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Depending on how I hold my laptop, yes I like to click and scroll with my finger, especially when taking notes or mindmapping.

@temptemptemp111 you seem to be shadowbanned, but your comment is spot on: OLED is about comfort. Sometimes I like working at night, sometimes in the daytime. I want a gorgeous screen that doesn't hurt my eyes, that can go very bright or very dark.

Having a powerful CPU is irrelevant when working on the console. Having days of battery life is irrelevant when having a plug nearby.

Would I take a powerful CPU and better battery life? Of course! But only if it was a bonus: for my specific usecase, there's 0 benefit from using a Mac. I'm sorry if that's hurtful to apple fanboys - you certainly have a wonderful machine if you care about battery life, a powerful CPU, and if you carry a cellphone with you at all times. I don't mean to be hurtful: I just have different tastes and priorities.

Like, I refuse to use or carry a cellphone except on very specific circumstances. Replacing my laptop with a Mac would be a net negative, as having a 5G or LTE modem in my laptop is more valuable to me than a long battery life: integrated cellular connectivity enable me to spend 1h at a coffee shop without wifi: there're various options for PCs (Microsoft Go, Thinkpads, Dell...) but 0 option for a MacOS laptop with an internal modem.

I'm looking at the Ryzen Thinkpad with great interest! But so far I haven't found one with both the screen I like (OLED) and the keyboard I like (pageup and pagedown around the up key), but as soon as I get 4/4 of my core requirements I'll move to AMD, as a Xeon is a bit power hungry :)

> I refuse to use or carry a cellphone

> integrated cellular connectivity enable me to spend 1h at a coffee shop without wifi

So you go a hour + without the ability to make phone calls or return texts? Can you dial 911 on your laptop if an emergency happens while on the way to the coffee shop? Does the coffee shop not have Wi-Fi or do you not use public Wi-Fi? How much is the additional data line for your laptop? Is it just data or voice too?

> So you go a hour + without the ability to make phone calls or return texts?

Yes. Actually, that's most of my days too, as I rarely have a cellphone turned on, even when I'm at home. I've done my best to remove that from my life.

So that's also true when I leave home, except in super specific circumstances.

> Can you dial 911 on your laptop if an emergency happens while on the way to the coffee shop?

I think I might be able to, even if they don't guarantee service? TBH I don't care about that much: if an emergency happens to me, either I'll be unconscious and someone else will have to call 911 for me anyway, or I'll remain conscious and then I can decide what to do.

> Does the coffee shop not have Wi-Fi or do you not use public Wi-Fi?

Most of them do, but I don't like looking for the password/asking for it/fighting connectivity issues. It's too much of a hassle.

Instead, I type Win-A, click on "cellular" - and that's it: I'm online and everything works! Even if I only took my laptop and paid for a coffee! If offers a unique peace of mind: no distractions, no interruptions!

> How much is the additional data line for your laptop?

I don't remember the exact price, but quite cheap, about 20 a month. I mostly use it for ssh outside home.

> Is it just data or voice too?

It's just data, as voice requires some specific audio and call routing that's tricky. But if you use skype or google voice, you can do voicecalls.

Touchscreen on laptop is like touch on a phone! once you use it you can't go back! but for Apple users only Apple can convince them...

> Touchscreen on laptop is like touch on a phone! once you use it you can't go back!

Totally this! I'd put OLED and even 4k in there too.

And I'd say that's true even for console work: 4k is great as it gets me crispy fonts in my terminal :)

It's a net positive, as I use Windows so I don't have the DPI compatibility issues that still plague Linux distributions (especially with multiple displays)

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