Much like the consumer lines from other brands, it’s a lot of cost-cutting. Plastic everything, hinges that break prematurely, limited power filtering, that sort of thing.
One that frequently pops up (although I’m not familiar with that particular model) is poor cooling. Heat kills many gaming laptops, either directly or indirectly. That can mean needing more fans/bigger vents, being unable to clean them, or liquid metal thermal paste that leaks and shorts out.
Don’t just consider the brand. You have to consider the line/model.
Lenovo’s consumer lines (Ideapad, Legion, and others) are all absolute garbage, and you shouldn’t consider them for even a second. But their enterprise line (Thinkpad) is generally very, very good. The main problem is that they’re expensive.
Asus is strictly consumer-grade. They do not have an enterprise line. Their build quality is among the best you can find in consumer-grade, but enterprise-grade is always higher quality than consumer-grade.
I would never leave an OEM load on it, so privacy isn’t much of a concern for me. I suspect they’re both pretty bad in this regard.
There’s a fan edit called Game of Thrones Redeemed. Apparently it fixes that trainwreck into something reasonably satisfying, although I’ve not seen it yet.
Sometimes when they play live, they get a bit carried away. The silence can go for 10 minutes or more!
Yes, but that’s only an issue if you are interested in those other communities. In this case, the instance is dedicated to anime, so it’s only an issue if you want to browse those other anime communities.
Amazingly, it was also the kind of thing he could’ve vaporwared away, just by (mostly) following policy. All he had to do was claim (from the beginning) that there are ongoing investigations, agency policy is to not release info about those investigations, and then lie that there are going to be arrests really soon.
You can’t imagine my surprise and disappointment that this isn’t a real movie.
Just FYI, those are almost all on the same instance, and you can block that instance as a whole. It’s dedicated to anime, so there’s not a ton of collateral damage.
In 1996, your dreams were far away. They might as well have been on Saturn.
While that technology does exist, it is not present on the vast majority of EVs. It does not answer any questions, nor solve any problems, for anyone that owns or is considering buying one of them.
(And for the record, that solution creates a ton of problems on its own that you’re overlooking)
It means (at least in theory) that they’ll keep her frozen for 30 years, instead of changing direction and letting her melt after 5.
Data centers, even very large ones, do not create a lot of full time jobs. There are a bunch of short-term construction jobs, but few permanent roles.
But it will spike the cost of electricity and deplete the local water supply.
Spend the money and get concert earplugs. Not only will it save money (a basic set is only about $30), and fit better, but the event will sound better. Those foam ones are great to protect your ears, but they muffle the sound. Great if you’re around power tools and the like, but terrible if you’re at a concert
Concert earplugs (I have Loops, but there are countless options and each has its fans) lower the volume without significantly changing the sound. You can still hear your favorite songs, and they sound correct.
I won’t speak for VW, but most of these systems are built on QNX. You need a real-time operating system for a lot of these operations.
It seems more like the futures market. The jewelers are “buying” gold at the current price to make things with gold, and they will need to repay the same amount of gold. If the price goes up, the jewelers will be paying more at that time, and the owners make a profit. If the price goes down, the owners lose money (same as if they simply held it)
Federal law requires the warranty of 8 years or 100k miles. Several states have stricter controls beyond that.
The very first line:
A loss leader (also leader) is a pricing strategy where a product is sold at a price below its market cost to stimulate other sales of more profitable goods or services.
So the answer to their question is “Yes, a loss leader needs to lead to something”. I have no idea why you think they have no idea what they’re talking about.
There’s actually a really good point - 52 years would be on the high side even if he had been convicted for aggravated homicide - including planning and intentionally targeting the victim.
This is largely going to depend on exactly how they go out of business. In the US, it’s typical for a company in decline to be bought wholesale by a bigger player. They’ll take control over all aspects, and consolidate them to stay profitable. This would ensure that parts (etc) are available at least for the required 10 years.
However, if a company is a complete dumpster fire, it may go into chapter 7 bankruptcy. In this case, all assets are auctioned off to pay whatever debts they can, and any remaining creditors (potentially including customers) are left in the cold.
In the US, most EV models are from major brands - Ford, GM, and VW as a whole will not go under, so they will still make parts for the required 10 years. But if you have a Lucid or Rivian, you’re taking a bigger risk.
I suspect the Chinese companies are in a similar boat. The smaller players will probably be bought/merged instead of completely dissolving.
Thinkpads are enterprise machines, so they aren’t really designed for gaming. But there’s a lot of overlap with things like graphics rendering, so they do have some options.
The T series is the standard corporate line (usually T14) for the average office worker. These sometimes have a dGPU available. You’d probably want something in the P line, but those are much more expensive.