If they are, it's still incredibly terrible. An enormous list of common glitches could be written about it, that just never get patched
For one, it tends to split group convos into random tabs at random intervals, black hole messages, crash randomly and silently and you don't notice until someone says you're offline(the window will still open! it's just hung), etc etc.
I've been sitting on my 2012 original retina waiting for them to sort this out. I've heard of the 15in 2016 model getting as little as 3 hours of relatively idle use(ie liveblogging), and my 2012 still lasts 5~ with a bajillion cycles.
I really wanna see some benchmarks/real world tests of this new version. it's starting to look like the semi-serious tiny machine i wanted it to be all along.
Yes. Here in Norway 2G is being kept alive until 2025 because there is so much machine to machine use of it, 3G will be shut down sooner (supposed to be 2020). At least that is what Telenor plans.
If you mean Africa, yes. In the US/CA 2G is scarce to nonexistent, the 2G infrastructure in the EU is going to Africa and the freed up radio spectrum will most likely be used by LoRa/Sigfox networks.
Another obnoxious one: Employee purchased devices will be denied warranty if you aren't that employee. I'm assuming this is to prevent people from "trading" devices or something. I got one from a friend who worked there, and they refused to even provide with an OS image much less do any repairs. The serial number was just blocked.
This is categorically not true of apple or several other brands i've gotten gear this way from.
Honestly this is the number one reason i quit using my SP. I know a lot of people here love them, but it was just too obnoxious to use on my legs, soft surfaces, and lots of other places.
I will agree it was awesome on plane tray tables, but that was about the only "oh cool! obvious advantage!" location.
i found myself wanting a normal laptop that could hold itself up repeatedly, and kept switching back to my macbook pro
Unfortunately, it's saddled with probably the worst series of atom intel made, the original Z(with the awful powerVR gpu).
They still go for quite a bit on ebay, because people love the 1600x768 form factor. I had one for a while, but ended up selling it because i couldn't get over how bad the performance was(720p youtube was a no go, for example). The GPD is sort of a replacement in spirit, but i liked that form factor a lot.
Yeah - I don't get that. People are still reselling your computers on ebay for far more than they should and no one at Sony / any other computer company thinks that maybe it might be a good idea to investigate why.
What I particularly remember about that computer was that it slipped perfectly into the inside pocket of my jacket (remember this is a full featured circa-1999 laptop running Linux!)
They removed these settings. That's exactly the point at which i just started losing interest. I still have a huge pile of stuff i meant to list years ago that i just don't have the motivation too now.
Too many crap bidders, no way to block them. Ebays logic was that they "didn't want to discourage new users" or some nonsense.
I kept mine going for as long as i could until it was just blatantly too underpowered. I upgraded to the 15in retina(magsafe style, not the new one) and i'm still grumpy about the screen size downgrade.
Where is the 4k 17in MBP? The old one was 1920x1200, it would be a perfectly obvious upgrade
For one, it tends to split group convos into random tabs at random intervals, black hole messages, crash randomly and silently and you don't notice until someone says you're offline(the window will still open! it's just hung), etc etc.