maybe it's time to upgrade from ivy bridge
maybe it's time to upgrade from ivy bridge
SI think basically everything works fine on skylake
CThat you know of. ;)
CAlso he bought a really expensive house in LA.
S70m out of 1.5B or something like that
Sphones are now faster than laptops in single thread lol
Dwell early retirement!
INah the lappy still works and Acer never made anything better.
II have a haswell desktop PC that has a Vega 64 in it if I /actually/ need graphics.
Sthere are other brands than acer lol
Iyeah, but I didn't see them making anything better either
Ithis laptop is
- small
- replaceable battery
- upgradable ram, hdd (I put an ssd in tho)
- core i5
Ianything with reasonable specs is over 11" now
Score i5 doesn't mean much when it's slower than a $200 phone. reminds me of using my x230 some time ago lol
Imy point being that it was actually usable at the time, anything released now in a similar formfactor has an anemic cpu
Ilike, this was clearly designed as a fully featured laptop. Nobody's doing that now in 11"
Smaybe you can find something that is 13" and has smaller bezels
S11 inch is dead though
Inah wouldn't fit in my bag
Iyeah it sucks
Iso I'll just keep using this one. I wish the screen was better though
Sx230 had a hilarious screen
Sworst TN panel in existence
Scolors shifted on the edges when looking perfectly straight
Ibasically acer accidentally made a good price/portability/performance laptop so they stopped that :P https://www.anandtech.com/show/6467/acer-aspire-v5171-notebook-review-the-death-and-rebirth-of-the-netbook
II just want this again with current specs, a less mushy keyboard, and an oled screen
Ibutt nobody's gonna give pack panel access like that again
Sxps 13 is 1 cm wider
Sbut xps kinda sucks with i/o
Sbezels are pretty crazy on them
Sthinner than apple
Imight see if lenovo can offer me a thinkpad
Ibut it looks like no matter what I do I'm spending double and getting soldered on ram and a non-replaceable battery
Ipretty sure apple's the only one insane enough to solder on the ssd too
Sapple situation is weird. they could make the perfect laptop but they are allergic to market share
AThey’d also need to make it cheaper to make it perfect
AI would genuinely buy a MacBook if they weren’t so damn expensive
Pyeah if their laptops weren’t desktop class then I wouldn’t have bought one
PI can’t justify the apple tax
AYeah fair enough, it does add to the value for sure
ABut yeah 1.5k for a thinkpad vs 2.5-3k iirc for an “equivalent” MacBook is nuts
PI’m glad I bought mine in the U.S. tbh
PThe VAT would’ve been killer buying it in the UK
AOOF yeah
A20% would not be nice
Hadn’t even considered that lol
Hadn’t even considered that lol
PIt’s included in the UK price tbf
AOh ok
Pit’s really only the US that does it separately
Pprimarily because every jurisdiction has different taxes
Pfor example in Plano it was 8.25% iirc, but in Portland, Oregon it’s 0% for instance
Ai definitely did NOT read that as piano, not at all