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?
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.
Why would you want a Macbook Air though? Why not an LG Gram or a Dell XPS or literally any other laptop in that price range? Lawyers don’t need 5k screens and room filling laptop speakers, and those are the only things Apple consistently beats their competition at.
My guess is that she walked into a computer store and told the guy behind the desk “get me the fastest laptop you have”. Gaming laptops are the fastest laptops out there, easily beating Apple’s lineup for a lower price at the cost of battery life. As long as she can plug in her laptop when she needs to, she’s got her ultra fast computer.
She could get an eGPU for all she cares, she’s not the one carrying that thing around. “Light” is not her biggest concern. Knowing she works with elderly like Trump, the bigger screen may be a big advantage for showing documents; add pixels all you want, but if you often work with people in their 60s it’s not going to matter if you get 1080p or 6k, you just need a screen big enough for their degrading eyes to read the text.
I ran out of popcorn so I decided to ask, why are you guys so intently arguing with OP? He’s either a moron or a troll
Social media recap publications (which are unfortunately quite popular) love posting about “Redditor DESTROYS Trump lawyer” with screenshots. If you don’t debate something that people with less knowledge about computers may find plausible, you risk getting this bullshit spread far and wide across the internet.
There’s also a massive cult of personality around Apple and there are definitely a lot of people who think Macbooks make someone “more professional” so I’m not entirely convinced OP is a troll. It could just be a lack of insight combined with an attempt to make fun of Trump’s incompetent lawyer, and there’s some hope that this lack of insight can be corrected at least.
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.