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My $2.2k laptop can't drive two screens [MACSTRAGS FLAGGED THIS POST]
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orange sightcels will defend the most r-slurred shit from apple lmao
i would expect a $2k laptop to drive two external displays at an absolute minimum, there is literally no excuse for it to not be able to
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24g memory, 1tb hard disk. FULLY SPECCED OUT
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Honestly a 2k laptop
better 
be able to run 6 monitors
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And suck me off
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They count the internal display as display one lol
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its so standard that intel chips can do that with their integrated graphics
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Yeah but I'd rather use a CRT monitor than use fricking windows
MBP is the best product on the market, we all use this shit daily more than anything else in the house, but we'd not think twice about spending an extra $5k on a car we can't afford you drive an hour or two a day at most.
a rush to the bottom on price never produces anything good
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OSX is barely usable unless you're an r-slur who can't multitask
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This the type of neighbor that would drop 150k for a Honda Prius if it had a fisher price steering wheel.
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Nobody is gonna catch that Honda doesn't make the Prius?
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For real, though. Multimonitor in OSX is horrendous on the desktop environment as well with how window switching works. Its meant for people who do one thing at a time. They haven't changed their desktop environment and its painful to use.
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lol what
every single programmer chooses mac for a reason except the low paid game dev ones
what does that even mean
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the reason is social status*, not utility.
(* and secondary: compatibility with the statusstragging coworkers' machines)
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Programmers don't have a choice and are to incompetent to use something like Linux.
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You don't understand: if you do boring nerdshit on a thinkpad, you're a boring nerd. But if you do the exact same boring nerdshit on an Apple product, you're cosmopolitan and artistic with impeccable taste.
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95% of devs don't even pay for their own laptops it's not a social status thing to have a macbook and no one would give a shit
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It's not about the price tag, it's about the image (of being artistic and cosmopolitan while doing nerdshit; this illusion doesn't work without apple products).
Of course if they had to pay for it themselves, many wouldn't be willing to spend $2k extra for the image. But at zero cost, as long as the illusion works on 30% of normies, it's worth it.
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I've never seen a serious programmer use Linux
And I say that as someone who was a salesman for Archlinux and Debian for 4yrs before realizing how r-slurred I was wasting time tinkering with broken butt Linux installations
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macOS has no clipboard history. WORST. CTRL+V Windows is LIFE
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I use https://www.raycast.com/ better than anything on windows, I'd bet money
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$70 chodebooks can do it
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What do you even need two external screens for?
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Two screens for work, one screen
for the bullshit 
teams call that I'm required to attend but not required to say anything 
during
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You haven't explained why you need two screens.
You don't need yet another screen for this.
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Data entry worker identified.
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No, that would be
@DaddyReagan
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👍
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Why do you need a 30x60 inch desk? All your documents and utensils can fit in a 15x20 inch area.
Sure it's gonna be a bit messy, and you're gonna waste time shuffling through the stacks of papers to find what you need.
But it's possible.
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Excel sheet im putting information into, acess database I'm referencing, second excel sheet/rmail/instructions I'm referencing for what needs done. This is a setup i use extremely regularly, during my every day use i have a browser in one monitor email in another and common reference docs halfscreened in the laptop monitor.
Trying to alt tab between a bunch of documents is a huge pain the butt especially when they're the same file type.
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How small is your monitor that you can't have three windows side by side?
Also, do you work for mturk doing data entry or some shit? Lmbo
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Now you're just doing poorcel cope. And no i don't do data entry lmao.
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Sounds like data entry to me.
External monitors are big enough to have 3 windows side by side. How small is your monitor?
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You've never worked an adult job in your life. Excel sheets are used for literally everything.
Not the ones i was given. Plus partial window programs suck and they do r-slurred things when you dock and undock a laptop.
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Buy a computer that doesn't suck.
Sorry I'm not so r-slurred that the only job I can get is data entry.
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Lol one day you'll have a real job buddy.
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Who tf uses 2 external screens. Like actually what are you doing.
Neighbor what the frick. Are you a security guard at Disneyland?
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found the guy who never traded
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take my word, comrades, a couple of enormous curved monitors is the true path to enlightenment
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keep yourself safe irl
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Unironically, why do you need two screens? You can't look at them at the same time.
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Nice b8
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No, actually, why do you need more than one screen?
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To keep multiple programs and windows open so you don't have to keep closing and opening them
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ahh my program disappeared ahh
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You don't have to close and open windows? You can change which one is in the foreground? You r-slurred?
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If I was some poor I might put up with having to juggle around windows like a circus monkey holding too many bananas. I pay extra for a premium experience.
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Turning your head is literally more work.
