/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.14951313]

What does /biz/ use for technology? What kind of laptop should a respectable businessman use?

[Anonymous No.14951332]

I use ubuntu, it has been surprisingly good so far

[Anonymous No.14951343]

thinkpads only

especially x220s

[Anonymous No.14951353]

>>14951313
Apple

[Anonymous No.14951361]

>>14951353
I'd prefer a mac if i had the money desu

[Anonymous No.14951363]

>>14951343
Why do you use technology from 2010? Are you poor?

[Anonymous No.14951375]

>>14951353
>>14951361
Thinkpad is the only correct choice

[Anonymous No.14951376]

>>14951313
thinkpads only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upgw5BJP4Zk

[Anonymous No.14951394]

>>14951361
Sergey uses a MacBook, thus we all use a MacBook

[Anonymous No.14951398]

>>14951375
>>14951376
>Just spend $2k on a t480 bro

[Anonymous No.14951420]

>>14951313
Dont get the T480s, dude, get the T450s.
much better bang for the buck, spend the money you save on more linkies

t. t450s user

[Anonymous No.14951448]

>>14951398
you can get 1-3 year old refurbs cheap as shit dude

[Anonymous No.14951457]

2015 MB Pro. This is decidedly the best laptop. The new MacBook doesn’t have USB ports (???) so it’s out. Thinkpads are nice and I’ve used my friend’s 2018 thinkpad but the OS is just shit compared to the Mac OS. I know it’s expensive and not as powerful as the thinkpad but a laptop is about comfort, not performance.

[Anonymous No.14951472]

>>14951457
To add to this, the windows surface Pro is the official gear of high level wagie faggots.

[Anonymous No.14951494]

>>14951343
Master /g/ race here

[Anonymous No.14951504]

>>14951472
well actually i had trouble installing my scanner on ubuntu.
in an office enviroment windows is more convinient.

[Anonymous No.14951506]

>>14951420
>>14951448
I don't want to buy a laptop some greasy idiot used though

[Anonymous No.14951517]

Microsoft surface laptop or Huawei mate book X pro for data analysis?

[Anonymous No.14951535]

>>14951363
Just bought a MacBook Pro with an Intel i9 8 core processor for 4k.

[Anonymous No.14951580]

>>14951506
got the one for you then

[Anonymous No.14951583]

>>14951363
My X220T did everything I need a computer to do save have good battery life and resolution (but that doesn't matter at this size). My hinge was getting weak so I bought an x250 and other than battery life, the experience itself is surprisingly not a huge difference. Runs windows 10 better I guess. But the screen on this just shit out so I'm back to using my x250. It's not noticeable since the x220 uses a full voltage processor, I just miss the more powerful graphics chipset.

Buying a new computer for the sake of it being new is nigger behavior, especially if you don't have any real benefits to the power upgrade.

[Anonymous No.14951584]

>>14951313
Dell latitude, HP Elitebook, IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad. Put Linux on it.

[Anonymous No.14951589]

>>14951517
Surface

[Anonymous No.14951591]

>>14951457
>usb-c isn't usb
retard alert

[Anonymous No.14951601]

>>14951580
Or I could just buy something new?

[Anonymous No.14951623]

x/t series thinkpad + debian
the only way

[Anonymous No.14951629]

>>14951589
Any reason?

Huawei is 3k screen Vs 2k on the surface. I think they have the same processor. Similar price range.

[Anonymous No.14951646]

>>14951623
>debian
Boomer

[Anonymous No.14951685]

Thinkbook 14s
https://youtu.be/vGUE5WYIHSA

[Anonymous No.14951724]

>>14951583
I like the x230 you can easily replace the display with an ips. resolution still sucks though

[Anonymous No.14951807]

>>14951629
At that screen size, 3K doesn't matter vs 2K.

I use a DELL XPS 13" running Ubuntu. I do NOT want Windows on any computer that has to do with crypto. And Ubuntu is really nice if you are not into gaming or hardcore office document sharing.

[Anonymous No.14951899]

>>14951343
>>14951375
>>14951353
>>14951361
Thinkpads and Macs are the only choices for respectable /biz/nessmen.
They both basically last forever, my grandma is still rocking her 2006 macbook.
Thinkpads are more durable, kinda built like tanks, so you can treat them like crap and they'll still be fine.

