>>108671787
i have a theory that laptop induce depression into people who use them daily, they're ergonomical nightmare, using these things can't be good for your health.
the only way to make laptop usable is to use them like a desktop with a dock and external monitor with real kb/mouse.

>>108671787
Well... it's virtually impossible to find one which fulfills all my requirements.

ECC Support and thus
AMD, ARM OR Intel Xeon
OLED (glossy, needless to say) or a very good glossy LCD
CoreBoot
Keyboard Light
Repair-ability
Schematics available

>>108671787
I will go back to laptops because i failed at building my pc (idk why)
I just wanted a powerful itx...

>>108671844
Why do you need ECC in a laptop?
Regardless, the closest you'll ever get (at least in terms of currently available laptops) is a Framework. Even that doesn't check most of the boxes though.

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>>108671857
>I just wanted a powerful itx...
How'd you manage to fuck it up? Here's my ITX PC btw

>>108671869
Because I work with sensitive code bases controlling industrial chemical reactors. We use formally verified software for our microcontrollers.

I occasionally work from home or on trains using my own hardware.

Even a single bit flip occurring down the pipeline to a plant's embedded control units is intolerable.

Framework's are about to get coreboot, so there is some progress.

>>108671916
Probably the first person on /g/ bitching about ECC who actually has a valid reason for it, congrats.
As for the coreboot situation, I think there's already a barebones port for the Ryzen 7040 series 13in motherboard, but I don't know if anyone has tried using it.

finnally someone else said it. Desktop/tablet combo is best

>>108671916
>Even a single bit flip occurring down the pipeline to a plant's embedded control units is intolerable.
>but I can still, like, work from a train with a very unstable connection that loses half the packages along the way
>and most importantly this device that I use for very static image better have a GLOSSY OLED SCREEN
>because I can't live without having that ambient light in a public place making half the screen unreadable and the other half burned in already
>I don't understand why the market doesn't cater to my needs!

>>108672654
>but I can still, like, work from a train with a very unstable connection that loses half the packages along the way

My statement didn't imply I would remotely flash something via a wireless connection while I am on a train.

That's in fact, by design not possible.
Glossy screen reflection's never bothered me that much. There is a trade off here between working during the day and potentially being at a hotel at evening and wanting to enjoy some private entertainment with great image quality.
I am not going to carry around two laptops =)

>>108671787
x1 carbon poster here
get rekt

>>108671787
I was like that too, but once you're forced to get your shit together, they become too convenient again.
Its portability play a massive role for productivy when studying, being able to move around beats being stuck in a single place the entire time.
Also no publicly computers at my fire department, and I will often have plenty of free time, being able to take one with me lets me keep studying, or I will spend some free time playing games or watching anime too.
>just use your phone
Phones absolutely suck for that and I'm tired of pretending otherwise, BUT, I will still use mine when I don't have access to my laptop.

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>>108671857
i genuinely cant imagine being this retarded.

https://youtu.be/nxKhpr041-M

>>108671787
You have to spend an arm and a leg, and even then they're only really good for shitposting in bed, or watching videos while cooking.

>>108671787
Same. Have had five or six throughout my life, all of them died on me after a few years of light use. Fuck them. As soon as the current piece of shit I have breaks in half due to hinge damage I am done buying new. I will just get a used chinkpad or some shit like that

>>108672769
>potentially being at a hotel at evening and wanting to enjoy some private entertainment with great image quality.
strong German pornography, got it.

>>108672367
tablet is the true meme, i fell for it twice
literally the worst of both worlds

>>108671820
>using these things can't be good for your health.
I agree. I only have a laptop, and it is awful. I put it on a fixed table and use it as a desktop computer, with a keyboard and mouse

>>108671787
Laptops are for people that are into tech-dom

>>108672862
>>108672882
>they were STILL purchasing new laptops in the [Current Year] of our Lord
you only have yourself to blame, not the system

>>108672862
just buy someone used laptop nevermind all the cum on it that'll soon be replaced with your cum

>>108672979
You do you but no thx, I am asexual.

