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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 30
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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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 30
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      More than the hardware I think I see the neglect in the operating systems.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 31
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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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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 31
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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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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 31
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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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 31
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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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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 31
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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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    8. Artem Litvinovich‏ @theartlav Oct 31
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      What is there missing in the OS?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Oct 31
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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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        1. maha sam atman  ☄️, lord of light‏ @djinnius Oct 31
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          yeah this won't ever happen it's not the OS side, that's merely very difficult and expensive. it's the apps, getting the big players to support another operating system will never happen, never the whole 'desktop' market is niche now, won't change make your peace with Mac

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