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Look at his comment history... he posted about it a bit ago.
edit: Nevermind, that was someone else...  ...so, specs or didn't happen OP!
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I think we're all making him feel rather self-conscious by now.
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He has posted about that laptop before... it's not in his history though.
Maybe the post was deleted or something.
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It got voted as spam/abusive. Although I got to it through my history to get the link for this thread, so it was there.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Maybe I just didn't look closely enough...
Sounds like a nice machine though, enjoy! 
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Added link to description.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Oh, a laptop.
Well, I'm not gonna rain on your parade if that's what makes you happy. My laptops have always been cheap machines, as they're typically impossible to upgrade in any meaningful way, so if you want anything decent you have to pay a fortune upfront (which it seems you did).
Personally, I'd rather have a kick-ass desktop hooked up to a ridiculously large monitor(s), and tons of RAM and storage. For me, a laptop is just something I use to remote into it.
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I've been on that plan for a while... works for me.
Although I do see the appeal of having a good laptop as a "do it all anywhere" machine.
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Albert Holguin wrote: Although I do see the appeal of having a good laptop as a "do it all anywhere" machine.
Appeal, yes, cost-efficient, or practical...not so much.
I'm now used to coding at 4K, and you won't get me using that resolution at, what, 17"? 19"? Are there any laptops with larger screens?
There simply is no practical "do it all" solution in that form factor.
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dandy72 wrote: I'm now used to coding at 4K, and you won't get me using that resolution at, what, 17"? 19"? Are there any laptops with larger screens?
Think most people just get an external monitor(s) with or without a dock for their desk.
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"Quit making of a SPECtacle of yerselves, thinking yer all SPECial demanding SPECifications," he writes, as he removes the SPECk from everyone's eyes sitting around the SPECtrum.
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Added link to description.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Call me old fashioned, but giving $2.2k on a laptop is a waste of money. For that kind of money you can build better desktop system and buy modest laptop for your on the go needs and still have few bucks left.
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I don't use desktop systems anymore.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Nice specification. A bit heavy for my taste, though.
Enjoy!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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If I was buying a desktop replacement laptop I'd probably end up with something similar; a ~100W mobile GPU is about the minimum that will give similar ballpark performance to a mid-range desktop graphics card; and the 17" form factor makes disipating the heat without being a jet turbine simulator a lot easier.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Boots up in under 1 second. You are kidding, right?
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Nope. It seriously does. The only times it doesn't are when it is installing updates or when I do a restart (not a shutdown and power up). The restart only takes about three seconds to boot. Updates can take a while, depending on how many there are.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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It's interesting that almost everyone asked why I think it should be free, so here's my thinking:
Why do viruses exist? Because of bugs in the operating systems and applications that we do pay for. So, in effect, when I spend money on AV software, I'm paying someone else to "fix" the problems created by someone else. That's fine, but then it makes more sense to me that the companies who write the buggy OS's, browser, etc. should pay the AV software companies, not the end user.
Now sure, if there's some advanced features that you might need, then I can see paying for that. But the basic "keep me protected from the bad guys and the buggy OS's" functionality, seems to me like that should be something free.
Of course, with my thinking, companies like Microsoft would simply hide an "AV tax" to their software, haha. Or I could just use Microsoft Security Essentials, but I went down that route once and had some unpleasant experiences, don't recall exactly what. Might try it again on my laptop.
Marc
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Use Linux then... I use both, but definitely pay for AV on my Windows machines.
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Albert Holguin wrote: Use Linux then.
No. 
Marc
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Good decision! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Albert Holguin wrote: Use Linux then...
Because they never get pwned?
Thing is, all systems have exploits, but I have to wonder if Linux may not actually be at a disadvantage here, given that (AFAIK) there's no reputable anti-virus for Linux you can rely on. Which means you totally rely on the end user.
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It always comes down to the end user.... I mean, hell... Linux lets you delete system files, albeit you usually really have to try (sudo).
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ClamAV[^] officially runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and BSD; and can be built for a variety of other platforms. The True64/Alpha box running an embedded system in the lab where I'm spending most of my time runs a copy our admin (who's not a dev and mostly a windows dude at that) was able to get to build with a bit of fiddling.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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