Better than the Reagan/Trump way of letting the commoners have crumbs. Have you priced US health care vs that in most of Europe? European countries are doing an admirable job of taking care of their own citizenry compared to the US.
Europe would be better off without American giant corps siphoning off its residents' data. The world survived for all but the last few decades without those cloud crappers, Europe will be just fine without FB/Google/Apple/Amazon.
you'd be surprised about the current need for VGA. all of the classrooms and presentation rooms at a certain CUNY campus still have VGA connectors only (for the projectors). no VGA, no projection for you.
I suspect many buildings with older IT infrastructure still have the same thing.
Wrongo -- plenty of laptops have folding Ethernet jacks. The contacts themselves are only a few mm thick -- the part that holds the bottom of plug can hinge from the laptop. But yeah, I'd rather have a Thinkpad that's 5mm thicker than the latest Crapplebook and actually functional.
X-series is far better and more solid than anything Apple foists on the public.
Apple just sets the trends of how the rest of the industry screws its customers. As a wiser man that me once said: "Steve Jobs, pioneer of computing as a prison."
At least the Windows version of the Yogurt Book can be wiped and reinstalled with Ubuntu. Can the Android version have a non-crippled OS that's not handcuffed to Google?
Also, the old slot-loading Apple DVD drives were terrible, jam-prone things that broke in 6 months or if you looked at them wrong...
Ethernet would still be nice. You might need it at an off-site location that's Ethernet only or has poor wifi, no need to worry about forgetting your dongle.
As usual, a dumbfuck fanboi like you thinks that THEIR use case is the only use case.
Let's see. I travel with my laptop. Recently, I've used a USB port on the laptop to: (1) charge my phone (basically, the laptop's battery is bigger than the phone's) (2) connect an external drive (3) connect digital photography equipment and transfer data
What would it cost Apple to install a few ports? $10 per laptop? Not like they're strapped for cash or wanting for profit.
Also, USB ports break. It would be nice to have a laptop that doesn't become e-waste as soon as the single USB-C port (also used for charging) breaks.
Why is this a bad thing, other than for Samsung's and Apple's bottom lines? Keeping devices longer is a green option -- less e-waste being exported and dumped in developing countries. Also, manufacturing itself has environmental and energy costs. Same with shipping. Glad the industry is finally going green, even if it's against its will.
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Better that some of those services didn't exist at all, no matter who owns them.
Better than the Reagan/Trump way of letting the commoners have crumbs. Have you priced US health care vs that in most of Europe? European countries are doing an admirable job of taking care of their own citizenry compared to the US.
Yep, Britain enjoys being the lackey of US corporate interests while the rest of Europe (justifiably) pushes back.
Till they get slapped in the nose with antitrust action. *bam*
Europe would be better off without American giant corps siphoning off its residents' data. The world survived for all but the last few decades without those cloud crappers, Europe will be just fine without FB/Google/Apple/Amazon.
Better than hobbled Apple junk.
Until Chinese reverse-engineered copies start showing up on Amazon. And used part-outs start showing up on EBay.
Hackintosh... still works with High Sierra.
you'd be surprised about the current need for VGA. all of the classrooms and presentation rooms at a certain CUNY campus still have VGA connectors only (for the projectors). no VGA, no projection for you. I suspect many buildings with older IT infrastructure still have the same thing.
can you charge with it connected, or is it useless with a low battery?
put it on a daughter card...
Sure it runs MacOS. Just not legally ;)
Wrongo -- plenty of laptops have folding Ethernet jacks. The contacts themselves are only a few mm thick -- the part that holds the bottom of plug can hinge from the laptop. But yeah, I'd rather have a Thinkpad that's 5mm thicker than the latest Crapplebook and actually functional.
X-series is far better and more solid than anything Apple foists on the public.
Rather, the customers are sheep and they're like "it's like Apple! shiiiiiny! we want!"
Apple could sell a laptop with a case made of pressed dog turd and the sheep will still want it.
Probably. For a few hundred dollars, nevermind that an extra 8GB RAM module sells for $60 on the open market.
Unless it's a 10-11" screen.
Apple just sets the trends of how the rest of the industry screws its customers. As a wiser man that me once said: "Steve Jobs, pioneer of computing as a prison."
At least the Windows version of the Yogurt Book can be wiped and reinstalled with Ubuntu. Can the Android version have a non-crippled OS that's not handcuffed to Google?
4gb of SOLDERED IN RAM, because Apple is too courageous to allow mere peons to upgrade their hardware.
Also, the old slot-loading Apple DVD drives were terrible, jam-prone things that broke in 6 months or if you looked at them wrong...
Ethernet would still be nice. You might need it at an off-site location that's Ethernet only or has poor wifi, no need to worry about forgetting your dongle.
The built-in spyware cr@p from MS screws up Win 10 just as much. Win 10 is screwed up, period.
As usual, a dumbfuck fanboi like you thinks that THEIR use case is the only use case.
Let's see. I travel with my laptop. Recently, I've used a USB port on the laptop to:
(1) charge my phone (basically, the laptop's battery is bigger than the phone's)
(2) connect an external drive
(3) connect digital photography equipment and transfer data
What would it cost Apple to install a few ports? $10 per laptop? Not like they're strapped for cash or wanting for profit.
Also, USB ports break. It would be nice to have a laptop that doesn't become e-waste as soon as the single USB-C port (also used for charging) breaks.
And $300 more for dongles for the single USB-C port if you actually want to do something useful...
The average car age in the US is 11.6 years or something like that -- people keep cars for half a generation.
Why is this a bad thing, other than for Samsung's and Apple's bottom lines? Keeping devices longer is a green option -- less e-waste being exported and dumped in developing countries. Also, manufacturing itself has environmental and energy costs. Same with shipping. Glad the industry is finally going green, even if it's against its will.