>>108671787
I have an Apple MacBook Pro, I like it!

some colleagues don't hook up their work laptops to the monitors and it hurts my brain

>>108671879
killed my PC today

my PC was running slow, so i went into System and saw only 16GB of RAM when i knew i had 32, so i open it up and reached in to feel the two RAM to see if they were secure, then i pull one out while the PC was still powered on, and then i pushed it back into place. now the PC just blinks yellow and nothing displays on the monitor.

>>108673549
...Anon, have you considered that you might be retarded?
Anyway I would pull the CMOS battery (with the system UNPLUGGED) to see if you can revive it.

>>108673599
thanks i will try that.
u give me hope, & i appreciate it, as a new PC is expensive these days

>>108671787
oh goody a boomer thread
i only buy used bare-minimum spec laptops and mainly use them when i want to work outside of the house, only retards buy new. if you use tmux or tiling wm they're great for programming but not much else

>>108673037
>t. illiterate (doesn't read)

>go through laptops every 2-3 years
>buy an M1 MBA in 2020 or whenever they came out
>still using it
literally take the macpill

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Got this cute thicc girl arriving in 2 days to replace my dead stinkpad.
The big laptop redpill is to never buy new, especially not high-ish end workstations (the only ones worth bothering with t b h), since they are always obscenely expensive when new.

>>108671787
>NEET who never leaves the house can't understand why laptops exists
lol

>>108673345
Ah, an evolutionary dead end.

>>108673249
It's just like buying a used car

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>>108671787
>THESE THINGS ARE SO FUCKING SHIT
>WHY DO THEY STILL EXIST
>THEY SUCK FUCKING ASS I HATE THEM ALL SHIT ALL OF THEM AND THEY ARE SOMEHOW WORSE NOW THAN 10 YEARS AGO
>
>FUCK LAPTOPS

Dunno, my laptop is 10 years old and still serves me well, I guess i love laptops

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>>108671787
Unironically underclock it by 150-200MHz and all of your problems will be solved

ahem
should have bought a macbook

>>108671787
meds schizo.

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what I hate about laptops is this:
>Acer Predator 18" laptop
>has turbo button to change clock modes
>button only works with a special .exe software

If I install Ubuntu, I lose access to power modes where I can easily underclock the laptop to make it run cooler during browsing sessions, but go turbo for machine learning sessions or gaming sessions.

So I want to switch to Linux but cant because of proprietary Acer software which im not sure exists for Linux.

>>108671916
>working on chemical reactor PLCs on the train
wtf

>>108671787
Why?
I just use these as thin client.

>>108671820
And phones are better?

>>108671787
I agree, I just don't sperg out about it.

t. Posting this from one of the laptops on OP pic related

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>>108673418
>>108674333
macs have:
>soldered SSD/RAM/WLAN
doesnt exist on 99% of PCs
>when pajeetOS runs out of RAM it swapfile rapes the SSD to death within 3 years
doesnt exist on 99% of PCs
>when the SSD dies it bricks your entire currybook because the EFI is stored on the soldered SSD to save $0.05 on a dedicated chip
doesnt exist on 99% of PCs
>components serial numbered and tied to the motherboard to prevent repair and replacement (including battery)
doesnt exist on 99% of PCs
>riveted keyboard that requires total destruction of the chassis to replace
doesnt exist on 99% of PCs
>flexgate cables that are so brittle they crack from opening your screen past 90 degrees more than 2 dozen times
doesnt exist on 99% of PCs
>screens so fucking shit they have over 90ms response times (essentially 10Hz)
doesnt exist on 99% of PCs
>screen made from pajeet trash glass that cracks from temperature change in seasons or tape over the iBotnet webcam
doesnt exist on 99% of PCs
>so fire and explosion prone the FAA have banned them from all flights
doesnt exist on 99% of PCs
>uses phone CPU that's so shit it gets destroyed by decade old i3s from 2017 and can only "compete" by cheating at benchmarks in extreme edge cases with hardware accelerators
doesnt exist on 99% of PCs
>curryniggers at apploo get so full of sniffing their own currynigger silicon shit they ship currybooks with no fans and they run so hot they melt the keyboard keys
doesnt exist on 99% of PCs

