Brexit, for once some facts.

[oyster]

Well, at least the batteries are easier to replace these days, not glued in:

2021 MacBook Pro Teardown: A Glimpse at a Better Timeline

We’re done with the new-but-also-classic 2021 MacBook Pro teardown, both 14 and 16-inch versions, and they’re full of happy surprises. Dig in with us.

www.ifixit.com

I'll not be really happy until they are user-replaceable. My Samsung Galaxy S2 phone was the last I had with an accessible battery compartment. Certainly meant it was easy to extend life by just buying a (relatively) cheap second battery.

 

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The Mac Studio can drive a 4K tv at the same time as the four 5K monitors. And what makes it very neat is that it is all done from one cable out of the MS.

the mac destroyer why have 1 cpu when you can have 8 @£10k each lol

7088B-TR4FT | 7U | SuperServer | Products | Super Micro Computer, Inc.

The SYS-7088B-TR4FT multi-processor system is optimized for extreme large in-memory computing, and/or mission critical apps with maximum configurability and scalability.

www.supermicro.com

and this is what you are supposed to use to edit video on not some crappy over priced apple display lol

https://en.vocas.nl/sony-bvm-hx310-31-inch-4k-trimaster-hxtm-professional-master-monitor.html

 

[guerney]

I'll not be really happy until they are user-replaceable. My Samsung Galaxy S2 phone was the last I had with an accessible battery compartment. Certainly meant it was easy to extend life by just buying a (relatively) cheap second battery.

I switched to OnePlus - battery is replaceable (with some level of difficulty) and they update the OS versions for years and years - there's so much great Samsung hardware out there running dangerously outdated software. It's a pity that many svelte laptops are so hard to keep working - I like Eurocoms:

Supercomputers – Mobile AI Workstations Extreme Performance

High-performance workstation, mobile AI server, Thunderbolt 5, Tensor AI cores, enterprise computing, machine learning, AI training, cybersecurity

eurocom.com

...and upgraded old Lenovos (to FHD, older trackspads. Their (older) keyboards and build quality is still the best. There's even a group of geeks crowdfunding new motherboards for them)

 

[oyster]

the mac destroyer why have 1 cpu when you can have 8 @£10k each lol

7088B-TR4FT | 7U | SuperServer | Products | Super Micro Computer, Inc.

The SYS-7088B-TR4FT multi-processor system is optimized for extreme large in-memory computing, and/or mission critical apps with maximum configurability and scalability.

www.supermicro.com

and this is what you are supposed to use to edit video on not some crappy over priced apple display lol

https://en.vocas.nl/sony-bvm-hx310-31-inch-4k-trimaster-hxtm-professional-master-monitor.html

I'd rather pay for the electricity my Macs use than what that monster gulps.

 

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I'd rather pay for the electricity my Macs use than what that monster gulps.

well you wont be playing gta 6 on a mac thats for sure lol prob be able to fry a egg on it trying it tho

 

[oyster]

I switched to OnePlus - battery is replaceable (with some level of difficulty) and they update the OS versions for years and years - there's so much great Samsung hardware out there running dangerously outdated software. It's a pity that many svelte laptops are so hard to keep working - I like Eurocoms:

Supercomputers – Mobile AI Workstations Extreme Performance

High-performance workstation, mobile AI server, Thunderbolt 5, Tensor AI cores, enterprise computing, machine learning, AI training, cybersecurity

eurocom.com

...and upgraded old Lenovos (to FHD, older trackspads. Their (older) keyboards and build quality is still the best. There's even a group of geeks crowdfunding new motherboards for them)

I don't like the weights. The power usage. The heat.

 

[guerney]

I don't like the weights. The power usage. The heat.

The best sex is messy

 

[oyster]

well you wont be playing gta 6 on a mac thats for sure lol prob be able to fry a egg on it trying it tho

Don't play games on my computers - so no loss there.

 

[guerney]

Don't play games on my computers - so no loss there.

