I just paid $5k for a brand new state of the art bleeding edge laptop.

who spends 5k on a fucking laptop?!

OP: you know the old saying: "A fool and his money are soon parted."

I spent $4 000 on a new laptop a few months ago but I use it for gaming.

What’d you get, OP? A Razor?

Commodore 64. It's a classic.

Bleeding edge, OP?

Are you sure you didn't mean to say "leading" edge?

Because yours sounds kind of bloody to me.

I just spent a ton of money on a new iPad. Next time, I will scale it down. I didn't need as much as I bought, including the keyboard. Oh, well. I tend to keep my devices for several years.

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So the fuck what? Somewhere inside you, you decided this was a great thing to buy, so enjoy the fuck out of it!

What's "bleeding edge laptop", precious? What's bleeding edge laptop"?

Have y’all honestly not heard the term bleeding edge

When you use the term "y'all" in your posts, you really out yourself, Teacake.

I just spent a $120K on this stupid piece of shit... I win, talk about "bleeding edge", every time I get close to it I lose a finger 😬

You can't get true bleeding edge for 5k. A top-of-the-line MacBook Pro, maxed out with an 8TB drive and all the trimmings is $7,400.00.

^^Good Lord.

Oh, but at that price you get Chat GPT, neural processors, Copilot AI, and Apple Intelligence that intelligently let you know you haven’t upgraded your tech skills in 25 years.

lol i can get most of that for free or decidedly cheaper.

You sound like just the type of person who'll fit right in around here, OP.

I have felt this vague urge to learn coding for the last 20 years - which hasn’t happened. The urge appears whenever Apple or Asus comes out with a new widget for their products.

Oddly enough, I view coding as a language. I don’t learn foreign languages because my regional accent makes them sound very bad. I’m wondering if my slack-jawed computing tastes would contaminate my coding skills.

[quote] I have felt this vague urge to learn coding for the last 20 years - which hasn’t happened.

[quote] I don’t learn foreign languages because my regional accent makes them sound very bad.

R18 = former coal miner in West Virginia

[quote]Oddly enough, I view coding as a language.

They are called programming languages for a reason.

I loved my Commodore 64

I loved my Commodore 64.

I’d be the asshole that creates a stupider version of Captcha. Creation wants to keep me stupid.

Haven't had bleeding edge since I was 48yo.

Yeah, I think you could easily pay a lot more than $5,000 for a Mac laptop with all of the upgrades.

R18 bless your heart!

I built a top-of-the-line gaming PC for around $3,500 after tax. All I do is listen to Apple Music and use Datalounge on it. And oh yeah, it makes my room hotter than a stiff cock. So this summer I’ve just been relying on my trusty M1 MacBook Air and my iPhone most days.

I sometimes think about selling my PC and going back to my old one because man oh man, I love nice guitars.

I love The Commodores

$5000 is a lot so I hope the edge of your laptop does bleed. It should for that price, LOL. 😧🤯

[quote] LOL

LoL! :)

[quote]When you use the term "y'all" in your posts, you really out yourself, Teacake.

You may be surprised to learn that many Southerners regardless of race use "y'all."

r31 Americans and chronically online Gen Z and Alpha use "y'all" so much it's lost its charm.

R32, you do have a point but I'm going to keep saying it.

R10, I’m a 54 year old from the northeast who, until your post, had never heard the term bleeding edge and who also, occasionally, uses the term y’all.

"You-uns" Take that, Pennsylvania 🤨

"Yous guys" Take that, Chicago 😠

[quote] Alpha use "y'all" so much it's lost its charm.

It had charm?

Wow, for that kinda money it should lick your boots.

I spent nothing on sand and a stick.

^ Bitch, you keep eating the sticks

What are your laptop's specs, OP?

I;m looking for a laptop, any recommendations? non-apple. no chinese shite either. I know levano is chinese

I gave my Mom a 17 inch HP laptop for Christmas R41. Nice big screen. Surfs the web/does excel/etc. just fine.

Paid around $700. Her old laptop was old, and even surfing the internet/playing YouTube requires a minimum of 16 GB of RAM these days.

And OP, I am typing this from my state-of-the-art gaming PC that I just had built to the tune of $4K (with 4K monitor) and I visit DL and watch porn.

Gurl, what else you gonna do with it?!

The DL: priceless.

The thing is, if you earn well, 5k is not a lot of money. I spent $3500 for my current MacBook. I drop 10k every time I go on vacation. And yes, my credit cards are all paid in full every month.

I do shit like that all the time. If I can afford it, I buy it if its what I want.

I just got a “backup” cheapie HP laptop for about $250.00. It does everything I need it to do, is very light, and I like it better than my “primary” laptop.

I’m considering getting an iPad. I like to look at stuff lying in bed. I’m also tired of researching and buying everything using my iPhone. It gets tedious on such a small screen. Maybe I should get a Mac Air. I don’t know…

I like a traditional keyboard so I bought a macbook air after owning 3 macbooks over the years. I'm very happy with the macbook air.

Ummmmm…you DO subscribe to DL, OP?

No Southerner of quality uses "y'all" in writing. It's a spoken word. In writing it looks like an affectation.

