Apple's got many faults, but their hardware has a very premium feel. I presume this is where Dell's additional hundred bucks went, because Apple's used to doing that and Dell isn't. They think they are, but they aren't normally as good at it. But they're going to deliver this PC with Windows, and there might be Linux issues — there's no way to know until it's in reviewers' hands exactly what hardware is actually used around the parts we know about. And unless you specifically need Windows, it's very hard to imagine getting excited about spending more money to run that.

I have to admit that I find the lack of a headphone jack offensive, but I wouldn't even consider buying a Dell that's trying to be a Macintosh over an actual Macintosh, and I say that as someone with very little respect for Apple. I don't hate Dell, but I've never been impressed by them either. I would describe them as "less terrible than HP".

The fact that it's a garbage off-brand speaker makes it more likely that it's possible, because people with valuable brands are the ones who are most likely to want to prevent you from changing it, and also the most likely to actually design their own product internals or have them designed to spec. The cheap brands are most likely to grab a complete PCB off the "shelf", or even more likely than that, just have their crappy brand put on someone else's complete product.

But, and it's a big one, they won't be offering the user the tools to do it with. They'd have to figure out who actually made it and/or what chip is on it in order to identify the tool, then they'd have to track it down, then they'd have to maybe short something on the PCB because it's not necessarily as easy as holding down a button, they'd have to do it on a windows PC or at least by attaching a USB hub to a windows VM so that when the device inevitably changes IDs during the reflashing procedure it remains connected, or with some kind of reflashing tool which is cheap but which they definitely don't own.

For their hardware. When you want to move to someone else's hardware, will it still be solved?

Very true. I still have one, and still using it for a WAP which works perfectly for older devices that don't like newer APs.

I just wish Apple made them again because they do what they do extremely well.

Obviously. But the always offended cretins are not interested in facts or reality.

Clearly, the difference is that one group has an contractual relationship with Red Hat and paid for that, while the other does not. But you seem to be an idiot, so the difference in liability levels is probably lost on you.

He was clearly only trying to differentiate to determine the scope. Save your professional offense for an offensive situation.

I see you have no reading ability. I was referring to "new computer", not the one form the story, very obviously.

I guess the rest of your "analysis" is on "utter crap" level as well. And no, the war in Ukraine is not destroying our economy either. For that you have to get a moron in power that imposes massive tariffs and makes everybody wanting to stop to trade with you at all and removes all stability from trade. Oh, and starts a disastrous war with Iran to misdirect away from him having raped underage girls.

Compared to AMD's drivers, and ATI's before that, they have always been far and away superior. AFAICT, AMD still can't do drivers, but at least we have the option of FOSS drivers which work on Linux. There are no Nvidia drivers worth a shit on any platform today, except for CUDA.

I do not understand what exactly happened here. Who messed up by getting attacked? Who messed up by trusting these people and downloading their packages without further review? Who is "@redhat-cloud-services"? Was this RHEL paid for subscribers that got hit or regular FOSS users?

The Neo, inexpensive as it is, still feels professional. You can tell it is a budget model when comparing it with a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, but it definitely has a solid fit and finish, arguably on par with most PC laptops.

What I'd consider doing is maybe looking at budget models as loss leaders, and getting some upsell models. For example, I'd say a next step up would be an i5, 16 gigs of RAM, a TB SSD, with a fingerprint scanner. This way, as mentioned by another, there is some profit to be made from one group of the "K" shaped economy, while the other group, one can ship models with 64 GB of RAM, eGPU ports, etc.

There is another thing which is a money maker -- accessories, like a good docking station.

What might sell, may be a NAS. Mainly because people need backups, don't trust the cloud, so having a base station like a Time Capsule that does the job of a router, wireless AP, NAS, backup destination, and so on, would be important. People are waking up to the fact that a local server is a nice thing to have, combined with something like TailScale which means the NAS can be accessed anywhere securely, no need to open a firewall. Plus, one can sell a NAS backup/sync service so 3-2-1 protection is as simple as tossing the appliance on the network, changing the password, logging in with one's user, and then accessing shares.

Yeah, I'm sure IBM didn't intend for business customers to buy the PC.

Wait, what?

Since the consumer only cares about the amount they pay, any reasonable person would understand that's the only number actually being discussed. Amazon should simply not commit fraud, and AGs should simply prosecute when they do. But they're not in the business of protecting our interests, which we know because they almost never prosecute wage theft (which exceeds all other theft combined.)

The user interface is equivalent functionally (in the strong, formal sense) to a part of the code, because it is right in there. And no, the UI will NOT give you that information either.

Seriously, are you stupid or what?

Indeed. Just like the Russians to not understand what surveillance tech can do.