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Why the heck are they talking about hinges, like there is breakthrough research every few years that make any previous hinge obsolete?
The only situation where I hated having an old laptop was when I was forced to open a OneNote note inside of Teams on an 8 year old thinkpad with no dedicated GPU. But then again that’s Microsoft writing shitty software and not the laptop being bad…
Obviously old hinges are increasing your cost of owning an old Laptop??!!
PS:
We sold laptops in the early 90’s that had better hinges than most modern laptops.
Our new laptop (notebook) cannot be opened by simply lifting the lid, because the laptop is too light, so it lifts the entire laptop instead of opening. So you have to use 2 hands to open it, one to lift the lid, and the other to hold the laptop down.
It sounds like everything about that article is crap!
wait, this is not !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world?!
EDIT: Why the heck are they talking about hinges, like there is breakthrough research every few years that make any previous hinge obsolete? The only situation where I hated having an old laptop was when I was forced to open a OneNote note inside of Teams on an 8 year old thinkpad with no dedicated GPU. But then again that’s Microsoft writing shitty software and not the laptop being bad…
Obviously old hinges are increasing your cost of owning an old Laptop??!!
PS:
We sold laptops in the early 90’s that had better hinges than most modern laptops.
Our new laptop (notebook) cannot be opened by simply lifting the lid, because the laptop is too light, so it lifts the entire laptop instead of opening. So you have to use 2 hands to open it, one to lift the lid, and the other to hold the laptop down.
It sounds like everything about that article is crap!
I 'member when laptops required two hands to open because they had proper locking latches on either side.
Yes and that was actually easier IMO.