Hell, the Pentium III (Tualatin) beat the Pentium IV in performance. I had a Pentium III-S workstation (clocked at like 1.5GHz) with 2GB of RAM that my coworkers who were running Pentium IV and Pentium IV with Hyper Threading workstations were jealous of (which lasted until we rolled out Core 2 workstations, which I got one of the first) how well it performed. There again, I also upgraded the GPU where as they had the Intel i9xx GPUs, and I also added a SATA controller towards the end of its run that made a big difference as well.
I remember some of the hype about Itanium was the future - I even have textbooks here that mentions it ("The 80x86 Family: design, programming, and interfacing Third Edition" by John Uffenbeck (ISBN 0-13-025711-7) lists the P7 family being the Intel Itanium, compared to the P6 [Pentium Pro | Pentium II | Celeron A | Pentium III | Xeon], P5 [Pentium | Pentium MMX], P4 80486, etc; but no mention of the Intel Pentium IV in the book at all.). I've also seen the Itanium listed as the Intel 786 family (compared to the P2/P3 being the 686 and P1 being the 586). I think that clearly shows what Intel was thinking.
We aren't taxing the transaction/sale. That's what sales tax is. We are taxing the company's profits (which occur where the company is located, regardless of where the sale took place).
I was about to remark about how their used to be UNIX versions of Word Perfect (I have it installed on my Octane running IRIX 6.5.29 and of course there was the Linux version that shipped with Corel Linux), but I do not recall ever seeing it on FreeBSD.
I feel like W10 has a better on screen keyboard then W10, but that might be about it. However, my W10 tablet no longer works at all (WinBook, won't boot except to the "Rescue"screen that won't allow me to boot to any rescue media even though it claims to be trying to do that...), so that really isn't a concern for me any longer. Shame, because I almost liked the little tablet (save for the abysmal battery life - with an Intel Atom in it I got at most two hours of life out of it, and it died after a day on standby, compared to my 2012 MBP with roughly 6 hours and my Precision M4500 with four hours (i7 and Quadro FX GPU - it's a power hog of a laptop, but it's powerful as can be iwth 16GB of RRAM and two SSD. My current work laptop (M4800) gets at least 4 hours of battery life as well, depending on what I am doing).
Haters? Apple hasn't made a "Pro" laptop in years, it would be nice if they would do so again. It used to be that a MacBook Pro was competitive with a Thinkpad or a Latitude/Precision. Now? I'll stick with my M4800 over any new MBP - it blows them out of the water. (For the record, I do have a 2012 non-retina MacBook Pro, and even after upgrading it (try doing that to a new one...) it still lags behind my older M4500.)
Just like the jokes about Apple's 1-button mice, that's a rather outdated view of Linux. Users haven't had to tinker with their systems to 'just use' Linux since what, 10 years ago?
Say what? There is nothing wrong with a Unix desktop. Hell, I ran Solaris 10 with GNOME 2 on my laptop for a while and never had any issues with it - and that was when there was much less of everything on the web. We've come to the point that the actual desktop doesn't make as much difference as it used to, but some how they are getting worse with time. I can't stand macOS (vs say 10.4-10.6), Windows 8-10 (vs Windows 2000-7), or KDE 4-5 (vs 3 and older). Things just get more bloated, more complex, less user friendly and more in the way somehow. Personally, I've grown to like GNOME 3, Unity isn't bad, and I still like TDE, MATE, and XFCE. For a faster experience (especially for outside of Linux/BSD), CDE and 4DWM (or MaXX on Linux) are just fine to work with, and have about the same level of attractiveness as the flat world of Windows has become.
Hmm...I think the only server I replaced the drives in like that was a Poweredge 1750 (or 1950, it's been a long time) that we upgraded the hell out of - added an mSATA SSD that we used as the boot drive (after finding out the board had a SATA port), removed the SCSI backplane and added a SATA RAID controller and used that instead of the old PERC controller that it came with. That machine was so much faster when we were done everything (also maxed out the RAM when we did that upgrade), and was still in use when I left the company in September 2012.
