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Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

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224 points cspags | 1 comments | 01 Dec 25 01:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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doublextremevil ◴[07 Dec 25 00:19 UTC] No.46177977[source]▶
the whole pc laptop industry really is an embarrassment right now. It has been 5 years since the M1 Macbook release, and there is no real equivalent. I'm on a thinkpad x9, which might be the closest I've seen, but the cpu performance just isn't as good.
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no_wizard ◴[07 Dec 25 00:51 UTC] No.46178203[source]▶
It has always been an embarrassment.

Vizio made a good laptop once and then they just existed the computer industry. They had a vision of high quality approachable laptops, desktops and pro platforms and their first gen was a good attempt, but they just didn’t follow on.

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1. dafelst ◴[07 Dec 25 02:30 UTC] No.46178658[source]▶
Yes! I had a Vizio laptop (the thin one ala a macbook air) and it was absolutely fantastic, probably the best PC laptop I have ever had. It was lightweight, powerful, had a good screen (for the time) plus some things that few other laptops had at the time, like a TPM.