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Why is Apple obsessed with making products thinner and lighter?
floobydust:
Making products thinner, lighter is one "improvement" a manufacturer can make. It also makes something largely serviceable.
The MacBook butterfly keyboard is a huge Apple FAIL in that respect. 4 years of garbage, class action lawsuit and it really damaged their reputation staying obstinate instead of acknowledging the design was bad.
I'm not sure if the lawsuit settled or what happened there. Sure pissed off journalists.
westfw:
--- Quote ---It amazes me how many people will buy laptops for home use.
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not everyone has room to dedicate space to a desktop. Especially if gets to be one for me, one for the spouse, one for each kid... (also: cost. A low-end laptop is usually cheaper than a low-end desktop plus the display.)
JPortici:
--- Quote from: rdl on March 17, 2022, 12:00:10 pm ---It amazes me how many people, who travel rarely or never, will buy laptops for home use.
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i like my laptop in my bedroom, or dragging it around the house. I despise tablets.
The desktop is parked in the lab portion of the room
Berni:
It's simply because not everyone needs a powerful computer.
I personally have a 4th gen i7 desktop that is still going strong along with a pretty chunky 17 inch 8 core Ryzen laptop. Both of those make pretty effective space heaters when running flat out. But i do a lot of things that benefit from the extra horsepower.
However most people have a laptop so that they can browse facebook, watch youtube and occasionally write a word document. Even the crappiest of brand new laptops can do all of those easily, so they don't really get much benefit from a laptop being faster, but they do get benefit from a laptop being lighter and thinner.
What is wrong is when people who are into gaming get a laptop as there primary machine. Running the latest games requires a lot of sustained horsepower from it. So even if the laptop is fast enough to run it, it is only the big thick chunky gaming laptops that actually have the proper cooling to handle it continuously.
james_s:
--- Quote from: JPortici on March 18, 2022, 06:29:42 am ---i like my laptop in my bedroom, or dragging it around the house. I despise tablets.
The desktop is parked in the lab portion of the room
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I have a nice desktop I never use anymore, portability wins over raw power almost every time and I don't really have a good spot for the desktop anymore. I have a few tablets people have given me but I never really have found a good use for one.
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