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kymar123 t1_jbuawm6 wrote
Reply to comment by Gaemon_Palehair in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
Yes but I'm not looking for a tiny screen with terrible computing performance. I need a laptop that can run engineering software.
frontiermanprotozoa t1_jbu4gld wrote
Reply to comment by crimsonblueku in The iPhone 15’s USB-C port might come with a catch - new report says third-party cables might not support fast charging by MicroSofty88
IF ONLY there was a way for cables and devices to indicate whats their maximum power delivery capability.
IF ONLY there was a standard thats backward compatible from 20 gbps to 1,5mbps data transfer speeds.
synthdrunk t1_jbttuah wrote
Reply to comment by swisstraeng in Raspberry Pi's new Global Shutter Camera is ideal for machine vision | It's also ideal for fast-motion photography. by chrisdh79
istr seeing that someone had and it worked no problem, not something I’d do lol. Godspeed!
nickthaskater t1_jbtog8d wrote
There was no reason to not use a black and white OLED panel in this. They're not expensive.
That's literally what stopped me from buying one.
HARD_GAY_BUTT_MASTER t1_jbtn3pp wrote
Reply to comment by Djaaf in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
I don’t think I’ve been more frustrated than having to treat a live excel file as a database and having to update it with like 6 other people who fight to filter or sort it in a specific way and delete values on accident and blame the other person.
swisstraeng t1_jbtn242 wrote
Reply to comment by synthdrunk in Raspberry Pi's new Global Shutter Camera is ideal for machine vision | It's also ideal for fast-motion photography. by chrisdh79
I'm gonna attempt to change the BGA RAM chip in a few weeks. Wish me luck! 200 solder balls.
I'm gonna swap the pi 400's D9WHG for a D9ZCL that's 8gigs.
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Reply to comment by darkfm in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
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HowManySmall t1_jbth1jo wrote
Reply to comment by BaneThoth766 in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
yeah i accidentally broke mine and i just sold it for spare parts
i did get 25% of what i paid for it back though
C-DomiNations t1_jbtb9tp wrote
I have a Lenovo W550s that is still killing it, running OpenSuSe and I still recommend them. Getting caught with spyware/adware really helped bring them back to the userbase for cost and delivery.
And for customer service, the first one shipped had 2 dead pixels, they sent me another brand new and said "here's the return label, just take you're time and thank-you"... that sold me.
rechlin t1_jbtb866 wrote
Reply to comment by Alewerkz in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
You can swap them in the BIOS setup.
VTCEngineers t1_jbtau7j wrote
Reply to comment by Meduvs in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
Ah yeah ok i understand what the point is now, yeah doesn't make sense to buy 5 pcs if they aren't being used financially speaking.
Meduvs t1_jbtahsq wrote
Reply to comment by VTCEngineers in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
It’s still the same, ofcourse if you need them it helps you lower your taxes. But if you are buying them just to write off the tax then you are spending more than you’re saving. As said, when you spend 1000 to save 200 on taxes you’re just losing 800. Unless as I said you need them, but that was not the point made.
VTCEngineers t1_jbta752 wrote
Reply to comment by Meduvs in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
For a single purchase sure it doesn't make much of a difference.
however if say you have a $1000 tax liability, and having say 5 laptops that $200 x 5 now made you have $0 liability ( honestly the numbers really only make sense when we are talking 100s or thousands of machines).
Is how I have come to understand how it can help with taxes. but honestly no one single thing helps but many different types of deductions combined together.
Again not trying to argue, but get a better understanding.
Meduvs t1_jbt98wt wrote
Reply to comment by VTCEngineers in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
No it doesn’t. Depreciating means you spread out the expense over multiple years. For example instead of the expense being 1000 in year one, you will have 200 for 5 years. Total tax saved still 200 over this time period
VTCEngineers t1_jbt8pb1 wrote
Reply to comment by FreakSquad in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
Not trying to argue here,
But are you factoring in a depreciation schedule on the laptop? This is where it really starts to have an impact on tax liability.
dracovolnas t1_jbt865c wrote
But you folks realize that prices for laptops and notebooks back write now to the same level as in 90`s - but without inflation increase? (this mean: the price is the same in numbers, but it`s still cheaper according to inflation).
darkfm t1_jbt769h wrote
Reply to comment by etzel1200 in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
If you provide support contracts, failing to resolve issues in the stipulated time could very well become a 10k fine.
Iintl t1_jbt5jzc wrote
Reply to comment by Mulligan315 in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
Good thing we have choices, eh? It’s not as if the only choices we have are thin and light devices
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Jeremycycles t1_jbt3cfn wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
The X13 is the only Lenovo I’ve had trouble with, but it was Gen 1 so that may be the issue. But I use T and L models every day
Initial_E t1_jbt2wk2 wrote
Reply to comment by dc456 in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
There’s a whole fiasco with windows 10 updates and buggy drivers or hardware with HP elitebooks. It’s either the graphics or network or sound that bugs out, and it’s always fixed in firmware somehow.
Jorycle t1_jbt1zzp wrote
Every single thing that has a commercial application is too expensive.
Have you seen the price of fucking chairs?
I'd bet any amount of money that if the world flipped upside down tomorrow and corporations didn't want to buy a single chair to fill their offices, you'd suddenly stop seeing plastic mesh stretched over a plastic core being sold for $800+ dollars.
yumyumfarts t1_jbszacb wrote
Reply to comment by Djaaf in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
Sadly they have 10L cell limit
dragonbeard311 t1_jbsxfkl wrote
Everything is “too expensive”
iamsgod t1_jbug3lc wrote
Reply to comment by Doggleganger in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon
they seems to forgo it in the latest series of thinkpads tho