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Lenovo quietly launched the world’s lightest laptop but it won’t sell it outside Asia (www.techradar.com)
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[–] exterstellar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure plenty of companies including Lenovo still make chunky workstations, no?

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, but we're talking about laptops.

[–] zefiax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Laptops are primarily designed with portability in mind. If I wanted a work station I would use one. When you are traveling regularly and carrying a laptop in your backpack, every gram counts.

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

See:

Doesn’t mean they can’t offer both, and there’s no reason they can’t have status lights, 7-row keyboards, and reasonable port offerings (even if it’s mostly a bunch of USB C ports, which can service just about anything) in a smaller package, it’s that they’re cheap, lazy fucks selling trends instead of utility.

So now you get less and less utility and maintainability for the same or greater price. They spend less on engineering and charge you the same or more for it. Fuck them.

[–] zefiax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's absolutely not true. It is very difficult to develop lighter and thinner laptops. And the main utility of a laptop is for it to meet my needs while being portable. The portability is the main utility. A laptop like this will meet the utility needs for 99% of the population while giving them what they are looking for from a laptop the most, portability.

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Bullshit. Even the smallest 12" ThinkPads had all of these things. They were lightweight and compact, and still had 7-row keyboards, a status light for everything, and a plethora of ports.