Laptops have always had a problem - increased noise, a small screen, a worse keyboard than a full-fledged one on desktops, and of course the upgrade options are several times lower than on desktops.
But everything paid off with mobility and the ability to comfortably lie down with him on sofas and beds from the PSU, which the desktop could not do. Now, when the market is dominated by moronic business models with usb-c power, which sticks out most often on the left (and the majority of the world's population is right-handed - their feet are right on the left on the sofa behind the laptop) and easily breaks out, this minimal status quo is violated. The monstrous consumption due to the impasse in x86 silicon has led to wild noise and heat, as well as the need to increase weight due to the heavy cooling radiators that now literally cover the entire motherboard.
The screen in models under $1500 can be with a shameful 45% NTSC and a monstrous response, especially on 60/120Hz fake panels. Now the market is full of fake "144G" panels with shameful color reproduction and response.
The keyboards are made by some crazy designers who deliberately spoil the classic layout, including a dedicated numpad and, moreover, it came to complete moronicity with the power button inside the keyboard, and often next to the backspace!
The ports are idiotically located, RJ45 is often absent even in business models (which is complete nonsense) and at the same time in 2023 we are offered 1Gb / s most often, which was approved in the 90s!
There are no screens left in smartphones with ppi below 300. That is why the assholes at Google spat on the desktop browser and did nothing for years with muddy fonts due to incorrect grayscale anti-aliasing. All that remains is firefox (where it can be turned off at all) or a screen with a ppi of at least 220, and preferably the same 300+, as in smartphones.
The majority of the population is completely illiterate and has remained from science, scientific and technical progress and understanding of jambs in goods and software for decades, within the framework of understanding current problems. People have been ruining their eyesight in Chrome for years, using screens with shameful color reproduction (are they all color blind?). My very old 2008 monitor has 94% AdobeRGB, 7ms real-time response (I won and topped multiplayer with millions of players on it in the old days) and 300+ nits of brightness (measured with a lux meter at 0.01 lux) recently after 39400 hours of use. It cost $650 for 2008...
Why pay money today, people? For this obviously overpriced garbage everywhere on the shelves? 8 billion people want quality goods and services and there are more and more of them, and the planet's resources are not rubber... Deliberately provoked by the banking mafia and politicians (and the welfare poor layers, their urban constituency), stagflation is burning up purchasing power very quickly. Especially older people whose income peak has already passed...
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Remember the prediction of a major US bank last week that supposedly up to 300 million people will lose their jobs after the introduction of advanced neural networks (what stupid propaganda for stupid people calls AI all the time) into the economy? They also give an estimate there that this number of people is up to 70% of the urban population. Occupied with labor, which is quite easily automated. But, ironically, it is this parasitic layer that makes up the backbone of the "middle class" in the West and in the whole world. Knocking that people out of a comfortable living environment in the old world automatically leads to a drop in demand and hordes of people who have nowhere to attach in the new world, it is impossible to train and they are a huge social problem - they must somehow be supported so that they do not start riots. And it is precisely the drop in their incomes, after dropping out of the old "middle class", that provokes a drop in demand in the IT industry, because they are the main consumer of all gadgets for their work and entertainment.
Further it will only get worse, including with laptops for the "middle class". Only mass models for the poor and a narrow pool of models for the very rich will remain, as in all other market niches. There is a rapid radicalization of consumption, while the middle layer of goods is quickly being washed away everywhere...
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