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[Barbacoatl]

I have one of those ASUS gaming laptops. Pretty good price for the specs (a 1.5 year old machine and still has better components than some of the newer macs :lol), and it has served me very well, but the usual suspects remain in place: piss poor battery life, clunky (very), in your face design, slightly better than average build quality. Also, Windows and its shitty drivers. Previous from the Asus I had a trusty iBook G4 which I used for 4 years before selling it for a decent amount. Gotta love resale value for macs. Looking forward to get a MBP 13".

 

[ksan]

Funny story..

Here at work they have bought about 20ish or so MacBooks and basically just installed Windows 7 Natively and never looked back.. Its HILARIOUS and at the same time sad.


Its stupid, you can get a laptop with twice the horsepower and storage than a MacBook for the same or lower price. Not to mention that as a person who works in the IT department its a PAIN in the arse to work the hardware problems on the Crapbooks .

I personally have a Sager Laptop 17" screen 1920x1200 screen that beats the living crap of any of these newly bought Crapbooks and I bought this laptop 2 years ago for basically the same price ROFL

I'll join the Clevo-love train, my brother has one and it's amazing.

 

[Xyphie]

The only thing standard on Macbooks that I'd like to see on PCs is flat polymer batteries instead of cylindrical Lithium-ion cells, there's nothing I despise more than non-flushed batteries.

 

[MultiCore]

I'll join the Clevo-love train, my brother has one and it's amazing.

Posting from a D900f with an i7-920 and GTX280m.

Yeah, clevo is great, and their new model with the mobile i7 is nothing to sneeze at, from a design standpoint.

 

[Dacvak]

I just thought of a power adapter plug idea for PC's, since the Apple magnet-plug is patented to hell.

Instead of being magnetic, it has those little ball-bearingish spring clicky ball things. This way, the plug snaps into place when you put it in, but the metal is beveled in a way that if someone trips over the cord, it'll release at any angle and not pull your computer.

It's not quite as nice, because it wouldn't have that magnetic snap, but since you're already used to pushing the cord in, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. Like Apple's plug, it's designed to go in in either direction.

 

[Angry Grimace]

It begs to be asked: Why not get a macbook and run Win 7 as a virtual machine? Best of both worlds?

Can't you dual boot?

 

[Jill Sandwich]

Here at work they have bought about 20ish or so MacBooks and basically just installed Windows 7 Natively and never looked back.

Wow, that's insanely dumb! What was the reasoning behind this?

 

[Burger]

well, some of the stuff you mentioned works so smoothly because it’s built into the OS.

This.

It would be difficult for a 3rd party, lets say Asus, to build in multitouch and inertial scrolling into one of their laptops without some underlying support already being in Windows. Likewise for the zoom function, that's an operating system thing.

 

[Vestal]

Wow, that's insanely dumb! What was the reasoning behind this?

I have asked the same thing.. My conclusion is cause it looks classy.. There is absolutely no other reason be it from a technical, price or functionality perspective.

Then again, we have McAfee installed here, and don't have a WSUS server to distribute updates to machines while having Automatic Updates turned off therefore a lot of Workstations are a year+ behind on updates. Network and Security boss says not to worry McAfee catches all lol.. Even though we've had virus attacks, malware problems etc. I have personally tried to have them change these types of policies by doing some research setting up test environments with a WSUS server and showing how important it is and how easy it is to manage, but as always the dumb ass NET-SEC boss comes up with some excuse the latest being that not to worry he is working on getting more Mcrapy crap to handle updates to stations, I just think he is scared of losing responsabilites to people who know more than he does.

Oh and we are the Biggest News Organization were I live.


So to summarize the answer is quiet simple, the people in power have no fing clue what they are doing. They don't bother keeping up with the times and educating themselves on the advances in technology as well as doing research into what products best serve the company.

Yup the life of a Tech/Programmer sucks ASS

 

[Mudkips]

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7311526.html

As the poster you quoted said, magnetic power connectors have existed for ages for various devices.

Apple patented one for an electronic device.
Electric vs. electronic.

Yeah, there's a difference.
It doesn't really apply anymore (as just about everything electric is also electronic now), but the distinction lives on in legalese bullshit.

The idea certainly wasn't Apple's, and it's shitty that no one else can implement a similar thing - people seem to like it.

And of course we've had non-magnetic breakaway extension cables for audio/video gear in the 70s (and probably earlier) and even stuff for old game console controllers in the 80s.

 

[Dacvak]

I'd love some opinions on the design I had above. =O

 

[Vyer]

just to echo the trackpad thing. As someone who works with a lot of Windows machines everyday, I'n surprised I've never come across a trackpad as smooth as my 3 year old Macbook.

 

[LCfiner]

I'd love some opinions on the design I had above. =O

I like it. you might only need two bearings instead of 4, but I think the concept is OK.

 

[MilesWebber]

It begs to be asked: Why not get a macbook and run Win 7 as a virtual machine? Best of both worlds?

Or naitivly through bootcamp and set the windows partition as the startup...

 

[aaaaa0]

I'd love to mention the built-in zoom the Apple OS is sporting.

If you have Windows 7, try pressing Winkey and the "+" key at the same time.

 

[Dacvak]

If you have Windows 7, try pressing Winkey and the "+" key at the same time.

It's not even close to the same. It brings up a separate application that you then have to close, plus it's ugly and aliased zooming. =(