If you're placing an order for 20,000 laptops that will be used in something like the school system you will think about repair costs that won't be covered by warranty.
If it can output 65W or whatever the laptop requires, sure. Can a pack-in phone charger do that?
Institutions and corporate customers take out insurance on laptops for when end users inevitably fuck them up in some way that isn't covered by the warranty. Sadly I've never seen reparability factor into purchasing decisions wherever I've worked. If governments actually cared about e-waste, they should factor reparability into their purchasing decisions as they are huge buyers, but they'd rather just create impenetrable regulation and tax more.
I don’t want to carry around my phone charger either.
I’d rather have something that doesn’t chug from having more than two browser tabs open. Also, ARM Windows laptops have godawful trackpads and keyboards, they’re basically just overpriced chromebooks. I do a tonne of typing, a good keyboard matters to me almost as much as the battery life.
You can charge with less than the specified power, it’ll just be slower. I’ve charged Windows laptops with my 35W phone charger, it’s just you charge for four hours to get two hours of battery life, and if you’re actually using the thing while it’s charging you barely even break even.
Because it really doesn't matter to some. Unless they complain about it but still buy shitty battery life, those are just idiots.
What I don't get is why Apple users get obsessed with the one single aspect of laptops that Apple does well in, then lords it over every other aspect as if it matters to most people.
What's the premium for 30 schools? Those offering the insurance wants to make money in the end.
When I was in that world the public schools had their equipment insured by the state government but the US is probably different.
I recently picked up one of those 100w USB C PD charging squares. It was surprisingly low cost at walmart for like $40 for a 100w adapter. The PD standard is pretty good gotta say. I can charge my laptop,, phone, power my soldering iron, and charge my Steam Deck all from one adapter.
...there is an obese, diabetic elephant in the room regarding the demographics that use Apple's desktop and laptop computers. These "people" don't care about gaming, having office software, usb ports, ethernet, HDMI, etc. They either don't ever use these anyway, or have bought into Apple's (overpriced) alternatives. They are a demographic that will gladly pay for convenience and safety at all costs. Just let them waste their money.
I’ve gamed on mine, it’s no worse than any other laptop.
They do have way better trackpads though.
A few wouldn’t go amiss.
You can do both HDMI and DP over USB-C, and Ethernet is usually done through your desk docking station/KVM anyway, adding it directly to the laptop either makes the machine much thicker or is really fragile.
We have the same office suite you do though?
I consider that a positive.
This used to be true until Apple Silicon. Good luck getting anything but MacOS running properly on their new architecture unless you count autistic tranny toy systems like Asahi Linux. Old intel based macs are another story of course.
Now this one strikes a chord with me because it reminds me of a pet peeve I have with Windows itself conflating the terms "Windows" and "computer." I get perhaps unreasonably angry when I see a BSOD--typically caused by a shitty broken driver, a virus, or just the fact Windows is made by pajeets with absolutely no quality control--and the accompanying message that tells you "your PC had a problem." No bitch, your shitty system has a problem. Nothing's wrong with the PC. You pay for this privilege of being treated like a fucking retard, by the way.
This is why I consider all people using Apple Silicon-based devices to be phoneposters. You aren't even using a computer at that point.
I won't sperg too much about switching to Linux here since its a hardware thread, but this is why I ditched Windows years ago.
I do appreciate the subtitle you added, tho :-)
You could get a very roomy battleship keyboard and stick a laptop motherboard in the back. There’s usually plenty of room in those. It’s not exactly portable though.
