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I deal with a lot of these and I don’t like them. the keyboard feels mushy. the hinge is so stiff you can’t open the laptop with one hand. the trackpad is awful. screen is average I guess. I’m mostly talking about latitudes here but the xps isn’t much better. I much preferred when we were buying HPs and I’m really glad I got an elitebook while we were still deploying them.
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I loving loathe my Z book and my elitebook before that hp can suck my trunk their poo poo is garbage. give me my xps that I demanded
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Jun 30, 2022 20:09
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I dont mean to be dismissive op but: 
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dell more like smell amiright
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idg why everyone gets all horny for the xps
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macbooks and thinkpads and maybe those panasonic toughbooks are the only laptops worth having imo
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Jun 30, 2022 20:18
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I’d get horny over a laptop that’d actually work. not have lovely memory failures, lovely graphic cards with drivers that corrupt with the lovely Citrix system I am forced to use, and make the laptop weigh half a ton.
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Jun 30, 2022 20:18
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I have one and it's perfectly functional.
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Jun 30, 2022 20:26
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sounds kinda poo poo ngl
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Jun 30, 2022 20:51
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work just ordered me a new dell laptop to replace the one that I have that's only like 2 years old. the one I have now has a really loud fan
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i have an xps 15. annoying with only one usb-c port, but i guess they might've fixed that in the later models keyboard sucks, rest is ok. touchpad is one of the better ones? don't know why people whine over the touchpad, i'm betting it's windows and sucky drivers. works wonders with libinput in linux.
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Jun 30, 2022 21:25
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i still have a 5450 from $oldjob that never asked for it back. i guess i could use it as an ablative shield or something
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Jun 30, 2022 21:27
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business laptops from the big three OEMs are all the same. some are good, some are crap, which ones are which varies between models and manufacturers from year to year.
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i initially got an XPS 15 to replace my ancient 2013 Acer, can confirm the keyboard is rear end also it had an issue with the body machining tolerances such that the clickpad would get stuck down and continue sending button press events if you used the CPU a lot and the metal body expanded ever so slightly. returned that pos and got a thinkpad
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SO DEMANDING posted:business laptops from the big three OEMs are all the same. some are good, some are crap, which ones are which varies between models and manufacturers from year to year. the hp elitebook has been consistently good since 2017 and has only gotten better since
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hey, since this thread exists now, we might just well get something useful out of it! what do you people use on new laptops that doesn't have 3.5 mm jack outputs? when i get my next laptop i'll need to have a proper headphone output with mic support and the works. is there a dongle i can get? some usb-c thingamajiggy?
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Jun 30, 2022 22:48
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AirPods or a hyperx cloud headset
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on second read I sorta misunderstood that. I think the dongle that comes with the hyperx can work with any headset though
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Jun 30, 2022 22:58
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maybe i have to invest in a proper small dac weren't there a brand posted here recently that actually had linux support with firmwares and such?
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this is now the dac thread i'm having trouble finding small dacs that has microphone input support i think this is one https://www.qudelix.com/blogs/5k-dac-amp
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Jun 30, 2022 23:21
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Tankakern posted:this is now the dac thread yeah ... DORK rear end CRETINS!!@!!
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hm this one looks like it fits the bill https://www.schiit-europe.com/product/fulla-4-dac-amp-for-gaming-and-everything-else/ and lol, the apple usb-c to 3.5 mm jack is also a capable dac, i might just buy that one instead. it should work in linux
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lol
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indeed
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the knob on that dac 
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the schiit fulla 4 huh
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Jul 1, 2022 00:43
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Tankakern posted:maybe i have to invest in a proper small dac if there’s anyone here who can get sound to work on a laptop running linux it’s you. I believe in u
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rotor posted:the schiit fulla 4 huh the naming is intentional. they make solid dacs
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Tankakern posted:hm this one looks like it fits the bill the apple cord is widely available and cheap, it was going to be my recommendation. i have never used it out of an apple ecosystem tho
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my work got me an hp laptop before I returned it for a MacBook Pro. the hp was unmitigated garbage. it had a dock with some proprietary connector, and the dock had a power button on it for the laptop because it wouldn’t just wake up from your mouse or keyboard. lol.
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Tankakern posted:new laptops that doesn't have 3.5 mm jack outputs? wait what is this seriously a thing even apple doesn't do that lmao The Management posted:my work got me an hp laptop before I returned it for a MacBook Pro. the hp was unmitigated garbage. it had a dock with some proprietary connector, and the dock had a power button on it for the laptop because it wouldn’t just wake up from your mouse or keyboard. lol. before thunderbolt every dock was proprietary. and what's wrong with a power button, modern thunderbolt docks have them, too. laptop lid closed so just pres butan on dock. not waking from sleep via mouse/keyboard was probably some hosed up bios or power setting so less an HP issue and more a PC in general issue.
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I had the ultraslim dock in the past and no complaints. I set my laptop to always stay on when connected to ac though. and so it turns on when AC is detected so I would just slam it on the dock and bingo it would wake up. the new thunderbolt dock is annoying because I have to plug it in and it doesn't count as plugging in the AC adapter so I have to wake the laptop up with the keyboard. still better than a dell though
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thinkpads were out of stock until october so i got a dell instead, just delivered yesterday its getting reimbursed so i don't really care as long as it works in linux
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Tankakern posted:i have an xps 15. the xps15 i got (per my previous post) has two usbc and one usba i actually went witg the xps15 because i had the smaller one (xps13?) for lastjob and its ports were so anaemic that you pretty much had to use a dock to get it usable. also the screen was a bit small for desk duty so far the 15 seems fine for being tethered to a desk 99% of the time
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mediaphage posted:the apple cord is widely available and cheap, it was going to be my recommendation. i have never used it out of an apple ecosystem tho i have the apple one, and ive used it once on my work computer, which is a dell! worked fine with windows, plugged it in and it did the thing idk about linux though probably hard to beat for $7 or w/e
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rotor posted:macbooks and thinkpads and maybe those panasonic toughbooks are the only laptops worth having imo the huawei matebooks are pretty sweet, too. they're like macbooks without the proprietary stuff
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i ordered the apple cord guess i'll do a trip report later, maybe i need schiit in my life
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poasting before shagger defends an xps or whatever garbage dell sells now
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tazjin posted:the huawei matebooks are pretty sweet, too. they're like macbooks without the proprietary stuff are those the ones with the function-key mounted webcams?
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