A complete waste of life, is computer games. But one could say the same of forums...

 

[oyster]

A complete waste of life, is computer games. But one could say the same of forums...

My reply wasn't meant to be judgemental of those who do. But I have never really liked them. I'd be more likely to use a flight simulator or something of that general type than the majority of games - at least, the majority of ones that need fancy hardware.

 

[oldgroaner]

Boris does satire This on the BBC website
"
Boris Johnson: Ukraine paying the price for West's failure over Putin

 

[oyster]

Boris does satire This on the BBC website
"
Boris Johnson: Ukraine paying the price for West's failure over Putin

Tantamount to Johnson saying: "I am a complete idiot and was unable to do my job as Foreign Secretary, PM (or Mayor, for that matter), and my history as a so-called journalist simply underlines this."

 

[guerney]

My reply wasn't meant to be judgemental of those who do. But I have never really liked them. I'd be more likely to use a flight simulator or something of that general type than the majority of games - at least, the majority of ones that need fancy hardware.

I wasn't trying to be judgemental either, just stating my experience - the last game I played was Sony Afterburner at a kiost... I spent months beating that game. When all the money I had inserted in that box failed to spew out when I won (not a serious expectation), I decided enough was enough! Oh and I spent 2 weeks playing Descent, when I should have holidayed somewhere warm and sunny. But that's it! No more video games!

 

[soundwave]

A complete waste of life, is computer games. But one could say the same of forums...

its making the puter to play the games that is the challenge 3090s are like rhs at rrp.

My reply wasn't meant to be judgemental of those who do. But I have never really liked them. I'd be more likely to use a flight simulator or something of that general type than the majority of games - at least, the majority of ones that need fancy hardware.

Microsoft flight sim needs 16gb of ram just to run let alone play it at high fps and at 8k would nuke a 3090 anyway.

 

[oyster]

its making the puter to play the games that is the challenge 3090s are like rhs at rrp.


Microsoft flight sim needs 16gb of ram just to run let alone play it at high fps and at 8k would nuke a 3090 anyway.

No longer available for Mac, I believe.

 

[soundwave]

dual boot it with windows lol tho i dont think that works with the soc ones

 

[oyster]

It's a pity that many svelte laptops are so hard to keep working

I have had no end of problems with machines, especially laptops, where there is simply no real possibility of keeping them working. Often drivers not available for any reasonably up to date OS. Especially from companies like Sony who left the market.

 

[oyster]

dual boot it with windows lol tho i dont think that works with the soc ones

True. Parallels did an amazing job of getting Windows to work. I installed it to run a sophisticated and specialist bit of software and Corel Draw. They ran very well even on my base model Mac mini. But there is no version of Windows for which you can buy a licence. That matters because they can pull the rug from under you at the drop of a hat - and you have no basis of complaint. And waste the cost of Parallels.

 

[guerney]

I have had no end of problems with machines, especially laptops, where there is simply no real possibility of keeping them working. Often drivers not available for any reasonably up to date OS. Especially from companies like Sony who left the market.

I know what you mean... but Linux is always a serious possibility with Wine, for indispensible Windows programs (or apps as people seem to calling all programs now. Thanks Jesus Jobs). This for me was and is very usable:

Tokyo Thrift: Sony’s gorgeous VAIO P was stunningly unusable

The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.

www.theverge.com

Sony disabled driver downloads... however, I had stored them all years before they did that. It could make a good tiny Hackintosh, if I can be bothered. Sony drivers can be found elsewhere, even now. It can't play Youtube videos though... as always, the fact that graphics can't be upgraded on nearly all laptops (apart from Eurocom, a couple of fingers of a handful of others), is a pain.

 

[jonathan.agnew]

A complete waste of life, is computer games. But one could say the same of forums...

Or almost everything, I'd suggest anyone else on the thread give wreckfest, and the nihilistic, inane but strangely liberating conversation there a go, it's a welcome escape from the crap that pass as reality lately..