Hmmm....hadn't experienced it. I've worked with Dells from the Inspiron 7500 (P3 650MHz), 8000 (P3 800), 8100 (Tualatin P3), which even the video card could be upgraded, the Latitude C400 (1.3GHz P3 netbook), to the Pentium M era notebooks like the D520, and then the Vista era Core 2 notebooks that had the troublesome Wifi cards that didn't like Linux, and even recently the Inspiron 15 series with the changable backplate on the LCD and never saw a problem on the lower end - unless it's just certain models that I missed or the Vostro line, but that problem was the whole reason I steer[ed] people towards Dell and Toshiba instead of HP.
Umm...you might want to check again on Dell. I've never had an issue replacing hardware in my Latitudes or Precisions, not even the WiFi cards. While I can't speak for Lenovo, I am very familiar with HP's issues where the machine will not boot if the wrong hardware is in it.
Another vote for Dells - I've been very happy with the majority of the Latitude and Precisions that I've worked with the last four years, and own an M4500 as my personal workhorse that I've upgraded almost as much as it can be done (16GB RAM, dual 250GB SSD (one full size, one mSATA), USB 3.0 via ExpressCard), and also had a flawless Linux experience on the M4700 and M4800, and the Latitude E6420/E6430 as well. Dell support is fantastic (unlike some other companies...) as well if you ever need anything, plus the laptops are easy to repair or upgrade.
I've been very happy with the Dell Precision line since the MacBooks stopped being Pro machines (thus a Precision M4500 (first gen i7, 16GB RAM, Dual 250GB SSD, Quadro FX 880m replaced my original 2006 MacBook Pro, even though I would later buy a refurbed 2012 (non-retina) MBP as a lightweight machine). Plus they have docking stations. I've run Linux on the M4500, M4700, and M4800 without issues - the Quadro and FirePro cards seem to work just fine, especially if you use the closed source drivers.
That's my thought. My 2012 (13") already has 16GB of RAM in it, when the price is right I'll drop an SSD in it to replace the 500GB HDD (and possibly remove the optical drive for additional storage space too). And to be honest, despite only having an i5 in it storage is the only real bottleneck that I experience on it.
For an actual pro-level machine? No, not really. Most companies have no issue spending that level of money on powerful machines if the need exists for it. If only Apple would do a pro-machine....
I remember a time when updating on Linux could cause drivers to become unstable (especially WiFi), but that was about ten years ago, and the last time I remember seeing that was about the time that Fedora 14 came out (and that was when X11 stopped supporting DRI1 base GPUs - sure, they worked again, but DRI was disabled and you had to software render everything - I'm talking like the Intel i815, nVidia GeForce 3, ATI Rage, and NeoMagic AGP 256 being my sample set - different vendors/drivers but they were all dropped at the same time). Since that period and into recent days I have not had issues with Linux not working with my hardware (still have an occasional issue with waiting for nVidia or AMD to release an updated driver for a new version of Fedora, but that isn't the same as breaking for no good reason).
I tried that, and then went back to my non-retina MBP (13") and couldn't tell the difference in quality. I did notice video performance increasing due to stepping down in screen resolution, but that's a different story.
Perhaps it's more that people are unhappy with Apple's latest round of disasters and wanted to see actual upgrades instead of "look - it's thin enough to shave with" as a new feature? Has nothing to do with a smear campaign since users still submit the articles - it's just that no one seems to see value in what Apple has been doing (they desperately need Steve back...).
I've got to agree that somewhere along the way Lenovo lost it with their trackpads. I am, however, quite happy with the one on my Precision M4500 and the one on the M4600-4800 (haven't tried the 7510/7710 yet). I know some of the Latitude's have horrible pads on them these days though. On the flip side, I can't stand the keyboard on the MacBook Pro (my own 2012 or on a retina based one)
And yet Dell and Lenovo both offer solid machines (metal/carbon fiber) with far superior specs (i7s/Xeons, up to 64GB RAM, RAID, Quadro GPUs, 4K displays) and all the security nonsense, for comparable or even less cost. Once upon a time a MacBook Pro competed with a Thinkpad or a Latitude/Precision, but in more recent times they've fallen so far behind the "Pro" label is laughable at best.
