Oh you would definitely want to take it with a grain of salt. The point is that things have been improving all the time and that people who are still thinking they will are going to die in less than a year are many years behind the times.
Yeah it's real hard to right standard HTML code. So hard that I was able to teach my 8 year old nephew to do it in less than a week. Sorry, but if you code shitty websites you're either incompetent or fucking lazy. Either way no one should be hiring you to write code for them.
For all that extra cost, you'd think they'd add some features to let you extend battery life if you needed to. I guess they aren't that "high end" after all. Or if you're so worried about their battery life just save yourself the few thousand dollars premium and buy yourself a midrange laptop instead. Again, this is like bitching that your Ferrari doesn't get the same gas mileage as a Toyota Camry. Just as the Ferrari isn't built to be a gas saving car, the high end XPS laptops aren't built to have super long battery life. If you're going to constantly bitch about it's battery life, don't fucking buy it.
I just wanna point out that if you're looking for battery life, modern laptops are not where it's at. Especially not the ones running top of the line CPUs, dual video cards, dual hard drives and a 17" screen. The fact that people are surprised that such a laptop gets less battery life than one that's built using much lower end hardware and a smaller LCD is somewhat hilarious.
Hardly portable at all. Well considering the performance of the higher end XPS laptops it's much more portable than the comparable desktop. The issue is that with them sucking up so much power they aren't very mobile...
Sure, or you can just save some money and not buy a super expensive laptop and then run it at less than it's full potential. You'd be better off by saving a good load of money and just buying something that uses less power to begin with.
Just to further add, your comments would be like going up to the owner of a Ferrari and saying: "Why don't you drive your car at only 55 miles an hour to maximize your fuel efficiency". People don't buy Ferraris because they save on gas and people don't buy high performance laptops because they have super long battery lives.
A customer has to actually explicitly ask their developer to not write shitty, nonstandard code? That's a rather lame excuse for pumping out shit code.
Um, maybe because you don't need all that performance and you want to extend your battery life? Then why would you be buying a high performance laptop if you weren't going to use it all? That sounds like a rather daft thing to do, don't you think?
My point is this: if you have higher end hardware, why can't it be turned down, so you only need one tool? Because that defeats the point of buying high end hardware? If you're going to buy high end hardware and then turn it down so it runs no better than something lower end, you might as well have just bought something with lower end and less power consuming hardware instead.
Sure, you can get progressively finer control over time through the peripheral nerves, but never anything to the extent you will get by just hooking up straight to the brain. It's ultimately a trade off between how much of a fine-grained control you want versus the invasiveness of the prosthetic.
Yes, but the XPS line of Dell laptops are meant to be the high, high end gaming laptops. They aren't built to maximize battery life, but to maximize performance. If you're worried about how much power the thing is going to be using, you wouldn't be buying one as it's not built to be a power saving laptop.
True, but that wasn't what the person's claim was. To quote them:
speaking of which: I recently saw a $30 8 GB usb flash drive - that seems far more newsworthy than this, especially since it renders DVD writers obsolete for anything but creating illegal copies of dvd movies. which is easier with avi's anyways... Sure if it's just for transferring files back and forth on a constant basis you'd rather using some like a flash drive. But his claim was that this flash drive was going to make DVD writers obsolete. Considering that DVD writers are used almost all the time as a way to burn things for archiving then his claim is clearly specious.
Why do high-end laptops necessarily get less battery life? Because the higher end hardware consumes more power. The newer XPS laptops have things like dual graphics cards in them via SLI. Do you honestly think that's going to use less power than something using a lower end integrated graphics card?
Why can't things be "turned down"? Why would you turn things down when you're buying the laptop purely for performance?
Speedstep technology existed for a reason. Yeah, but when you're caring about performance you wouldn't be using it.
Battery life. It absolutely smokes the other three systems, Well, it's also running lower end hardware so that's a given.
and while it is in last place, it's almost tied for 3rd. It's an impressive machine. Which is why I did that addendum to my post.
In my opinion, though, not worth the $3258.00 price tag. Well with the prices of SSD being as high as it is, you're going to keep seeing that hefty price tag for a while still.
The issue with the lifetime related to the maximum number of writes has been one of the issues constantly addressed. With the newer SSDs, I've heard ratings of around 20 year lifetime with average usage.
