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Matt matt@gitcitadel.com 2 years ago
I used the term sleek sarcastically. My ThinkPad is beautiful to me. I was referring to the marketing that tells people that thinner is better when in reality they just want to make upgrading yourself impossible and increase accessory sales. They also have to reduce performance to pack things into ever tighter spaces (because of thermodynamics). So no, you really don't get to have both. But the real question is whether a quarter inch in thickness is really worth less power, fewer ports (more accessories), no ability to upgrade parts (they're all soldered to reduce thickness), and fewer choices in software and hardware. More waste as well. Also, I used Mac as an example. There are PC examples of this too. It's pretty much invaded most devices and companies, including mobile phones. It's not that we can't have a better balance (we really can't have both worlds entirely), but that most companies now make devices that are designed to use the consumer rather than a device that is meant to be used by the consumer. And the marketing is designed to make us accept this trade for 'sleek' or cool factor (look at my apple). We mostly have ourselves to blame for buying the marketing. It pays far less to give people choice on these things. For example, I saved about 1k dollars on my TP by upgrading the ram and SSD myself. All I had to do was sacrifice a quarter inch and I also got a shit ton of ports. lol
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A Llama With No Name 2 years ago
I think the MBP Retinas were perfect. It had the ports, the amazing screen and battery, perfect balance between size and weight. Are you telling me Apple couldn't have kept and improved on that model? Kept the ports, upgradability, etc. I am dealing in the realm of the imaginary, sure you could compare the state of things as they currently are and make your judgement. Indeed, that is the choice of many. I am not doing that. I am invitating you to explore the possibility of what could be, should Apple have chosen to do differently. At its most basic level, there is no physical impediment preventing Apple - or Nostr developers - from choosing the best of both worlds. Apple, however, is bound by more constraints than physical reality. This certainly helped push them in the direction they went. My point is Nostr developers are not bound by these other constraints, and therefore have no impediments (other than their personal opinions, biases and their imagination) preventing them from choosing a best of both worlds' approach. Sure you and I could have different opinions of what that would mean, and yes we'd have to make concessions here and there, but hopefully you get my point. ------- On a different note, personally I think ThinkPads look horrible. They are bulky, their keys look uneven, their trackpads (last i checked) were small af and had buttons, they have that ugly red dot on them, etc. Some ppl really love them and that is fine, but I have the feeling that a considerable portion of those, wouldn't love them as much if Apple didn't do some of the things you illustrated. Despite not being the focus of my comment, and me not agreeing with all he says (specially his take on asahi) I will leave this here:
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