>keyboards with 63.5% failure rate
unheard of on PCs, and yet you curryniggers defend it with "jus werx fer me!"
just because you're in the 36.5% survivor group doesn't make your currynigger trash any good
this list goes on forever
there's no PC laptop as total fucking currynigger shit as crapple's streetshitter books
they are the biggest heaps of steaming currynigger shit in the history of computing second only to curryPhones

>>108671916
why the fuck are you doing that in transit?

>>108671787
If you sit them on your lap they are not comfy at all and become too hot fast.
Basically they failed.

>>108674622
>what I hate about laptops
>proprietary Acer software
A sane person would be hating Acer instead of the concept of laptops.

>>108671787
Smartphones made them more or less redundant as anything but a temporary desktop. Why sit on your sofa with an awkward laptop when you can just doomscroll on your phone?

>>108671787
I exist laptop wise purely on dell precsion m4800s that I have upgraded over the years

>>108676434
the cheapest way to get recent cpus, nvmes and ddr5 memory for desktops is cheap used acers

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>>108671787
>"Here grandson, my laptop has a broken keyboard so I bought a new one. You can have the broken one for free."
>mfw free fileserver

>>108671916
How do I get this job

>>108672367
the only use case I found for tablets is playing free gacha games
no I can't be bothered with waydroid

>>108671787
Laptops are comfy, you can bring one to a cafe and open a daw or some shit to impress the normies and get pussy

>>108673549
Pull all modules, repopulate 1 by 1 to see if the machine boots. If board is alive it may beep at you about some shit or another. If no beep, you dun goofed.

>>108674047
Based. Dell Precision 7000 series are my favorite chassis. I use a trash pile rescue 7530 as a personal machine and a 7680 as my work machine. Fast, cool, quiet, stronk. Fat workstations are the way to go.

>>108671787
I haven’t owned a desktop since 2005

>>108672769
>My statement didn't imply I would remotely flash something via a wireless connection while I am on a train.
So it gets formally verified once you're in the office. You don't need ECC.

>>108674047
>>108680592
I have the 7760. The GPU shorted out and spewed fire from the back. The motherboard then died shortly after they replaced the GPU. Now the right fan needs to be replaced because the bearing is bad or something.

I'm never paying 4,500$ for a laptop. Not ever.

>>108673249
My grandma bought me a used thinkpad T42 I think from a pawn shop in like 2004 and it was loaded with porn of black men. It apparently belonged to some black woman because her tax records was still on it. What a weird experience that was. I still have it but it hasn't been charged or turned on in like 17 years.

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>>108674047
love my latitude 7280
got it for $10 barebones from an ewaste recycler, nobody wants them because the low power cpu runs like shit with modern windows update
meanwhile apple spent a decade selling underpowered garbage so macos runs fine on it

>>108671820
laptops are crucial for when you want to put on airs and bring a laptop to the starbucks.
Once time i went to a starbucks in nyc and it was kinda of cramped and narrow. Looking at the muted industrial themed room, I saw people sipping 10 dollar coffees, while pecking at 2,000 USD laptops and 1,000 dollar watches and phones. Suddenly, a guy enters the starbucks, makes an order then proceeds to grab and dash what is unguarded.
3 laptops, 5 phones. The items where unattended on the butcher block styled industrial looking tables. Guy runs out of the coffee shop with 10, 000 USD worth of goods. here is what is funny: the guy on his way out piclks up his lattee, takes a sip, thanks the barista for a fine cup of coffee then leaves without further comment..
I remember thinking it looked like quintin taratino movir scene. The coffee was good there innyc because the water is soft what ever that means.

Honestly for writing on the go, I use google docs on pixel.