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Might be interesting to take a look at some of those Chinese modded ThinkPad boards. Getting ahold of one of them might be a pain, but here's someone who managed to get his hands on one: https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/03/04/thinkpad-x210/

I think there's a huge functional difference between this approach and a dongle. You have to constantly plug in and unplug dongles, since you can't just stick a laptop into a bag with dongles sticking out of it. The modular approach not only lets you choose exactly *where* you want your ports, but reduces wear on the internal ports since ports can often break with repeated insertions. When a port breaks, a replacement is only a couple dollars and can be done comfortably by literally anyone -- you don't have to touch a screwdriver or see a single circuit board. It's a really smart design IMO -- it just depends on the company staying in business long enough to sell replacement ports through the whole lifespan of the laptop. Even so, the fact that these module designs are open source and based around a single USB port gives me a bit more confidence.
 
Maybe providing a mixture of USB ports would have  been more useful for some but it seems like these days "a mixture of USB ports" means something like two USB-C and maybe one USB-A, which doesn't really cut it for me and other people who still use a bunch of USB-A devices

I think there's a huge functional difference between this approach and a dongle. You have to constantly plug in and unplug dongles, since you can't just stick a laptop into a bag with dongles sticking out of it. The modular approach not only lets you choose exactly *where* you want your ports, but reduces wear on the internal ports since ports can often break with repeated insertions. When a port breaks, a replacement is only a couple dollars and can be done comfortably by literally anyone -- you don't have to touch a screwdriver or see a single circuit board. It's a really smart design IMO -- it just depends on the company staying in business long enough to sell replacement ports through the whole lifespan of the laptop. Even so, the fact that these module designs are open source and based around a single USB port gives me a bit more confidence.
 
Maybe providing a mixture of USB ports would have  been more useful for some but it seems like these days "a mixture of USB ports" means something like two USB-C and maybe one USB-A, which doesn't really cut it for me and other people who still use a bunch of USB-A devices

I think there's a huge functional difference between this approach and a dongle. You have to constantly plug in and unplug dongles, since you can't just stick a laptop into a bag with dongles sticking out of it. The modular approach not only lets you choose exactly *where* you want your ports, but reduces wear on the internal ports since ports can often break with repeated insertions. When a port breaks, a replacement is only a couple dollars and can be done comfortably by literally anyone -- you don't have to touch a screwdriver or see a single circuit board. It's a really smart design IMO -- it just depends on the company staying in business long enough to sell replacement ports through the whole lifespan of the laptop. Even so, the fact that these module designs are open source and based around a single USB port gives me a bit more confidence.
 
Maybe providing a mixture of USB ports would have  been more useful for some but it seems like these days "a mixture of USB ports" means something like two USB-C and maybe one USB-A, which doesn't really cut it for me and other people who still use a bunch of USB-A devices

I think there's a huge functional difference between this approach and a dongle. You have to constantly plug in and unplug dongles, since you can't just stick a laptop into a bag with dongles sticking out of it. The modular approach not only lets you choose exactly *where* you want your ports, but reduces wear on the internal ports since ports can often break with repeated insertions. When a port breaks, a replacement is only a couple dollars and can be done comfortably by literally anyone -- you don't have to touch a screwdriver or see a single circuit board. It's a really smart design IMO -- it just depends on the company staying in business long enough to sell replacement ports through the whole lifespan of the laptop. Even so, the fact that these module designs are open source and based around a single USB port gives me a bit more confidence.
 
Maybe providing a mixture of USB ports would have  been more useful for some but it seems like these days "a mixture of USB ports" means something like two USB-C and maybe one USB-A, which doesn't really cut it for me and other people who still use a bunch of USB-A devices

I think there's a huge functional difference between this approach and a dongle. You have to constantly plug in and unplug dongles, since you can't just stick a laptop into a bag with dongles sticking out of it. The modular approach not only lets you choose exactly *where* you want your ports, but reduces wear on the internal ports since ports can often break with repeated insertions. When a port breaks, a replacement is only a couple dollars and can be done comfortably by literally anyone -- you don't have to touch a screwdriver or see a single circuit board. It's a really smart design IMO -- it just depends on the company staying in business long enough to sell replacement ports through the whole lifespan of the laptop. Even so, the fact that these module designs are open source and based around a single USB port gives me a bit more confidence.
 
Maybe providing a mixture of USB ports would have  been more useful for some but it seems like these days "a mixture of USB ports" means something like two USB-C and maybe one USB-A, which doesn't really cut it for me and other people who still use a bunch of USB-A devices

Main reason for me (over OSX) is the window management. I can't imagine trying to get any real work done on OSX. If I want to switch to a specific window I can just select it from the taskbar, whereas on OSX it's much harder to find the window you want -- you have to hunt through context menus and there aren't any window previews to help. Not to mention that OSX still doesn't have a functional "maximize" button. I normally have at least 10-15 windows open on my Windows system, whereas in my experience the whole Mac experience falls apart after about 2 or 3 windows.
 
