I want it. Many other consultants and engineers want it. I want a laptop that is as powerful as a "proper box" - and that I can take with me, so I can work at home, at an office, on an airplane, etc. Not all of us are simple bit-flippers, we actually design REAL, TANGIBLE goods and need something more than a basic platform that will simply run a compiler (but I do some of that too, having written commercially sold FEA packages).
As far as the cloud, when I'm working on models that 60-80 GB each, I have a dozen such models in play at any time, and I need to access them wherever I am (last week I was in China, for example - no way I can get Dropbox or Google Drive over there), the cloud doesn't work. Why rent someone else's computer when I can have my own computer easily host everything - and not have to wait for a 2 Mbps WIFI connection in a hotel room in Akishima, Tokyo trying to download a 40 GB model?
No, I started about the single USB C connector on the Macbook - YOU are the one trying to say why dongle-hell is Good and Right. Even with lots of USB-C connectors, you still need lots of dongles to do what most laptops can do. Type A, HDMI or DisplayPort, Ethernet... Apple has dropped connectors in the past, doing a laptop with a SINGLE connector that DEMANDS dongles to connect to just about anything is downright stupid.
Going with 3 of those connectors is marginally better, but it still does not get you out of dongle hell.
I have a 64 GB, 1 TB Lenovo P71 with a 17.3" screen - and a 99 Whr battery, stock. I get a solid 7-8 hours on battery from it - enough for about a full day of work (a few hours of meetings, lunch - and that leaves 7-8 hours of run time). Sure, it's 8 pounds - but it can actually be used to design something like a Macbook, whereas a Macbook - can't.
Oh, it also has 4 USB type A connectors, HDMI (great so I can plug into just about any projector without the need for a flaky dongle that is always forgotten), Ethernet (some clients will let me use wired, but it's a big hassle to get WIFI - so I go wired), DisplayPort, SD card reader. Essentially everything I need to not only design stuff, but install a lot of higher end test equipment that is USB connected.
Just because YOU don't need something, doesn't mean someone else doesn't need it. Some of us do real engineering work - like designing the toys and products for companies like Apple, Microsoft Google, and others. And that takes real workstation power. Having it portable means I can work anywhere in the world.
And yeah, it's 8 pounds (just over 10 with the power supply), but if a person cannot carry a 10 pound laptop through an airport, they need to cut back on the Cheetos and Mountain Dew.
False. I travel extensively and have a monster laptop (P71 with 64 GB RAM, 17" screen, etc) so that I have my workstation whenever I am on-site with clients. I don't have to worry about maintaining two systems, sharing/transferring SW licenses (most real CAD programs have licensing systems), etc. Last week I was in China, doing work - and engineering. This week is Los Angeles. Next week is the Bay area. I take my workstation with me, because it IS portable, and it CAN replace a desktop.
I do quite a bit of hard-core engineering: electrical and mechanical. A lot of FEA analysis as well for EMI, mechanical, and acoustical output. I currently have a P71 with 64 GB of RAM and I will often push that limit on more advanced FEA runs. I would love to get this new laptop provided it has a 17" (or better yet, 18") screen.
We're told by many here on/. that music HAS no intrinsic value because it CAN be copied. That pirating music OK, because the artist made their money once on the sale of the first recording, so there is no need for them to make money on later sales of that product.
You could look at the link and see that income before taxes was about $3.8 billion. About 2/3rds of the Seattle city annual budget. Amazon paid about $770 million in income taxes.
Looking at the Federal debt from the very beginning until present, you'll see the last time the debt went down was in 1957. Note that a "budget surplus" applies ONLY to items on-budget; it does not include trillions of off-budget spending. The US has increased its Federal debt every year since 1957 - and the only way a debt increases is if you borrow more money. And the only time the US Federal Government borrows money is when it is out of money - meaning, it ran a deficit.