Well that's kind of unfair considering the XPS line are the high end gaming laptops. The Lenova is clearly going to win considering it's not built with a bunch of high-end, and obviously more power hungry, hardware.
Despite its 1.2GHz CPU the Thinkpad X300 is actually able to outperform some desktop replacement notebooks equipped with dual 7200RPM hard drives in RAID 0 in productivity benchmarks, and in data transfers. Sure it's data transfer performance was impressive but in all but 1 of the performance benchmarks it was last place.
provided they are once again designed properly according to w3 standards. And we make a full circle back to the root of almost all of these accessibility problems. The developers either can't code to standards or are too fucking lazy to do so.
Unfortunately, though, more and more companies are making their pages entirely flash based. I think that's a far more of an egregious problem than the stuff you mention. Why the fuck I need to waste my time loading fucking flash movies to navigate a page when it works better in plain HTML is beyond me.
And to add to my previous comment for 50 dollars I can buy a DVD burner and a 100 pack of DVD-Rs and I can have enough storage for almost 500 gigs of data. You on the other hand would have to buy almost 59 of those USB drives to match that at a cost of almost 1800 dollars. Have fun with that.
For 36 dollars you can buy a CD burner and a 100 pack spindle of CD-Rs from newegg. For 6 dollars more you can burn almost twice the content of one of those drives. Plus after the initial 18 dollars for the CD drive you'll save yourself about 12 bucks buying the 100 pack spindle and getting over twice the storage.
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Oh you would definitely want to take it with a grain of salt. The point is that things have been improving all the time and that people who are still thinking they will are going to die in less than a year are many years behind the times.
Yeah it's real hard to right standard HTML code. So hard that I was able to teach my 8 year old nephew to do it in less than a week. Sorry, but if you code shitty websites you're either incompetent or fucking lazy. Either way no one should be hiring you to write code for them.
Sure, or you can just save some money and not buy a super expensive laptop and then run it at less than it's full potential. You'd be better off by saving a good load of money and just buying something that uses less power to begin with.
Just to further add, your comments would be like going up to the owner of a Ferrari and saying: "Why don't you drive your car at only 55 miles an hour to maximize your fuel efficiency". People don't buy Ferraris because they save on gas and people don't buy high performance laptops because they have super long battery lives.
A customer has to actually explicitly ask their developer to not write shitty, nonstandard code? That's a rather lame excuse for pumping out shit code.
Sure, you can get progressively finer control over time through the peripheral nerves, but never anything to the extent you will get by just hooking up straight to the brain. It's ultimately a trade off between how much of a fine-grained control you want versus the invasiveness of the prosthetic.
Yes, but the XPS line of Dell laptops are meant to be the high, high end gaming laptops. They aren't built to maximize battery life, but to maximize performance. If you're worried about how much power the thing is going to be using, you wouldn't be buying one as it's not built to be a power saving laptop.
The issue with the lifetime related to the maximum number of writes has been one of the issues constantly addressed. With the newer SSDs, I've heard ratings of around 20 year lifetime with average usage.
Well that's kind of unfair considering the XPS line are the high end gaming laptops. The Lenova is clearly going to win considering it's not built with a bunch of high-end, and obviously more power hungry, hardware.
Though I guess I should add that even when it was in last place, the number it's pushing are rather impressive.
So a BFP?
So you want a BFG attached to your chest?
Unfortunately, though, more and more companies are making their pages entirely flash based. I think that's a far more of an egregious problem than the stuff you mention. Why the fuck I need to waste my time loading fucking flash movies to navigate a page when it works better in plain HTML is beyond me.
And to add to my previous comment for 50 dollars I can buy a DVD burner and a 100 pack of DVD-Rs and I can have enough storage for almost 500 gigs of data. You on the other hand would have to buy almost 59 of those USB drives to match that at a cost of almost 1800 dollars. Have fun with that.
For 36 dollars you can buy a CD burner and a 100 pack spindle of CD-Rs from newegg. For 6 dollars more you can burn almost twice the content of one of those drives. Plus after the initial 18 dollars for the CD drive you'll save yourself about 12 bucks buying the 100 pack spindle and getting over twice the storage.