Interestingly, a local middle school here had mandated Chromebooks for technology classes. Options were to either buy one or wait in line for one of the few classroom units to become available for a few minutes each.
After querying the teachers about what they used the Chromebooks for, it transpired they were using Google Docs, YouTube, Scratch and Blender. Long story short, a donation of a few otherwise useless Windows XP-era laptops with $50 SSDs, Fedora Linux and XFCE and the classes have never run more smoothly.
Another school down the road (a high school) had mandated every kid must buy their own Microsoft Surface. The entire first semester was wasted trying to get them to talk correctly with Microsoft's cloud services.
Any new computer hardware on the market these days is plenty powerful enough to handle anything a typical user might ever want to do.
I wish that were true.
There are still laptops being sold today with mechanical disks and Microsoft Windows, and 2GB RAM. So your experience involves waiting for the system to boot, log you in, and swapping memory to and from disk while you go and make a cup of tea. Once you finally get to your desktop environment, then heaven help you if you want to actually launch a program.
The "good reason" being a security bug that no one could be bothered fixing so they just ripped out the whole implementation.
Never mind that it's an important part of the HTML5 specification and MathJax, while nice, is too slow for many situations and shouldn't be necessary on modern browsers at all.
It's common now for a freshly installed Windows 7 system to spin for 36 hours before finding it first major set of updates.
Ridiculous, but true.
if you've migrated recently, might I recommend XFCE as a Desktop Environment? It's slightly less modern (based off GTK version 2 rather than 3) but much snappier. I found a ten year old laptop works much faster with Mint + XFCE than it ever did with XP.
After reading your first two sentences I was wondering if perhaps you had never heard of batteries. Now I suspect you're just over-stating the losses in charging Lithium-Ion batteries.
As for discharging, the energy efficiency of an electric "engine", including the battery and motors is about 95% when thermal and inductive losses are taken into account.
Compare this to a theoretical maximum of 46% of a gasoline engine, dictated by thermodynamics. Of course, this very generous scenario assumes instantaneous burn time (0 seconds), no heat loss through coolant and impossibly perfect exhaust valve timing. In the real world efficiencies of 25% to 30% are typical.
If you're willing to swap out your petrol ICE for a Wartsila 31 diesel engine you could stand a chance of approaching the world record of just over 50%. However you may need to weld some additional support struts to your car, as that engine is typically used in container ships.
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Interestingly, a local middle school here had mandated Chromebooks for technology classes. Options were to either buy one or wait in line for one of the few classroom units to become available for a few minutes each.
After querying the teachers about what they used the Chromebooks for, it transpired they were using Google Docs, YouTube, Scratch and Blender. Long story short, a donation of a few otherwise useless Windows XP-era laptops with $50 SSDs, Fedora Linux and XFCE and the classes have never run more smoothly.
Another school down the road (a high school) had mandated every kid must buy their own Microsoft Surface. The entire first semester was wasted trying to get them to talk correctly with Microsoft's cloud services.
Interesting morality you have there.
Do you also raise no objection to killing defenceless Swiss people, assuming you're not one yourself?
It also doesn't affect you. You'll never again be an unborn child whose fate is determined by the present mood of your mother.
The acronym "Oracle" expands to "One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison".
FWIW, the XPS 13 supports Fedora and Ubuntu Linux better than it does Windows 10.
And that's not even the "developer" edition, which has a couple of components changed to parts that work better with older kernels.
Will he now?
Any new computer hardware on the market these days is plenty powerful enough to handle anything a typical user might ever want to do.
I wish that were true.
There are still laptops being sold today with mechanical disks and Microsoft Windows, and 2GB RAM. So your experience involves waiting for the system to boot, log you in, and swapping memory to and from disk while you go and make a cup of tea. Once you finally get to your desktop environment, then heaven help you if you want to actually launch a program.
So Tim Cook wants to take away headphone jacks, magsafe and now cash. What's next? Christmas?
11 is never a reasonable volume.
The "good reason" being a security bug that no one could be bothered fixing so they just ripped out the whole implementation.
Never mind that it's an important part of the HTML5 specification and MathJax, while nice, is too slow for many situations and shouldn't be necessary on modern browsers at all.
MathML: Firefox wins!
Mostly on account of the other browsers not supporting it at all.
Attitudes like that are precisely the reason we are having this conversation now.
Let someone else deal with your data and just assume they're trustworthy.
They should call it P-SYNC.
It's common now for a freshly installed Windows 7 system to spin for 36 hours before finding it first major set of updates.
Ridiculous, but true.
if you've migrated recently, might I recommend XFCE as a Desktop Environment? It's slightly less modern (based off GTK version 2 rather than 3) but much snappier. I found a ten year old laptop works much faster with Mint + XFCE than it ever did with XP.
How do you figure? How could Clinton get anything done with the House and Senate being controlled by the republicans?
Alternatively buy a second hand Leaf from an early adopter, for 1/5 the price the rich schmuck paid for it new.
In this economy, who seriously buys a car for its looks?
Appearance is waaaay down the list of considerations when buying a car, well below "will it BSOD and kill me?".
That's aesthetic appearance, by the way, not road visibility which is much higher.
Awww, are AppleTV sales too low for your shareholders liking?
Looks like my next car will be a Leaf.
If your application relies on solid Internet connectivity while on a field, you're doing it wrong.
I think the point is that for every phone that is being returned, one additional phone will be purchased that would not otherwise have happened.
Therefore an additional 164+ pounds of raw material will need to be mined per phone, waste or not.
That is a problem for the environment.
Now, Samsung, kindly go back to producing 10 and 12 inch tablets with proper S Pen support and Miracast.
After reading your first two sentences I was wondering if perhaps you had never heard of batteries. Now I suspect you're just over-stating the losses in charging Lithium-Ion batteries.
As for discharging, the energy efficiency of an electric "engine", including the battery and motors is about 95% when thermal and inductive losses are taken into account.
Compare this to a theoretical maximum of 46% of a gasoline engine, dictated by thermodynamics. Of course, this very generous scenario assumes instantaneous burn time (0 seconds), no heat loss through coolant and impossibly perfect exhaust valve timing. In the real world efficiencies of 25% to 30% are typical.
If you're willing to swap out your petrol ICE for a Wartsila 31 diesel engine you could stand a chance of approaching the world record of just over 50%. However you may need to weld some additional support struts to your car, as that engine is typically used in container ships.
Hush, we're slagging off Samsung at the moment.
Apple will get their turn, some time after HTC and Nexus.
"BitTorrent" was the name of a company as well as a protocol?
What next, DivX?