Can happiness be obtained without sacrifice? Can a new era be achieved without tragedy?
Iâm just gonna pretend thatâs relevant to the previous discussion.
It always makes me crazy, fucking bonkers, that I often see people I follow on social media, sometimes people I actually know, who have PC trouble and need money to have someone fix problems that are easy to fix yourself? And pay like a bajillion dollars to have it done âprofessionally?â Why do so many people think a PC is a magic box that only highly trained professionals can even open up, let alone fix? Also why does every amateur to semi-pro artist use a laptop which are far and away more unreliable and have a much shorter lifespan than a desktop and are far far more expensive and not really good for that use?
I dunno man, I donât know.
I can say, I think some people have like VERY VERY basic understanding of how to use a computer. Not quite as bad as Rym has espoused in some episodes of geeknights but really bad all the same. Someone in my family is in the C suite of a large finance company. Works directly for one of those wall street billionaires. Occasionally Iâve got to help them with their computer and over time Iâve learned just how basic their computer use is, when they handle decision making for billions and billions of dollars of other peoples money. Weâre talking googling for laws relating to finance for which they will base their decisions and falling for every internal email spoof their IT department does.
As to the use of laptops over desktops. I hope there are more people out there like you than there are that arenât. I like desktops. I like them for a myriad of reasons I can go into if youâd like.
Not gonna lie if I didnât have @Pegu Iâd be pretty much screwed whenever I ran into a computer problem.
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Iâm a sysadmin and I have computer problems that I donât know how to fix every now and again.
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Not everyone has to be a prosumer but my god, the parts just plug in and everything is designed so it only goes in one way, you literally canât put them in wrong. And youtube teaches exact procedure. At the very least listen when people tell you itâs a simple fix and a local computer shop can do it for a fraction of sending it to the manufacturer.
And yeah laptops have their place but when time after time I see broke artists upset that their expensive ass desktop replacements die on them after only three years and they canât fix or replace it I want to just scream.
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Yeah Iâm always telling people: just because they market laptop internals with the same badges and names as the desktop equivalent, you are rarely getting parity performance and even if you can get that in some ultra-gamer laptop you will quickly thermal throttle, counting on tiny ass, noisy ass fans to carry the load my desktop is liquid cooling, and if you do keep pushing thermals youâre going to have a bad day eventually. And when that day inevitably comes, you will almost never be able to replace or maintain anything unless youâre a fucking magician who doesnât need my opinion already.
Iâve been reluctantly looking into such a beast laptop because I am hoping to adopt a bit of nomad designer role. And there is just nothing exciting me about it. So many compromises and so much expensive crap. Iâm much more looking forward to the idea of getting the next gen CPU in a year or so and doing a core swap on my unit. And maybe getting some RGB fans, and that GPU cooling loop I been dreaming ofâŚ
To be fair, if youâre only going to have a single computer and youâre not looking for a supercomputer-on-a-desk, a laptop isnât necessarily a bad choice because they do offer portability. After all, it can be nice to use your computer while youâre sitting on the couch. Of course, Iâm ruling out the so-called âgaming laptopsâ and such. Iâm talking about more modest things for people who write emails, the occasional letter or term paper, some web surfing, that sort of thing. Iâm talking more about the low-to-mid range here.
Now, if youâre only ever going to be sitting at a single desk while working, then yeah, a desktop definitely makes more sense.
Me, Iâm in the âbig honkinâ desktop, cheap laptopâ camp myself. I have a pretty pricey gaming rig I built last year, but I just bought a $160 refurbished HP laptop off of NewEgg that is more than adequate for my portable computing needs.
Edit: Apple may be the exception here, as for the most part their desktops arenât much more than glorified laptops. If youâre going with an Apple because you need it (need to run a Mac-only app, doing iOS development, etc.) or really, really want it for some reason, you may as well just get the laptop.
Though Iâd say a docking solution is mandatory. Having a laptop to use around the house or away, but docking it into a keyboard/mouse/monitor at a desk when itâs serious time, is an excellent way to live.
Of course, a backup and archiving solution is also mandatory. Laptops canât have large hard drives. Gotta have a NAS or at least an external drive to dump bulk data onto, and probably a full laptop imaging backup solution.
I just had a look at the fully decked out iMac Pro:
2.3GHz 18-core Intel Xeon W processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.3GHz
128GB 2666MHz DDR4 ECC memory
Radeon Pro Vega 64 with 16GB of HBM2 memory
4TB SSD
Itâs possible to configure one of their top end MacBook Pro laptops with a 4TB SSD, but there are no 18-core server-quality processors, nor options for 128GB of EEC memory.
If you are doing serious work on MacOS, a laptop just isnât going to cut it.
Unfortunately, docking stations, at least when Iâve looked, generally only were available for higher-end, business-oriented laptops.
Agreed. Perhaps even some sort of cloud backup solution in addition for off-site backups. For my el-cheapo laptop, I donât keep anything critical on it, but I do have a big, USB-powered external drive for bulk data storage and/or exchange with my desktop.
Color me wrong then. I havenât looked at the iMac Pros in a while. They at least do offer better hardware, even if they have the same inherent serviceability/upgradability issues that a lot of laptops do.
I heard an Indian cover of the Game of Thrones opener yesterday.
Interestingly, this is not necessarily true, and depends on a couple of particular definitions - for example, that if you only define a Purr as being both on the inhale and exhale. If you define a purr as being either on the exhale or the inhale, then most big cats can purr, but some tend to make other noises(like for example, Tigers âChuffingâ.)
Youâd be great on QI.
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Hamilton wasnât as animated live as it was in my head.
I know the âYo Voteâ stickers are just Spanish for âI Voted,â but every time I see one, I hear the âYo JOE!â rallying cry from the old G.I. JOE cartoon from the 80s.
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One of the best cartoon intros of all time.
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Without question.
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