I like how I no longer have a functioning caps lock key on either OS; on my mac it’s been escape since 2018
hence the addition re: powertoys!
If you’re getting carpal tunnel or RSI from using a laptop keyboard I would type on something that does not actively aggravate a condition/disease, especially if you are a professional typist
(nevermind that working on a laptop is inherently bad on the spine, etc. etc. death to vestigial typewriter jam prevention layouts they use Kinesis Advantages in Men in Black join the new Willennium)
yeah i also actually prefer using my laptop as a laptop sometimes. moving around the house while i work helps me think. the most recent mbps are really the only time i’ve been frustrated with macbooks as a work machine because the keyboard is so bad
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literally can’t tell any difference in Control with all the settings and ray tracing turned up as far as they’ll go from before
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congrats on the new GPU
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Even comparing to other premium laptops from the same era, this is an exaggeration. I got a ~2015 Dell XPS 13 because it had glowing reviews and over time I realized I hated it. The screen was overly bright and saturated, the touchpad felt somehow too fast and never gave me that real feeling of hand/computer connection, and it felt fragile with its plastic back attached to its really dense screen (and indeed it was destroyed after one trip where I put it into in-flight luggage, which may have been bad luck but never happened to any of my macs)
Also the 2009 Mac Mini is the slowest computer I’ve ever used. Just routinely made me wait 10+ seconds to like switch focus to an already loaded application and stuff, I could hardly believe it
yeah, to some extent it is contextual and it’s fair to conclude that in fact it was just a lousy time to buy a new laptop at all (I think it’s only in the past 2-3 years that other OEMs have caught up with apple on RGB coverage), and intel can take some of the blame for that, but even if the rest of the ultraportable laptop market was at that time also pretty terrible, I think we’re going to see near zero 2016 mbps still in use by a year or so from now when they age out of the keyboard warranty program, especially as they were already underpowered, which is by any measure pretty terrible and short-lived.
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the universe conspired to make the surface book 2 seem like a good idea and it (kind of) was (for me)
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Gonna ride this old Lenovo until society collapses and there’s no more power grid, probably
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For a while now I’ve felt like maybe I should get a personal laptop but since I don’t code on the road a gaming desktop and this ipad pretty much cover everything I want to do
The future turned out radically different than 22 year old me anticipated at the dawn of the smartphone era
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I think we’ve crossed over into audiophile territory. I had the same response as you last year – the changes to lighting were mostly subtle and while reflections on every material are noticeable, screen-space reflections are very good already. But after playing it long enough I learned how to look for it (and learned what I was looking at) and it makes a huge difference in consistency and image depth.
The net result: I’m much better at seeing how incorrect older implementations are. The same forbidden knowledge as any taste development, it’s worth asking if I’m learning to appreciate it more or just making myself more unhappy. But I can’t turn down this knowledge.
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I believe those Dells had very good sRGB displays (and this Anandtech review backs up that it’s in many respects it’s better than the contemporary MacBook) but the experience I had with my 15-inch wasn’t pleasant, either – the screen picked up reflections like no other and even at the lowest brightness the whites were still searing, making normal document reading a pain.
It didn’t help that the Intel display driver would crash every 5 minutes on battery and leave the screen flickering at <30% brightness. The only fix was replacing the…wifi card! yup
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I was ahead of the curve on fussing about mini pcie wifi chipsets
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this never occurred to me, i am going to stop complaining about my macbook now. all my work issued pcs and laptops have been fucking garbage
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look all I ask is that component hardware doesn’t visit its neighbors and trash the place
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speaking as someone who’s running a Titan XP, bluetooth audio and input devices, and a constant 1.3gbit wifi connection on a first-gen ITX PCIe 3 board, you would be surprised how many weird interrupts you start to notice when you saturate that thing
blurgh
while we’re complaining I certainly would appreciate it if my PC could handshake with my TV on wake from sleep with more than 60% success
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oh yeah, in order to keep wake on wlan enabled I had to write a script to suspend and unsuspend wifi after waking
VA panel monitor is going back. I hooked the TN back up and immediately improved in reaction time/accuracy. I can’t say whether it’s the response rate itself or four years using said response rate but I was definitely surprised that the difference of 8-10ms was perceptible to me. Going back to the TN felt like lifting weights in low gravity, just hitting all of my shots.
The thing I didn’t fully understand before trying this was that refresh rate is only as good as the response rate of the panel - if the pixels can’t transition within 7ms, you’re not getting 144hz of motion. This is also divorced from input lag.
Trying the ASUS VG27AQ next in the hopes it’s a better compromise in picture quality/responsiveness. I found on the TN panel that 120hz with black frame insertion (aka ultra-low motion blur, backlight strobing, etc.) had better motion resolution to my eye than 144hz with g-sync. The ASUS can do variable refresh and black frame insertion simultaneously between 60hz and 165hz while also being an IPS with double the contrast ratio of my TN panel.
is this where I get to be an asshole and tell you I could have told that for the past 5-6 years
I just run my monitor at 144hz now because I’m too lazy to do the install for strobing as I keep blowing Windows up but I tell you, it was worth trading that brightness for making smooth look smoother
my TV also does this but I haven’t seen it in forever but I recall it did help out anything that was meant to run on a CRT
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