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Re:HP's Spectre 13.3 laptop is as thin as an AAA battery by dingaling on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @11:19AM (#11431025)
> 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.

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Re:HP's Spectre 13.3 laptop is as thin as an AAA battery by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @05:37PM (#11434717)
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.

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