Describe what you are doing (encoding video, playing games, etc) that is causing it to "overheat and throttle" all the time.
General use. You don't even need to be doing anything special with it to start it's micro-stutter routine.
Can you quantify "piss-poor" a little better?
2 hours. Maybe 2.5 if I crank the brightness way down.
"Overrated" is a completely subjective statement. Can you be more specific?
It's not significantly better or worse at performing general tasks, but it's touted as being significantly better at all tasks. It's overrated.
Did you ever take it to Apple while under warranty to address the overheating/battery-life concerns?
They can't do anything with it because it's a defect in the 2nd generation airs. Apple didn't give two shits though, they already had people's money. No fix was ever issued for those affected. I will never spend that kind of money on Apple's trash again.
The fact that it overheats and throttles all the time even though I've had it apart and nothing is obstructing the ventilation. The piss poor battery life. The OS is ok, but overrated. For the amount I paid for it I expected much better. I'll never go that road again. Apple laptops may be pretty but that's all they are.
This has already kinda been done using the hydrogen internal combusion engine. Not only will it create water from hydrogen and oxygen, it'll do work at the same time.
The problem here is that the hydrogen can't just be plucked out of the atmosphere because it's so light it escapes, so you have to figure out where that's going to come from. You could buy it, but then you're not getting it from air.
As so often happens with these things you have to do it more than once. If you really need a gun to work at a moment's notice, owning a weapon that may or may not work when you pick it up seems utterly stupid.
It's a question of rights. If you're recording and you paid to watch it, that's OK. If you're downloading it from the internet there's no way to know if you had the right to a copy in the first place. Believe me, if it were economically viable they'd have gone after you for pirated VHS collection too. The internet just happens to give them the means to start targeting these people.
If Apple is the one to reinvent it, it'll be a closed off tightly controlled ecosystem where they take the lions share of any profit and charge far too much for the experience.
If TV needs to be reinvented, it doesn't need Apple to be the one to do it.
Actually Apple has been exactly the same since Steve left. That's the problem. They're out of good ideas and now they're trying to do gimmicky stuff to keep the gravy train rolling.
It sounds more to me like the problem is with you, not the hardware. I've never tripped over a laptop cable, because I don't create situations where that's possible to do.
The solution seems simple to me. Stop giving Apple your money. There's nothing revolutionary about macs except the ways they extort you in to paying more after the fact.
Christ, I built a computer out of an old intel 920 with an intel DSOX58 board for about $350 used that outperforms all but the highest end macs. Their hardware is often inferior for what you can get dollar for dollar if you turn your own screws. When you buy mac, you're buying an aluminum shell that houses shit hardware in a custom configuration that is designed to fail.
Weld your computer shut? Are you fucking stupid? Even if the hardware can go the distance, fan bearings fail. Thermal grease dries up and becomes less effective. You absolutely DO need to be able to get in there if you want to deal with things when they happen. And they WILL happen.
Torx makes sense if you have very small screws or if you have screws which are heavily torqued on as they would be in some automotive parts. It doesn't make sense for anything else. The generic PC industry at large has been using phillips for decades with no difficulty. Often times it's a phillips screw with a hex head screw so you have two ways to remove it. The only time you encounter torx in larger computer parts is when someone wants to ensure it's that much more difficult to get in to. Everyone has a phillips screwdriver. Not everyone has a torx set handy. Apple isn't doing this because it's inherently better, they're doing it because making it harder for the end user to change anything is how they roll.
In my experience their quest to make things sleeker means devices are inherently less upgradable, much harder to repair, and far more prone to failure. Ram is often soldered to the board, and in some systems (yes imac, i'm looking at you) you have to do retarded shit (like pull the glass out of the unit) just to replace a drive. Not to mention they go out of their way to use torx screws for everything just for the added/facepalm. Top to bottom, these things are engineered to be more frustrating than they need to be.
While 6 months is a bit of an exaggeration, what isn't is the fact that apple stuff is purposefully engineers their technology to be prone to failure. There are tons of cases of ventilation issues with macs because airflow doesn't seem as important to them as the look of the machine. They'd rather throttle your already anorexic CPU than provide you with appropriate cooling. I don't know why people continue to buy their stuff. Sure a regular boxy pc may not be as attractive, but it'll be a lot cheaper, perform better, be infinitely more upgradable, and can be modified to suit your personal demands. With Apple, you'll pay out the ass for whatever they give you - and fuck you if you don't like it.
Most devices don't get a stable Cyanogen release for years if ever. I still rock a HTC One M8, a very capable and reliable device that I haven't felt the need to move away from yet and Cyanogen has made almost no effort to fix the bugs in their release for it. I'm happy I didn't have to pay for it, because it honestly wouldn't be worth paying for given the fact that they abandon projects so quickly and without notice.
When someone does have disposable income to throw at a luxury item, they're going to go for the item that gives them the most bang for their buck. In this case, a higher end video card has far more application than a VR headset. Are you going to drop $700 on something that improves all your games, or are you going to drop $800 on something that only benefits a limited subset?