Apple computer users are used to having to use an adapter for video for most of the designs
That right there says to me they have a failed approach to product design. When your product simply will not work UNLESS you include additional, external parts. That's simply not user-friendly.
As far "it's hard!" to add HDMI, pretty much all other computers manage to do it. As well as type A. Cheap and easy.
I think this is more like the iPhone dropping the 3.5mm jack - it's done so that people HAVE to work the way Apple wants them too OR buy a lot of really expensive dongles to force them to change their habits. It's not done for convenience or for the general consumer. It's done for Apple.
Deductions massively changed over that time, too... For example, compare 1957 (top tax rate of 90%) to today (top tax rate of 37%). In 1957 the Federal Government collected $36 billion from a population of 172 million - about $209 per person. In 2012, we see it was $1.13 trillion for 314 million people - $3600 per person. Correcting for inflation we see that the Federal Government now makes about twice as much, per capita, than it did in 1957 (which was also the last year the Federal Government ran an actual surplus and paid the debt down).
Think about it - in the bad, old, high statutory rate days, the Federal Government collected about HALF of what it does today. Sure, the nominal rates are lower - but the exemptions are dramatically reduced as well, so that the effective tax rate is quite a bit higher (about 2.1 times higher, in fact).
All dead links... Not a surprise, really. But the fundamental question is WHY does he even NEED a dongle in the first place? Why not include a type A and HDMI connectors at a minimum? You don't get it...
Liability insurance payments will skyrocket starting in August, as they will now be on the hook for any accidents that happen whilst running Autopilot. No more excuses of "it's just an aid, you still need to hold the wheel". Musk is explicitly claiming self-driving capabilities.
A product manager at one of the companies I consult with is famous for being a strict Apple adherent. He has the MacBook and still raves about its clean, thin lines, perfect aesthetics, and it does everything. Of course he also has a big piece of Velcro stuck to the top, and half a dozen dongles Velcro'd to that so that he has what needs to do work. But still says it's the best laptop ever (other than when he forgets a dongle or it just doesn't work, which is about half the time he's trying to project to an HDMI projector).
BEVs can charge fast because of the low internal resistance of the battery bank due to the massive number of paralleled cells. Oh, and all that specialized cooling systems installed in those cells as well. You could design cells in your phone to charge in a matter of a minute or so, as long as you're willing to quadruple the thickness of the phone to hold the cooling system required during charging...
The tab isn't much of a concern when the metal shell around it is subjected to all the flexural stress of the cable. The center tab may be delicate, but it will really never get leverage against it, because the outside shell of the female socket carries all the cable stress and strain. Additionally this keeps the springs of the connection on the plug on the cable side, which WILL degrade over time, and thus are the more delicate portion of the connection. They are expected to fail before the socket on the laptop/desktop/phone, and thus you have the more delicate portion on the lower cost component.
No one holds up Google's hardware design as "world class". Many here (and elsewhere) espouse Apple's hardware design as "world class". Shipping a laptop with a single connector for everything is decidedly NOT "world class". Yet because APPLE - we have to assume it was the right choice anyway, and the rest of the world is too stupid to realize it.
Ahhh... I lived in Shanghai for 6 years, and for the last 6 I've been over here (like now) for 4-5 months each year, 2-4 weeks at a time! Oh well... It's really gotten much more crowded as the economy in GZ has grown even faster (and Dongguan as well, that's a huge boomtown), so it's gotten worse in terms of use of sidewalks and such. This is right in the center of downtown.
Down here on Huanshi East Road and Luhu - right in the heart of Guangzhou - there are plenty of scooters and bikes on the sidewalks. At least that's how it's been these last 7 days...
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I want it. Many other consultants and engineers want it. I want a laptop that is as powerful as a "proper box" - and that I can take with me, so I can work at home, at an office, on an airplane, etc. Not all of us are simple bit-flippers, we actually design REAL, TANGIBLE goods and need something more than a basic platform that will simply run a compiler (but I do some of that too, having written commercially sold FEA packages).
