Ars Technica has an editorial on what they'd want in a laptop in 2017. Inspired by this, I figured to make my own list and ask SN for input. I'm not looking for a laptop, but it's fun to think about specs, right?
Anyway, I do think use case is important. My use case: working and travelling daily with laptop, sometimes to various institutes to give presentations. This already leads to some important requirements:
Thinking about it more, most of the things the Ars Editor loves are things I honestly don't use, or actively do not want (touch screen).
With that in mind, I'd arrive at:
Other than that I'd go for modern iterations of specs for things like ethernet, wifi, CPU, etc. So Kaby Lake processor, things like that. GPU is not a big issue, so probably the integrated Intel thing on a modern Intel CPU will be sufficient.
Anything I missed? Anything you'd do radically different? If so: why?
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Friday December 02 2016, @11:36PM
What gives with that anyway? Why are so many like that and why do people buy them? Here, let me grab the anti glare screen off of my Apple IIe...
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday December 03 2016, @12:24AM
Glossy allegedly allows deeper blacks than matte, which smears ambient light all over the display.
(Score: 1) by ComaVN on Saturday December 03 2016, @01:26PM
Who cares about deeper blacks while seeing their own contorted face while looking at, um, stuff?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday December 03 2016, @05:15PM
The bad jokes write themselves...