[Anonymous No.14951952]

>>14951313

Gnome

[Anonymous No.14951958]

I use a Surface Pro. Pretty happy with it but I could work on any kind of laptop. I think it's just the right size for both manoeuvrability and decent screen real estate.

[Anonymous No.14951976]

I bought x250 and I am very happy with it
i have dual-boot windows 10 and Debian Buster

[Anonymous No.14952124]

Give me a reason not to buy the most expensive cuckpad right now?

[Anonymous No.14952133]

>>14951313
Anything that can run excel, powerpoint. Preferably a Windows machine w/ hackintosh just incase you have to deal with applefags.

In terms of attributes it falls in this order,
>aesthetics
>battery life
>durability
>price
>performance

Any questions?

[Anonymous No.14952167]

>>14951958
Great machine. I prefer something with more ports/expandability though.

[Anonymous No.14952185]

>>14952167
Also, would never buy a tenkeyless machine.

[Anonymous No.14952193]

>>14952133
>In terms of attributes it falls in this order,
>aesthetics at the top
>performance at the very bottom
>Preferably a Windows machine
fucking cringe

[Anonymous No.14952220]

Latitude 7490. Vastly superior to any chinknovo

[Anonymous No.14952226]

>>14952133
I agree with everything but I'd add something more: The point of a laptop is that it's a portable computer you can take with you anywhere. It's supposed to be lightweight and easy to fit in most carrying bags.

In my opinion laptops with screens bigger than 13 or 14 inches make no sense. I have a 15.6'' one and it is too cumbersome to take to places. The next one I'll buy will definitely be 13'' screen with Windows/Mint dual boot.

>>14952124
Thinkpads with any other OS installed than Windows reek of neckbeard sweat and virginity.

[Anonymous No.14952256]

>>14952193
Why would you need performance on a laptop unless you're using intensive engineering software or something like that.

Besides, I have a custom built PC for that. Laptops are mostly for presentations, emails, and quickly updating excel sheets.

[Anonymous No.14952282]

>>14952226
Agreed, but the problem with smaller laptops is no numeric keypad. Biggest laptop I might buy is something similar to the Gigabyte Aero, with less gamer-esqe branding.

[Anonymous No.14952292]

>>14952167
I am a bit miffed about just one USB port, but if necessary I could get an extension there. For my purposes, that and the sd card slot is sufficient.

[Anonymous No.14952357]

They'll all give PEBKAC ERROR if not set up correctly

[Anonymous No.14952358]

>>14951807
Why linux is better than windows for crypto?

[Anonymous No.14952378]

>>14952358
Windows 10 is basically a spyware machine

[Anonymous No.14952529]

Elitebook 1000 or Zbook Studio X360. Lenovo is pleb tier Chinese garbage filled with spyware.

[Anonymous No.14952539]

Chinkpad master race reporting in.

[Anonymous No.14952556]

>>14951313
i use a ssd dell g7 with i7 and 16 gb ram

[Anonymous No.14952613]

Thinkpad is the ugliest fucking computer you can buy. Only fay neckbeards and the weird kids you think might be school shooters have them.

[Anonymous No.14952632]

>>14951313
I use the battlestation I built.
If I need to go somewhere, I just take it with me in a large suitcase, which I can manage because of how /fit/ I am.
I carry my peripherals and monitor in my other suitcase.
You can imagine the look on people's faces when I pull out my glowing red case and hook up my razor peripherals, glowing equally red.
Only takes about 30 seconds to setup now that I've gotten so good with it.

[Anonymous No.14952861]

>>14952613
Your post reeks of summer. Adults are trying to discuss serious bizness.

[Anonymous No.14952887]

>>14952861
Cope harder, wagie. You ain't half as /biz/ as I.

[Anonymous No.14953016]

>>14951313
MacBook Air and Mac Mini, both 2012, still great performance on both.

[Anonymous No.14953034]

>>14951361
Buy a used 2012 MacBook Air on eBay for around $300 in good condition. Thank me later. 13 inch.

[Anonymous No.14953047]

Asus Zenbook pro with Arch btw

[Anonymous No.14953174]

>>14951535
Sound sick af. I’ll be buying a similar thing in 5 years for much cheaper.

[Anonymous No.14953308]

>>14952613
honorary nigger

[Anonymous No.14953506]

>>14952887
You have to be 18 to post here, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.14953679]

>>14952887
>>14952861
he is right tough. thinkpads are only used by neckbeards and/or technical/IT technicans wagies

[Anonymous No.14953758]

>>14953679
not true. I'm the head of IT at the company I work for and I made sure that all new laptops we purchased for sales staff were Lenovo thinkpads. Now every sales wagie here is stuck using a chinkpad.

