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Laptop computers have made significant strides, and in 2023, they're better than ever. However, there are still individuals perpetuating a delusion: That a powerful gaming laptop is as user-friendly and productive as the Apple iPad, which is what everyone should obviously be using. After a few discussions on Lemmy, I believe it's important to provide a clear review of where these fancy "laptop" computers fall short as daily drivers for normal people like me.
PC gaming laptops will, most, likely, fail, for:
- People who need the App Store
- People that want everything to work exactly like it does on the iPad
- Anyone who wants a simple way to install Angry Birds without trying to use needlessly complicated things such as a mouse and keyboard
- Apple apps that won't run because you bought a non-Apple laptop
- The performance overhead of that extra complexity costs at least 5-15% of what you'd otherwise expect from such a powerful machine
- People who need to run FaceTime and whose friends won't consider any alternatives outside the Apple way of life
- Serious scientific labs with policies that require iPad-only data acquisition
- Musicians, artists, and customer service agents who've built their whole careers around iPad-only software
- Developers and sysadmins, because you're probably administering Apple systems for which the iPad is indispensible
Laptop computers are great, I love them but I don't sugar coat it and I'm not delusional like you.
If one lives in a bubble and doesn't to collaborate with other Apple iPad users then PC latop apps might work and might even deliver a decent workflow. But once you've got to work with other iPad users it's "game over" — the "alternatives" just aren't up to it.
iPads aren't that expensive and they work right out of the box. Software runs fine, everything on the App Store is supported whatever you're trying to do and you'll be productive from day zero. There are annoyances from time to time, sure, but they're way fewer and simpler to deal with than the hoops you've to go through to get a minimal and viable/productive laptop computer experience.
It all comes down to a question of how much time (days? months? aeons?) you want to spend fiddling with a mouse and keyboard to set up things which simply work out of the box on the Apple iPad for a minimal fee. Buy an iPad! You know it's the only sensible thing to do and the ROI will be fantastic!
You can buy a second-hand iPad for around €4 that comes with everything you'll need. And every iPad comes with IOS for no extra charge, so why wait? Buy it! Buy it now!
"They hated him because he spoke the truth. I can't even get "simple" apps like Apple iMove to run on my PC. And there's some kind of "video card driver" that needs "updating"? No sane person could ever cope with this. No amount of googling or even the fabled tech support genuis of "chatgpt" was able to help me. It just won't work. This whole Internet is delusional, if they think that laptop computers are usable for the average Joe and I'm an Apple iPad expert so I know what I'm talking about. It's too much hassle. I just want to get things done." — Average Joe
Still thinking that 2023 is the year of the laptop computer? Think again. The Apple iPad is all the computing you will ever need.
When X.com eventually gets around to making its own window system, they may be in legal trouble. Perhaps the resulting lawsuit can raise enough money to get X.org development going again.
If they want to ban tobacco let them first legalise weed, acid, and psylocybin. That'd be a fair trade.
Linux popularity going up means the percentage of users who know what cron is goes down.
The one Ukrainian Linux user without an adblocker started visiting a website that still has a statcounter widget on it, but he got tired of it after a while and stopped?
I'd be among the first to agree that Mozilla has made a lot of bad choices, but this video doesn't cover the important ones, whines interminably about some trivial ones, and generally says very little that's of interest. And I've already seen it linked to like 3 times on lemmy.
France has no more right to compel Mozilla to incorporate censorship into its web browser than it has to force authors to incorporate a paragraph of text praising the French Republic at the start of every book they write. I refuse to believe that things are so far gone in France that this law will not be knocked over if Mozilla pushes forcefully against it.
Firefox being free software, it wouldn't make much sense for them to try and do something like this. So obviously we know that Mozilla would never go along with such an absurd law and start doing censorship on behalf of France. ... right, Mozilla? Slightly strange that you didn't say so?
Who cares what big-time tech execs think about it? There ought to be protests in the streets about this. They're trying to outlaw end-to-end encryption. They're not even really trying to hide that any more. If they succeed, the UK won't be the first country to do so. Signal isn't threatening to leave because they're worried about the potential ethical implications of the new rules. They'll be leaving because their product will simply be outlawed. The UK will be joining the ranks of other notable countries who've gone that way, such as Iran, China, Cuba, Egypt, and Oman.
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I have two reactions: 1. The headline is rather silly. 2. There's no way this little script, although it might conceivably be useful to someone, needs to be a youtube video.