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MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com)
Linux distributions have emerged as one of the beneficiaries in the aftermath of the MacBook Pros launch. Many people aren't pleased with the offering and prices of Apple's three new laptops and some of them are resorting to Linux-powered laptops. From a report on BetaNews: Immediately after the Apple Keynote, famed Ubuntu laptop and desktop seller, System76, saw a huge jump in traffic from people looking to buy its machines. The traffic was so intense, that it needed to upgrade servers to keep up, it said. "We experienced much more traffic than we had prepared for, the website didn't go hard down but experienced slowness. We had to scale up to return to normal. It was a pretty big surge, I don't have the details in front of me at the moment but I've not really heard of anything like this before. People being so underwhelmed by a product that immediately following a new product release they actively seek out competitor's products," says Ryan Sipes, Community Manager, System76. I decided to compare specifications and pricing on my own, so I headed to both Apple.com and System76.com to compare. Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Pro starts at $2,400. This machine has a Quad-core Sklyake i7, maxes out at 16GB of RAM, has an NVMe 256GB SSD, and a Radeon Pro 450 with a paltry 2GB memory. Alternatively, I headed to System76 and configured its 15-inch Oryx Pro. I closely matched the MacBook Pro specs, with a Quad-core Sklyake i7 and NVMe 256GB SSD. Instead of 16GB of RAM as found on the Apple, I configured with 32GB (you can go up to 64GB if needed). By default, it comes with a 6GB Nvidia GTX 1060. The price? Less than $2,000! In other words, the System76 machine with much better specs is less expensive than Apple's.
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Slashdot also doesn't want to drop below their 3-a-day Apple smear quota. It's been really sad to see as of late. It's funny that most of the comments are from people calling Slashdot on their BS though.
Because you know my usage cycle best?
With ZFS that gives me a mirrored 1TB pool for redundancy working anywhere. 2 SSD drives are 2 OS drives or an OS drive and scratch SSD drive.
2 Wifi cards allows you to connect to separate networks or turn one into an access point. (For those hotels that only allow 1 device on their network at a time.)
So what? You have a an unusual usage cycle for which you buy an unusual laptop. Then you come here to bitch and moan about bog-standard consumer laptops being a bad fit for you and how Apple is a crap company because they don't make a model with 32GB of RAM, 4 hard drives, 2 wifi cards, IEEE1394, 5x USB, eSata, Display Port, VGA, and HDMI for you and the 0.1% of the laptop using public that actually needs a machine like that.
You mean, its gone down hill because the Slashdot groupthink is no longer aligned with your own personal opinions? Did you give a fuck about that when that groupthink supported your opinions while trashing anyone who dared to like Microsoft? Didn't think so.
The new Macs are shit. The event was underwhelming. Sorry, but thats just what most people think. And I've been using Macs since around 2000 - I've just had to buy a new iMac infact (desperately wanted an update last week, didn't happen, couldn't hold out - luckily its a company purchase rather than a personal one).
Specifically, from a T460s running Windows 10 Enterprise x64. It has the same trackpad design as the Carbon X1 in that link.
Sorry for being so blunt, but if you're going to confidently and publicly state such utter falsehoods, you'll take some flak for it.
Yes (duh). All Windows laptop trackpads I've seen made in the last six years, and many before that, have been multitouch. I've got a laptop from 2006 with a multitouch trackpad. The $270 netbook-thing my mom uses has a multitouch trackpad.
Yep. Built-in option in Win10. Settings->Mouse->"Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them". Some mouse / trackpad OEM drivers (including the ones used in my old Lenovo) supported it on older versions too.
Not what I have mine configured for - three-fingers left/right switches apps, down/up is minimize/restore - but in theory, sure.
Yep, or switch virtual desktops using left/right.
Yes, of course; like multitouch, this is one of the basic gestures that has been supported for many years.
Have you considered the possibility that you're running your mouth off without a single fucking clue what you're talking about? You're making a bloody fool out of yourself, much like the person who modded you up. I thought the Apple "reality distortion field" was supposed to have died with Jobs, but if that's what you think the reality is...
There's no place I could be, since I've found Serenity...