Then I doubt that’s a small business since there are 460 IKEA stores worldwide and it is unlikely that would be their only customer.

My company is about to start delivering our automation products to the field. Spinning up VMs to work on equipment sounds much more modern than the old technician with a clunky laptop approach. Can you describe the benefits you get from this approach and maybe a bit about your workflow? I'm really curious about how you would operate.

Unless a small business built the idea screen?

When you are constantly traveling and lugging your laptop around or between meetings and such? Personally I want stuff as light as possible.

Business class laptops, MacBooks, etc are well worth the money. Cheap consumer level shit is pure garbage.

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Work. I work in video games, 128GB ram is pretty much our minimum spec or you wouldn't be able to binarize some of our maps. And the laptop comes with a 3080Ti because that's the only card that comes with 16GB vram(outside of the quattro range).

T520 and X220 still in use here. They both have SSDs and maxed out ram and are used for nothing other than web browsing in a few uploads online. Youtube is becoming a problem given the high bit rate but you can still watch YouTube on both of them easily keeping it at 7:20 P. Both machines will go until well beyond my bones have crumbled into dust, have more clever features and cool ways of getting things done than any modern machine I’ve ever seen, and not for nothing but both of them have fallen down the stairs multiple times been sat on spilt milk even on one of them(that cleanup sucked) and have both been around since bush was in office but are both still trucking!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmEH8z1JWgc

Could you run a couple of these with a gps on a single pi to make a 360 camera for streetview? I have a spare 4b and could really use updated street view for my job.

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And attach it to what exactly? You haven’t been able to buy a raspberry pi for years. I have owned every version of the raspberry pi ever made but I will think twice before buying another one even when available. They have failed on their stated goal of making computing cheap and affordable to all, 400000 Pis are still being made every month and every single one of them is sold to businesses. It was the hobbiests who made raspberry pi what it is and they couldn’t even put a couple thousand to the side for them to keep the ecosystem going. And before anyone say it’s all small businesses - I don’t believe that, I’ve seen those massive IKEA screens get stuck on the boot screen, that’s running on Pis.

That's wild! I can definitely see the need to increase the cost of the product in that instance

Simplistic? Yes Ignorant? Because i told the fact? Lol

I have one and use them to spin up different VMs out in the field to work on different industrial automation devices. We get the rugged ones though they come with a handle dual batteries so I can actually work all day without charging it and it has a handle and a built in rs232 port.

I got dumber reading this.

As someone who’s worked with Dell’s enterprise servers and support. Yes it is 4 hours. It’s insane but so incredibly valuable when you’ve got production workloads on the line.

> including a full-on Ethernet port without a dongle

Thinkpads use a dongle now. :(

They maintained the lift-n-lock keyboard for a while, but ultimately dropped it to get the size more under control. I have to agree with their decision, while it was a neat feature I didn't use it that often, and it came with a pretty massive weight/size penalty, especially when you wanted to use it as a tablet.

I was one of the lucky one's who were in the first batch. Its a fun little toy with a surprisingly good build quality but don't expect much. The screen is unusable in a dark environment.