Model numbers for laptops by MSI, Acer, HP, and ASUS need a secret decoder ring.. anyone know the secret meanings?

evenwicht · edit-2 2 days ago

Model numbers for laptops by MSI, Acer, HP, and ASUS need a secret decoder ring.. anyone know the secret meanings?

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 days ago

There’s not going to be a decoder ring with these machines because those companies shit out so many awful machines that nobody cared about in the first place. You’ll get nice decoding for MacBooks since there’s only ever been like 4 of them, and there’s a diehard and big user base. Same for thinkpads, albeit there’s only like 4 models people actually care about.

But nobody gives a shit about MSIs 900th new model for the year. It was a bad laptop when it was new. Even msi probably didn’t care.

Unfortunately nobody ever put AMDs APUs into actually good laptops, they only ever went into sludge like that destroyer.

evenwicht · edit-2 1 day ago

Generally AMD had a poor reputation so indeed AMD chips ended up in budget product lines. But the tables have turned retrospectively because no one realised from 2008 to 2013 that AMD unwittingly had a pro-consumer privacy advantage, however accidental.

Unfortunately nobody ever put AMDs APUs into actually good laptops,

The CPU is part of what makes a machine “good”. You could say Thinkpads were good for their repairability, upgradability, and stability of design across models – exactly the factors that Apple is the poorest at. If good means /rugged/, then in fact there are some ASUS, Acer, and non-thinkpad Lenovos that had a stainless steel chassis (with pre-spychip AMDs).

Good is also relative. And now we know that having a spychip not so good. So they put a piece if shit spychip in an otherwise good machine, thus dragging down the goodness of those machines. Conneseurs of the time would not care to track the various models of perceived junk. But retrospectively it started making sense to do so – once knowledge of the spy chips was well established. But this is a very niche community who gives a shit about spy chips. Masses of normies just care about specs and performance which is who we would rely on to document the hardware.