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Re:Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros - by kevinherron on Thursday January 12, 2017 @07:05PM (#13387316)
Normal people don't have 50+ tabs open, ever. Your idea of who represents "nobody" is upside down.
Re:Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros - by Veratyr on Thursday January 12, 2017 @07:49PM (#13387542)
I think you have an idealistic view of the way normal people use computers, making an absolute statement like "ever".

Here's an example of a "normal" person with 1250 of them: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/4urdh...

It's not a unique occurrence: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/5iixe...

Re:Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros - by kevinherron on Thursday January 12, 2017 @09:14PM (#13387894)
Don't you think the fact that it was submitted to /r/talesfromtechsupport implies that it was something of note, and that a handful of people offering of anecdotes of their own bizarre encounter with a tab hoarder support my claim that it's not the way most people use a browser?
Re:Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros - by Veratyr on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:20PM (#13388162)
My point is that you didn't say "it's not the way most people use a browser", you said that normal people don't "ever" use that many tabs. You made an overly absolute statement and I'm refuting it.
Re:Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros - by kevinherron on Thursday January 12, 2017 @11:32PM (#13388402)
I concede that. But your initial use of "nobody" is also overly absolute.
Re:Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros - by Veratyr on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:13PM (#13392474)
That was someone else, not me.
Re:Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros - by dbbk on Thursday January 12, 2017 @07:32PM (#13387463)
Yes I'm obviously an extreme example but the fact is, people who own a MacBook Pro are multitasking on it. They're not running one tab in just Safari with nothing else open.
Re:Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros - by kevinherron on Thursday January 12, 2017 @09:15PM (#13387899)
Right, I never meant to defend the CR test methodology here... it's pretty absurd.