The difference is you had more choices. You could get the insanely expensive 21" or you could get something much cheaper. You needed one either way in order to use a computer which was fast becoming necessary for a variety of reasons. This drives sales which in turn brings down cost.
With VR you have two choices: expensive, and more expensive, and it's something nobody really needs. The two are not reasonably comparable, and the argument is stupid.
Probably because these days they are in the same category.
Feminist movements used to be about getting women equal fundamental rights - like the right to vote. That was a good thing. Women have equal fundamental rights now - mission accomplished. Take that fight to the other places in the world where women still don't have equal fundamental rights. That's where real feminism is needed. They're not doing that though.
Now it's about doing less to get more, and stepping on people to get it. Modern feminism is a hate group specifically attempting to unfairly vilify men for their own political and financial gain. I don't know if there's even such a thing as a good feminist movement anymore, it's been successfully subverted and many people, some who whom are very powerful, are drinking the koolaid.
Allow me to show you why your comparison doesn't make sense. Keeping in mind that this is talking about CRTs in the era where they were the best choice.
A CRT works even with cheaper/lower end graphics adapter provided the adapter supports the standard. A rift requires a very expensive graphics adapter to work properly.
A CRT was essential to a home desktop computer. A Rift is only essential for VR which is a niche novelty at this point.
A CRT could be found in a number of less expensive configurations that worked well. Good VR can be found in one of two flavors (Rift or Vive), and both are hideously expensive. Other options for PC VR aren't worth considering.
A CRT didn't require you to install a custom app store. The rift forces you to install their store in order to have access to the drivers, and attempts to convey the idea that it's essential to run rift-enabled software.
A CRT will work with any software that has a display mode it supports. The Rift requires that software be specially developed to work with it and doesn't work out of the box with legacy software.
VR is failing. Again. Because you can't peak consumer interest when the barrier to entry is that high. For most people, just buying the headset isn't enough. They also need to ensure they have a very modern video card an CPU/Motherboard. For many this means they need to spend an additional $400+ on top of the VR asking price.
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Describe what you are doing (encoding video, playing games, etc) that is causing it to "overheat and throttle" all the time.
General use. You don't even need to be doing anything special with it to start it's micro-stutter routine.
Can you quantify "piss-poor" a little better?
2 hours. Maybe 2.5 if I crank the brightness way down.
"Overrated" is a completely subjective statement. Can you be more specific?
It's not significantly better or worse at performing general tasks, but it's touted as being significantly better at all tasks. It's overrated.
Did you ever take it to Apple while under warranty to address the overheating/battery-life concerns?
They can't do anything with it because it's a defect in the 2nd generation airs. Apple didn't give two shits though, they already had people's money. No fix was ever issued for those affected. I will never spend that kind of money on Apple's trash again.
Apple helps themselves to viewer's wallets.
Then you don't know much: https://www.wiknix.com/the-bes...
The fact that it overheats and throttles all the time even though I've had it apart and nothing is obstructing the ventilation. The piss poor battery life. The OS is ok, but overrated. For the amount I paid for it I expected much better. I'll never go that road again. Apple laptops may be pretty but that's all they are.
I have a macbook air. Thanks for asking. Macs aren't very good. My first macbook will be my last.
You can't get diesel out of the air either, so it probably wouldn't qualify.
This has already kinda been done using the hydrogen internal combusion engine. Not only will it create water from hydrogen and oxygen, it'll do work at the same time. The problem here is that the hydrogen can't just be plucked out of the atmosphere because it's so light it escapes, so you have to figure out where that's going to come from. You could buy it, but then you're not getting it from air.
As so often happens with these things you have to do it more than once. If you really need a gun to work at a moment's notice, owning a weapon that may or may not work when you pick it up seems utterly stupid.
It's a question of rights. If you're recording and you paid to watch it, that's OK. If you're downloading it from the internet there's no way to know if you had the right to a copy in the first place. Believe me, if it were economically viable they'd have gone after you for pirated VHS collection too. The internet just happens to give them the means to start targeting these people.
If Apple is the one to reinvent it, it'll be a closed off tightly controlled ecosystem where they take the lions share of any profit and charge far too much for the experience. If TV needs to be reinvented, it doesn't need Apple to be the one to do it.
Actually Apple has been exactly the same since Steve left. That's the problem. They're out of good ideas and now they're trying to do gimmicky stuff to keep the gravy train rolling.
It sounds more to me like the problem is with you, not the hardware. I've never tripped over a laptop cable, because I don't create situations where that's possible to do.
The solution seems simple to me. Stop giving Apple your money. There's nothing revolutionary about macs except the ways they extort you in to paying more after the fact.
OCP aims to do for computer hardware what the Linux operating system
turn it in to a mess of competing standards that have no consistency?
