Thread 106903913

What is the ultimate laptop? Is it the MBA?

Depends on the use case.

>>106903945
usecase for laptops?

>>106903913 (OP)

should have bought 14" 768p hp 240 dual core 2GB 2TB ethernet with one hour battery

>>106903913 (OP)
Latitude XT2 with modern guts

>>106903913 (OP)
Get a pro and keep it for the next 10 years until they decide to do a minor design change

>>106903913 (OP)
i like how people talk about laptops as if people aren't chronically inside all day in comparison to 20 years ago. yeah cool you got a laptop, a piece of hardware where most of the components cant be repaired or replaced and is typically trash at heat dissipation on account of the form factor. and now that youve got your computer-on-the-go, where you gonna go? starbucks? your local game store? the MALL? this isnt the early 2000s anymore and im tired of hearing about laptops as if phones wont eventually replace them with samsung dex or something similar. no one is using these items to go outside, no one goes outside anymore, dont you get it? all the malls are closing due to online shoppings market domination. the future is here and it brought the dystopia with it. buy a phone, buy a desktop, but for the love of god dont waste your money on a fucking laptop, youre not james bond and youre not going to the library for anything important there you couldnt do at home. fuck you, fuck me, another beautiful day looking at defunct technology.

>>106904923
Full keyboard windows environment with all my games and an hdmi out port. Can hook it up to any screen as a mobile pc and media center. For if you actually travel at all.

Phones are minimal made for retards, and a desktop is a desktop.

>>106903913 (OP)
GOOD MORNING, SIR!
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>>106903913 (OP)
>>106904836
get a toilet currynigger

>>106903913 (OP)
Needs proper speakers like on the MacBooks Pro

>>106904923
I went to my comfy chair
I can’t do that with my Mac mini

>>106904923
I have a powerful desktop and my laptop uses like 1/3 the power of my desktop. That's idle desktop vs normal load laptop. Docked phones are shit and can't into multi monitor.
A laptop with a thunderbolt dock is the best daily driver. If you need more power, rack servers. Desktops are archaic tech barely kept alive because of boomer tards in business and gaymer fags wanting to render billions of pixels of slop per second.

>>106903913 (OP)
>What is the ultimate laptop? Is it the MBA?
for me it's the macbook pro with the m4 pro 14/20 chip, a little beast.

>>106904113
Portable UPS

>>106903913 (OP)
Yes. No fans to clean = GOAT.

>>106905083
lmao you edited your made up benchmark?
remember when you wrote "M4 Pro Max" instead of "Apple M2" and people called you out because that chip doesn't even exist?

apple lives rent free in your head keep seething loser hahahaha

>>106904923
Im sick of you loser nerds who made their entire identity being a tech whiz kid who invents desktops PCs and pretending like laptops are beneath you even though you're the one that hasn't left your mom's basement in 20 years and have never worked a day in your life which is why you are so happy you can use the same case and never change it and need to save $100 of life-changing money buying used graphic cards instead of just getting a new PC

Anyway regarding your claim that no one goes anyway. no YOU don't go anywhere. You don't even go to more than one room in your home. That's why you don't think a laptop is useful. Everyone else is going places however.

Global passenger statistics
>Global Traffic: Surpassed (9.4) billion passengers in 2024, an increase of \(8.4\%\) from 2023 and \(2.7\%\) above pre-pandemic (2019) levels.

>Top 10 Airports: Accounted for \(1.54\) billion passengers, which was \(16\%\) of global traffic.
>Key Growth Areas: Shanghai Pudong (PVG) climbed to the 10th spot globally, while Guangzhou Baiyun (CAN) sustained its strong recovery.

>Busiest airports by total passenger volume (2024)
>1. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL): \(108.1\) million passengers.
>2. Dubai International Airport (DXB): \(92.3\) million passengers.
>3. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW): \(81.8\) million passengers.

>>106905340
Yeah I've come round to this point of view too. Desktops are basically only for multi GPU setups. Every other use case you are better off with a laptop.