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Hell, the Pentium III (Tualatin) beat the Pentium IV in performance. I had a Pentium III-S workstation (clocked at like 1.5GHz) with 2GB of RAM that my coworkers who were running Pentium IV and Pentium IV with Hyper Threading workstations were jealous of (which lasted until we rolled out Core 2 workstations, which I got one of the first) how well it performed. There again, I also upgraded the GPU where as they had the Intel i9xx GPUs, and I also added a SATA controller towards the end of its run that made a big difference as well.
I remember some of the hype about Itanium was the future - I even have textbooks here that mentions it ("The 80x86 Family: design, programming, and interfacing Third Edition" by John Uffenbeck (ISBN 0-13-025711-7) lists the P7 family being the Intel Itanium, compared to the P6 [Pentium Pro | Pentium II | Celeron A | Pentium III | Xeon], P5 [Pentium | Pentium MMX], P4 80486, etc; but no mention of the Intel Pentium IV in the book at all.). I've also seen the Itanium listed as the Intel 786 family (compared to the P2/P3 being the 686 and P1 being the 586). I think that clearly shows what Intel was thinking.
We aren't taxing the transaction/sale. That's what sales tax is. We are taxing the company's profits (which occur where the company is located, regardless of where the sale took place).
I was about to remark about how their used to be UNIX versions of Word Perfect (I have it installed on my Octane running IRIX 6.5.29 and of course there was the Linux version that shipped with Corel Linux), but I do not recall ever seeing it on FreeBSD.
Actually I don't think it was standard until the 1910s....
I feel like W10 has a better on screen keyboard then W10, but that might be about it. However, my W10 tablet no longer works at all (WinBook, won't boot except to the "Rescue"screen that won't allow me to boot to any rescue media even though it claims to be trying to do that...), so that really isn't a concern for me any longer. Shame, because I almost liked the little tablet (save for the abysmal battery life - with an Intel Atom in it I got at most two hours of life out of it, and it died after a day on standby, compared to my 2012 MBP with roughly 6 hours and my Precision M4500 with four hours (i7 and Quadro FX GPU - it's a power hog of a laptop, but it's powerful as can be iwth 16GB of RRAM and two SSD. My current work laptop (M4800) gets at least 4 hours of battery life as well, depending on what I am doing).
Goodness, that was before the big jump to OS X happened!
Last time I checked Linux was an option on the Precision lines (at least when I was ordering M4700's and M4800's)
Haters? Apple hasn't made a "Pro" laptop in years, it would be nice if they would do so again. It used to be that a MacBook Pro was competitive with a Thinkpad or a Latitude/Precision. Now? I'll stick with my M4800 over any new MBP - it blows them out of the water. (For the record, I do have a 2012 non-retina MacBook Pro, and even after upgrading it (try doing that to a new one...) it still lags behind my older M4500.)
Just like the jokes about Apple's 1-button mice, that's a rather outdated view of Linux. Users haven't had to tinker with their systems to 'just use' Linux since what, 10 years ago?
Say what? There is nothing wrong with a Unix desktop. Hell, I ran Solaris 10 with GNOME 2 on my laptop for a while and never had any issues with it - and that was when there was much less of everything on the web. We've come to the point that the actual desktop doesn't make as much difference as it used to, but some how they are getting worse with time. I can't stand macOS (vs say 10.4-10.6), Windows 8-10 (vs Windows 2000-7), or KDE 4-5 (vs 3 and older). Things just get more bloated, more complex, less user friendly and more in the way somehow. Personally, I've grown to like GNOME 3, Unity isn't bad, and I still like TDE, MATE, and XFCE. For a faster experience (especially for outside of Linux/BSD), CDE and 4DWM (or MaXX on Linux) are just fine to work with, and have about the same level of attractiveness as the flat world of Windows has become.
Hmm...I think the only server I replaced the drives in like that was a Poweredge 1750 (or 1950, it's been a long time) that we upgraded the hell out of - added an mSATA SSD that we used as the boot drive (after finding out the board had a SATA port), removed the SCSI backplane and added a SATA RAID controller and used that instead of the old PERC controller that it came with. That machine was so much faster when we were done everything (also maxed out the RAM when we did that upgrade), and was still in use when I left the company in September 2012.
