Sigh...
Apple USB C vga multiport adapter: $69 USD
Apple USB C ditial av multiport adapter: $69 USD
Add on an ethernet adapter: $35 USD
Usb c to usb 2 adapter...
Anyways clearly hundreds of $$$. Thatâ(TM)s what I paid.
I bought a late 2016 MBP - the one post-magsafe, all USB C and with the new butterfly keyboard. Love quickly turned to loathing. Although it wasnâ(TM)t the first MacBook I bought (4 over the years for my immediate family) it was the first I bought for myself after years of Wintel laptops, all ThinkPads (both Lenovo and IBM).
Iâ(TM)ve experienced keyboard issues, most notably double-spacing. Keyboard already replaced once. Wake on sleep problems. Failed speaker.
My gripes are as follows:
- no magsafe. This is an issue for non-obvious reasons: the USB C port simply does not hold onto the charger cable as well which can often easily slip out causing the laptop to fall back to battery
- the cost of repairability. The top case is a fusion of the keyboard, battery, speakers and some other bits so if any one part fails you have to replace them all at once at rediculous cost. Easily $400 if you need to buy a new keyboard
- 16GB ram. Granted this may change
- non-expandability. Cannot change ram or internal storage.
- as above, the keyboard. Too sensitive, low travel, goddamn noisy (try typing in a meeting and everyone will be looking at you), susceptible to dust, expensive to repair
- switching between apps on OSX for some bloody reason always brings up the wrong document, and not the last one I was working on when I have multiple docs open. Cannot stress how much this pisses me off!
- hundreds of $$$ spent on dongles to replace missing ports: ethernet, HDMI, SVGA and USB
- VMWare Fusion so I can use Visio and MS Project to get my job done
Although Iâ(TM)m no fan of Windows my next laptop will again be a Wintel. I will miss the iMessage OSX app but this is about it. Lenovo (X1E) and Dell (XPS 15) have shown that you can do powerful, thin and light with expandibility and with ports people actually use.
Why the greatest fear of the inhabitants of Java is the next eruption of Mount Ellison, a volcano once thought to be extinct but known to occasionally to roar back to life. The Javanese being a superstious folk believe that the only way to placate this unpredictable volcano is to give the god Oracle - known to possess Mount Ellison, or is it the other way around? - cash offerings through the purchase of annual software maintenance contracts. These excessive and unreasonably priced contracts are believed keep the god Oracle and its volcano Ellison at bay sparing the Javanese from being burned and destroyed by another spillage of hot lava from what was once a nice mountain with a solid database product somewhere back in in the 1980s or early 1990s.
Donâ(TM)t forget planned obsolescence so you have to replace your car every few years. Or how about really thin cars so you have no choice but to buy a case for it if you are to survive an accident.
Back in the late â90s I had to present to a group of academics at a univerisy conference. I was the only non-academic presenting, and at the time I worked as an IT consultant for a major software company that everyone likes to dislike. (Clue: starts with an O.) Wanting to ensure that my presentation was hassle free I asked for an overhead projector having previously printed out some transparencies at the office. All the other presenters were keen to show off their technical skills by presenting from their laptops using what was at the time relatively new technology: digital projectors. Back then they still required a certain degree of fiddling to get to work as this was still the era of Windows 95/98. And a lot of fiddling and delays ensued that afternoon. I didnâ(TM)t want any of that so opted for a good old fashioned overhead projector which worked flawlessly.
Fast forward 20 years and it has become a much more reliable technology so wouldnâ(TM)t do the same today, but one shouldnâ(TM)t be ashamed of old-school technology if it gets the job done.
Although I havenâ(TM)t tried Beats, I am invested in a pair of Shure SE535s which I love, and which have the 3.5mm connector and need a reasonable amount of ampification to sound great. Sorry apple, but I very much miss the old headphone jack...
May I add that as I have no choice but to use the lightening to 3.5mm analogue converter dongle, has anyone performed a study on the quality of audio coming out of it?
This seems like a make-work project for for the spoil-sport jobsworths in the WB legal department. No way WB marketing department would want a crackdown on the HP fanbase.