Texans are not Southerners.

I use my iPad or iPhone for everything except work. For that I have an old but still big and shiny Mac desktop, but since we’re forced into using the company’s vpn or whatever I don’t use it for anything fun.

Frankly, at this point, it's not "bleeding" edge tech.

It's very likely the Nvidia is going to announce their new 5000 series by the end of the year and PC laptop makers will announce new models using them at CES in January 2025.

Additionally, Intel will likely announce their 15th generation chips some time during the Q4.

You actually have just spent a lot of money on current gen tech just before the announcement and significant price drops.

R54, I’m looking forward to watching the GPUs coming out over the next few months. Particularly to follow the 5090 as well as the Intel Arc Battlemage/Gen2 graphics line.

R53 I meant to say ^

[quote] I’m looking forward to watching the GPUs coming out over the next few months.

Yeah, my current laptop uses a RTX 2070. I think it's time to jump to the 5080 or 5090 (depending on what the reviews say).

It's fine for playing current games, like Elden Ring or Borderlands III, on medium or even high settings at 60-80 fps (which is perfectly fine for me), but not ultra settings.

I have an iPad and an older HP that’s slow as dirt. Once this iPad craps out, I will probably get the MacBook Air. They are pretty reasonable at Costco and Best Buy. But I’m very tempted to get a $$$ computer with good video editing software built in. It’s not a complete waste - I was a video editor in another life.

[quote]But I’m very tempted to get a $$$ computer with good video editing software built in.

You can get a decent mid-range laptop for video editing for $1300-$1400. You don't need an extremely high end machine unless you plan to do a lot of editing regularly. Also, remember that video editing is both CPU and GPU intensive, so don't skimp on one and max out the other.

R58 Thanks for the info. I’ll remember that.

"Wow, for that kinda money it should lick your boots."

No, for that kind of money it should suck your dick.

[quote]No Southerner of quality uses "y'all" in writing.

Well, SMELL YOU.

We have a "Southerner of quality" gracing us with her presence!

[quote] I’m considering getting an iPad. I like to look at stuff lying in bed. I’m also tired of researching and buying everything using my iPhone. It gets tedious on such a small screen. Maybe I should get a Mac Air. I don’t know…

R47, go ahead and get an iPad. I love mine and I held out for a very long time. I bought the largest-sized screen. I also bought the keyboard, which I rarely use.

My main use for it is entertainment, e.g., lying in bed. I don't receive any text messages on it -- on purpose.

I love my iPad, I have been using them for 14 years and currently have the iPad Air.

But beware, Apple suddenly deactivated my account earlier this year without warning. When I phoned them they said I have broken the terms and conditions, which I certainly have not. I can no longer back up my iPad, all of my stuff is in the cloud, I can’t update apps etc. it is not possible to escalate this complaint and it’s apparently done by bots or whatever they are.

Some others this has happened to have Apple for everything and are completely fucked, films, music, everything they have bought over the years they have lost.

I will post a link to discussions about this.

Here you go

And another

Geez, OP. Now I'm feeling pressure to churn out better DL content for you.

r4 ?SYNTAX ERROR

Good times. I have an old one. The colours on the graphics card are weak.

Several people in this thread will likely die broke one day.

My old MacBook (2014) was absolutely DONE and ready for the big scrapyard. I extended its life by two years by replacing the battery myself (€60 on Amazon).

But now I bought a new laptop, a Chromebook, for €200/$220. I use it for browsing, email, perusing the DataLounge, and the occasional shopping spree. It’s a good deal if that’s really all you need a laptop for.

What other computer would have lasted ten years, though? Macs just do last a long time. I just replaced my iMac that I bought in 2015.

R54 — as someone who owns the RTX 4090, it is the most insane thing to own as a power user. The only time it runs bad, is when the game itself is an inefficient piece of shit, like CPU-bound VRChat, or anything made with Unity for that matter. I can’t imagine the 5090, it’s going to be a beast. Nvidia should let us trade in GPUs like iPhones — I’ll chunk 2-300 more dollars to keep up with the latest. The resell value of the 40-series cards nearly keeps them at the same price as new. Hardly a loss. Not to mention keeps my room hotter than a stiff cock.

And yes, I peruse the Datalounge on my PC, my Meta Quest 3, and my Apple devices. Muriel did a good job on the site because it works shockingly well in the Meta Quest browser.

I'm still rocking a Steve Jobs era 2012 MBP I bought for $700. Tim Cook's Apple can SMD. It's just a shakedown company now.

Why? Unless you’re gaming or doing 4k-8k video editing thats insane.

thanks for all your input, very informative!

I have and Ipad pro I bought 6 years ago, the battery drains really fast and I figured I should get a new one but the new ipad pro is so expensive, I think Ipad air is good enough for me. my old ipad pro only has 64 gigs. a basic ipad air has over 200 and it's much cheaper. I only need ipad for shopping and watching tv programs, is the ipad air sufficient for this? I don't use the pencil to draw graphics or anything...

$5K for a laptop just to read DL?

That's like buying a Rolly Royce to haul garbage.

DL can certainly be educational.

