It's a pity theres a +$200 upcharge from 512GB to 1TB ssd. 1TB ssd are like $65 now! This kind of exploitative pricing model just makes companies look so bad, in my view.
Rather excited to see the screen indeed performing well. 580 nits while screen brightness is pretty solid! Top of class colors, response time. That PWM could be a problem though?
There's rumors that Secure Boot isn't allowing for adding additional keys, meaning no Linux. After years of this Microsoft move being regarded as ok, fine, it feels like all the doomsayers .might finally be right about Secure Boot. Meanwhile Apple laptops are real close to having a solid Linux!
If you want to talk about absurd pricing, just a friendly reminder that Apple charges $200 for half the upgrade on the Macbook Air (256gb to 512gb).
It's because of normalizing and rationalizing this "premium" pricing for so long that we continue to get this sort of "innovation" that conveniently isn't compatible with socketed NVME drives. This is ultimately our just-deserts for excusing and defending Apple's nonsense behavior because they're somehow special and unique. We deserve this, for not legislating user-serviceable computer hardware and letting big business rewrite the norms of modern society.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 14.1 ms ] threadRather excited to see the screen indeed performing well. 580 nits while screen brightness is pretty solid! Top of class colors, response time. That PWM could be a problem though?
There's rumors that Secure Boot isn't allowing for adding additional keys, meaning no Linux. After years of this Microsoft move being regarded as ok, fine, it feels like all the doomsayers .might finally be right about Secure Boot. Meanwhile Apple laptops are real close to having a solid Linux!
It's because of normalizing and rationalizing this "premium" pricing for so long that we continue to get this sort of "innovation" that conveniently isn't compatible with socketed NVME drives. This is ultimately our just-deserts for excusing and defending Apple's nonsense behavior because they're somehow special and unique. We deserve this, for not legislating user-serviceable computer hardware and letting big business rewrite the norms of modern society.