[Anonymous No.14953857]

>>14952632
based and powerpilled

[Anonymous No.14953937]

thinkpad W530 with coreboot and debian
smoothbrains wouldn't get it

[Anonymous No.14954043]

Surface book 2

[Anonymous No.14954082]

I have a macbook 2016
But only because of my job as a graphic designer
I do have le epic gaming desktop at home but only for 3d rendering

[Anonymous No.14954182]

>>14951899
>macs
No
>>14952124
You really don't need to unless you are doing something that requires that level of hardware. X250 is cheap

[Anonymous No.14954256]

>>14951420
Based fellow T450 user

[Anonymous No.14954296]

>>14952632
I really really hope this is true. Sounds based as fuck.

[Anonymous No.14954361]

>>14951313
You are too stupid, give up.

[Anonymous No.14954412]

From my company I got the Zbook Studio X360. Only chinks and neckbeards walk with lenovo.
HP/DELL masterrace. Zbook>Elitebook>XPS>Spectre

[Anonymous No.14954472]

>>14954412
Running with an i9 and quadro p2000 and 64GB. Stay poor and enjoy your plastic bricks Chinknovo hodlers.

[Anonymous No.14954473]

>>14952632
Based neckbeard.

[Anonymous No.14955059]

>>14951313
My 2 cents:

Linux
>>based Unix however
>>need to know shell scripting in order to use since GUI is shit in about every distro
>>spend more time circumventing compatibility issues with external files than getting work done

Windows
>>OS of most normie wagecuck companies
>>NSA faggotry
>>shit GUI 10x worse than any -nix distro, redundant hidden config panels, feels like every release is just new buggy pajeet code piled on top of the old shit (it is)

Mac OS X
>>Easy to use, relatively stable and intuitive GUI once you learn its quirks, however
>>Every release is more bloated and normie-catered than the last
>>Grandma doesn't know how a harddrive works so therefore we should obfuscate the notion of directory structures and other basic pillars of a good GUI for everyone
>>cum-guzzling Tim Cook is a cum-guzzling faggot


Everything sucks, decide what you want most out of your laptop and be prepared for compromises regardless of your choice.

I use a 2014 Macbook pro WITHOUT dedicated GPU that I bought on Craigslist for $700 in perfect condition. All Apple products are overpriced as hell but the build quality is better than anything IF you DYOR and buy a good model. They add all sorts of faggy features that fail all the time so it's important to get a good year of any model, just like with cars. A dedicated GPU will overheat and melt the epoxy inside of the display which will cause the display hinge to fail and crack the display. Avoid anything with that new touchbar shit, it's also useless trash that has reputation for failure.

Buy used and know how to test all hardware.

>>inb4 apple fag

I wish I could recommend anything other than a unibody Macbook but everything else is flimsy disposable plastic shit running uber-cucked windows 10 shit. If you have the time and know-how then maybe installing a linux distro on an aluminum zenbook from a few years back before they got cucked as well could be worth it.

[Anonymous No.14955342]

>>14951343
based

[Anonymous No.14955498]

>>14954182
>>macs
>No
/g/ opinions regarding tech are about as important as /biz/ opinions regarding business. That is to say, not at all.

[Anonymous No.14955513]

>>14955498
Lmao whatever retard. You buy a Mac if you're computer illiterate. The OS is the only nice part about it, the hardware is severely overpriced and hardly worth it.

[Anonymous No.14955759]

>>14955059
kys apple fag but not before you watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8

[Anonymous No.14955905]

>>14955513
Used $500 dollar macbook is the best machine for programmers. Windows is a joke for programming (useless terminal and no package manager) and linux is an autistic child that you need to micromanage or else it will automatically shit itself. When it comes to development, OSX just werks

Also Apple has a refurb store with big discounts on the 15 inch macbook pro now.

[Anonymous No.14956308]

>>14955905
>micromanage Linux
It's 2019 man come on. Nobody who does anything serious with computers thinks that.

[Anonymous No.14956674]

>>14951313
T420s master race reporting in.

[Anonymous No.14956693]

>>14956308
There is no alternative to linux on the server but it blows for home use. That's how it's always been

[Anonymous No.14956748]

I thought biz was a serious board
why so many basednux users

[Anonymous No.14956754]

>>14956693
Works on my machine lol. Ubuntu and manjaro are foolproof in my honest experience.