R74, i just bought an ipad pro. When they first came out, the pro was the only ipad with the larger screen. Now, you can get the non-pro with larger screen.

I think i over bought and didnt need the pro.

yes, I have the 12.9 inch ipad pro from 2018. I need a new one gonna buy the ipad air

[quote]I only need ipad for shopping and watching tv programs, is the ipad air sufficient for this?

The current generation of iPad Air is more than sufficient to do that.

I think the key is to make sure you're getting the current M2 chip. iPad Pro now comes with the M3 chip. Also, the current iPad Air comes with larger screen size that the Pro has if you're interested (11" and 13"). Although it's not as good a screen, I doubt you'd notice.

Despite saying that I over-bought when I got my iPad Pro (recently), I will say that it has a good battery life.

My old iPad was actually working fine, but the battery crapped out. Apple wouldn't work on it (too old an iPad). A local vendor in my town (that works with Apple) wouldn't replace the battery.

Word of warning: if your battery is crapping out, get it replaced before it Totally craps out. At this point, I can't even power it on while plugged in. I'd like to mail it to a non-Apple type of place, but the iPad has my info on it and I can't get in there to erase it.

R76 DataLounge is the University of Life

bleeding edge? does it come with a lifetime supply of Maxi-pads?

Can you play Pong on it?

We're glad you are here, OP! I'm sure you have useful plans for your super nice laptop. We're all just jealous. It is beyond insanity what things cost now.

My first car cost $1,000.

R82 the university of idiocy

5k for a laptop?? What a waste of money. No not the price, it's what you got for it. For 5K you could get a custom built water cooled desktop with 12 terabytes of storage, fastest CPU on the market, fastest GPU on the market, and still surf the DL for insults on your buying choices. Plus chances of it breaking are slim to none since you wont be carrying it around like a purse everywhere you go.

5K on a laptop is about 1/3 the power you could get with that if you spent the same amount on a desktop. They just cant squeeze all that tech into something the size of a laptop without making major compromises.

I have an iMac and it's not cheap, but I was surprised at how "cheap" it was, compared to the Apple laptops. I need a full-sized keyboard and a larger screen.

I have a Dell laptop for work and I hate it. I am working on getting an extra monitor. I have an extra keyboard that I'll use, too.

I don't get you silly queens who think a laptop is for the home, they have always been for travel. That's why they are 2 or 3 times the price of a comparable desktop. Put that same money into a desktop and you would have one hell of a computer. If you do any kind of pro video editing, laptops don't really cut it. You can do it, but it's trying to grocery shop with a bicycle for all your groceries instead of a car with a trunk.

The thing is R89, it’s not 1997 anymore. In fact, the iMac has the same chip as the MacBook Pro. I have a nice high end large MacBook Pro, and it’s what I need. I can take it with me when I fly to the opposite coast to visit my mother and use it there. I can use it in my living room or in my office. The laptops of 2024 are not the laptops of 1997. And if you use it that much for a desktop to matter, you probably need to get out more anyway.

Actually r90 you have no clue what you are talking about. The desktops of 2024 are not the same as desktops of 1997.

I just built 2 computers from scratch so I guarantee you your laptop is not the same as a equally priced desktop, even though the chips are similar (for apply only) there is a lot more to it than that. For one thing the GPU in that is much weaker, secondly, a laptop cant hold as much RAM and third cant hold as much onboard memory. You also cant upgrade most apple laptops by yourself. Did you know you can have 2 GPUs in a desktop PC? Are you aware they have PRO chips that are 4 times the power what top of the line laptop can process? Ask any serious content creator who dose that for a living and the vast majority will still say they have a robust desktop at home.

Seems like some YouTubers use laptops for their video editing and their videos look pretty good to me. For me, it is just a matter of comfort and convenience to have the iMac (full sized computer).

obligatory not r90...

The vast majority of people purchase computing devices with much more power and performance than they need.

If you're a big streamer or content creator, then you probably need high powered computers for video editing. If you're a top gaming channel on youtube, you may need a top of the line desktop PC which gets buttery smooth 144Hz or even 240Hz refresh rates on 4K screens.

But, most people don't need anywhere near that kind of power. However, more importantly, since most people need to use their devices for multiple uses, there are going to be tradeoffs with things like portability vs. power.

OP here: To reset. I used to do a lot of video editing with Avid and needed all this power and just got spoiled. But I really love having this powerful thing at my fingertips with 4TB of SSD storage. Maybe I'll start mining cryptocurrency again. Lately I've just been downloading porn.

[quote]Maybe I'll start mining cryptocurrency again. Lately I've just been downloading porn.

Downloading pron is like mining for gold...

hey a question, I bought a new ipad, I use an iphone as well, how do I connect my ipad to iphone, is it via icloud? I still have another ipad (older) that I want to use as back up...how do I sync the new ipad ? Just connect it to my icloud? I want all 3 to have same apps etc.

😂🤣😆

R96 sync everything through iCloud.

thank you R98 for helping out an eldergay

R98 be careful having everything with Apple, they can deactivate your account without warning and you will lose everything you have in the cloud. It happened to me.

Well of course you should back it up elsewhere too.

What are you buying?