nordlys on Nostr: Ok, time for a non-Bitcoin related rant. Why do nearly all new laptops suck so badly? ...
Ok, time for a non-Bitcoin related rant. Why do nearly all new laptops suck so badly? It seems most OEMs pursue the same recipe at the moment. Shove a terribly inefficient power hungry Intel CPU in a chassis that is way too thin, pair it with a puny
cooling solution that has no way of keeping up, slap on a 4K power hungry display and call it the day. Dell, Lenovo, Asus, LG, etc are all guilty of this. They brag about how thin and light their laptops are and how they come with an Intel Core i9 CPU and dedicated Nvidia graphics. They conveniently forget to mention that your ears will bleed from the fan noise, that you’ll be able to cook your dinner on the laptop chassis, and that the minute you unplug the power the CPU will throttle 20-50%. They also won’t mention that in order to achieve such a thin design, the keyboard travel is essentially 0. Somewhere along the line everyone just forgot about the basics that make a laptop good. I’ll give honorable mention to Apple and their MacBook Pro lineup. Slightly thicker devices that thanks to their ARM architecture can basically deliver class leading performance even on battery power with the fans or even turning on in most use cases. But since I can’t stand MacOS the laptops are not for me.
cooling solution that has no way of keeping up, slap on a 4K power hungry display and call it the day. Dell, Lenovo, Asus, LG, etc are all guilty of this. They brag about how thin and light their laptops are and how they come with an Intel Core i9 CPU and dedicated Nvidia graphics. They conveniently forget to mention that your ears will bleed from the fan noise, that you’ll be able to cook your dinner on the laptop chassis, and that the minute you unplug the power the CPU will throttle 20-50%. They also won’t mention that in order to achieve such a thin design, the keyboard travel is essentially 0. Somewhere along the line everyone just forgot about the basics that make a laptop good. I’ll give honorable mention to Apple and their MacBook Pro lineup. Slightly thicker devices that thanks to their ARM architecture can basically deliver class leading performance even on battery power with the fans or even turning on in most use cases. But since I can’t stand MacOS the laptops are not for me.