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Is it just me or are performance laptops being killed by neglect between Apple and Microsoft? 🤔 Nobody seems to need them. Programmers seem to do all their heavy compute in the cloud, consumers do most things with phone/tablet, workers work with anything via browser apps.
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Re: everybody mentioning gaming laptops, I think that's a bit too overpowered for what I'm thinking about... desktop-grade parts running really hot isn't quite it. I mean a mainstream laptop designed for relative power users, with a solid and thoughtful OS. Workstation-lite.
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Basically, with more and more people doing video, 3d rendering, CAD and image processing applications at amateur levels, that's the gap I'm thinking of. Not stuff for pro-gamers or employees of ILM or full-time VR game designers.
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The use case is a really a new media pro: someone who might edit some longer YouTube or online course videos with a few effects, people making their own animation show, people trying to make an indie VR game, people doing photo processing.
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So I think we're looking at a light, laptop-grade Zen2 type thing with as much graphics and memory as you can pack in while still staying in the macbook pro size/weight/heating range.
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But I think the bottleneck is an OS that's not an afterthought for a cloud company (Microsoft) or a mobile device company (Apple, Google), and not linux. The computing equivalent of a decent SUV I guess.
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I was hating Windows by the time I quit it (2016) but 4 years in, I still really do not like MacOS and the frankenstein UX that's some random mix of iOS style elements, a linux shell, and legacy Mac UX that feel like they're from the 90s/00s.
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I think when I say "performance laptop" I really am not talking about bleeding-edge hardware (though you need to get close) but simply thoughtful attention to people who might be doing graphics heavy creative work that can't be easily done over a network-latency cloud connection.
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Well you use linux so you're happy. I want something with the consumer-grade UX of windows or mac but much better designed. Like on macOS, installing applications is some annoying mix of unix style package management, iOS style app store, and windows style downloading executables
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