If you understood how electrical engineering worked, you wouldn't believe it either.
watt-hours are the proper measure of battery energy storage capacity. (also known as Joules divided by 3600).
watt-hours = amp-hours * battery voltage
Most laptops including Chromebooks use a 12 to 15 volt battery. Phones are 3.7 volts. Therefore, for a given amount of amp-hours (mAh/1000), a laptop's energy storage capacity will be 3-4x the capacity of a phone's battery!
You'd still need a breakout board to convert the USB-C to usable ports, and that takes weight.
A motherboard, M.2 SSD, and some RAM weigh a few ounces. Not really worth not having the processor on-board. Remember that you'd still need the hardware to run the LCD, ports, power the speakers, etc. And yes, you'd need another battery to run a 13" screen for any significant time unless you're going e-Ink.
What if the phone had a removable battery and the choice of two back covers, one that fit a 3000mAh battery, another one for a 10,000mAh battery? Shouldn't cost $1000 and you'd have the choice between slim size/low weight and super-amazing batter life.
Nope -- graduation requirements are staying the same. CUNY is removing the ENTRY requirement for Algebra II/Trig, which will likely allow them to cut down on remedial classes. This will cause more people to either fail once they take a class that requires it, or have to pay for private tutoring, both of which are bad in their own, different ways.
What's the point of a phone that docks into a docking station? The station is effectively the size and weight of a laptop -- may as well just get the laptop and call it a day.
You mean, even if you have to buy a new battery online, unscrew a watertight panel, and plug it in. For $1000, I'd expect servicability, same as a laptop costing as much.
Battery capacity only varies by a factor of 2 or so between the smallest and largest available. The reason that people buy phones with glued-in batteries has to do with ignorance, manufacturers pushing disposable crap, and OMG! NEW! SHIIINY!, not because they're inherently better.
Your drunkard example? More like marrying a Ph. D. with some mad carpentry and cooking skills, but whose looks are somewhat homely.
Low-end Moto or Samsung devices that are designed for poorer countries are often better at being phones than the latest and greatest from Apple. They're half-decent smart devices as well, but for $100 or so, you can't lose.
Phones are mostly NOT working devices other than a few specialized apps. Doing work on even a 6" screen with tippy-tappy-crappy touch keyboard is inefficient.
That's great until you're on a plane or in a rural area with poor to non-existent Internet access. Using a dumb terminal when you can have a laptop with full local computing power is silly.
You can pay $100-125 for a phone with massive amounts of storage and good battery life. Moto G5 or E4. Removable (swappable!) battery, SD card slot. SD cards are cheap, so are second batteries.
Given a decent processor, everything else is hype.
Real benefit for FB -- they will be able to reliably tie accounts to a real identity. Fecebook will off-load their ID verification onto banks by tying accounts to a bank account/routing number and verifying via two ACH deposits/withdrawls of random quantity (same as PayPal does).
This is of course not a benefit for their customers, but it benefits Zuck&Co in being able to track and throw ads at real people more reliably.
The reading/writing/algebra requirements are enforced in other ways, like having to read books and write for a humanities or social science course. Sciences are typically also graduation requirements -- try taking an intro chem course without basic algebra knowledge.
Government education shouldn't teach that all opinions are equally valuable. The Earth is not flat. If there's a market for flat-Earther education, then the market is clearly warped and government should do its best to correct this imbalance.
Plenty of people in the engineering and I.T. fields also have their heads up their anal orifices. Elon Musk anyone? Look at Tesla's parts availabilily... how dare a mere plebe un-authorized mechanic presume to want to work on a Tesla? Tim Cook. Let's show some courage by stripping useful functionality out of our products and reduce them to toys for the lowest common denominator.
Frankly, people SHOULD have the right to protest against wrong or abhorrent views. The Earth is NOT flat. Global warming is a real thing. Treating fellow humans badly because of the color of their skin or their country of birth is abhorrent. Deal with it.
And yet... there are people who are good at what they do, but also good at other things. Saves time, too -- a lot faster to (say) change an outlet yourself than wait for an electrician to show up.
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If you understood how electrical engineering worked, you wouldn't believe it either.
watt-hours are the proper measure of battery energy storage capacity. (also known as Joules divided by 3600).
watt-hours = amp-hours * battery voltage
Most laptops including Chromebooks use a 12 to 15 volt battery. Phones are 3.7 volts. Therefore, for a given amount of amp-hours (mAh/1000), a laptop's energy storage capacity will be 3-4x the capacity of a phone's battery!
You'd still need a breakout board to convert the USB-C to usable ports, and that takes weight.
