Fatigue life of the tower is typically around 40 years or so... You'll need to tear it down and start again at that time. So if you get 25-30 years out of a tower, and it's time to retrofit, it is probably cost-effective to bring the whole thing down and start from scratch, rather than retrofit the blades and generator and then have to demo the entire thing in half the life-span of the new components.
I love my P71. Full 17" 4K screen, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, and runs a solid 10 hours on battery doing normal stuff (7 hours doing CAD or more advanced stuff). Yeah, it's 8 pounds - but if 8 pounds is too heavy for a person to carry from office to office or on the occasional (weekly, in my case) flight, then they may have other health problems to consider. Plus, the true numeric keypad is a bonus!
I have a 17" laptop, and the screen is plenty good for 3D CAD work. I do like to have a secondary screen at my desk, but that's so I can keep Outlook and a few other things (typically a browser) up. CAD is done on just one screen...
Except all those dongles are are still keyed. So we've moved from keyed ports on the laptop to unkeyed ports on the laptop that pretty much need a keyed dongle to use with 95% of all the rest of the world. Same problem (keyed connection) but we've made sure and added an extra piece that you can lose or forget!
Lenovo offers several lines, including real workstation class machines - so pros and general consumers can find anything they want. Of course, they also have over twice the market share as Apple, so maybe they can afford to have more engineers working on multiple lines, and upgrading things every 5-6 months...
I see a ton of P series Lenovos where I work (and I have a P71), but I tend to work with hard-core hardware engineers - mechanical and electrical types, so they need workstation class performance. Nice to be able to get a 17" 4K screen, 64 GB of RAM and lots of type A ports for connecting all kinds of dev kits and acquisition hardware. Not to mention HDMI so I can plug into just about any TV/monitor around the office or in any conference room without using a forgotten dongle (as seems to happen often with those who don't have the luxury of an HDMI port).
Lenovo P series. Three models. Introduced around the end of 2014. About 3.5 years ago. Three major revisions (meaning entirely new designs) for each model, and multiple hardware upgrades in-between - probably close to 6-7 changes over the last 3.5 years (they seem to upgrade every 6 months). Oh, and you can install more than 32 GB of RAM, and get a real 17" screen, too...
Yes, there probably is a middle ground. I know where I live, there is a shopping mall frequented by those typically here illegally. How do I know? Well, there's lots of day labor available for cash, and when the police cruise by everyone seems to disappear... Perhaps this shopping mall is known as a location where those here illegally (meaning - law breaking residents) tend to congregate? It would be akin to the police cruising known areas of crime in any other city...
Nothing about location setting at all... This is using China Mobile. There are no "location specific" settings for Chrome or Android that would change how search returns work. Bing returns Tianamen Square on Wikipedia, Taiwan, and others. Android isn't censoring things...
The right to take photos on public property is pretty much settled. If you are in public, I do not have to get a "release form" from you to take your picture. I can share those pictures as I like - and with whomever I like. If you don't like it, then we need to change the law. But right now - this is 100% legal, expected, and people complaining about it are simply the latest generation of tinfoil hat wearers...
Well, there is a 3rd solution - you could take a few dozen into your own home, let them use your car, and then they don't have to worry about being tracked or found out and can stay in the US...
It is NOT YOUR information if you take actions to make it 100% public and freely gained. YOU are in public, ANYONE can sit and take notes on your movements and locations. YOU gave that out for free by simply being in public. You do know the difference between public and private, don't you? Seriously - you contend your public, freely observable actions are 100% private property?
How is it "your data" when it is publicly and freely given to everyone on the street? You can sit on a street corner and photograph car licenses all you want without any "invasion of privacy". Do you seriously contend that your documented presence in public is a "privacy" matter?
Not a clue about how much it costs (remember, President Obama and the Pelosi/Reid Congress specifically exempted all of themselves from Obamacare), but we definitely pay for it.
The right to "human dignity" is another invention, in this case by Justice Kennedy. Tell me - what actions do you consider undignified? If you believe lack of access to bacon tramples on your dignity, then does the halal restaurant down the street violate your rights?
Those rights are reserved to the States and the People, respectively. Any Federal action on those rights is simply unconstitutional. The powers of the Federal Government are extremely limited and clear; it is Judicial fiat that has egregiously expanded the scope of Federal interference.
Does the 4th guarantee privacy of action? And the freedom of assembly is inherently a public thing - you cannot assemble a few hundred people "in secret". You do not have the right to not be observed as you move about on public ways.
Really? You have a State Issued ID that MUST be affixed to your car, and you are willfully driving it and PARKING IT in public view, on private property. And that is invading privacy?
No problem there - a clearly written law that is also unconstitutional should be tossed. But I would argue that a law that cannot be reasonably interpreted without extensive judicial review is implicitly unconstitutional, as its constitutionality cannot be easily divined.
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Fatigue life of the tower is typically around 40 years or so... You'll need to tear it down and start again at that time. So if you get 25-30 years out of a tower, and it's time to retrofit, it is probably cost-effective to bring the whole thing down and start from scratch, rather than retrofit the blades and generator and then have to demo the entire thing in half the life-span of the new components.