Hmmm....hadn't experienced it. I've worked with Dells from the Inspiron 7500 (P3 650MHz), 8000 (P3 800), 8100 (Tualatin P3), which even the video card could be upgraded, the Latitude C400 (1.3GHz P3 netbook), to the Pentium M era notebooks like the D520, and then the Vista era Core 2 notebooks that had the troublesome Wifi cards that didn't like Linux, and even recently the Inspiron 15 series with the changable backplate on the LCD and never saw a problem on the lower end - unless it's just certain models that I missed or the Vostro line, but that problem was the whole reason I steer[ed] people towards Dell and Toshiba instead of HP.
Umm...you might want to check again on Dell. I've never had an issue replacing hardware in my Latitudes or Precisions, not even the WiFi cards. While I can't speak for Lenovo, I am very familiar with HP's issues where the machine will not boot if the wrong hardware is in it.
Dell has several models that support Linux from them (I haven't checked the Latitudes, but I know it is an option in the Precision and XPS lines).
Another vote for Dells - I've been very happy with the majority of the Latitude and Precisions that I've worked with the last four years, and own an M4500 as my personal workhorse that I've upgraded almost as much as it can be done (16GB RAM, dual 250GB SSD (one full size, one mSATA), USB 3.0 via ExpressCard), and also had a flawless Linux experience on the M4700 and M4800, and the Latitude E6420/E6430 as well. Dell support is fantastic (unlike some other companies...) as well if you ever need anything, plus the laptops are easy to repair or upgrade.
I've been very happy with the Dell Precision line since the MacBooks stopped being Pro machines (thus a Precision M4500 (first gen i7, 16GB RAM, Dual 250GB SSD, Quadro FX 880m replaced my original 2006 MacBook Pro, even though I would later buy a refurbed 2012 (non-retina) MBP as a lightweight machine). Plus they have docking stations. I've run Linux on the M4500, M4700, and M4800 without issues - the Quadro and FirePro cards seem to work just fine, especially if you use the closed source drivers.
That's my thought. My 2012 (13") already has 16GB of RAM in it, when the price is right I'll drop an SSD in it to replace the 500GB HDD (and possibly remove the optical drive for additional storage space too). And to be honest, despite only having an i5 in it storage is the only real bottleneck that I experience on it.
For an actual pro-level machine? No, not really. Most companies have no issue spending that level of money on powerful machines if the need exists for it. If only Apple would do a pro-machine....
I remember a time when updating on Linux could cause drivers to become unstable (especially WiFi), but that was about ten years ago, and the last time I remember seeing that was about the time that Fedora 14 came out (and that was when X11 stopped supporting DRI1 base GPUs - sure, they worked again, but DRI was disabled and you had to software render everything - I'm talking like the Intel i815, nVidia GeForce 3, ATI Rage, and NeoMagic AGP 256 being my sample set - different vendors/drivers but they were all dropped at the same time). Since that period and into recent days I have not had issues with Linux not working with my hardware (still have an occasional issue with waiting for nVidia or AMD to release an updated driver for a new version of Fedora, but that isn't the same as breaking for no good reason).
I tried that, and then went back to my non-retina MBP (13") and couldn't tell the difference in quality. I did notice video performance increasing due to stepping down in screen resolution, but that's a different story.
Perhaps it's more that people are unhappy with Apple's latest round of disasters and wanted to see actual upgrades instead of "look - it's thin enough to shave with" as a new feature? Has nothing to do with a smear campaign since users still submit the articles - it's just that no one seems to see value in what Apple has been doing (they desperately need Steve back...).
I've got to agree that somewhere along the way Lenovo lost it with their trackpads. I am, however, quite happy with the one on my Precision M4500 and the one on the M4600-4800 (haven't tried the 7510/7710 yet). I know some of the Latitude's have horrible pads on them these days though. On the flip side, I can't stand the keyboard on the MacBook Pro (my own 2012 or on a retina based one)
And yet Dell and Lenovo both offer solid machines (metal/carbon fiber) with far superior specs (i7s/Xeons, up to 64GB RAM, RAID, Quadro GPUs, 4K displays) and all the security nonsense, for comparable or even less cost. Once upon a time a MacBook Pro competed with a Thinkpad or a Latitude/Precision, but in more recent times they've fallen so far behind the "Pro" label is laughable at best.
Well, like you, on the ones that I use (F1, F2, F4, and F5 mostly).