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My biggest concern/blocker is the soldered storage.

1st - if it fails during warranty, how do I send it for repair safely (as in my data be safe)?

2nd - it decreases its value imho. I mean how many people buy/trust used storage? I wouldn't.


>as in my data be safe

You should have disk encryption turned on. I would not worry unless you think there is someone who is willing to spend an enormous amount of time and effort to access your data.


Thank you.


I'm still using a 2012 Lenovo laptop because I could upgrade its disk and RAM, and replace its battery. Otherwise I'd have had to buy a new laptop years ago.

Disappointing that most Lenovo laptops now have soldered RAM but you can only get up to 16 GiB.


> how do I send it for repair safely (as in my data be safe)?

You have backups, right?

(That is, unfortunately, the legit answer to this question.)


The question is ambiguous but I interpreted it as if the laptop fails and I need to have it repaired how do I keep my data safe because I can't just pull the hard drive out before sending it for repair.

The T2 chip already encrypts the SSD using a unique identifier generated and known only by that host's T2, so it's sort of a non-issue imo


Thank you for your input, that's exactly what I meant.


If you use FileVault encryption with a secure password.


No, it's encrypted either way. With FileVault enabled it just won't automatically mount and decrypt when connected to the T2 chip


That doesn’t matter if the password is known, guessable, or nonexistent.


Any competent engineer without experience is more likely to figure out how setup and/or troubleshoot nginx than kubernetes.


Yes, same as people like good music :)


Off-topic: I meet someone who didn't like music. I mean no kind of music....hard to believe but such people exist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_anhedonia


I met someone that doesn't dislike it but is totally indifferent to it. Music for him is like traffic noise.


I heard vim supports Vim keybindings out of the box. I may be wrong, I use IdeaVim mostly.


Sadly no OrgMode though!


Sure it does! We just have to re-define "the box" to be

   apt install *


Are they still unstable? Was it the hardware or software the problem (bad support on Linux)?


I changed job since. I guess they still crash or have been disposed. I think it was both hardware and software, since some were working well and the crashing ones were working better on Windows.


How would a CPU fail? Also, did AMD manufacture all failed mobos? In which case who needs to do the QA

Just to be clear, I am not defending defective and/or unreliable products, just want to make sure the fingers are pointed into the right direction.


Freezing, not booting, certain applications not working, failing to pass stress tests, and other misc problems that the user reports.

When those things happen they just send them back to the distributor without testing further because they're not sure. They tell them that a)it's not their fault and returns the cpu or say b)it's their fault and sends a replacement.

Could be that AMD is blindly replacing CPUs rather than test them like Intel does.


I am still surprised that Apple doesn't give the option of non-touchbar. Why is that? A good compromise would be to have both options, imho.


By limiting the customization, it reduces the complexity of supply chains and thus reduces cost.


So where are the savings? Certainly not passed down to the customer.

Plus, Apple is not known for hardware cost-savings as being a primary factor in their key decisions.


> So where are the savings?

Apple is a business and prices its products based on demand. If people are willing to pay a high price, you bet they're going to charge a high price. The savings from not having many hardware variations on a single model are simply accumulated into their bank account.

And they might not cut costs when it comes to the hardware itself, but they are known for having a limited number of options and customizations when it comes to hardware.


Apple doesn't compromise. You either conform to the borgthink, or you go elsewhere.

If you want to Think Different, you don't want apple.


Given that Apple is the only one offering computers with touchbars, I think they are still the Think Different camp.


No, they are in "move fast and break things" camp.


One doesn’t have to exclude the other.


I suspect nobody uses that entire row, so if you're not going to do anything with it besides an escape key, you may as well throw in something interesting.


I've got and used several non-apple laptops that use the row for media keys, and switch them to the function keys with a press of a dedicated fn key at the bottom.

I don't use function keys, but do use the media keys (mostly volume and screen brightness) by touch. The touch bar is hilariously named imho, because you have to look at it to use it.


If that's the case where are the external magic keyboards with touchbars?


Price? I have no idea what the markup on the touchbar is, but I'd guess it's at least in the $50 range, no?

When you're buying a $1650-4000 machine, $50-100 probably isn't gonna make potential buyers balk.

When you're buying a $99 keyboard, $150 is a fairly big difference. And honestly given the $99 price tag on Magic Keyboard, I'd guess Magic Keyboard + Touch bar would be like $199 at least. How many people do you think would buy it at that price tag? You also have to consider that Magic Keyboard currently works with windows, linux, etc, so the potential users are much wider than a Touch bar enabled keyboard, which would only work as intended with macs.


I think a lot of people balk at the price of Macs because it includes useless expensive features.

Where's the iPod Touch of Mac OS?


The Air and the mini.


I assume it's some combination of price, performance, and battery life on the external keyboard.

You can use the Touch Bar on your iPad (using an app like Duet Display, or even with Sidecar if you have a modern MacBook). I find it to be useful in certain situations.


But can it run MacOS? :)


It probably can, although some tinkering is involved.

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-high-sierra-on-hp-s...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xznw4/how-to-make-a-hack...

But yeah... not easily enough that many consumers would consider doing it over directly buying a mac.


There is a legal aspect too. How long Apple will allow/tolerate this?


I don't think they allow it necessarily. They have explicit licensing terms which say that MacOS can only be installed and used on Apple hardware.

How long they tolerate it is another question, and I don't think anyone knows for sure. But if hackintoshing becomes easier (imagine a one click installer on a Dell/HP/ASUS PC), I'd imagine they'd start pursuing people.

I think there was also an individual/company that would build PCs, install MacOS, and sell them for a profit. IIRC, they were shut down.


If I want to use an operating system based on Unix O/S with a fancy window system, I'll use Elementary OS and pocket the $600+ bucks, thanks. There is not a single Mac-only app that can't be replaced by a better app at free or equal cost.


I mean, x code can’t be replaced.

You would have a rough time finding something as good as or better than Logic Pro for $200, too.

Sketch is also very popular, although I have never used it personally.


Still learning, but the diff would be similar between VMs and Containers on Linux.


Same here, happy customer for 4 years. Currently we have ~60 VMs of different sizes (down from ~100 before COVID lockdown).

My main wish at this point is cross data center load balancers.


What do you use all the VMs for, if you don't mind me asking?


It's not a personal project, but for work. Basically to run our mobile backend (nginx, spring boot, mongodb, rabbitmq, etc), staging and production. And all that needs redundancy of course.

We manage them using Ansible.


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