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 tonyPick on Saturday December 03 2016, @09:33AM
Late to the party, but I'll point at PC specialist [pcspecialist.co.uk] if you're in europe/the UK, who supplied the laptop I'm on right now. (a Clevo 650SJ, I believe) and do a few VGA capable base models in the laptops range.
The killer feature for me on these is that it supports both a VGA and an HDMI port, and it can run both of those plus the internal screen at 1920*1080 simultaneously, giving a laptop with triple display support out of the box, as well as flexible external presentation capabilities.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday December 03 2016, @06:56PM
Unless it appears on a deals site like Slickdeals.net (or UK equivalent), I ain't buying it.
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