Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect
by rayiner on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:05PM
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Thin sells, and I think for good reasons. Laptops sued to be so thick, you'd carry them in a "laptop bag." Now, you can carry them in a sleeve or briefcase. I want a laptop thin enough that I can carry it around with a stack of papers. As long as it has reasonable battery life, there is quite a distance yet to go for thinner laptops.
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Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect
by markstos on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:12PM
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People really want balance: thinness, lightness, performance, battery life, durability. A thin laptop that fails to endure a year without repair might be too thin.
Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect
by rayiner on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:16PM
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Except the failure rate is some probability distribution. If making the laptop thinner means that the 1-year failure rate spikes from 0.2% to 0.5%, that just means Apple pushed the manufacturing too far, not that there is an inherent problem with pursuing a thinner design.
Re:Design flaw behind MacBook Pro’s “stage light” effect
by cr0sh on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:50PM
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> Laptops sued to be so thick, you'd carry them in a "laptop bag." Now, you can carry them in a sleeve or briefcase.
I own a TRS-80 Model 100 "laptop" - it came with a "sleeve" you could put it in. It fits perfectly inside a briefcase or backpack.
It runs for days on a set of AA batteries...