• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    I literally rocked an old laptop for years like this, lol.

    Pros:

    • Comes with 2 screens by default

    Cons:

    • Overheating

    • Some models refuse to start if a faulty battery is detected, and some models will use battery even while plugged in, and worst of all some batteries are inside the laptop case which must be pried open for access

  • QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I can only use it as a laptop 1% of the time and it still makes perfect sense because otherwise I would have to own a separate device for this 1% of the time.

    • ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      When I was building my current computer, I considered getting a Steam Deck and pretty much just doing this. Going in and out of a dock makes a lot of sense, especially with stuff like not having to transfer files between machines.

      • Lightfire228@pawb.social
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        20 days ago

        I use Syncthing to sync files between devices

        It’s pretty seamless, and doesn’t require a dedicated central server

        I use it for my Obsidian notes folder between my phone and PCs, and for synching my shell scripts between my home and work PCs

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I’ve never used a PC one that I liked, but Macs have superb ones. They are so good I now get trackpads for every desktop I work on too (home + work).

      • axsyse@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 month ago

        Seconding this. My company issued me a MacBook and I was really surprised by how well the touchpad worked, and how smoothly gestures work with it. For as much hate as Apple gets, a lot really Just Werks™. Windows and KDE (Wayland) (I haven’t tested other DEs) are certainly improving, but they’re still nowhere near as smooth as what MacOS has had for a pretty long time now.

        The crazy thing is that I’ve hackintoshed a ThinkPad T430 and T480, both with full gesture support (but no force touch, though to be fair I don’t use that anyway). In both cases, using their touchpads on MacOS was much better than on Windows or KDE. Though some touchpads aren’t that great to begin with (like, the one on the T430 is pretty small), it’s crazy how much of a difference good software can make to how they feel to use.

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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          1 month ago

          “Apple” the company gets hate, b/c they deserve it, but Mac OSX is fantastic - they really put a ton of effort into it, though iOS is a piece of crap - e.g. now they are trying to extort the users to pay money to send files b/t their desktop computer vs. phone, which is just not okay imho. Mac OSX was from an older era, when Steve Jobs was running the company, and people would have legit left Macs (or not switched to it) if it had not been “solid” like it was. Since then, the new era is not to provide “products” but rather “services”.

          Oddly enough, with the advent of Windows 7 (so many years ago now), it is fucking Microsoft that has been innovating their software - they are such a terrible company (as too is Apple, and Google, etc.), but they at least were pushing forward, more than Mac OSX, as the Apple corporation switched to put nearly all of their development efforts into iOS, and Music, and TV, and so on.

          Apple ofc also has that hardware+software integration thing going on - monopolies really do have their advantages, as well as detractions too. You mentioned hackintoshing a Thinkpad, so I guess you are aware that often people will take a Mac and put Linux onto it as well, it’s wonderful that people have put in the efforts so that we have such possibilities:-).

          The issue you described with the touchpad on the hackintosh sounds more like a particular driver issue, which gets deeper than I have any knowledge of so I’ll stop there:-). I will say tangentially that the Mac OSX has a shit-ton of cool features like font antialiasing, the Preview program is amazing, and I could go on and on but what usually gets lost on people is how Mac tended to have had things first, like everything has Bluetooth now, but Mac OSX had it long before Windoze did. I know nothing about Windows 10 or 11 though, except that they push to offer things as a service rather than product, and they show advertisements throughout:-( - those aspects alone turn me away from wanting to use it, even if the rest was somehow a better experience than Mac OSX (which I expect is NOT:-P).

          Wow, a nightmare thought just struck me: if Apple enshittifies Mac OSX… the world will become a noticeably worse place, overall:-(. Fortunately someone will have it backed up and we can hack it (even if having to use older hardware), and there’s always Linux that while significantly behind - especially in drivers & UI/UX concerns - is better than it has ever been.

          • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            what usually gets lost on people is how Mac tended to have had things first, like everything has Bluetooth now, but Mac OSX had it long before Windoze did

            That’s just not true - in fact, Apple is well-known for repeatedly releasing ‘new’ products/features that already existed elsewhere, but acting like they invented it. That goes all the way back to the original Macintosh.

            Or, to use your example, everything I can find says MacOS added Bluetooth support in 2004, while Windows XP was patched to support Bluetooth in 2002.

            MacOS is good software, but let’s not pretend Apple hasn’t built their entire empire based on pinching other people’s ideas and marketing them better.

            • awesomesauce309@midwest.socialEnglish
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              1 month ago

              People hate on apple coming out with features later than other companies but then they usually blow the competition out of the water in terms of ux. It’s not marketing them better, it’s implementing better.

              It’s like valve helping develop proton vs making another nvidia shield or windows handheld.

            • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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              1 month ago

              I probably misremembered some stuff but also stated it too broadly - it was a lot more “mainstream” in Macs than in Windows, in part b/c you could purchase a low-end Windows machine, whereas all Macs start off at a baseline minimum that is fairly high.

              Also, Apple put BSD Unix into the very core of their Macs years before Microsoft started poking their noses around the subject.

              The end result was a machine that “just worked”, right out of the box, which was pretty nice.

      • Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
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        1 month ago

        They’re great, now if apple could concede that right click is an important thing that’s not going away and not relegate it to a corner barely larger than my finger then they’d be perfect.

        EDIT: I forgot the default way to right click on Mac is two finger click, I changed it in the settings when I first got it to be click in the bottom right. If you’ve gotten used to two finger click good on you, but point still stands for us who like the “right” way.

        • becausechemistry@lemm.ee
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          1 month ago

          I’m not sure I understand your complaint – if you two-finger tap anywhere on an Apple trackpad made since around 2009, it’s interpreted as a right-click.

          Reply to edit: “I forgot that I changed it to make it worse and I’m mad at Apple about it” is maybe the most Lemmy comment I’ve ever read

  • not the chosen one@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    you’re telling me there are people who DON’T have a high-refresh monitor, mechanical keyboard, and wired 13-button mouse on them at all times?

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I have four laptops and two desktops… More or less.

    One laptop is an antique, I might break it out to play music while I cook, but it’s kind of useless for anything else at this point. One is a tablet, complete with a digital pen. I only bust it out to sign digital documents. My main personal laptop is an 11th gen framework. The last laptop in my collection is my work laptop. Technically not mine, but I’ll throw it in anyways.

    My work laptop 99% of the time is sitting on my desk, connected to a dock which is plugged into a KVM switch.

    My main desktop is also plugged into the same KVM.

    My laptop rarely moves. I like that about it.

    My framework is almost never on any kind of dock, or connected to any external display. I mainly use it on my lap around the house

    The other desktop is plugged into my TV to play video games.

    I mean, I have other computers, but those are the main ones.

    • Johanno@feddit.de
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      1 month ago

      I mean I don’t want to talk negative about your hobbies, but you have a pc hoarding issue.

      I have one for myself, but not that bad yet.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Back in the early 1990s, I would go to Goodwill and pick up whatever ancient computers and related machines that people had discarded there. I amassed quite a collection. But at some point, when you’re hauling a useless VT240 terminal home and you realize it’s just going to sit in the garage, you conclude that you’re really not doing a smart thing.

        I would say the person above should keep the ones they’re talking about and get rid of the “other computers” unless there’s a good reason to keep them.