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 Squidious on Saturday December 03 2016, @03:10AM
Number one requirement for me is disposably cheap - less then $70 a unit. I buy used business laptops in lots and outfit my crew with identical equipment with multiple spares on the shelf already configured. All important data is backed up on servers. Somebody sloshes a soda or drops one on the tile and they can grab the next one off the stack and keep rolling. The broken laptops go in a tub until I can spare a moment to mix and match them back to working order. It's not so much about the money saved but about making those hardware accidents non-events.
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