Tldr: he wants a non-upgradeable laptop that is maxed out from day one. I’d want a bit more upgrade path than he does, but he has some interesting thoughts.
I don’t care one bit about upgradability or customizability. After a year or two, I’m happy to throw it out and buy a new one. It’s not like upgradability is a bad thing, but it usually comes with tradeoffs to weight and power draw, and I’d rather it all be in one solid package glued together. And I don’t like customizability because I like when all the testing and polish work is put into one configuration.
Yeah, he lost me in this paragraph.
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GeoHot has always been a weird dude lol. I’m unsuprised.
It certainly is a rich tech person’s perspective.
Buying a laptop every other year is fucking wasteful. I don’t get why those people think it’s a good idea to ruin the planet for marginal gains.
I buy a maxed out laptop every 8 years. My 2008 laptop just lost its battery this year, but still works when plugged in.
It’s not like the old device is actually getting thrown in the trash. It becomes a used device for someone on the second hand market. For every rich person buying a laptop every year are a few a less rich people buying an older high end machine every 4-5.
Geohot has always struck me as a bit of a blowhard.
Sounds absolutely stupid… and yet my (gaming) desktop (model CORSAIR ONE i180) remains untouched after nearly 6 years. I still play indies to AAA to VR with it. I still work with it, specifically VR prototyping, so dev.
If I were to give it away or use as a self-hosted server with GPU used on e.g Immich or video transcoding it would still do pretty well.
So…IMHO it’s not a bad take but damn I remembered I paid a LOT of money back then. As other pointed out if you can afford it, sure. If you are not a professional then probably not.
That’s like 3 grand usd every year, who has that kind of money?
