Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days?

Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by mavhc on Saturday October 16, 2021 @06:44AM (#28886944)

Quite a lot more stuff supports auto resume after reboot, including unsaved Notepad files.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by tomp on Saturday October 16, 2021 @06:48AM (#28886957)

But not REPLs and Jupyter notebooks.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by mavhc on Sunday October 24, 2021 @05:11AM (#28976132)

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by bloggie on Saturday October 16, 2021 @07:36AM (#28887147)

nor Windows Explorer.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by zweifuss on Saturday October 16, 2021 @08:06AM (#28887261)

For the File Explorer it's HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Value PersistBrowsers set to 1.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by frosted-flakes on Saturday October 16, 2021 @11:31AM (#28888537)

You don't need to manually edit the registry for this. There's a checkbox in Explorer's settings.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by bloggie on Saturday October 16, 2021 @08:38AM (#28887424)

Thank you! This reminds me of the old annoyances.org that listed a bunch of little tricks to improve your Windows 95 experience.

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