Re:HP's Spectre 13.3 laptop is as thin as an AAA battery
by dingaling on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @11:19AM
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> and since it gave up power for the pursuit of fashion.
PC manufacturers with a corporate target market have never stopped selling 'power'.
Dell will happily sell you a Precision laptop with quad Xeons and 64GB of ECC RAM. It has the aesthetics and portability of a paving slab but by Jove it has power. They'll even knock-off $100 if you choose Ubuntu...
I've seen a few in ${WORK} and they were awesome beasts even beside otherwise impressive mid-tier Latitudes.
Re:HP's Spectre 13.3 laptop is as thin as an AAA battery
by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @05:37PM
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A former coworker ran a VMware lab environment of several VMs off his Precision laptop. Being told I could play with the test environment while his laptop was in the building and on was funny.
I have two 2.5" SATA drives in my Precision, and I have room for an M2 slot SATA left. And it has three network card slots, effectively.
Also, I had to buy a bigger laptop bag for my Precision, and carrying it to and from my car counts as an exercise regimen.
Just because they make machines look like Macs doesn't mean they will get the high profit margin Apple gets. Today you can buy a Mac or buy a fake Mac so people will just buy a Mac. If somebody in the PC industry was competing on power they might be getting the high profit margin 2 years from now and Apple's profit margin will collapse the way Wall Street has been expecting since "Return of the Mac".