And finally, finally, finally, Vizio has fully unveiled its brand new line up of laptops and all-in-ones. The successful American TV maker announced its new kit at CES in January, catching my eyes with a set of beautiful, distinctive laptops and all-in-ones, and, as they promised back then, they have now unveiled all. This has want written all over it. Update: Rejoice: non-glossy, matte screens on the laptop.
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Exactly. Stop making things thinner, and stick bigger/better batteries inside. We don't need laptops under 1" thick ... we need laptops that will last a full work/school day away from an outlet. Just like we don't need phones that are thin enough to slice cheese ... we need phones we can use heavily for a full day (or even three) without lugging a charger around.
We've gone way beyond the useful limits for "thin". We need longer usage times!!
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We've gone way beyond the useful limits for "thin". We need longer usage times!!
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Evidently there is no demand for a laptop, phone, or whatever, that lasts all day, or the manufacturers would make them. That's why the skinny phones like the Droid Razr sell like hotcakes even though you have to start looking for a power outlet before noon if you use the LTE to any degree at all. Same thing for the ultrabooks. Apple is doing better with their Macbook Airs in this department than the PC makers, but I still want a laptop that lasts all day.
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Agreed
Boring chunks of aluminium, MB-Air clone number #21425,
skinny and flat as an anorexic top model.
No, thanks.
I want many connectors and removable parts (ram, HDD...) . I could even like a computer where the (replaceable) AC power supply is integrated.
Some crapwares like evaluation versions of antiviruses are said to be "sponsored" by their providers and actually reduce the price of the windows licence.
Real innovation is to just sell computers without any installed OS and eventually sell separately "real" installation media (CD, USB device...)
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Sadly you can blame what has been labeled "cargo cult usability" and the fact that Apple and their "Art of design" has been such a huge hit.
Just like the cargo cults simply mimicked the most obvious features of an airbase without knowing the reasoning behind it and thought that it would work, these companies are taking the most obvious part of Apple design, the "thin and sleek look" and copying it hoping like the cults to replicate success.
Personally i'm with you, I'd rather have longer battery life which is why i went an got a EEE AMD netbook, as while its not as thin and sleek as the new machines it gets around 6 hours for me playing 720p video, longer for surfing, and a third party battery can get that up to closer to 12 if i need the extra time. But it looks like sadly we are in the minority as people keep buying these thinner devices, it doesn't help that many like my cousins have already been trained to carry a charger with them everywhere because of how quickly you can drain these devices, they just go from outlet to outlet as if that should just be expected, never questioning it.
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Just to let you know that the Dell XPS 17 (L702X) that I have has a matte screen. The fact hadn't been publicized at all, which I still don't understand. I can't tell you how pleased I was when I first opened the lid and realized the laptop had a matte screen! I also realized that the argument/pretext about better colors on glossy screens is pure BS.
Barring the lousy non-backlit keyboard, this computer is the best I've ever had and the matte screen contributes much to that impression of mine.
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As I wrote in another comment on this article, some Dell laptops have matte screens but Dell doesn't advertise that feature, which is a mistake IMO. Mine is a full hd on a 17" laptop with high-luminosity, wide viewing angles and bright colors. Some people have the 3D version of the screen.
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Dell makes an All-In-One that completes with Apple's
Dell XPS One 27
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404922,00.asp
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Of course. It doesn't have the same cultural inertia that the others do, it doesn't have the size the others do, and it has the luxury of enter PCs as a side business. The others need massive volume to pay the bills, and massive volume lends itself best to boring bland designs.
The question, in my mind, is how is the support experience, and what kind of value does Vizio bring to the table that the others don't?
Lenovo inherited the excellent support tools from IBM, and ThinkPads are built like tanks. Their update tool is second to none. The others have tools that are supposed to work like that, but really, they're useless.
Dell is the most end user focused and has excellent support. Their support is the least antagonistic of the big three. Dell Diagnostics actually works well, but the rest of their tools don't work that well.
I'm not sure what value HP brings to the table. Their computers are cheap, and their support is awful.
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Unfortunatelty, it's not only crapware/trialware that slows down a PC. It's also the fact the installation image is "automatically generated from a database", whatever this means. This is the reason the update to SP3 failed for some XP machines back then (OEMs used the same image for Intel and AMD laptops) and probably the reason my mom's HP came with a fragmented HDD out of the box (took 1,5 hours to defrag). Or why my old compaq nx9420 boots faster with 7 than the OEM-installed XP.
Normally OEMs should install the OS by hand in the first sample of a particular model, and make the image from that. Not generate it automatically. So let's see how Vizio does woth that and what the boot times of their PCs will be before we rejoice.
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