As far as the cloud, when I'm working on models that 60-80 GB each, I have a dozen such models in play at any time, and I need to access them wherever I am (last week I was in China, for example - no way I can get Dropbox or Google Drive over there), the cloud doesn't work. Why rent someone else's computer when I can have my own computer easily host everything - and not have to wait for a 2 Mbps WIFI connection in a hotel room in Akishima, Tokyo trying to download a 40 GB model?
No, I started about the single USB C connector on the Macbook - YOU are the one trying to say why dongle-hell is Good and Right. Even with lots of USB-C connectors, you still need lots of dongles to do what most laptops can do. Type A, HDMI or DisplayPort, Ethernet... Apple has dropped connectors in the past, doing a laptop with a SINGLE connector that DEMANDS dongles to connect to just about anything is downright stupid.
Going with 3 of those connectors is marginally better, but it still does not get you out of dongle hell.
I have a 64 GB, 1 TB Lenovo P71 with a 17.3" screen - and a 99 Whr battery, stock. I get a solid 7-8 hours on battery from it - enough for about a full day of work (a few hours of meetings, lunch - and that leaves 7-8 hours of run time). Sure, it's 8 pounds - but it can actually be used to design something like a Macbook, whereas a Macbook - can't.
Oh, it also has 4 USB type A connectors, HDMI (great so I can plug into just about any projector without the need for a flaky dongle that is always forgotten), Ethernet (some clients will let me use wired, but it's a big hassle to get WIFI - so I go wired), DisplayPort, SD card reader. Essentially everything I need to not only design stuff, but install a lot of higher end test equipment that is USB connected.
Just because YOU don't need something, doesn't mean someone else doesn't need it. Some of us do real engineering work - like designing the toys and products for companies like Apple, Microsoft Google, and others. And that takes real workstation power. Having it portable means I can work anywhere in the world.
And yeah, it's 8 pounds (just over 10 with the power supply), but if a person cannot carry a 10 pound laptop through an airport, they need to cut back on the Cheetos and Mountain Dew.
False. I travel extensively and have a monster laptop (P71 with 64 GB RAM, 17" screen, etc) so that I have my workstation whenever I am on-site with clients. I don't have to worry about maintaining two systems, sharing/transferring SW licenses (most real CAD programs have licensing systems), etc. Last week I was in China, doing work - and engineering. This week is Los Angeles. Next week is the Bay area. I take my workstation with me, because it IS portable, and it CAN replace a desktop.
I do quite a bit of hard-core engineering: electrical and mechanical. A lot of FEA analysis as well for EMI, mechanical, and acoustical output. I currently have a P71 with 64 GB of RAM and I will often push that limit on more advanced FEA runs. I would love to get this new laptop provided it has a 17" (or better yet, 18") screen.
We're told by many here on /. that music HAS no intrinsic value because it CAN be copied. That pirating music OK, because the artist made their money once on the sale of the first recording, so there is no need for them to make money on later sales of that product.
You could look at the link and see that income before taxes was about $3.8 billion. About 2/3rds of the Seattle city annual budget. Amazon paid about $770 million in income taxes.
Looking at the Federal debt from the very beginning until present, you'll see the last time the debt went down was in 1957. Note that a "budget surplus" applies ONLY to items on-budget; it does not include trillions of off-budget spending. The US has increased its Federal debt every year since 1957 - and the only way a debt increases is if you borrow more money. And the only time the US Federal Government borrows money is when it is out of money - meaning, it ran a deficit.
Apple computer users are used to having to use an adapter for video for most of the designs
That right there says to me they have a failed approach to product design. When your product simply will not work UNLESS you include additional, external parts. That's simply not user-friendly.
As far "it's hard!" to add HDMI, pretty much all other computers manage to do it. As well as type A. Cheap and easy.
