On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 09:21:34AM -0400, Ray Arachelian via cctalk wrote: [...] > Overall though I think the $40 I spent to get another 1.8 years out the > machine was worth the trouble - not that it's performant or anything > like that, but because it is the last of its line. Supposedly next year > they'll make a 16" one, but I won't be buying it unless they add in DIMM > slots, replaceable batteries, standard M2/NVME SSD drives, a headphone > jack and multiple ports (not just two measly USB-C ports), and a > keyboard with real travel so it doesn't feel like you're typing on a > screen. And I know that won't happen, so that's why two years ago, I got > a high end laptop (17" 4K display, 1070GPU, i7, 64G RAM) and put Linux > on it - and it cost about the same as a 15" MBP with half the specs. I > don't think I'm going back.
Few years ago I was looking to buy some simple, inexpensive cellphones for two. In a store, there was about dozen of cheap Nokia models, all different in names, colors and shapes, but mostly very same for innards: a 128x128 lcd, vga camera, java (i.e. midp) and about 500kb of ram. Or something like this. Not a single model with just nine/or twelve/ keys and 2x16 lcd, without half baked low-end whistles which I never intended to use. I spent quite a bit of time browsing javascripted shop and clickingmoreforspecs and ended a little bit enraged. I think not many people noticed when some time later Nokia finally flopped and I cannot say I was sorry for them. I suppose the story of rise and gutting-in-the-air of flying cell phone giant would make an interesting movie, but I am not holding my breath. At a time, it appeared that their management went totally nuts. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
