What a fucking joke. I hope this goes down in flames from the get-go, but I know it’s going to bounce high on the first day, defying all logic.

This company will never make an actual $1 Trillion fucking Dollars.

Or played Metal Gear. WTF.

🤦…here we go again

Somebody’s about to do something fucking horrific again.

In what ways to they fail? I’ve used LibreOffice forever and don’t have any specific complaints, but I’m definitely not using any of the more advanced features.

You can still get GL.inet routers even on Amazon as of right now, and they’re on sale (for obvious reasons).

There’s the OpenWRT One router that is basically just a Banana Pi board.

There’s lots. Just search around.

YUP. I’ve deployed hundreds of these. They make good hardware, their developers and hardware engineers are quick to respond to customers, and they just make a good product. They even share their board designs, because why not?

Sucks they’re going to be caught in the crossfire here.

This is a good time to remind everyone to avoid any of the major manufacturers. Get pre-built OPEN boxes and install OpenWRT. You performance and capabilities will beat the shit out of any of the other stuff anyway.

Sadly, there were a few great foreign-made manufacturers who had great hardware for this. Technically they aren’t “network routers” and just blank hardware, so probably don’t fall into the idiotic language put forth here.

This man went from high to low REAL fast.

Well…yeah. That’s their bread and butter.

Worst mobile app on the planet with SO many bugs, but dammit if they aren’t a clean platform otherwise.

Boo hoo

All of those explanations, but you’re not even saying WHY it’s an alternative, or to WHAT

Resolution alone isn’t the only factor. It’s a larger display, requiring more power, which is either a PC/PD issue, or a battery issue. The point is that the power draw has to come from somewhere, and nothing this is the same platform as an iPhone (essentially), there’s going to be a trade-off somewhere.

As you noted they’ve reduced the refresh rate, which makes a big impact, but I don’t think it stops there.

The original platform has apps that are optimized for that platform, and now you’re throwing a different OS at it which has more expansive use of resources: CPU, memory, GPU, and power.

We’ll have to see how they have made paths through MacOS to account the platform specifically, but I’m betting there are several drawbacks. This was the main complaint of how they dealt with those insanely expensive Mac Pro with M-class chips when they first came out, but in the inverse. High power draw, heat issues…etc.

Mobile chip power is insane AT THAT SCALE though. That’s the key differentiation here. So if you’re running a larger format display with a higher resolution, cut that by quite a bit. Also cut it if you’re running desktop apps that aren’t optimized for mobile, and if this is intended to run MacOS instead of iOS, the mobile optimistic memory scheduling is out the window. I’ll have to see it to say for sure, but I’m guessing the performance for average desktop apps is going to be pretty, but that’s kind of the price point.

This is Apple’s scoop up of the ChromeOS segment.

Repair friendly means CHEAP components repair, which Apple just does not do.

As an example, in a machine like this if your WiFi module tanks…that’s a full logic board replacement. Might as well buy a new one.

According to this, Apple is basically making an insurance vertical as part of their business, and they are pricing repairs to be exactly 1/3 the retail cost of the machine for pretty much everything except screens.

This is pretty scam my when you consider their past of quoting customers for repairs that are above and beyond the scope of the actual hardware failures, and what maximizes profits for their AppleCare and RMA process. There are dozens of breakdowns in this, so I won’t write a novel, but it’s very obvious they’ve baked in the costs to make it more cost-effective to just keep buying new units as a replacement in the face of simple hardware failures.

The failure rates of these will be the determining factor. The components inside are cheap, all soldered on, and will not be repairable at all (waiting on the iFixIt score).

Its pretty much just their phone platform with a big screen and keyboard, so maybe it’ll be okay. It’s not built like a phone though, so I’m expecting some interesting testing outcomes. It’s either going to be cheap enough that they have a new planned obsolescence hit on their hands, or people are going to be pissed at it sucking so hard.

Meta never acquired my VR Mansion. It was super cool.

Dafuq

Literally nobody in the consumer market will care, and the DC crowd won’t buy this until they can prove failure rates.

It’s not that we don’t know what it is, it, again, is just INCREDIBLY FUCKING STUPID.

This is… incredibly stupid. This man has done so many drugs he no longer realizes how computers or electricity works.

ETA: https://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/23nd6a/i_remember_in_the_90s_illegal_or_black_box_cable/