>>106903913 (OP)
>can't upgrade or replace storage
>have to pay a gorillion dollars for a drop of RAM
When this bullshit stops I'll get a high ram mac-whatever with the storage I fucking choose

>>106904923
students need laptops for their college projects.
office drones needs laptops to do documents, presentations and it crap from home and have no weekends when they're sick.
any kind of a wagie needs a laptop if they're occasionally sent to other divisions and need a conputer outside the office.
poorfags needs laptops because they're constantly on the move and don't have a stable place of living, portability's a must.
there IS a usecase for them. but they're all still e-trash, yes.

>>106903913 (OP)
>the ultimate laptop
>retarded notch in the screen

>>106904113
What was the original reply this meme was based on?

>>106904923
You are gay and cringe for ignoring specific use cases.
I like computing in bed, at a desk and in my living room as a media center, I also travel a lot. Smartphones suck and I'm not a richfag. Thinkpad T series does all of this and it's 100% user upgradeable. It even has cellular.
Eat a dick.

>>106903913 (OP)
Ipad pro with bt corne trackpoint, rdp ssh to server machines

>>106903913 (OP)
For my usecase, a Dell Precision 7000-series or similar is ideal. I need a desktop replacement with a high end intel x86_64 cpu and modern nvidia gpu that runs all day without getting hot. Macs are a non-starter because I don't write mac software, thin laptops are also a big no-go. Fat gaming laptops are close but they prioritize performance over all day operation.

>>106904113
imagine you can use the computer wherever you want

>>106904923
go use a laptop on your balcony or patio it's nice you get to keep being a terminally online nerd while getting some sun at the same time

Old Thinkpads

>>106904923
Some of us have jobs anon. I work mostly at home but I go into the office sometimes or fly out to a jobsite for integration. That's why I go fat laptop. Being small and light for toting around coffee shops is not something I care about at all, it just needs to be more portable than a tower so I can take it places easily, plop it on a desk, and plug it in there. I was given a thin development laptop once and it was nearly unusable, became physically hot to the touch, fan going like a goddamn jet engine all day, and worst of all started throttling performance after a couple hours use.

>>106903913 (OP)
>the ultimate laptop
the ultimate laptop, indeed the ultimate computer, is the one I can boot with fully freedom software. No closed source binary blobs needed at all.

>>106909721
I'm not sure but it maybe was about being able to drag a file out from an archiver
Then there's the "sharpness is not a metric" meme which I'm confident was about a guy who found gnome fonts in his computer too blurry

>>106903913 (OP)
It would be if I could install Windows on it. I miss Intel FagBook Air.

the existence of the ultimate laptop or notebook computer is a bleak prospect and most likely coincides with the end of civilization or some new, very accurate interface perhaps neural. in either case im not looking forward to ultimate laptop.

>>106904834
Isn't that 15 or so years old by now? How's the latitude modding scenes? I didn't knew you could upgrade their guts like that, they're almost never mentioned on /tpg/. What are some good resources on it.

>>106910847
What's even the point on paying extra to access the walled garden with subpar hardware only to use that subpar hardware to use wangblows?

>>106904923
>where you gonna go?
I take it to work so I don't have to deal with the landfill waste tier Surface Go tablets they make us use. Win 11 on 4gb of ram with pentium gold is not fun.
At home I use it on the sofa, out in the garden, on the kitchen table when eating din dins, or plugged into the tv.
>but muh phone
this is better.

>>106910847
>Windows
You really don't want to do that these days.

>>106913306
As far as I know you can't, it's just my favorite laptop

>>106914083
Then what do you mean by modern guts?

>>106914091
That if the XT2 had modern guts, say a Ryzen 7 with 32GB RAM rather than a Core2 Duo with 5GB RAM it'd be the best laptop to exist

>>106909721
something about hitler particles

>>106904923
>yeah cool you got a laptop, a piece of hardware where most of the components cant be repaired or replaced

>>106905340
i literally can't be bothered to connect my desktop to the monitor and have a keyboard around. I now use parsec the few times i need it, with wake on ethernet it's pretty cool, but ssh with windows is absolute cancer.
One day I'll wipe it and put some hypervisor os, but I still might want to finish rdr2 some day

I like thinkpads.

