Tailsnake
On The Verge since Dec 02, 2011
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Why does this matter?
To me, it matters because I bought the MBP with the intention of using it with an external desktop-class GPU to provide OpenCL acceleration.You should probably return the Macbook while you can and wait until the community sorts this out before jumping in. This seems like the type of thing that’s going to have iffy support even in the best of circumstances, especially if Apple doesn’t particularly care about eGPU support.
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I’d go for 256 GB if it’s your main computing device. There’s no easy way to expand the internal storage on these laptops so it’s better to be safe than sorry and purchase at least one storage level above what you think the lowest you need is (i.e. if you think you could get by with 128, buy 256, if you think you’d need at least 256, buy 512, etc.).
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I think some people consider it "stock" because it’s far less offensive than the heavier skins most people complain about. I’m perfectly content with the Sony skin, despite generally not liking the chinese OEM skins or LG/Samsung’s skins.
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Neither Trump or Clinton would’ve had chance against almost any other candidate (i.e. both polled worse than "generic" republican/democrat).
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This is the option I’d suggest as well. The rMBP was basically a retina version of the MBA for the past few years. It addresses the biggest complaint about the MBA (the screen) and has better CPU/GPU performance as well.
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It seems custom tailored for streamers. While I have enough coins to play it, I’m going to continue saving them for the new expansion and just wait for next week’s brawl.
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I was hoping to actually see a history of Apple’s dongles
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Galaxy S, in my experience, observing people around me, has very little loyalty. It’s just that they have no competition in the high end.
I disagree with this. While the loyalty isn’t as strong as the iPhone, I know many people who stand by their Galaxy devices and pay no real mind to (or even know of) anything else. We’re both working off anecdotes though, so it’s hard to say one way or the other.
If there is a device, like OP3, that has like 80% of what galaxy s has, for 70% the price, and you know if there is a problem you will be serviced, many people would choose that.
70% of the Galaxy S is approximately what the OnePlus 3T costs. I doubt they’re going to be able to meaningfully improve service when they’re giving away most of their profit margin to compete on price. It’s the tradeoff they’ve chosen and it’s essentially the same tradeoff Google made with the Nexus-line.
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The XB One has a slightly more powerful CPU (~10%) while the PS4 had a significantly more powerful GPU (~40%) and significantly faster RAM (DDR5 vs DDR3). Unlike previous generations, the consoles are easy to directly compare on a spec by spec basis because they use essentially the same architecture.
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I think you’re right that this sort of "Nexus" market still exists, as proven by the backlash against the Pixel’s price, but I’m not sure it’s big enough to sustain any one company, especially when this market has proven to be surprisingly fickle over the years. All it takes is another company to offer the same proposition and their niche is threatened.
You definitely identified what I think the primary risk to OnePlus is in the short run (i.e. price sensitive customers have very little brand loyalty and will switch as soon as something else beats your price:specs ratio). While I think that the "Nexus" userbase is a niche that’s large enough to be sustainable, another threat OnePlus will be forced to reckon with in the longer run, regardless of their success, will be expanding beyond that niche userbase. We saw Google, even with their massive resources eventually realize the only way to meaningfully expand beyond those price conscious enthusiast users was to go upmarket and OnePlus may eventually find themselves faced with the same reality.
Regardless, I still think OnePlus is in a better position in the west than all but a handful of Android OEMs.
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The OnePlus has notable advantages over chinese competitors (who still put heavy skins on their devices and have terrible update records), the iPhone SE (which is tiny), and the Galaxy S6/Nexus 6P (which are older meaning worse SoCs and likely shorter remaining support lifetime).
Now that Google has abandoned the value market, OnePlus has a pretty robust niche to serve of people that want to pay $300-$500 for near top of the line specs and stock android. I don’t see their strategy being able to move them out of that niche, but they’re in a healthier position than a lot of Android OEMs that seem to be flailing around looking for a market (ex. Sony, Motorola, LG, etc).
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C’mon, announce a 5" version and I wouldn’t even be considering the iP7, Pixel or S7 anymore.
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It can’t match the Pixel (or an iPhone of course) in touch latency
What’s that?
