While I do think all this Cloud stuff is stupid, you think about the wrong devices. Think of the cheap laptops and tablets that come with 32GB or 64GB eMMC as main storage. 32GB is filled by Windows itself, if you look funny at it. With 64GB you have a bit more leeway, but even that fills up quickly depending on usage.
It's slow, it's crappy and I advice against getting such machines (I have a Chinese tablet with 64GB, split up in something like 40GB for Win10 and 20GB for Android or so... The specs are decent enough, but I'm pretty sure the bottleneck is the eMMC)
I mean, even the Surface 3 (not Surface Pro 3), a Microsoft product uses eMMC. The Surface Go does too.
So, yes storage is ubiquitous, except when it isn't... and people can and will buy these devices because they don't know any better.
Nothing against commercial software on Linux. I have bought commercial software for Linux.
However, your original post said this:
MasterPDFEditor - Everything acrobat can do for $0
It's a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) that reads, writes, edits, and views PDF files.
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Had you said "it's affordable commercial software for Linux", you'd have been right. You said it was "open source". It isn't.
Either, you haven't been long enough on this site to distinguish between "free as in beer" and "free as in freedom", which I doubt with a user ID like that, or you are being deceitful on purpose. Never mind this is "free as in limited demo version".
I have one, it really isn't all that great performace-wise even though I think that is mostly due to the eMMC storage. The screen is very nice, and touch works well.
It works surprisingly well for a tablet though, and the (outdated) Android is smooth as silk. Windows 10 less so, but I'm not certain whether that's due to the tablet or the clunkiness of Windows in tablet mode. It works well enough for casual surfing and the keyboard is good enough for the occasional longer email.
Is it as good as a Surface? Hell, fuck no! But at that price, you can buy two and have spare change. (At the time of writing the linked Chuwi Hi10 Plus - with keyboard, was €147.05 "on sale" with keyboard. Never mind that everything is always on sale in Chinese web shops and you need to monitor the prices. Mine cost ~€10 more when I got it. There is a stylus add-on, which I got but I didn't find it as useful as I thought it would be)
The biggest drawback is that it seems that the USB-C slot is about a millimetre too deep, which makes finding a suitable USB-C cable for charging rather hard (the included one obviously works)
The only area which causes me some grief is interfacing with the Skype For Business infrastructure at work. Other then that, clear sailing.
Granted, I only use it for the chat functionality, but Pidgin has the "pidgin-sipe" plugin which shows up as "Office Communicator" in the account setup. Works fine. (The hint for me was that I saw that our installation supports SIP, so even a normal soft phone might work... )
Again, I don't call with it, so it might not be enough for you
It's a toxic brand: I'm surprised it took that long. I mean, Bayer isn't called "IG Farben" for good reason. Bayer associates with "aspirin", which is good, right!?!
Sorry, I understand your point now. If I could upgrade the graphics card to something supporting "Metal", then I could continue to use it. Yes, in that sense you are absolutely right.
It looks like it indeed. That's one of the things I can't replace in that machine: the graphics card.
I usually upgrade the newer Mac OS approximately 6 months after initial release. So, yes, we are on High Sierra by now.
I think your estimate of 5-7 years is a bit high, assuming we want to continue to run OS X (which is what we want, my wife really is as non-technical as they get and this is the best trade-off I found) I didn't know Apple did a N-2 version support (security updates), but apparently it does. According to Wikipedia, a new Mac OS X comes out every year (announcement in June, release in September). This means, that we get 2 years more at most out of it while keeping security updates, which I consider the minimum requirement for a daily driver machine. That means, we will have been able to use it as a daily driver for about 10 years. That is okay. It could be better given the fact that todays machines are so overpowered for normal users, but 10 years is okay.
We'll just see what top of the line iMac is current at that point then, and evaluate whether we want one again. It will depend on my wife.
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It's slow, it's crappy and I advice against getting such machines (I have a Chinese tablet with 64GB, split up in something like 40GB for Win10 and 20GB for Android or so... The specs are decent enough, but I'm pretty sure the bottleneck is the eMMC)
I mean, even the Surface 3 (not Surface Pro 3), a Microsoft product uses eMMC. The Surface Go does too.