I think this is more like the iPhone dropping the 3.5mm jack - it's done so that people HAVE to work the way Apple wants them too OR buy a lot of really expensive dongles to force them to change their habits. It's not done for convenience or for the general consumer. It's done for Apple.
Amazon made $3 billion in profit last year, so $250 million would be about 8%. That's not much of a round-off error, is it? For what it's worth, Seattle's annual budget is about $5.6 billion - almost twice the profit that Amazon makes.
Deductions massively changed over that time, too... For example, compare 1957 (top tax rate of 90%) to today (top tax rate of 37%). In 1957 the Federal Government collected $36 billion from a population of 172 million - about $209 per person. In 2012, we see it was $1.13 trillion for 314 million people - $3600 per person. Correcting for inflation we see that the Federal Government now makes about twice as much, per capita, than it did in 1957 (which was also the last year the Federal Government ran an actual surplus and paid the debt down).
Think about it - in the bad, old, high statutory rate days, the Federal Government collected about HALF of what it does today. Sure, the nominal rates are lower - but the exemptions are dramatically reduced as well, so that the effective tax rate is quite a bit higher (about 2.1 times higher, in fact).
All dead links... Not a surprise, really. But the fundamental question is WHY does he even NEED a dongle in the first place? Why not include a type A and HDMI connectors at a minimum? You don't get it...
Liability insurance payments will skyrocket starting in August, as they will now be on the hook for any accidents that happen whilst running Autopilot. No more excuses of "it's just an aid, you still need to hold the wheel". Musk is explicitly claiming self-driving capabilities.
How can we blame this on Trump?
A product manager at one of the companies I consult with is famous for being a strict Apple adherent. He has the MacBook and still raves about its clean, thin lines, perfect aesthetics, and it does everything. Of course he also has a big piece of Velcro stuck to the top, and half a dozen dongles Velcro'd to that so that he has what needs to do work. But still says it's the best laptop ever (other than when he forgets a dongle or it just doesn't work, which is about half the time he's trying to project to an HDMI projector).
BEVs can charge fast because of the low internal resistance of the battery bank due to the massive number of paralleled cells. Oh, and all that specialized cooling systems installed in those cells as well. You could design cells in your phone to charge in a matter of a minute or so, as long as you're willing to quadruple the thickness of the phone to hold the cooling system required during charging...
The tab isn't much of a concern when the metal shell around it is subjected to all the flexural stress of the cable. The center tab may be delicate, but it will really never get leverage against it, because the outside shell of the female socket carries all the cable stress and strain. Additionally this keeps the springs of the connection on the plug on the cable side, which WILL degrade over time, and thus are the more delicate portion of the connection. They are expected to fail before the socket on the laptop/desktop/phone, and thus you have the more delicate portion on the lower cost component.
No one holds up Google's hardware design as "world class". Many here (and elsewhere) espouse Apple's hardware design as "world class". Shipping a laptop with a single connector for everything is decidedly NOT "world class". Yet because APPLE - we have to assume it was the right choice anyway, and the rest of the world is too stupid to realize it.
That I can still use it, even if it's the only cable I've got.
They already have one for consumers, this just makes it easier to put one up for developers.
Ahhh... I lived in Shanghai for 6 years, and for the last 6 I've been over here (like now) for 4-5 months each year, 2-4 weeks at a time! Oh well... It's really gotten much more crowded as the economy in GZ has grown even faster (and Dongguan as well, that's a huge boomtown), so it's gotten worse in terms of use of sidewalks and such. This is right in the center of downtown.
Down here on Huanshi East Road and Luhu - right in the heart of Guangzhou - there are plenty of scooters and bikes on the sidewalks. At least that's how it's been these last 7 days...
before it's clogged with electric bikes and scooters, like a lot of sidewalks in China...
I stand corrected. Most products do not get such exemptions, so adding duties on them would be, in effect, a violation of the treaty.
Damn where is that? That's freaking awesome!