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cultofmetatron ◴[] No.45366820[source]
why is it so hard for these companies to do any kind of descent marketing? more importantly, when do we get descent macbook air competitors?
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1. thewebguyd ◴[] No.45366889[source]
> when do we get descent macbook air competitors

When laptop OEMs stop catering to the lowest common denominator corporate IT purchasers (departments which don't care about screen quality, speaker quality, or much of anything else outside of does the spec sheet on paper match our requirements and is it cheap).

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2. delfinom ◴[] No.45367497[source]
I have a Yoga Slim 7x, which has the ARM. Screen quality is fantastic along with build quality, touchpad and keyboard feel :shrug:

It really depends on what Laptop line you buy. Dells have overwhelmingly become garbage, right next to HP.

Speaker quality on a laptop oth? Couldn't care less, I use headphones/earbuds 99% of the time because If I'm going portable computer, I'm traveling and I don't want to be an inconsiderate arse.

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3. adastra22 ◴[] No.45367664[source]
The Yoga Slim 7x is a rather unique outlier. I was on the market for a non-Mac laptop a little while ago, and the was literally the only one that met my standards.
4. varispeed ◴[] No.45367776[source]
> departments which don't care about screen quality, speaker quality, or much of anything else outside of does the spec sheet on paper match our requirements and is it cheap)

Translation: departments which don't care about worker's wellbeing.