What's with new laptops having no storage?

[unknown]

I'm travelling and dont want to take my main laptop.

Figure I'd buy something cheap to take with me.

Find this guy:


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B2F7KJKF


Seems cool, except it only has 64GBs of storage... WTF?

What are you supposed to do, use an external drive or memory card?

My crappy phone has 128GB of storage FFS.

Even my 4 year old crappy HP came with 1TB...

[unknown]

WTF?

https://www.techradar.com/news/dell-...-end-of-an-era

Dell, Lenovo and HP kill laptops with hard disk drives, marking the end of an era

[dannno]

Well it does have an SD Card reader...

2 TB SD Card $80 (Edit: 1 TB max for SD Cards, do not buy the one below)

https://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Card-Me...d=Q220XRGZ0R4Q

I prefer ASUS laptops fwiw

https://www.amazon.com/VivoBook-14-i...dp/B09NMLP65X/

[unknown]

Well it does have an SD Card reader...

2 TB SD Card $80

https://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Card-Me...d=Q220XRGZ0R4Q

I prefer ASUS laptops fwiw

https://www.amazon.com/VivoBook-14-i...dp/B09NMLP65X/

I mean, I'm wondering if the thing can accommodate MS Office...

Do you think it can run programs like MS Office from a SD card?

[dannno]

I mean, I'm wondering if the thing can accommodate MS Office...

Do you think it can run programs like MS Office from a SD card?

Probably, but why not go with the ASUS, 512GB?

[ClaytonB]

64GB "laptop" would be better called a netbook or chromebook. The reason for such low storage is that it is possible to install OS + browser and that's "everything you need" for a netbook... no additional storage is included so they can hit the price-point.

HDDs were never a great storage solution for laptops because drops/falls are death to spinning rust. Manufacturers used a million tricks to make HDDs work well enough and customers just resigned themselves to the fact that a fall would likely mean losing any storage on their laptop. So, Flash/SSD/NVMe/etc. were a boon to laptops and as prices fell, customers were willing to pay the additional sticker-price for the peace-of-mind that if they drop the laptop, the storage has a strong likelihood of surviving, even if the laptop itself becomes physically damaged/unusable from the fall.

As for zero-storage systems, yes, that is something they really do want. The globalists have been pushing thin-client since the Unix days. The IBM PC was an abomination in their eyes and led to the democratization of computing resources, which is the opposite of what the Marxists need to happen, since Marxism is a kind of mass-lobotomy of society (cf Stalin's Great Purge, the purges in Mao's cultural revolution, or Pol Pot's mass slaughter of educated Cambodians in the Killing Fields, to name just a few.) The PC put a tool in the hands of the masses that, today, has enough storage capacity to hold the library of Congress many times over, has the approximate computing power of a circa-2005 super-computer, and provides instant, free access to vital data from all departments of the globe (weather, financial data, commerce information, etc.) That was a miscalculation of cosmic proportions and so they have been very, very busy behind the scenes, reworking the entire architecture of the computing industry, from the ground-up.

Now you know what all those absurd "chip shortages" are really about... or one prong of it, anyway...

[unknown]

64GB "laptop" would be better called a netbook or chromebook. The reason for such low storage is that it is possible to install OS + browser and that's "everything you need" for a netbook... no additional storage is included so they can hit the price-point.

HDDs were never a great storage solution for laptops because drops/falls are death to spinning rust. Manufacturers used a million tricks to make HDDs work well enough and customers just resigned themselves to the fact that a fall would likely mean losing any storage on their laptop. So, Flash/SSD/NVMe/etc. were a boon to laptops and as prices fell, customers were willing to pay the additional sticker-price for the peace-of-mind that if they drop the laptop, the storage has a strong likelihood of surviving, even if the laptop itself becomes physically damaged/unusable from the fall.

As for zero-storage systems, yes, that is something they really do want. The globalists have been pushing thin-client since the Unix days. The IBM PC was an abomination in their eyes and led to the democratization of computing resources, which is the opposite of what the Marxists need to happen, since Marxism is a kind of mass-lobotomy of society (cf Stalin's Great Purge, the purges in Mao's cultural revolution, or Pol Pot's mass slaughter of educated Cambodians in the Killing Fields, to name just a few.) The PC put a tool in the hands of the masses that, today, has enough storage capacity to hold the library of Congress many times over, has the approximate computing power of a circa-2005 super-computer, and provides instant, free access to vital data from all departments of the globe (weather, financial data, commerce information, etc.) That was a miscalculation of cosmic proportions and so they have been very, very busy behind the scenes, reworking the entire architecture of the computing industry, from the ground-up.

