My 2017 razer stealth 13" has rather questionable build quality.
Oh and it shouldn't be more expensive than a Mac as many of these laptops are! And this package should ideally come with 512GB of SSD storage and, at least, 16GB to 32GB of RAM. I'm trying to find a laptop with good build quality, long battery life, a good display that I can design on, a good trackpad so that I don't have to carry around a mouse, good speakers would be a plus, and light enough that I don't feel like I'm lifting weights while working on my laptop. They also don't have good trackpads, and their keyboard + trackpad alignment is wonky (it's off-center in a lot of cases! How weird is that?) Most non-Apple laptops don't have very good color accuracy. It's painful to do so, given how invested I am in the ecosystem, but we're already beyond the threshold that many of us would have left earlier in the decade.Įdit - It's also really hard as a designer + developer + would-be researcher in the making to find a good computer. As they've chosen to.Īpple can now make their machine reject a new, third-party repair part like a bad transplant. Should they choose to.Īpple is now restricting what other OSes you can boot into. Of course Apple's Craig Federighi assures us that the people making such assertions are "tools" (, timestamp 53:33) and they have no intention whatsoever of taking away our ability to do general compute on the machines we buy and own.Īpple can already decide what binaries you can execute. Apple already has the ability to restrict whats apps I can run (they can simply toggle a switch for all users to "no unsigned binaries"), and congrats! Apple is the sole decider of what we get to use on our computers. Īnd this is why I won't be moving to Apple silicon. It's fair to say that I was mostly dismissed. So yesterday I wrote about the blurring lines of ownership, and people came back with some fairly disparate responses.