Christ, I built a computer out of an old intel 920 with an intel DSOX58 board for about $350 used that outperforms all but the highest end macs. Their hardware is often inferior for what you can get dollar for dollar if you turn your own screws. When you buy mac, you're buying an aluminum shell that houses shit hardware in a custom configuration that is designed to fail.
Weld your computer shut? Are you fucking stupid? Even if the hardware can go the distance, fan bearings fail. Thermal grease dries up and becomes less effective. You absolutely DO need to be able to get in there if you want to deal with things when they happen. And they WILL happen.
Torx makes sense if you have very small screws or if you have screws which are heavily torqued on as they would be in some automotive parts. It doesn't make sense for anything else. The generic PC industry at large has been using phillips for decades with no difficulty. Often times it's a phillips screw with a hex head screw so you have two ways to remove it. The only time you encounter torx in larger computer parts is when someone wants to ensure it's that much more difficult to get in to. Everyone has a phillips screwdriver. Not everyone has a torx set handy. Apple isn't doing this because it's inherently better, they're doing it because making it harder for the end user to change anything is how they roll.
In my experience their quest to make things sleeker means devices are inherently less upgradable, much harder to repair, and far more prone to failure. Ram is often soldered to the board, and in some systems (yes imac, i'm looking at you) you have to do retarded shit (like pull the glass out of the unit) just to replace a drive. Not to mention they go out of their way to use torx screws for everything just for the added /facepalm. Top to bottom, these things are engineered to be more frustrating than they need to be.
While 6 months is a bit of an exaggeration, what isn't is the fact that apple stuff is purposefully engineers their technology to be prone to failure. There are tons of cases of ventilation issues with macs because airflow doesn't seem as important to them as the look of the machine. They'd rather throttle your already anorexic CPU than provide you with appropriate cooling. I don't know why people continue to buy their stuff. Sure a regular boxy pc may not be as attractive, but it'll be a lot cheaper, perform better, be infinitely more upgradable, and can be modified to suit your personal demands. With Apple, you'll pay out the ass for whatever they give you - and fuck you if you don't like it.
If it can't be made obsolete in 6 months, Apple probably won't build it.
This is how I see Luke Cage as a show. Even still, netflix is pretty awesome for going the extra mile on their original programming.
Most devices don't get a stable Cyanogen release for years if ever. I still rock a HTC One M8, a very capable and reliable device that I haven't felt the need to move away from yet and Cyanogen has made almost no effort to fix the bugs in their release for it. I'm happy I didn't have to pay for it, because it honestly wouldn't be worth paying for given the fact that they abandon projects so quickly and without notice.
When someone does have disposable income to throw at a luxury item, they're going to go for the item that gives them the most bang for their buck. In this case, a higher end video card has far more application than a VR headset. Are you going to drop $700 on something that improves all your games, or are you going to drop $800 on something that only benefits a limited subset?
The difference is you had more choices. You could get the insanely expensive 21" or you could get something much cheaper. You needed one either way in order to use a computer which was fast becoming necessary for a variety of reasons. This drives sales which in turn brings down cost.
With VR you have two choices: expensive, and more expensive, and it's something nobody really needs. The two are not reasonably comparable, and the argument is stupid.
Probably because these days they are in the same category.
Feminist movements used to be about getting women equal fundamental rights - like the right to vote. That was a good thing. Women have equal fundamental rights now - mission accomplished. Take that fight to the other places in the world where women still don't have equal fundamental rights. That's where real feminism is needed. They're not doing that though.
Now it's about doing less to get more, and stepping on people to get it. Modern feminism is a hate group specifically attempting to unfairly vilify men for their own political and financial gain. I don't know if there's even such a thing as a good feminist movement anymore, it's been successfully subverted and many people, some who whom are very powerful, are drinking the koolaid.
Allow me to show you why your comparison doesn't make sense. Keeping in mind that this is talking about CRTs in the era where they were the best choice.
A CRT works even with cheaper/lower end graphics adapter provided the adapter supports the standard. A rift requires a very expensive graphics adapter to work properly.
A CRT was essential to a home desktop computer. A Rift is only essential for VR which is a niche novelty at this point.
A CRT could be found in a number of less expensive configurations that worked well. Good VR can be found in one of two flavors (Rift or Vive), and both are hideously expensive. Other options for PC VR aren't worth considering.
A CRT didn't require you to install a custom app store. The rift forces you to install their store in order to have access to the drivers, and attempts to convey the idea that it's essential to run rift-enabled software.
A CRT will work with any software that has a display mode it supports. The Rift requires that software be specially developed to work with it and doesn't work out of the box with legacy software.
VR is failing. Again. Because you can't peak consumer interest when the barrier to entry is that high. For most people, just buying the headset isn't enough. They also need to ensure they have a very modern video card an CPU/Motherboard. For many this means they need to spend an additional $400+ on top of the VR asking price.
I'll believe it when I see it. Oculus was supposed to be half it's current asking price.