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0 pointsrogerrogerr7mo ago0 comments

Oh great, where can I buy a non-Mac with the same performance, battery life, thermals, weight, premium materials, and a trackpad that doesn’t feel like styrofoam coated in oil?

Since you say the competition has caught up, I assume it’ll be easy to send an Amazon link to the evidence.

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izacus7mo ago

In the nearby store stocking latops, tablets and phones. Your ignorance is not reality and we're not here to feed you examples for you to move goalposts.

rogerrogerrOP7mo ago

_One_ example is too much to ask for? That's pretty telling. This entire thread has not one link to a competing product, just people insisting they exist.

worthless-trash7mo ago

Not OP but that's the thing right, you've talked a lot about feels which means there will never be an answer that overcomes the emotion built in your head.

I wonder what it would take to win you over, and i don't mean the rational you, which i'm sure you can justify, i mean the irrational 'i'm in love with the product' you.

rogerrogerrOP7mo ago

It’d take these very objective things:

- 7+ hour battery life while running a bunch of Docker containers and IDEs, at the same screen brightness nits I run my MacBook at.

- Those things run not-perceptively-slower than on my Apple hardware

- No perceptible fan noise while doing the above

- The chassis does not creak when I pick it up from one corner

- Does not weigh more than double my MacBook

I’ll even relax the trackpad requirement and allow a 60Hz HiDPI screen instead of the 120Hz screen my MacBook from four years ago drives while doing all of the above.

Is there anything that can check those boxes?

worthless-trash7mo ago

This is a much more definable list, no feels there. (I don't know.. as am not hunting for a similar option, although I probably will be in the future).

> - The chassis does not creak when I pick it up from one corner

This would be an INSTANT 'nope' from me.

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tracerbulletx7mo ago

"A lot" being in one of six items, specifically about an element that you touch and quality is generally judged by how it feels

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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izacus7mo ago

In the nearby store stocking latops, tablets and phones. Your ignorance is not reality and we're not here to feed you examples for you to move goalposts.

rogerrogerrOP7mo ago

_One_ example is too much to ask for? That's pretty telling. This entire thread has not one link to a competing product, just people insisting they exist.

worthless-trash7mo ago

Not OP but that's the thing right, you've talked a lot about feels which means there will never be an answer that overcomes the emotion built in your head.

I wonder what it would take to win you over, and i don't mean the rational you, which i'm sure you can justify, i mean the irrational 'i'm in love with the product' you.

rogerrogerrOP7mo ago

It’d take these very objective things:

- 7+ hour battery life while running a bunch of Docker containers and IDEs, at the same screen brightness nits I run my MacBook at.

- Those things run not-perceptively-slower than on my Apple hardware

- No perceptible fan noise while doing the above

- The chassis does not creak when I pick it up from one corner

- Does not weigh more than double my MacBook

I’ll even relax the trackpad requirement and allow a 60Hz HiDPI screen instead of the 120Hz screen my MacBook from four years ago drives while doing all of the above.

Is there anything that can check those boxes?

worthless-trash7mo ago

This is a much more definable list, no feels there. (I don't know.. as am not hunting for a similar option, although I probably will be in the future).

> - The chassis does not creak when I pick it up from one corner

This would be an INSTANT 'nope' from me.

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tracerbulletx7mo ago

"A lot" being in one of six items, specifically about an element that you touch and quality is generally judged by how it feels

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse