I've been on a Asus Zenbook for almost a year now and I must admit that I am extremely happy with it. I would seriously consider this one, if only I would have gotten used to dual screens. Since I am also using a desktop at home with a 32" 4k display I've really appreciated having everything on one screen.
This is right. That's why you should not only be looking at IRR but also multiple of money returned (MoM or MOIC). When you saw a couple of private equity fund presentations (of which VC is just one subset), you will better understand what the differences are and how this affects your potential investment as a limited partner in such a fund.
But let's also not forget that in many cases these funds are driven by their investors to focus on IRR. Many times these funds do not cater towards retail investors. The problem is therefore coming from the institutional side where people seem to be pushing these metrics.
I had a Dell XPS 9310 until about 3 months ago when suddenly one of the fans died on me for no obvious reasons while I was in quarantine. Given that the fans are now soldered onto the mainboard, Dell was offering me to repair this for almost the same amount I paid for the whole laptop 2 years earlier. Needless to say that this was the last time I will buy a Dell.
Since I am located in Asia, I also went to one of the unauthorized repair shops to see if they could offer a cheaper way to get this done. When I walked in, I saw two customers in front of me with Dells. When it was my turn, I also asked which laptop brands are having the most and least issues. Not surprisingly, Lenovo and Dell rank very high. The Taiwanese (Asus, Acer) as well as Razer and hp were considered of higher quality.
Apple as well. I have a 2018 15" Macbook Pro with problems:
- The battery is dying
- The touchbar flickers whenever it is 'off' - a hardware fault that requires the full top case to replaced[1] - Quotes of $400-1200.
And things that aren't technically problems but still have the same, can't do anything about it stuck with the problem vibe:
- I keep running out of space, but it's soldered to the logic board
- Keyboard is one of those shitty butterfly keyboards
- It's always heat throttling
Granted, I might be able to get some of them fixed, but not without major inconvenience of being without my laptop for some period of time.
I've used Macs since the Apple Mac IIx, but I really hate the can't fix your own computer thing that has taken over in the last few years, for both Apple and others.
If Framework[2] offered a 15" or 17" version, I would be there in a heartbeat, but the 13" is just too small considering I don't use an external monitor.
With the M1 Macs Apple have done quite a lot to address these issues.
The M1 MacBook Air I’m using feels as reliable and cool as mid 2000 MacBook. Complete night and day difference to the hot mess which was my previous 2018 MacBook Pro.
I still wish Framework would scale faster and start selling the the EU today. But building a hardware company is slow and hard.
My GF has a M1 mac and is quite happy with it. I have a problem rewarding Apple with another purchase, given the dismal performance of this machine.
The 2018 mac was a top of the line purchase. I think it came to about $5000 AUD if memory serves. It's essentially worthless now because I can't sell it in it's current state.
I might cave when they update the 16in to M1X sometime soon, but I won't be happy about it.
I've been using my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) for the last 7 years, fortunately without any issues! I've never had to have any repairs or replacement done to it.
A small dent and some scratches in the lid are the worst problems I have.
I have been holding out over the entire touchbar, keyboard and other debacles and will probably go for the new updated Pro model by the end of the year.
Let's hope my next purchase lasts as long as this machine has :)
There was a period of time when Apple really seemed to have lost their way with the MacBooks. I had a 2013 that was flawless. Then the lease was up and my company sent me a 2017 model to replace it. That machine was never much good. Randomly slow, awful keyboard, etc. Luckily the battery decided to become a balloon, and so my replacement is a newer 16-inch MBP. The new MBP seems to have addressed all of the stupidity that was going on in 2017 and 2018. And I bought a 2020 M1 MBP for myself, and it has also been quite solid. I don't want to say that Apple necessarily fixed all of their stupidity or really learned anything, but someone there still appears to give a shit.
That is correct. However, according to a quick Google search, each hp, Lenovo, and Dell produce roughly the same number of laptops each year. Therefore the technician's statement about hp's being of better quality should weigh heavier.
Anecdotally, I know three people including myself who’ve had ASUS machines die on them right out of warranty protection, and I do not recommend them at all.
For me it's Acer users that always have defects on their laptops. Someone else I know swears by Toshiba. Given how many different opinions there are out there, I feel like we just can't tell which brands are good without doing actual research, and probably we'd have to segregate by things like price band or series and perhaps even by year as teams or executives come and go.
I was at Stanford during the time when the iPhone launched in the late summer of 2007. In the subsequent fall quarter, I took a class that was taught by Eric Schmid. When the topic in one of the classes came to Android, Eric admitted straight out that Google has one primary goal: to get more people onto the Internet. Because more people on the Internet would mean more people would search for content, generating more revenue for Google. Making Android available for free was lowering the cost for mobile phones.
There were other devices out there that qualified as smartphones and enabled users to browse the Internet (just think of the terrible HTC Touch, powered by Windows Pocket PC). Hence the threat wasn't just Apple.
I am very much concerned about focal accommodation. This becomes particularly important when driving at higher speeds. The sheer fact that my eyes do not need to adjust focus when looking into rear view mirrors (in comparison to cameras/screens) saves me critical milliseconds when overtaking a car or before making a turn.
Of course, this becomes irrelevant when we are talking about parking.
And, in addition, one can use one's stereoscopic vision with a mirror. Even if that does not provide much information about vehicle distance and speed (though it feels to me as though it does), a screen gives false stereoscopic information.
From the article, the dependence on Android with a Google services seems to be something that is expected by consumers outside of China. Without those, the appeal for its otherwise great hardware may be diminishing.
On processors, RISC-V certainly had the potential to change the game. Not just for China but also for the established players. But even then, designing and producing (at high yields) are not the same. China still has a lot to learn here.
Don't get what's "great" about these movies. According to IMDb, the ratings are:
Synchronicity: 5.5
Lazer Team: 5.7
Southbound: 5.9
The Witch: 6.7
10 Cloverfield Lane: 7.3
Midnight Special: 6.7
The Lobster: 7.1
Hardcore Henry: 6.8
Elstree 1976: 6.1
High-Rise: 5.7
TMNT: Out of the Shadows: 6.0
Swiss Army Man: 7.1
Kubo and the two strings: 8.1
Surprised I didn't see any of the following on that list: ARQ (6.4), Project Almanac (6.4), Self/Less (6.5), Chappie (6.9), Star Trek: Beyond (7.2), Ex Machina (7.7), Train to Busan (7.6), The Martian (8.0).
The real issue here is that stock effects have occurred because of both (i) a potential flaw in a product and (ii) short positions. Carson acts as a monetization platform for product flaws of publicly listed companies, creating value by executing (ii) for (i) and thus creating real pressure on companies to disclose and address (i). To what degree these accusations are true is another question and pulls this into the same reign as the currently ongoing public feud between Ackman and Icahn over Herbalife.
Hmm... I'm not sure I see this the same way. The impact on the price by a single investor shorting the stock (even a leveraged hedge fund) will be minimal. Furthermore, the only way for said investor to actually make a profit is to make other investors agree (i.e. to essentially anticipate their actions), so they do need to publicise the vulnerability. Still, they're taking a risk because other investors might not see the vulnerability as critical or otherwise worthy of a lower valuation.
FFS Microsoft, let me pin my notebooks on the lefthand side of onenote for mac. The navigation when you have lots and lots of sections is horrendous. ESPECIALLY when you can't sort by name from the mac client. Regardless, scrolling left to right isn't natural with a keyboard and mouse when you've got literally hundreds of sections like I do (one per client).