So, yes storage is ubiquitous, except when it isn't... and people can and will buy these devices because they don't know any better.
Sorry :-(
However, your original post said this:
Had you said "it's affordable commercial software for Linux", you'd have been right. You said it was "open source". It isn't.
Either, you haven't been long enough on this site to distinguish between "free as in beer" and "free as in freedom", which I doubt with a user ID like that, or you are being deceitful on purpose. Never mind this is "free as in limited demo version".
I sure hope that the SE form factor continues to exist.
How common are those (in the West)? Even my Chuwi tablet has Chuwi written on it.
Are there even any laptop manufacturers that do not feature at least their name or logo on the lids of their laptops?
By the way: find me a laptop without the manufacturers name/logo on the lid. I dare you!
didn't say they have everything right. They do have the lack of stickers right. I am not a Mac user.
I didn't say they have everything right. They do have the lack of stickers right. I am not a Mac user.
No stickers allowed on my machines. They are ugly. Even the Intel/AMD stickers must go. Apple is the only one doing it right.
I thought ext4 was still pretty much standard.
Why does a synchronisation system even concern itself with filesystems?
Look into DAVMail.
I have one, it really isn't all that great performace-wise even though I think that is mostly due to the eMMC storage. The screen is very nice, and touch works well.
It works surprisingly well for a tablet though, and the (outdated) Android is smooth as silk. Windows 10 less so, but I'm not certain whether that's due to the tablet or the clunkiness of Windows in tablet mode. It works well enough for casual surfing and the keyboard is good enough for the occasional longer email.
Is it as good as a Surface? Hell, fuck no! But at that price, you can buy two and have spare change. (At the time of writing the linked Chuwi Hi10 Plus - with keyboard, was €147.05 "on sale" with keyboard. Never mind that everything is always on sale in Chinese web shops and you need to monitor the prices. Mine cost ~€10 more when I got it. There is a stylus add-on, which I got but I didn't find it as useful as I thought it would be)
The biggest drawback is that it seems that the USB-C slot is about a millimetre too deep, which makes finding a suitable USB-C cable for charging rather hard (the included one obviously works)
Granted, I only use it for the chat functionality, but Pidgin has the "pidgin-sipe" plugin which shows up as "Office Communicator" in the account setup. Works fine. (The hint for me was that I saw that our installation supports SIP, so even a normal soft phone might work... )
Again, I don't call with it, so it might not be enough for you
I thought Blue Whale was an urban legend?!?
7 was ok, but do remember that 7 is actually Vista SP2.
No version of Windows was ever ready for prime time..
Africa you say? They should contact that prince in Nigeria. I'm pretty sure he must be able to help, judging from the promising emails I get from him.
Good point.
I read the wikipedia article before posting. It was close enough to me, in order to make a point.
Most likely, yes... I also think this will happen. It depends a bit on how positive/strong the Bayer brand actually is.
It's a toxic brand: I'm surprised it took that long. I mean, Bayer isn't called "IG Farben" for good reason. Bayer associates with "aspirin", which is good, right!?!
Sorry, I understand your point now. If I could upgrade the graphics card to something supporting "Metal", then I could continue to use it. Yes, in that sense you are absolutely right.
I usually upgrade the newer Mac OS approximately 6 months after initial release. So, yes, we are on High Sierra by now.
I think your estimate of 5-7 years is a bit high, assuming we want to continue to run OS X (which is what we want, my wife really is as non-technical as they get and this is the best trade-off I found) I didn't know Apple did a N-2 version support (security updates), but apparently it does. According to Wikipedia, a new Mac OS X comes out every year (announcement in June, release in September). This means, that we get 2 years more at most out of it while keeping security updates, which I consider the minimum requirement for a daily driver machine. That means, we will have been able to use it as a daily driver for about 10 years. That is okay. It could be better given the fact that todays machines are so overpowered for normal users, but 10 years is okay.
We'll just see what top of the line iMac is current at that point then, and evaluate whether we want one again. It will depend on my wife.
No soldered on RAM, imagine that!