Now you know what all those absurd "chip shortages" are really about... or one prong of it, anyway...

Unfortunately, damn near everything leads back to "the agenda".

Its as though they dont want you to store anything locally, forcing you to use cloud storage, so they conveniently have easy access to everything...

[unknown]

Probably, but why not go with the ASUS, 512GB?

Thats an option although I was diggin that 16GB of RAM.

[Firestarter]

What are you supposed to do, use an external drive or memory card?

Yeah precisely!

After I bought a laptop a couple of months ago, when going through first start-up, Microsoft demanded that I'd enter my (Microsoft) email account, and log in (there is some technical bypass). I needed an internet connection to start-up the laptop.

After I logged in, and changed the laptop to a "local account", Windows still logged in to my email account. I had to change this in the settings, and then also in my Word application.
It sometimes resumes (Windows really is some sort of virus).

Through start-up, I got offers that Windows would save all my browser history and save all my documents in my "cloud" (that is part of my email account). Of course I said no to all of these "offers" (free of charge).
Since then I got some scary warning messages that Windows doesn't make back-ups of my computer.

So you don't really need local storage at all! Microsoft will save ALL of it for you...

[Swordsmyth]

Try Framework laptops.

[ClaytonB]

Unfortunately, damn near everything leads back to "the agenda".

Its as though they dont want you to store anything locally, forcing you to use cloud storage, so they conveniently have easy access to everything...

Access is part of it. Shutting you out from your own information is an even bigger part of it. And they want to own your data so they can use it for training their AI systems and, eventually, to put each of us into a Virtual Reality hamster-cage, aka the Matrix, aka Neuralink/Metaverse. This is why they love mobile devices... you do not own/control your mobile device, rather, the telecom, manufacturer and Apple/Google do. This is the model they want to impose on all computing systems and once you put those goggles on, there are no more mysteries in the various "market" trends in laptops/PCs/etc.

Unfortunately for their Agenda, however, the DS are locked into a war with physics itself and, sooner or later, they're going to lose completely. They see computers as something like magic amulets that enable you to "do things", like send emails, "browse", train neural nets, run simulations, etc. They do not understand that Nature is inherently computational and, to whatever extent they do understand this, they imagine its computational power as something like a hill that can be captured and owned by themselves (eg Quantum Computing). In the end, they're trying to swallow the Sun... it's just too big to be controlled. The halting problem is infinite and anyone who thinks they can solve/encapsulate it is on a collision-course with reality...

[Nolan]

That 2TB card is fake. DO NOT buy it. Microsd tops out at 1TB right now. They're around $100 for a reputable one. Even so, SD are dogcrap slow to run any program from. Just grab that 64gb laptop model if you must and get a 128gb ssd for like $12 bucks and install it yourself.

[Occam's Banana]

I mean, I'm wondering if the thing can accommodate MS Office...

Do you think it can run programs like MS Office from a SD card?

https://twitter.com/AydinPaladin/sta...04567142904159

[Brian4Liberty]

Yeah precisely!

After I bought a laptop a couple of months ago, when going through first start-up, Microsoft demanded that I'd enter my (Microsoft) email account, and log in (there is some technical bypass). I needed an internet connection to start-up the laptop.

After I logged in, and changed the laptop to a "local account", Windows still logged in to my email account. I had to change this in the settings, and then also in my Word application.
It sometimes resumes (Windows really is some sort of virus).

Through start-up, I got offers that Windows would save all my browser history and save all my documents in my "cloud" (that is part of my email account). Of course I said no to all of these "offers" (free of charge).
Since then I got some scary warning messages that Windows doesn't make back-ups of my computer.

So you don't really need local storage at all! Microsoft will save ALL of it for you...

Not just Microsoft. Apple products do the same thing. At some point in time, and all it takes is one time, they will take the entire contents of your device and load it to their cloud. You can do all of the privacy and do not backup settings you want, eventually something will trigger it to go.