Disappointment: Intel fails the potential of Clevo P270WM...

Phew, smells like OWS; lice, BO & all.

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Money exists to provide a means of exchange between people for unrelated items each other wants that can't be directly bartered. Hence monetary systems were established, and goods assigned value by those that desire the item and those that have it to be willing to part with said item. Independant cultures have ALL come up with some form of system, its a certainty that any society cannot function without some means of exchange. To take from someone and not provide any compensation in return is STEALING or if by force SLAVERY to take the fruits of their labor for nothing in return.

Medicine, pharmaceuticals & associated machinery are costly (up to and including powerful laptop computers to facilitate research and presentation of the works of knowledge involved). The training to work in said fields being prolonged and expensive and only a small portion of the population has the aptitude & capability to grasp the concepts and apply themselves to the training and pursuit of such knowledge. They rightfully want to get paid for their efforts, not just the ruinously expensive student loans but so they can have a comfortable life with rewards motivating to them to conitnue to put in long hours of research & study often at the expense of their personal lives & relationships with family. You would demand they give that all for FREE?

You call yourself a Dr., Dr. Duck (quack) saying all diseases are curable. Balderdash. Genetic disorders are not curable unless you replace the genes of the subject involved with ones with non-defective alleles. You probably have no conception of how expensive such a therapy would be, let alone if it could be developed under current levels of technology & medical science.

Most bacterial infections are theoretically curable, but a vulnerability must be found in their biological process which can be chemically attacked without killing the host first. Expensive stuff, especially when the organisms also mutate and require continued research to stay on top of their evolving immunities.

Viruses are not curable as such. They can be bound up or eliminated by anti-bodies, but since they are only active once they inject in host cells, you have to kill the host cells to stop them in their replicative process (unless again, you can bind them to prevent additional cell infection). Yet again, very expensive processes to come up with methods of intervention to these.

Prions are an infectious agent that as of yet defy ANY treatment because unlike bacteria or viruses they aren't even technically alive to kill. They are twisted protein fragments that induce a similar twist in like proteins preventing the body from being able to process them with normally occurring enzymes. To destroy a prion you either have to burn it with heat, or chemically attack it. However, at present no enzymatic action has been found to find active sites on the warped protein other than basic toxic chemicals like acids & bases. Thus despite millions, billions even - Alzheimers, CFJ disease, Parkinson's etc are incurable. The only thing we've really determined at this point is they are communicated by introduction of the wapred protein base into a new host where it then induces similar transformation in the new host. Thus aside from bodily fluid transmission viruses is a new class of blood borne pathogens. The cost to even breach treatment methods is astronomical, the sterile facilities required to examine these things without risk of infection extreme.

The one thing I can agree with you on is incremental advancement to pace economic sustainability for companies does produce a lot of waste in consumer cost and material. Problem is, if they provide a product that has all the upgrades right now that would be released in the next 10 years, don't charge you a massive amount more, and the thing is designed to last - how do they stay in business for 10 years to make the next major generation with no income from continued sales of upgrades?

As I noted, I find it frustrating as well. But I can't provide a means to keep a business afloat that doesn't have a long term income strategy. Companies that have tried to buck that trend in history are mostly... history. IE Tucker Automotive, even if Detroit hadn't conspired to ruin Tucker, making cars that lasted too long would mean he'd sell himself out of business (unless he charged so much more to make up the difference, in which case no one could afford the product).

 

I think I'm not making myself clear. The comparison wasn't mine, and it wasn't between my computer and the new stuff coming out (because it's not my comparison, so why would my computer play into it). It's about the current tech vs the stuff that's coming out, in regards to whether to buy now or wait. I think it's worth waiting.