intel Thinner is better?

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

Unfortunately for the world and users in general, this phenomenon of thinner is better is not going away, at the moment it is the only trend manufacturers care about. Faster? Secondary. Battery life? Everyone carries a brick around to supplement their half-day phones already and laptops are getting worse every generation buoyed only by gamed benchmarks. Storage? Slow, expensive, and non-upgradable. Memory? Non-upgradable. Slots? Fat chance. Ports? In your dreams. Thin? Hell yes.

 

There's a lot more to read in the original source. It's a rant and all but I think he is right.

 

 

Source:

http://semiaccurate.com/2014/09/26/iphones-bend-pcs-awful-reason/

[Shiranui]

I'd happily use a 12mm thick phone.

[@NP_Lima]

I wonder why that source does not accomodate comments? well, I'll leave mine here.

 

"Wouldn?t you rather have a phone that was 5mm thicker, half the price, 3x the battery life, had a removable battery, and a few SD slots?"

 

I needed to replace my home laptop recently and for that reason I returned to a computer shop for the first time in many, many months. I found that the retail presence for Apple products is quite consistent. They were all connected to wifi, the space was clean and tidy, prices were visible, specifications were clear, ... it was all pretty good. Same with the Google Chrome area, but it was much smaller as they don't have many products yet.

 

One shop I visited also had a space dedicated to Microsoft Surface. Wifi was working for some devices only, one Surface was prompting for password to come out of sleep mode, there were stickers warning "THIS ONE RUNS WINDOWS RT NOT FULL WINDOWS" or something to that effect.

 

The traditional PC aisle with HP, Acer, Lenovo, etc was worse.

 

A new area popped up in the same shop for my last visit. It was the gadgets area, featuring Fitbits, Jawbone, Garmin and TomTom GPS/fitness devices. It was right at the entrance of the shop, very tidy, with some decoration including a real life size manequin wearing some of the smart gadgets they were selling.

 

Overall, it looks clear to me that without healthy profit margins, you can't expect healthy results. The ?200 PC is OK for many consumers but it's not a good product for anyone in the supply chain. The thin and light PC appeals to millions of people and that's why manufacturers have all followed Intel. A ?800+ laptop needing a full replacement every 2-3 years helps them more than a ?200 laptop that can easily get a new HDD, more RAM, etc. People spend ?600 on a smartphone and hesitate to spend half of that on a laptop, for good reasons. The products aren't that good. Someone needs to step up and tag laptops with "THIS MODEL DOES NOT HAVE PROPER SSD STORAGE, ONLY A 5400RPM LOW END DRIVE". Then things may improve again, independently from the thickness of the chassis.

[Alwaysonacoffebreak]

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Lets leave the price aside for a moment. He said something on the lines of this "Devices are getting thinner and thinner but they are losing functionality and power"

 

This is the main point why I actually agree with him.

[DocM]

My Optimus G Pro (4.4.2: 5.5" IPS HD, 1.7ghz quad, 2g + 32g + 64g microSD) is ~9mm, and with a 3140 mAh battery it lasts all day so long as I don't browse the whole time. If I do, there's 2 OEM batteries in my old iPhone case. Takes no time to swap, way lighter than a brick, and faster.

Function "loss": zip. She be fast & crystal clear.