>>106908180
Hell I'd argue 4u servers have better airflow for multi gpu setups. The only desktop advantage is better front io but you can get the same or better with, you guessed it, a thunderbolt dock.
>>106914179
I boot my desktop once or twice a week when I'm testing new llama.cpp models. I wish I had gone with an epyc build, 8 or 12 channel memory, and a couple 3090s instead of halfassing a gaming pc that can also kinda run models. Dual channel memory is just a death sentence for t/s and I don't game much anymore.
>One day I'll wipe it and put some hypervisor os
I turn my old desktops into servers to test homelab shit. I have two running proxmox and I'm going to throw in an old laptop to get a HA cluster going. It's pretty cozy once you fully break from windows, do it anon.

>>106909721
it's quite literally one dude who is trying to make it a /g/ meme or part of the board culture which hasn't been a real thing since 2015. he has been relentlessly spamming it and unfortunately will continue to do so

>>106908040
>ramashit pooinamanshand just raging
post the same 3 or so pictures over and over again, ramashit!

>>106903913 (OP)
2015 11" MBA

>>106903913 (OP)
m4 pro with the pro chip (... m4 pro pro? wtf lol)
>fast as fuck
>power efficient as fuck
>14" so still usable screen while very mobile
>good keyboard (likely to be shit in m6 pro since muh thinness obsession again)
>runs macOS sonoma, which is imo significantly better than tahoe and I don't think you can downgrade the upcoming m5
>hdmi, 3x TB5 ports
The only thing that's missing is expandable storage and linux support in case apple enshittifies, but the second one is probably coming. I guess a single usb-a port would also be nice

>>106904923
How can a post be this good, but bad too at the same time.

>>106915588
>power efficient
I have a HP Elitebook, which I'm about to chuck in the bin because of this thing it does where after going to sleep it then gets stuck trying to wake itself; I have to shut it down when taking it somewhere else the CPU will spin up to 100% so it cooks itself in my bag while burning the battery to 0, and to forcibly keep it awake when stationary.

I can't work out whether this is due to a bug with the AMD CPU, Windows being garbage, or Windows modern standby but either way Microsoft can go fuck themselves for taking away the simple/functional "suspend to RAM" type of sleep mode that used to exist and I'm now willing to consider moving to a Mac.
Long story short, if I look at a Mac Pro how much RAM do I need? Go for the Pro and max it out at 48GB? And are Apple still doing the thing where the SKUs with the smallest storage capacity run like shit because of gimped NAND, ie. do I need to shell out for a model with 2TB?

>>106903913 (OP)
a cheap 10 year old Acer is 1000x better than a Macbook

>>106904836
They're 100% changing the design next year

>>106914965
why are you not answering my question Himanshu?

>>106903913 (OP)
>shitty keyboard
>shitty glossy screen
>shitty operating system
>shitty ARM CPU
>shitty touchpad
>shitty price
they're arguably some of the worst laptops you can buy

>Only Strix Halo laptops are an overpriced Asus tablet convertible or HP 14" boring corpo laptop
>but there's a billion and one chinky minipcs

>>106917674
matte screen option
best performance to energy ARM CPUs
best haptic glass trackpads that only the most premium pc laptops have
name a PC laptop with miniLED instead of burn-in OLED at a similar price

I mean the obvious downside is the price of the SSD and limited unified RAM, but get a NAS I suppose.

>>106903913 (OP)
>ultimate laptop
>overheating flaming heap of currynigger shit

>>106917744
>best performance to energy ARM CPUs
get a toilet currynigger

>>106917781
>>106917784
why are you always photoshopping your benchmarks with fake values like when the other guy exposed you? you should work in the scam industry at this point

"overheating" btw. to reach 114°C they had to perform a stress test using 3DMark Wild Life Extreme and Cinebench, not really what your average use of the machine will be, especially on a fanless laptop

keep getting the L's Jamal