"Anyone that wants to make sure that their data is protected for longer than 10 years should move to alternate forms of encryption now,"
Please contact IBM Professional Services for further assistance in this matter.
Look, itâ(TM)s 2018. If an FPGA wants to self-identify as a Floating Point Gate Array and no longer a Field Programmable Gate array then we must let it do so and be accomodating and non-jusgemental as well.
Oh just great! Looks like Iâ(TM)ll soon have to replace all my old appliances which employ âoefuzzy logicâ with nee appliances that employ neural networks.
Just give me some notice before Soundcloud goes under so I can rip all my favourite tracks.
Note that I am a paying subscriber, and like Soundcloud for both original content and obscure DJ remixes.
Back in the mid-90s I worked with a chap who was an OS/2 fanboy. We just started rolling out PCs in our IT department to replace the XWindows terminals we were using to support our UNIX estate, which if I recall correctly was comprise of one DG UNIX box. I gave it a go and thought the multitasking was novel, running multiple instances of Solitare in auto play. I remember that you could also run Windows apps but first had to install Windows 3.11 inside OS/2. It was the first OS I used to surf the web and IBM were continually releasing updates to the OS/2 web browser at the time.
For reasons I cannot remember I eventually gave up on it and switched to NT 3.51 and shortly thereafter NT 4.0. Most likely because I needed some software that wasn't available natively for OS/2 and the Windows 3.11 compatibility thingy wasn't suitable.
For you young-ins out there, this was back in the day when you had to buy your operating system in a box off the shelf from a store. No downloads. I remember standing in line at Futureshop chatting to a guy behind me who was about to purchase OS/2 Warp. Wonder how things turned out for him.
Slashdot Mirror
Backup people!
Sigh... Apple USB C vga multiport adapter: $69 USD Apple USB C ditial av multiport adapter: $69 USD Add on an ethernet adapter: $35 USD Usb c to usb 2 adapter... Anyways clearly hundreds of $$$. Thatâ(TM)s what I paid.
I bought a late 2016 MBP - the one post-magsafe, all USB C and with the new butterfly keyboard. Love quickly turned to loathing. Although it wasnâ(TM)t the first MacBook I bought (4 over the years for my immediate family) it was the first I bought for myself after years of Wintel laptops, all ThinkPads (both Lenovo and IBM). Iâ(TM)ve experienced keyboard issues, most notably double-spacing. Keyboard already replaced once. Wake on sleep problems. Failed speaker. My gripes are as follows: - no magsafe. This is an issue for non-obvious reasons: the USB C port simply does not hold onto the charger cable as well which can often easily slip out causing the laptop to fall back to battery - the cost of repairability. The top case is a fusion of the keyboard, battery, speakers and some other bits so if any one part fails you have to replace them all at once at rediculous cost. Easily $400 if you need to buy a new keyboard - 16GB ram. Granted this may change - non-expandability. Cannot change ram or internal storage. - as above, the keyboard. Too sensitive, low travel, goddamn noisy (try typing in a meeting and everyone will be looking at you), susceptible to dust, expensive to repair - switching between apps on OSX for some bloody reason always brings up the wrong document, and not the last one I was working on when I have multiple docs open. Cannot stress how much this pisses me off! - hundreds of $$$ spent on dongles to replace missing ports: ethernet, HDMI, SVGA and USB - VMWare Fusion so I can use Visio and MS Project to get my job done Although Iâ(TM)m no fan of Windows my next laptop will again be a Wintel. I will miss the iMessage OSX app but this is about it. Lenovo (X1E) and Dell (XPS 15) have shown that you can do powerful, thin and light with expandibility and with ports people actually use.
Why the greatest fear of the inhabitants of Java is the next eruption of Mount Ellison, a volcano once thought to be extinct but known to occasionally to roar back to life. The Javanese being a superstious folk believe that the only way to placate this unpredictable volcano is to give the god Oracle - known to possess Mount Ellison, or is it the other way around? - cash offerings through the purchase of annual software maintenance contracts. These excessive and unreasonably priced contracts are believed keep the god Oracle and its volcano Ellison at bay sparing the Javanese from being burned and destroyed by another spillage of hot lava from what was once a nice mountain with a solid database product somewhere back in in the 1980s or early 1990s.