[Anonymous No.14956759]

>>14956748
s©¥nux kek

[Anonymous No.14956765]

>>14956748
We like making money

[Anonymous No.14956797]

>>14956759
>going out of your way this hard to call someone a soiboy
Oof my dude, big yikes

[Anonymous No.14956803]

>>14951313
Used Macbook Pro w/ Windows XP

[Anonymous No.14956811]

>>14956765
and the advantage of using linux over windows 10 for business is?

[Anonymous No.14956842]

>>14956797
its a real cunt how far we've fallen this year

[Anonymous No.14956863]

This

[Anonymous No.14956864]

>>14956811
I write all my own trading tools (hence my high level of success) and Linux is an easier environment to develop in. Also I like to keep my different strategies segregated and since they pop up windows, I need them to not steal focus. Linux has a program called xnest that lets you run a "desktop" in its own window which suits those purposes perfectly.

[Anonymous No.14956875]

>>14956811
some people want to run a node
some people want to compile ethereum contracts
some people want to mine
some people want to run a bot
99.99% wont but its nice knowing that you can

[Anonymous No.14956893]

>>14956864
Should also mention I prefer to develop in Python which spins off new processes for multithreaded code that needs to run on multiple CPU's and the procedure to do this in Linux is much faster than on Windows.

[Anonymous No.14956907]

just turn your old laptop into a desktop like i did
all you need is some coat hangers and pliers

[Anonymous No.14956920]

>>14951313
Alienware or anything with RGB. Respectable business men are fucking normies. Show you're a chat with flashy colours

[Anonymous No.14956936]

>>14952632
Please be real

[Anonymous No.14956960]

>>14956864
I'm learning python and would like to develop my own trading bots. any advice for a newbie, tips resources etc?

[Anonymous No.14956971]

Okay so normies, what laptop do I buy?

[Anonymous No.14956972]

Either a Macbook (cus linux) or Thinkpad (win10 sucks).

[Anonymous No.14956974]

>>14951313
Surface Book

[Anonymous No.14956996]

>>14956960
This will save you a lot of time
https://github.com/ccxt/ccxt/wiki/Manual
It's a library that abstracts across many exchange api's. For charting, I use matplotlib, a very powerful Python charting library. For TA you can use ta-lib though I just use the built-in Python statistics module. Good luck.

[Anonymous No.14957101]

>>14956765
What's going on with your pepe?

[Anonymous No.14957147]

>>14956907
My fucking sides

[Anonymous No.14957172]

>>14957101
Haha. He chillin man. Smug as ever. Was holding up the clock I use to keep track of UTC time. Shit always happens in crypto based on that shit.

[Anonymous No.14957292]

>>14951394
sergey knows dick about tech.
>>14951899
louis rossman would like to have a word with you

[Anonymous No.14957411]

>>14956996
awesome, thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.14957448]

>>14956907
Kek

[Anonymous No.14958259]

>>14955759
yawn... what the fuck from my post makes you think I'm not already aware of this shit? care to offer an alternative solution? no matter what option you go with you're paying money for something designed by kikes to fail and extract more money from goyim. at least i'm suggesting buying something second hand so apple doesn't get any new hardware revenue.

[Anonymous No.14958413]

test

[Anonymous No.14958527]

>>14958413
Yes, you're still banned

[Anonymous No.14958759]

>>14958527

[Anonymous No.14958860]

>>14951363
quite the opposite, I think they're beautiful

There's a charm in well-built things tested by time that you simply can't get from new, flashier counterparts.

[Anonymous No.14958871]

>>14958860
spoken like a true communist

[Anonymous No.14958948]

love my cheap huawei chinkbook. no moving parts and light enough to take everywhere.

[Anonymous No.14958981]

>>14958871
How is liking high quality non bleeding-edge tech communism?

[Anonymous No.14959022]

>>14958981
that's like asking how is liking an ak47 communist

[Anonymous No.14959063]

system76

all other laptops are for plebs

[Anonymous No.14959208]

>>14959063
They make great hardware but Pop_OS! sucks.

[Anonymous No.14959217]

>>14951343
Based

X1 Carbon is sexy.

[Anonymous No.14959251]

>>14956674
What are you doing? Replace the screen with an IPS, anon.