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Now you have to change which one is in the foreground... Oh, you're actually baiting
Nice bait, r-slurred BIPOC
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No, seriously, explain to me why you need more than one screen. I'm going to guess you don't because you still haven't explained it.
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Put them both in the foreground
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Neighbor is trying to catch Freddy
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/r/gooncaves
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imagine using only two external screens like some simpleton
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Steve Apple would be laughing at all the ripped off r-slurs if he weren't dead right now
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For reference, the shitty cheap-butt hp config my corporate job uses can drive at least 3 (not even counting the built-in one)
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Worklet
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You can only look at one screen at a time.
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TWO COUNT EM TWO eyes
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They generally look in the same direction. The lazy eye can't actually see.
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Wrong
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I believe you have a lazy eye, but I don't believe you can look in two different directions at the same time.
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It's a lot more convenient to have my favourite titty streamer on my second screen than constantly tabbing back and forth while I work.
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Sounds like you're not actually working and would be fine with a single screen displaying the titty streamer.
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You really do love to tell on yourself
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This doesn't make any sense.
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There you go again
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Bruh, my chromebook can run two screens. Macs not being able to is embarrassing
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that doesnt make me less irritated that people buy macbooks to do processor-intensive stuff like vidya editing. buy a goddarn desktop with a proper cooling system if your entire income depends on high-quality youtube output
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Their brain is as smooth as their UI
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UHHH ACTUALLY
YOURE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BROWSE GOYBOOK ON MAC
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Laptops are and should be good enough to edit video with in current year, except maybe mac? lol
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I can hear my desktop cooling rev up doing stuff in Premiere with proper cooling, but sure a little chinesium heatpipe can handle it bro it's just coulumbs bro
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Yes. It'll be a slightly slower because laptop CPUs are a slightly slower.
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Sometimes I get the feeling that normies have a phobia of owning two or more computers at the same time, even when they could easily afford it. Or maybe it has never occurred to them that owning two computers is even possible.
I'm constantly encountering Linuxcels who absolutely need MS Office, or a student who needs some kind of college software that only runs in Windows, and they jump through hoops and complicate their lives by dual-booting, when $130 mini-PC's exist that run MS Office and basic programs very well.
So spend the price of a single textbook or a week's worth of soy lattes and just make your life easier. "But...owning two computers? That's not a thing!"
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With the advent of the M1 a MBA could literally outperform a Mac Pro depending on workloads due to dedicated silicon.
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Shut up nerd
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Why are you being mean?
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because i'm frustrated and lashing out
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I'm sorry to hear that.
If you're in America I hope you have today off and can rest and relax today and during the four day week.
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three for me. but wednesday is the big shutdown i've been supposed to preparing for the past two months (i didnt)
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Apple's market segmentation at work.
I won't defend it, they shouldn't have let this stand past the M1 (at least they had an excuse of growing pains from scaling up a phone chip then), but I know my brand new iPad Pro with an M4 won't drive multiple displays even though it runs circles around most x86 laptops which is wildin.
I will say it's weird he spent $2k on the laptop and didn't watch reviews though, the base MBP is more for businesses ordering a ton of laptops, the price makes it sound like he got a custom config for that which is an odd choice.
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I shouldn't have to do research to determine if it's possible to change the volume or the brightness and two displays is about as fundamentally present
in a laptops design as either of those
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Honestly the Apple silicon macbooks are so fricking good. I picked up a maxxed out refurb M1 Pro a few weeks ago after being a die hard Arch user for ~6 years or so and I'm really impressed.
I still want Arch or similar + a tiling wm on my desktop, but man it's so nice to have everything "just work"™. Plus, I just need to buy a docking station and it can basically replace my windows desktop for art software, relegating it to only powering my racing sim. It also helps that I finally got around to building a home server that runs all of my services, so whenever I need Linux I can just
sshin and do whatever I want to do.If Apple ever ships a competent tiling window manager for mac os, I'll pretty much be out of reasons to use Linux on desktop.
tl;dr satania btfo
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Yeah pretty much the same here. It's so nice just to assume first party software will work.
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There's a few good tiling managers
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My coworker likes magnet. Any others you'd suggest?
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https://ianyh.com/amethyst/
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Click install proprietary drivers and ur good
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This is the only thing about my M1 that makes me seethe. I genuinely can't think of a reason why it's suddenly impossible to run a dual-screen setup unless you buy the fricking Ultra Max+ 3.0 Giga XT version.
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did you try not being a poor?
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I think my 48gb vram multiple GPU machine comes in around that, apple buyers are such r-slurs
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Italian
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Multiple screens make you weak, cute twink.
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Snapshots:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40484702:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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