Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops in Europe

Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ... by chx on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @10:44PM (#8365298)

Indeed. If you have a late 2008 all Intel laptop with a Penryn CPU and an X25-M SSD (fiendishly expensive at that time) to this day, six years later, it's hard to see what's the point of getting another laptop.

For a few more years, the decreasing costs of SSDs were giving incentive but yes, once you have that, what incentive remains? The high resolution screen is still more trouble than advantage.

I was purchasing newer and newer ThinkPads for a few more years, until I could put 16GB (for a sw developer, having lots of RAM is helpful) in a 14" model, then stopped at the T420 in 2011 and that's the end of laptops for me for the foreseeable future.

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Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ... by Alphasite_ on Thursday September 25, 2014 @03:27AM (#8366044)

The substantial improvements in battery? Better screens (brighter, better fov, more resolution 2008 laptops had atrocious screens)? More portable designs? USB3? Better trackpads and keyboards? More durable designs?

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Re:Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops ... by 72deluxe on Thursday September 25, 2014 @05:11AM (#8366288)

I second the battery and screen improvements.

And perhaps increased CPU performance because I like short compile times please.

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