But which of these new models will have AI?!
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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My late-aughts XPS is a gem - milled aluminum, edge-to-edge glass, and the best laptop keyboard ever since Ye Olde Thinkpads. The glory days of chasing Apple with a Windows box and almost getting there. *pours 40*
That said, their QE went to shit, they pulled that bullshit RTO to soft-layoff everyone, laid off everyone else directly, and spent a ton to hire non-US replacements who aren’t up to speed so they can leverage the exciting benefits of AI (lol).
I’ll never understand why they didn’t put huge effort into backing linux when micro$oft started making hardware. Well - I know why they didn’t. Because they make poor managerial decisions. C’est ça.
I-- wow. I read this article and I have no idea what they're thinking. How does this simplify anything?!
Intensely dumb.
EDIT: The Pro Plus Premium Max etc words all jumbled up together just don't fit well with me. I'd need to keep referring to the chart in the article to avoid confusing between all the models.
Not sure which is the dumbest, Jaguar letting go of its signature mark or HBO renaming themselves to just Max but would be funny if Apple abandoned the Max naming for Ultra.
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Resurrecting their commercials from the 90’s now, it would go like this:
Duuuude, you’re gettin’ a Dell.
Oh….. dang.
so honestly, who would you use now? I'd never buy HP, Acer, Lenovo. total crap machines. what other brands of laptop are any good going into 2025/2026? The XPS was always my go-to but now what options are remaining?
As I work with HP and HPE at work:
Just don't buy anything below ProBook and EliteBook. They are trash.
In fact, don't buy anything you see at an electronic retailer without looking and inspecting the product very intensely.
And buy the business-line. They are usually better than consumer product lines.
At this point I build my desktops and I'll buy Framework laptops.
I honestly still like Thinkpad. Using a T14s currently.
I love my framework, though it's not as small and battery efficient as my previous xps 13
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Ugh.
Why the fuck did it even take them that long? Alienware acquisition was in 2006.