I did use various Linuxes for a while but ultimately switched back to Windows for a couple reasons:
Program support -- many programs I wanted to use are only available on Windows, and WINE only works some of the time. Font rendering -- might sound petty but whenever I booted into Windows, my eyes would just relax. You have to choose between a stable distro that always has horribly outdated programs, or an unstable (rolling release) distro where you can get updates immediately but if you update things out of order it can break your entire system. Windows's package management is a pain in its own way (as in, it doesn't exist) but being able to have the latest versions of programs without having to worry about breaking your system is pretty great. Little things like little graphical glitches, screen tearing when scrolling through web browsers, random freezing, some things working better in X while others work better in Wayland, etc I felt like I had to do a lot of heavy customization to get everything to work the way I wanted it to, whereas the way things work out of the box on Windows generally works well for me. Maybe it's just that I've been using Windows forever (since XP) so I'm used to it. Here are some other little things I really appreciate about Windows:
File Explorer. I haven't been able to find a file management program anywhere else, on any other platform, that's even half as good. Compatibility: I still find it amazing that I can take a program written in 1997, double-click it, and it will just work. I appreciate how Windows programs are starting to ditch the old, clunky File/Edit/View menu system in favour of systems that make it easier to find what you're looking for. OSX has the File/Edit/View menus kinda baked into the UI so pretty much every program uses them, which means if you want to look for something you need to hunt through every single menu like it's 2009. That's not to say that no Windows programs have File/Edit/View menus anymore (many do) but it's a lot easier for programs to switch to a better system, and many of them are (i.e. Microsoft Office and Fusion 360). GTK3 programs on Linux are also moving in the right direction.

The windows taskbar my favorite feature. Having used windows for a long time i kinda stuck to it. It makes multitasking very snappy and easy, i hated the dock menu in MacOS. You need to learn shortcuts or use hot corner to achieve multitasking swiftness in osx.
 
File explorer is the most intuitive file manager with lots of features unlike osx and linux.

Now I finally know how to use a external battery.
You take one end of the cable and plug it into the battery. You take the other end of the cable and plug it into your device. And all that information condensed into an 8 minute video. Amazing!

But having an external battery kind of defeats the purpose of increasing battery life.
 
If you have a Thinkpad you can bring around multiple external batteries and get literally days of battery life, but does that really count? External batteries are cheating imo

Wanna really double the laptop battery life?
Plug it in....
Bang! Double (or more!) on-time life.

Steve might let you do that just to see you eat a mod mat

IMHO there is NOTHING about MacOS that can't also be said about Linux.   Installing a mainstream distro on a relatively standard laptop and sticking only to the apps that are fully supported and it will just work.   IF you want a computer that has the OS built in and optimized that exist, even from mainstream suppliers like Dell and HP. 
 
There is ONE thing you can do in LINUX with a Unix like environment that is not really supported in Mac OSX.   Use NVIDIA CUDA for GPU accelerated task. 
 
For mobile app and mobile game developers that may not matter.  For hard core engineering, or scientific computing Linux is the way to go for a personal computer. 

The one nice thing about OSX over linux is that it has mainstream corporate backing and is recognized by most people now.  (Though I am sure some Mac Users still get the "Wow what version of Windows is that?" question every once in a while.)
 
 

The title is about Mac OS but the video is about Macs in general, talking about things like the trackpad, boot camp, etc.
Worth changing?

I found it interesting that they use FAT32 instead of exFAT to format the SSD. Having all those 4GB files and needing to run a format when you want to delete stuff seems pretty clunky to me. RED could justify the high price they charge for these if they put two drives in RAID 1 in each mini mag, used exFAT formatting, and provided alerts both on the camera and on the computer when one of the drives fails, letting the user send it in to be replaced. In the super rare case of a double drive failure, they would provide data recovery services. The drives don't even need to be nvme if sata has adequate bandwidth for recording.

Red Digital Cinema has come under fire recently over allegations that their Mini-Mag storage cards are just cheap commodity SSDs in a fancy enclosure. As it turns out, there's some truth to these assertions, but the situation is not quite as simple as it's made out to be. Let's unwrap it.
 
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On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/neweggdigitalcamera
 

I was totally digging this video until they showed the BUY screen for Red Mini Mag in 960GB for $2,350.00.
 
Please tell me that's not USD.

I have an old computer with an intel atom and nvidia gpu. On that computer, edge's gpu acceleration actually makes it noticeably faster than chrome for browsing. Chrome is basically unusable on that computer. Not sure what is going to happen now with the new edge.

That's like saying you got a car with the performance of a brick.

They are still going with the damn VR. Come on, this tech died in the 90's and it's still dead. Just let it be dead. Geez.
 
If they called it "Immersion Headset" and marketed it along with keyboard+mouse or gamepad combo and make huge support in games as far as vision goes and it would sell far more. I mean, I want to play games the way I play them now, with keyboard and mouse, but I wouldn't mind the IMMERSION part of it, you know, where you only see ingame world without any of your desk, peripherals, monitor frame and wall behind it etc and everything is directly in your face without any gap between your eyes and the monitor 1m away (or 2-3m with consoles and TV's). I don't believe in VR the way they are selling it now, but I'd totally buy it for such purpose. When? Probably never coz they are still trying to do this VR nonsense...

I'd love to see a video hosted by Brandon, a full overview of all the filming gear used. Not so much the ingest process and anything after, but a look at the lighting options, audio setup, prompter, what stuff is hung and what stuff moves around on the floor, camera rigs, gimbles / steadycams / harnesses, an average shoot setup etc.
 
All of these things have probably been mentioned / covered before in different videos, but I'd love to have it all in one video: the lighting and shot composition in recent videos has been paticularly impressive.

Alex should design and 3D print a computer case.

What happened to the title? It has been changed to "Do Beats Headphones Still SUCK?"... Are you really that desperate for clicks? No one who wants a comparison between NC-headphones is going to click on that video, so it's basically pointless...

linus the bad

Yeah. Non-ionizing radiation at this level is very unlikely to cause issues. Like if this causes issues, then human beings should never be out in the sun. Ever. 
 
Because solar radiation is such a ludicrously higher level of infrared emissions than cellphones are (by power, sunlight is 50% infrared, aka ~700 W per m^2). Let alone ignoring the effect of ionizing radiation ofc.
 
Oh and humans shouldn't wear any thing other than white hardhats as trapping our own heat causes much more than a 1°C increase in temperature. (A controlled study under sunlight showed a 5C temperature increase with a black hardhat compared to a white one)