan King
Its just so good for note taking.. if they sold a screen that used the pen but required a seperate pc I'd buy that next time
Anthony Kelly
It may be disposable as you cannot repair it..
But in my case, I've been using it 3 straight years and shit doesn't degrade at all. Battery feels like new
I'd be surprised if it didn't last 8-10 years
Connor Russell
Because you can literally get an X1 carbon or T470 which will be a significant better computer, and it won't devalue half as much as a disposable surface book after a year.
Cameron King
He's had enough with the MacBook and now he's looking to downgrade to that dual core piece of shit called Surface.
WannaCry ?
Alexander Robinson
If I were to get a laptop I'd get the newest XPS 13 nothing else. But I see this meme constantly popping up and it's kinda bullshit, the only things that hold up to be true in this picture are the shitty cords (yes they do wear easily) and the new CEO being a retard. This picture just shows some cherry picked faulty devices, in fact any device with a lithium battery has a risk of exploding and potentially harming the user. Overheating is something that only happens in some models (and I've even read most notebookcheck reviews); the battery life being less than expected mostly comes from someone upgrading a older model to the latest OSX version.