Upon reading the title at first glance, I thought this was going to be how "effe...

throwuxiytayq · 2024-09-29T09:06:37 1727600797

The existence of the Framework Laptop proves that this is largely an imaginary tradeoff, or at least one badly taken by Apple.

naitgacem · 2024-09-29T09:39:27 1727602767

Unfortunately once one company does something and gets away with it, or makes even more money, everyone will follow.

I was looking at Thinkpads and was somewhat shocked to see they started doing that too!

CooCooCaCha · 2024-09-29T15:47:08 1727624828

This is also why the libertarian solution to bad work environments “just leave” doesn’t work at scale.

appendix-rock · 2024-09-29T10:16:31 1727604991

That wouldn’t be worthy of the front page of HN. “I don’t like the current tradeoffs that laptop manufacturers make” has been talked through to absolute death. It’s the opposite of interesting.

throwuxiytayq · 2024-09-29T13:27:35 1727616455

If anything, there should be more space for this topic in our collective consciousness.