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I don't believe in buying a laptop for less than four thousand dollars. I'm going to max out a MacBook Pro.

the free type 2 diabetes is a bonus!

This has an Intel processor, the butterfly keyboard AND the TouchBar! It's the pinnacle of Jony Ive "form over function(al keys)" design.

TayTay is on TikTok? say it isn't so!

ARM Windows laptops have attempted to enter the market at least three times previously, starting over a decade ago. Don't hold your breath.…

At least the Pro model on offer here has three TB USB-C ports - which means that it has two internal fans for cooling. The low-end Pro…

what's wrong with a bent paperclip?

Ryzen beats i7, especially on battery life, but I owned a Yoga 7i i7 -- briefly -- and returned it because its fans whirred all the time…

there are no good Tetris game on the Mac. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/01/11/tetris-for-mac

oddly, the notebookcheck review cited above clearly states 98.2% sRGB.

two states... Middle Earth and The Desolation. but building Aussie rules stadiums there will cost a fortune.

It's barley an upgrade? Maybe it's worth wheat-ing for the next generation... which will be a-maize-ing. I'm here all week.

V *is* 5. veni, vidi, vici. I'm here all week.

Yogas are known to cool relatively well? I bought a Yoga 7i. Its fans ran all the time at full speed - even in sleep. After three support…

are they called thickshakes because they can't be called milkshakes, because there's not enough milk?

do I have to buy this with a credit card? or can I use folding money?

I don't recognise the connectors on this box. Are they USB-D?

The Elitebook G9's half height cursor keys with page up and down directly above them is a dealbreaker for me. I can't touchtype on that…

I bought a Lenovo Yoga 7i. Fans whirred at maximum even when sleeping; only hibernation would stop it. After three support calls from the…

it makes sense to separate the keyboard and the chassis if they have different lifecycles. Which lasts longer, the Surface keyboard or the…

The Surface Pro 9 costs two grand more and has a processor that gets hotter with less battery life. But there's a marginal performance…

11th generation i7 is actually the one to get from a battery life and heat perspective. 11th gen typically has a base power draw of 12W,…

if you care about portability, get him a portable 3d printer.

Cancer with sugarfree or Type-2 diabetes with sugar? I'll drink water while I figure it out.

Dell laptops crash more than space shuttles do.

you can go full stack with this - both javascript AND html!

the reason it was ever called Yoga in the first place is that it was foldable. this is like Microsoft coming out with a Surface laptop and…

Thinkpad X1 with titanium or carbon fibre is the way to go. You don't want your laptop made out of the same stuff as your Nespresso pods.…

four episodes of ST SNW have dropped so far. At least two of them are good.

Oh, the Intel NUC M15 is solid hardware -- I bought one -- but like all Intel evo laptops, the drivers are rubbish. It took Intel months to…