@CppGuy Excel for Mac actually predated Excel for Windows! Microsoft's DOS and CP/M spreadsheet software was Multiplan.
Computer repair shop in Durham, NC - operating since 2010, staff computer experience goes back to the 80s. Discussing technology new and old, infosec, etc.
@CppGuy Excel for Mac actually predated Excel for Windows! Microsoft's DOS and CP/M spreadsheet software was Multiplan.
@CppGuy That was my guess, that it was likely wholly unrelated to the MS product but at first I was curious if it was an early precursor!
This precedes Microsoft Excel and I want to know more. Found this in a crate of C64 disks.
The 90s sure were wild.
The only truly underwhelming points are the display brightness (it's decent, but not good enough for a glossy touchscreen) and resolution (1920x1200 at 16" looks pretty mediocre at this price point). To be honest the color gamut looks a bit rough as well, but I didn't do any in-depth testing in this regard.
Other than that, it's a pretty decent overall design, and I don't hate it, other than the hinge attachments in the base.
Speakers are down-front firing and plenty loud, if a bit on the muddy side. The clickpad is nice and big with decent feel but not stellar (it's a standard mylar levered pad).
While some will hate the flat, uncupped keycaps with no lattice, the keys themselves are snappy and responsive and overall I like the keyboard.
System information is mercifully laser-etched in white on the dark laptop body paint.
I appreciate that the rubber feet are now wider and permanently attached to the baseplate, and they have a nice shape to them that gives you a grip point when the laptop is closed. There's only four screws, one of which is captive and pushes up the corner of the baseplate so that you can easily undo the clips all the way around.
It's got standard plastic frame construction under an aluminum skin, and the hinges are definitely a potential weak spot - they're anchored way off in the corners with no extending arm to take some pressure deeper into the unit, and no passthru screw from the baseplate.
HP has a new model on the market, the OmniBook X Flip. I took a peek in the 16" model to see how I feel about its construction.
It's got a tiny motherboard (same board from the 14" model) but with a massive fan and a decent 68Wh battery (bigger could have easily fit in here!)
I don't know where gig economy parcel carrier Gofo/YunExpress materialized from, but they need to disappear immediately. We have never had so many ridiculous problems with getting a simple delivery.
@wedgestratos on Windows 10, click View, and "show navigation pane" is a checkbox on the left side of the ribbon. On Windows 11, click View, then hover over Show, and Navigation pane is in the options.
We are frequently running into people that have inexplicably turned off ClearType (which, when off, makes text gross-looking) and/or the navigation pane in File Explorer (which, when off, renders it all but useless).
These are things you have to go out of your way to turn off so we're perplexed...
"macOS includes a built-in astigmatism called Liquid Glass"
I'm not keen on how some of the app icons are so diffuse that they look blurry, especially at a glance and especially at smaller sizes.
OK, they deserve credit for this, assuming the calculator hasn't been deliberately designed this way and that the OS is rendering this for real: "glass" objects seem to talk to each other in relation to light and color? Are the M-series SoCs so OP that they could really be wasting cycles on this?
Woof, the Tahoe dev beta looks ROUGH. Too much putting glass accents on everything and now there's weird boxes-within-boxes everywhere. Genuinely hate it.
Smells like the burnt PCB of the graphics card you didn't want to buy, but it's the only one available
Used paper?
Live in the Durham area? Know any young folks (like fresh out of high school) that are knowledgable about computers and looking for some experience/wanting to learn more? We're looking for a new junior tech:
Dear god, the nerds are out of control!