Biggest gripes with laptops

[Scionyde]

I suppose one of the gripes I have is when certain manufacturers use brushed aluminum, but not anodized brushed aluminum so you get hard-to-remove fingerprints. =X

 

It is a problem for students, as a laptop isn't the only thing in a backpack. Add a textbook, and it'll start to cause serious discomfort. Add a couple of notebooks and any extra things you may need during the day and you can easily push 20lbs on your shoulders - which will be painful after a couple of hours. If a 5lb laptop was the ONLY thing in a backpack, then I would agree, but that's rarely the case. 

I've carried around a 5lb laptop by hand when I didn't have time to put it into my backpack. 15-20 minutes of that started to hurt, even for someone like me with decent arm/upper body strength. 

 

"Desktop replacement laptops" aren't made for mobility. Frankly, it's appalling that they're even called laptops. Yours is supposedly 9.26lbs, which is pretty hefty for lugging around in a backpack. 

 

Laptops are meant for mobility. Anything above 4lbs starts to limit a laptop's mobility, and anything over 7lbs is just silly. 

Laptops with good hardware can be built for around 3lbs. They're not the highest end mobile chips, but even a power user won't need the performance of an enthusiast chip. The mainstream/performance chips are adequate for majority of laptop users from consumers to power users. Gamers and enthusiasts are niche markets, and that's a fact despite there being "lots of them". 

 

20 pounds made your shoulders hurt? Maybe your backpack has poor padding on the straps? O_o

 

I have a laptop that with the adapter is close to 10 pounds, which I have no trouble with when I travel. Then again, I'm not a student, so I just want something I can throw in my bag to use in hotel rooms/waiting at the airport. 

[juretrn]

Small screen... I like big 24 inch-27inch displays a lot and when I stare at a laptop screen I have to squint a lot

I don't think you'd find a 24" laptop practical.

[Trik'Stari]

1. Paying way more than you should, for a form factor that gives the product an extremely limited lifespan compared to desktops.

[wtfxmitchell]

they can't run crysis on 4k max settings

[rashdanml]

20 pounds made your shoulders hurt? Maybe your backpack has poor padding on the straps? O_o

Padding was fine, but you have to realize that it's 20 lbs on my shoulders for the entire school day, which is usually 7-8 hours, half of that time is spent carrying around the backpack on my shoulders. Most days, it's more than 20 lbs too. 

And I did say "after a couple of hours". 

[LeopardChurch]

This is why you download the matinence manual. Some companies like HP even have videos on their own site.

 

 

Where's the fun in that? I wasn't looking at an important notebook.

 

Anyway, once recently I had to use a manitence manual for a Lenovo, that manual lacked instructions it never said that there was a tab, it just marked the screw, and well that sucked.

[RankUpGamers]

Crappy, CRAPPY keyboards. I hate chicklet style keys. I shoved my g710+ in my bag to take notes. I really wish someone would make a shortish throw mech keyboard replacement for laptops. 

[LessThanSatisfactory]

The screens on most laptops. They are hideous. Combining the facts that they are usually the cheapest tn panels and that your face is really close to the screen, the color shift is really annoying. Like, even from a stationary point, the top and bottom of the screen has high color shift and when you adjust the screen to see the top or bottom well, the other side becomes unreadable.