Donâ(TM)t forget planned obsolescence so you have to replace your car every few years. Or how about really thin cars so you have no choice but to buy a case for it if you are to survive an accident.
Amazon: Rise of the Machines
The f15 was programmed using Java?????
Robots: just doing what they were told to do. Canâ(TM)t think for themsleves.
Back in the late â90s I had to present to a group of academics at a univerisy conference. I was the only non-academic presenting, and at the time I worked as an IT consultant for a major software company that everyone likes to dislike. (Clue: starts with an O.) Wanting to ensure that my presentation was hassle free I asked for an overhead projector having previously printed out some transparencies at the office. All the other presenters were keen to show off their technical skills by presenting from their laptops using what was at the time relatively new technology: digital projectors. Back then they still required a certain degree of fiddling to get to work as this was still the era of Windows 95/98. And a lot of fiddling and delays ensued that afternoon. I didnâ(TM)t want any of that so opted for a good old fashioned overhead projector which worked flawlessly. Fast forward 20 years and it has become a much more reliable technology so wouldnâ(TM)t do the same today, but one shouldnâ(TM)t be ashamed of old-school technology if it gets the job done.
Although I havenâ(TM)t tried Beats, I am invested in a pair of Shure SE535s which I love, and which have the 3.5mm connector and need a reasonable amount of ampification to sound great. Sorry apple, but I very much miss the old headphone jack... May I add that as I have no choice but to use the lightening to 3.5mm analogue converter dongle, has anyone performed a study on the quality of audio coming out of it?
Yes, I get âoethis video is availableâ when trying to watch from the UK. Boo!
This seems like a make-work project for for the spoil-sport jobsworths in the WB legal department. No way WB marketing department would want a crackdown on the HP fanbase.
The power supply will no doubt weigh 1kg.
My younger brother, ladies and gentlemen. Drive me up the wall. It is about 1 in 50 calls when he actually picks up.
"Anyone that wants to make sure that their data is protected for longer than 10 years should move to alternate forms of encryption now," Please contact IBM Professional Services for further assistance in this matter.
Look, itâ(TM)s 2018. If an FPGA wants to self-identify as a Floating Point Gate Array and no longer a Field Programmable Gate array then we must let it do so and be accomodating and non-jusgemental as well.
Oh just great! Looks like Iâ(TM)ll soon have to replace all my old appliances which employ âoefuzzy logicâ with nee appliances that employ neural networks.
Just give me some notice before Soundcloud goes under so I can rip all my favourite tracks. Note that I am a paying subscriber, and like Soundcloud for both original content and obscure DJ remixes.
If it is such a problem stop using it! Never had a Facebookings account. Slashdot on the otherhand....
Legalised marijuana and UBI: is Canada trying to createn some sort of utopia?
Now with convenient red LED to let you know when password stolen! Time to upgrade my Ethernet USB password stealers!
All your dat.txt are belong to us.
Reballing? That's hardcore skillz. I have a hot air station, a Weller hot plate and a Nikkon SMZ stereo microscope and I'm too chicken to do that.
Back in the mid-90s I worked with a chap who was an OS/2 fanboy. We just started rolling out PCs in our IT department to replace the XWindows terminals we were using to support our UNIX estate, which if I recall correctly was comprise of one DG UNIX box. I gave it a go and thought the multitasking was novel, running multiple instances of Solitare in auto play. I remember that you could also run Windows apps but first had to install Windows 3.11 inside OS/2. It was the first OS I used to surf the web and IBM were continually releasing updates to the OS/2 web browser at the time. For reasons I cannot remember I eventually gave up on it and switched to NT 3.51 and shortly thereafter NT 4.0. Most likely because I needed some software that wasn't available natively for OS/2 and the Windows 3.11 compatibility thingy wasn't suitable. For you young-ins out there, this was back in the day when you had to buy your operating system in a box off the shelf from a store. No downloads. I remember standing in line at Futureshop chatting to a guy behind me who was about to purchase OS/2 Warp. Wonder how things turned out for him.
Kanuvkistan = Canada.