Touch Latency is a measure of input lag (i.e. how long the screen takes to respond to a touch gesture). Apple and HTC have historically had rather low touch latency and Google made it a priority in the Pixel as well, it just makes the phone feel snappier. The OnePlus 3 has particularly high touch latency, but honestly, unless you’re coming from a phone with very low latency or you’re particularly sensitive to input lag, you probably won’t notice it much.
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Counterpoint: Obama (especially in ’08 when his campaign platform was basically socialist-lite)
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Low voter turn out might have the result of changing up the Democratic party but it has the absolute result of a Trump presidency, a Republican House and Senate and a Republican majority Supreme Court.
I think it’s perverse to blame this outcome on the voters rather than the Party and the Candidate that utterly failed to speak to them. I agree that anyone who didn’t vote is complicit in the Trump presidency and shares at least part of the blame for everyone that is harmed during the next 4 years. However, I disagree that not voting isn’t a valid form of political expression and I think that a (vast) majority the blame for this loss should fall at the feet of the party not the people.
Secondly, "no matter how much you hate the candidate, go out and vote so our side can control the government" is exactly the line of reasoning a significant portion of the Republican base were following when they voted for Trump. That line of reasoning is exactly what gets you terrible candidates like Trump (and Clinton) and puts them in power.
And lastly, there is a significant portion of the US that has been badly hurt by globalization and the general path of the modern US parties. The fact that significant portions of the midwest that came out and voted for Obama in force the last two elections, liked Bernie, but ended up voted for Trump this time should speak to how poorly Clinton spoke to and understood a significant portion of the people she was supposed to serve as president. Those people chose to elect a authoritarian, racist, misogynist, and unqualified idiot over her, because he at least tried to speak to the pain in their lives (and they prioritized that over the recognition of science, respect for women and LGBT, and care for the poor/ill).
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Again, I don’t want to get into this here, but here are two good explanatory links: long and detailed (there are a few points related specifically to compulsory voting, but most points work for either high turnout or compulsory turnout).
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You’re talking about low overall voter turnout. I was speaking about low turnout among specific demographics. The Democratic/Clinton coalition was larger than Trump’s base this year and if the democrats/she had managed to get the same type of democratic voter turnout Obama did in the last two elections, they would’ve won.
There are pros and cons to high overall voter turnout, but that’s really beyond the scope of what I was talking about here.
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Oddly enough, I agree with kpkp here. Participating in a broken democratic process only serves to perpetuate the flaws in said process and give the candidates legitimacy. Low turnout numbers for specific candidates forces the party to change their policy and messaging. Thus, sitting out of an election where you cannot bring yourself to vote for either candidate is a perfectly valid choice and shapes the way future elections are run.
While Trump winning sucks for a lot of reasons, one of the silver linings of Hilary’s loss is the likely death of neoliberalism as the central dogma of the modern Democratic party. In 2020 we’re almost certainly going to have a candidate on the Democratic side that is a progressive populist (like Sanders, Warren, and ‘08 Obama) rather than another neoliberal centrist (like Mrs/Mrs. Clinton, Gore, and Kerry) and we’ll have people who would’ve voted Democratic this year, but sat out because of Clinton/Trump to thank for it.
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I just don’t want to spend money on this machine now and then in a year the battery caves or something.
It’s also worth remembering that the battery life on the new devices is significantly better than the old ones. The 2015 15" rMBP lasts 9 hours on battery in light use while your 2012 MBP lasted 6 hours when new (probably closer to 4-5 hours now). 50% more battery life provides you with a lot of freedom and peace of mind that you never even knew you were missing with your older laptop.
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I have a 2013 13" Macbook Air and I might be able to get a 15" rMBP for work reasons. I’ve been leaning towards the 2015 rMBP over the 2016 rMBP for the exact same reasons you outlined above. The 2015 isn’t much worse than the 2016 (a bit thicker, slightly worse screen, and smaller trackpad), but is much cheaper (The base price for a refurb 2015 15" is ~$1000 less than the base 2016 15" here), has a better keyboard, and allows me to avoid the dongle-life for another 4+ years.
tl;dr You’re not being silly and you’re not alone.
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