First of all, this is not criticising or taking a cheap shot or really political at all. I am fascinated that a lawyer uses/brings a gaming laptop to trial and I can’t help but think it was contrived as another distraction.
What do y’all think? BTW, how expensive are they generally?
You think she plays League?
I think it’s most likely she just has a beefy computer, and rog makes them. The RGB lights have a default profile unless manually disabled. She may want the compute power but not know the nerdy settings that a computer nerd would know to turn them off. I think this is completely a non story.
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It is heavier, but it’s a minor inconvenience. The heavier models run about 6 lbs. That’s certainly more than other laptops, but that is not an amount that is difficult to carry, just less than ideal.
I keep my work laptop in a backpack when I’m hauling it places. It’s not a heavy laptop, but the 20 lbs of other tools and miscellaneous items I also carry bump the total weight up. It’s not that big of a deal, and I highly doubt she has many accessories, so she probably isn’t lugging much more weight. It’s probably lighter than an old briefcase full of papers.
I feel like if I was a lawyer, I would definitely want like the the most specced-out Macbook Air or Pro. The prosecutors/gov lawywrs prolly have to deal with whatever the government issues but you’d think on the defense side they’d be a bit more predictable in terms of wanting the lightest/most powerful (not looking to get in a Windows/Mac/Linux pissing match here) but having a balance between the two.
Eh. It’s a powerful machine. I personally would never want Mac, so I’m not going to assume she would either. The weight and optics are the only real difference between this and a beefy HP or Dell, neither are necessarily deal breakers. I rather like the small break in monotony by seeing a typically gaming laptop used in the court room.
Don’t get me wrong, I like stuff like this. This is not a critique or trying to turn it into a political thing. Its simply unusual from all the trials I’ve watched. For lack of a better word, I find the whole thing “neat”
I have used the top of the line MacBook Pro (work provided) for ~8 years. They’re great laptops. They can handle any programming compilation workload I can throw at it, even on top of all of IT’s required malware. The OS is stable and stays out of my way for the most part. I don’t use any Apple software and generally dislike when I have to do anything Apple-specific, but the hardware and runtime environment are undeniably solid.
That said, I’ll probably never own a Mac because they’re unreasonably expensive. I can get a high end gaming laptop or build a ludicrous desktop for the same price and run either linux or windows.
She can get some paralegal to lug that thing around
Well, maybe with your weak, sick Victorian shut in arms it would be quite a task to lug it around
My Victorian arms prefer to work smart rather than virtuously or whatever the fuck angle you’re obliquely coming at this from
They probably just wanted a powerful spec computer. That’s what gamer laptops are for. They’re actually not that expensive, probably just as expensive, or cheaper, then a Lenovo x1 carbon.
But also, literally who gives a fuck.
I gave a fuck once. I gave it to this cute girl I met at a party. She never talked to me after that. I’m never giving a fuck again.
Sleek powerful laptops are charged at a premium because they expect companies to buy them to look more professional
My wife’s X1 Carbon was the same price as my Legion 7 Pro
Of all the things I can criticize about Trump, the type of laptop his lawyer for this week is using is far down on that list.
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Well, it’s a ROG laptop, and they can go for north of $1000 USD fairly easily.
What I’m curious about is why does her law firm do byod? You’d want client files locked down with whole disk encryption - and probably domain joined. It’s much more likely that you get a Thinkpad or Dell something.
This. I have two laptops that I use daily; they’re both 15", but the main difference is that one is for work, while the other is for personal stuff (Columbian fart porn, obviously).
The work laptop is not only of a much more practical weight for when I’m out and about for work-related purposes, but it’s also encrypted, on a domain where everything is SSO, and if it gets lost/stolen I can phone up a coworker to have him wipe it. It’s a dell latitude 4something.
Of course, my other laptop could have the same setup, but the fact that it’s a gaming laptop makes it considerably heavier, more power hungry, and not even close to practical to haul around all the time.
Is Columbian different from Brazilian? Asking for a friend.
Yes because Columbia is usually found in the US while Brazil is in Latin America.
☝️This guy ;) Put the “Columbia” guy out of his misery already :/
That already happened on Feb 1, 2003.
(Sorry, I couldn’t resist)
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All you need for DJ and Bitlocker is a pro version of Windows. It’s a 99$ upgrade if you have the home version. The laptop may have come with pro anyway because it supports more ram than the home version.
U think she games?
Games the system maybe.
You get just ONE more of those, wiseguy lol.
No you all are wrong, she is using a gaming laptop bcz it is the only thing that can run stable defusion on the go which she is going to use to generate false evidence for trump
You might say she’s a StableDiffusionGenius
Edit: excellent plot twist, I love this shit
We have a gaming laptop at work, but there’s a hand held 3d scanner attached to it and it builds the model as we scan. Only gaming laptops have a GPU good enough to do this.
I use a gaming PC at work because Solidworks.
Solidworks is single threaded ancient software. It only cares about clock speed. Runs just as well on a gaming handheld as it does on a desktop computer.
I don’t care what kind of laptop it is. I do wonder why she doesn’t turn off the rgb. That’s weird and I could see it being seen as not professional due to it being a distraction during the proceedings.
Nice having a big keyboard
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