It's definitely an anti-wind hit piece. Can you name any structures today that have their tear down cost in escrow anywhere?
Nuclear power plants. Same industry, even...
Wait. So if a company updates more frequently than Apple, they are unstable. And if they update slower than Apple, they are slow?
Dude. you are the ULTIMATE Apple shill...
I love my P71. Full 17" 4K screen, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, and runs a solid 10 hours on battery doing normal stuff (7 hours doing CAD or more advanced stuff). Yeah, it's 8 pounds - but if 8 pounds is too heavy for a person to carry from office to office or on the occasional (weekly, in my case) flight, then they may have other health problems to consider. Plus, the true numeric keypad is a bonus!
My Lenovo P71 has its cooling fans on the sides and rear. Works great on a soft surface, no overheating at all.
I have a 17" laptop, and the screen is plenty good for 3D CAD work. I do like to have a secondary screen at my desk, but that's so I can keep Outlook and a few other things (typically a browser) up. CAD is done on just one screen...
I need 64 GB - and I have a laptop that supports that. Of course, I also work with multi-GB 3D CAD models, so...
Except all those dongles are are still keyed. So we've moved from keyed ports on the laptop to unkeyed ports on the laptop that pretty much need a keyed dongle to use with 95% of all the rest of the world. Same problem (keyed connection) but we've made sure and added an extra piece that you can lose or forget!
Lenovo offers several lines, including real workstation class machines - so pros and general consumers can find anything they want. Of course, they also have over twice the market share as Apple, so maybe they can afford to have more engineers working on multiple lines, and upgrading things every 5-6 months...
I see a ton of P series Lenovos where I work (and I have a P71), but I tend to work with hard-core hardware engineers - mechanical and electrical types, so they need workstation class performance. Nice to be able to get a 17" 4K screen, 64 GB of RAM and lots of type A ports for connecting all kinds of dev kits and acquisition hardware. Not to mention HDMI so I can plug into just about any TV/monitor around the office or in any conference room without using a forgotten dongle (as seems to happen often with those who don't have the luxury of an HDMI port).
Four core yes, but still 16 GB of RAM...
Lenovo P series. Three models. Introduced around the end of 2014. About 3.5 years ago. Three major revisions (meaning entirely new designs) for each model, and multiple hardware upgrades in-between - probably close to 6-7 changes over the last 3.5 years (they seem to upgrade every 6 months). Oh, and you can install more than 32 GB of RAM, and get a real 17" screen, too...
Yes, there probably is a middle ground. I know where I live, there is a shopping mall frequented by those typically here illegally. How do I know? Well, there's lots of day labor available for cash, and when the police cruise by everyone seems to disappear... Perhaps this shopping mall is known as a location where those here illegally (meaning - law breaking residents) tend to congregate? It would be akin to the police cruising known areas of crime in any other city...
They were destroyed by the clickbait headline.
Nothing about location setting at all... This is using China Mobile. There are no "location specific" settings for Chrome or Android that would change how search returns work. Bing returns Tianamen Square on Wikipedia, Taiwan, and others. Android isn't censoring things...
The right to take photos on public property is pretty much settled. If you are in public, I do not have to get a "release form" from you to take your picture. I can share those pictures as I like - and with whomever I like. If you don't like it, then we need to change the law. But right now - this is 100% legal, expected, and people complaining about it are simply the latest generation of tinfoil hat wearers...
Well, there is a 3rd solution - you could take a few dozen into your own home, let them use your car, and then they don't have to worry about being tracked or found out and can stay in the US...
It is NOT YOUR information if you take actions to make it 100% public and freely gained. YOU are in public, ANYONE can sit and take notes on your movements and locations. YOU gave that out for free by simply being in public. You do know the difference between public and private, don't you? Seriously - you contend your public, freely observable actions are 100% private property?
How is it "your data" when it is publicly and freely given to everyone on the street? You can sit on a street corner and photograph car licenses all you want without any "invasion of privacy". Do you seriously contend that your documented presence in public is a "privacy" matter?
Not a clue about how much it costs (remember, President Obama and the Pelosi/Reid Congress specifically exempted all of themselves from Obamacare), but we definitely pay for it.
The right to "human dignity" is another invention, in this case by Justice Kennedy. Tell me - what actions do you consider undignified? If you believe lack of access to bacon tramples on your dignity, then does the halal restaurant down the street violate your rights?
Those rights are reserved to the States and the People, respectively. Any Federal action on those rights is simply unconstitutional. The powers of the Federal Government are extremely limited and clear; it is Judicial fiat that has egregiously expanded the scope of Federal interference.
Does the 4th guarantee privacy of action? And the freedom of assembly is inherently a public thing - you cannot assemble a few hundred people "in secret". You do not have the right to not be observed as you move about on public ways.
There is no right to privacy in those amendments. Please point to where they are.
Really? You have a State Issued ID that MUST be affixed to your car, and you are willfully driving it and PARKING IT in public view, on private property. And that is invading privacy?
No problem there - a clearly written law that is also unconstitutional should be tossed. But I would argue that a law that cannot be reasonably interpreted without extensive judicial review is implicitly unconstitutional, as its constitutionality cannot be easily divined.