[Anonymous No.14959353]

>>14959251
I don't what the hell's wrong with me. I'm lazy. I also kinda don't want to spoil the character of the thing. One day

[Anonymous No.14959376]

Boomerberg terminal

[Anonymous No.14959723]

Wrf is wrong with Americans and laptops. I still remember all the Americans I knew were using big stupid fucking DELLS that were twice the weight of my laptop. Thinkpads are shit Chinese ugly laptops.

Samsung, microsoft Windows.

Mac pro or Air. Those are you only two quality choices.

[Anonymous No.14959809]

>>14951313
Nobody cares in the real world what laptop you use.Get something appropriate for what you need to do.

[Anonymous No.14960116]

Thinkpad (P51) running Linux

[Anonymous No.14960137]

>>14959723
Toshiba make unbreakable tanks

[Anonymous No.14960165]

hp spectre x360

[Anonymous No.14960300]

buying a t430 for this fall soon

[Anonymous No.14961174]

cheapest laptop i can get at walmart then when im done with it in a few weeks i scrub the hard drive and throw it into the ocean

[Anonymous No.14961466]

Hoping to start a bookkeeping business with this one I rebuilt.

[Anonymous No.14961795]

>>14957292
Yeah yeah I know, fuck Apple blah blah blah. Louis Rossman is based but I have had nothing but good experiences with Macbooks and Thinkpads.

[Anonymous No.14962119]

oh hey bro you mind if we sit... OOHHHHHhhhh FUCK DUDE! Is that a fucking ThinkPad T470?! No way, brah! That's fucking scandatious bombatious, my man. I just got 32 gigs in my little beast, absolutely no stalls working on any projects, brah. BRO! what GNU slash Linux distro do I see there? Hang on let me look, bro. Oh okay, bro, okay bro, Arch is pretty gnarly but, ya know, I'm more of a gentoo kind of guy. Anyway, dude, my squad and I need to fly so catch ya on the flip sigh, bro.

[Anonymous No.14962160]

>>14962119
Later on my dudes!

[Anonymous No.14962178]

>>14962119
Are you stuck in the 90s?

[Anonymous No.14962313]

>>14952632
The Chad Battlestation vs the Virgin Macbook

[Anonymous No.14963178]

T420
full disk encrypted kali linux
using it to hodl my coins and sync the chains

[Anonymous No.14963247]

>buying new
some of you will never make it

[Anonymous No.14963320]

>>14951343
>>14959217
I got an X1 Carbon yesterday to replace my ages-old macbook. Love the simple design and it's extremely fast

[Anonymous No.14963354]

>>14956765
Faggot Trump cocksucking supporter. What an embarrassment go neck yourself

[Anonymous No.14963358]

>>14951313
Why use technology when you can literally retire off OTO CASH

[Anonymous No.14963504]

>>14951313
High end Mac Pro's + 17" maxed out MBP when i travel, like a non poor-fag would.

TRV should net me a 2019 Mac Pro. Stoked.

[Anonymous No.14963524]

Macbook pro 13" 2015 Retina is the greatest laptop of all time.

Everything else is a sub-par experience. The 2016+ models of the MBP are unable to attain it's perfection.

[MINISTER YOU SATOSHI No.14963569]

>>14963354
Kill yourself shitlib. You are a mentally ill embarrassment.

[Anonymous No.14963581]

>>14956308

If you cannot fathom the timecost of maintaining a linux workmachine in comparison to OSX then you are not someone who does anything serious with a computer.

[MINISTER YOU SATOSHI No.14963606]

>>14963581
Not an issue if you aren't an idiot.

[Anonymous No.14963636]

>>14952632

holy fuck

SOMEONE!

PLEASE!!!

HELP THIS MAN!!!!

H
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S
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[Anonymous No.14963688]

>>14963606

>"if ur smart it's ez"

No you fucking chimp. I more have important things to do like determine the architecture of the application you and 20 other chimps are going to build the next quarter and talk to goldstein about my bonus- all from my couch at home.

[Anonymous No.14963739]

>>14951623
extremely based

[Anonymous No.14964247]

>>14963354
Eat a dick, bitch. Even your bitch ass id is pink commie scum

[Anonymous No.14964278]

>>14963688
>>"if ur smart it's ez"
>No you fucking chimp. I more have important things to do like determine the architecture of the application you and 20 other chimps are going to build the next quarter and talk to goldstein about my bonus- all from my couch at home.
Dumbass larp confirmed.

[Anonymous No.14964348]

>>14952632