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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$70 chodebooks can do it
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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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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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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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