A motherboard, M.2 SSD, and some RAM weigh a few ounces. Not really worth not having the processor on-board. Remember that you'd still need the hardware to run the LCD, ports, power the speakers, etc. And yes, you'd need another battery to run a 13" screen for any significant time unless you're going e-Ink.
LOL, get with the times -- you need a "2500" desk phone!
What if the phone had a removable battery and the choice of two back covers, one that fit a 3000mAh battery, another one for a 10,000mAh battery? Shouldn't cost $1000 and you'd have the choice between slim size/low weight and super-amazing batter life.
The problem is that the docking station will weigh 90% of what a laptop weighs, so there isn't actually that much point to it.
Nope -- graduation requirements are staying the same. CUNY is removing the ENTRY requirement for Algebra II/Trig, which will likely allow them to cut down on remedial classes. This will cause more people to either fail once they take a class that requires it, or have to pay for private tutoring, both of which are bad in their own, different ways.
This is CUNY being cheap, not social engineering.
Yep, emerging-market phones rock and often have more "geek" features like SD and swappable battery than the expensive fancy schmancy models.
Except that usability doesn't actually increase beyond a certain price point. $200 phones often have the same basic hardware as $1000 phones.
To use the car analogy, a Corolla is often a better car and more reliable than a Lamborghini.
Or is a disciple of Teddy Roosevelt, the original "rough rider", man's man, and "trust buster."
What's the point of a phone that docks into a docking station? The station is effectively the size and weight of a laptop -- may as well just get the laptop and call it a day.
You mean, even if you have to buy a new battery online, unscrew a watertight panel, and plug it in. For $1000, I'd expect servicability, same as a laptop costing as much.
What does doing my banking through FB give me that the bank's website or app doesn't already give me?
Battery capacity only varies by a factor of 2 or so between the smallest and largest available. The reason that people buy phones with glued-in batteries has to do with ignorance, manufacturers pushing disposable crap, and OMG! NEW! SHIIINY!, not because they're inherently better.
Your drunkard example? More like marrying a Ph. D. with some mad carpentry and cooking skills, but whose looks are somewhat homely.
Low-end Moto or Samsung devices that are designed for poorer countries are often better at being phones than the latest and greatest from Apple. They're half-decent smart devices as well, but for $100 or so, you can't lose.
"Interest free" -- only problem is that the "base" price is often severely inflated compared to the cash price at B&H or on Amazon.
Phones are mostly NOT working devices other than a few specialized apps. Doing work on even a 6" screen with tippy-tappy-crappy touch keyboard is inefficient.
That's great until you're on a plane or in a rural area with poor to non-existent Internet access. Using a dumb terminal when you can have a laptop with full local computing power is silly.
You can pay $100-125 for a phone with massive amounts of storage and good battery life. Moto G5 or E4. Removable (swappable!) battery, SD card slot. SD cards are cheap, so are second batteries.
Given a decent processor, everything else is hype.
Real benefit for FB -- they will be able to reliably tie accounts to a real identity. Fecebook will off-load their ID verification onto banks by tying accounts to a bank account/routing number and verifying via two ACH deposits/withdrawls of random quantity (same as PayPal does). This is of course not a benefit for their customers, but it benefits Zuck&Co in being able to track and throw ads at real people more reliably.
The reading/writing/algebra requirements are enforced in other ways, like having to read books and write for a humanities or social science course. Sciences are typically also graduation requirements -- try taking an intro chem course without basic algebra knowledge.
Democracy is over-rated when the voters support wrong or abhorrent ideas. There's a reason why the US is a republic, not a pure democracy.
Annual average growth isn't 4% -- 4% is quarter-on-quarter, a number that was hit repeatedly when Obama was president. You're buying the hype.
Government education shouldn't teach that all opinions are equally valuable. The Earth is not flat. If there's a market for flat-Earther education, then the market is clearly warped and government should do its best to correct this imbalance.
Plenty of people in the engineering and I.T. fields also have their heads up their anal orifices. Elon Musk anyone? Look at Tesla's parts availabilily ... how dare a mere plebe un-authorized mechanic presume to want to work on a Tesla? Tim Cook. Let's show some courage by stripping useful functionality out of our products and reduce them to toys for the lowest common denominator.
Frankly, people SHOULD have the right to protest against wrong or abhorrent views. The Earth is NOT flat. Global warming is a real thing. Treating fellow humans badly because of the color of their skin or their country of birth is abhorrent. Deal with it.
And yet ... there are people who are good at what they do, but also good at other things. Saves time, too -- a lot faster to (say) change an outlet yourself than wait for an electrician to show up.