Re:How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)
by ac130kz on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:44PM
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I got tired of laptops being: non-upgradable, poorly designed, overheating, having cheap components, cheap materials, so I'm switching to a backpackable mini-ITX build. For a journalist, even a first gen iPad should do the trick, but for quick compilation and development in general with all those heavy apps and daemons even a relatively fresh laptop CPU just doesn't keep up. The only two downsides are: no battery, space.
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Re:How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)
by fbhabbed on Saturday July 08, 2023 @03:39PM
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> the only two downsides are: no battery, space
And not being able to use it on the couch, on the toilet, outdoors in your backyard, on a plane, on a train and so on.
Re:How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)
by paulmd on Saturday July 08, 2023 @03:58PM
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> on the toilet
sure you can, there's even a little shelf to hold the keyboard while you poop
Re:How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)
by ac130kz on Thursday July 13, 2023 @10:43AM
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It's not that big of a problem compared to a performance oriented laptop, which is most probably on the cord 95% of the time anyways.
Re:How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)
by LoganDark on Saturday July 08, 2023 @03:35PM
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There are also dedicated backpack PCs that are designed to run in the backpack, usually for virtual reality. I think those are super expensive though... (search "VR backpack")
Also they probably take up the whole backpack instead of being "backpackable". And they might be built like laptops (proprietary form factor, mobile/ultrabook CPU, etc.) depending on the model.