Asus RoG laptops are so underestimated for productivity. The AMD chips have fantastic battery life and performance.
Recently set up an office on a couple of them, granted it was not this high end of a model but it’s stupid to ignore them for office use.
Also I guarantee she didn’t pick this. This was 100% advised to her by her companies IT group after she repeatedly said her computer was slow. It’ll run all the spyware she downloads with enough cores left over to run excel.
My Boomer dad bought a ridiculously expensive gaming laptop because he “wanted the best computer” and still believes that more expensive = better. He uses it to surf the internet…🤦
Next time buy a laptop for him. But get him a chrome book and charge him for the best? It’s. It stealing if he was going to lose the money alway right?
My Boomer dad bought a ridiculously expensive gaming laptop because he “wanted the best computer” and still believes that more expensive = better. He uses it to surf the internet…🤦
Exactly and she’s a lawyer, so if she really wants to game at a serious level she needs a portable rig she can use between clients. She probably has a rig at her condo.
I once lived in a 150 sq ft. motel room, and I still managed to set up a desk with a dual monitor gaming desktop at the foot of my bed. It can be doable in a small space.
I think it suggests there’s a game she can’t go without, and she went out of her way to get a heavy af laptop with shit battery life, just so she could be able to play this game whenever she had time between her lawyer duties.
Lots of people use their “gaming” laptops as working stations. I barely use mine for playing, but I like to have a big screen with full keyboard and a nice GPU for my work, and something I can take with me if needed, for example for a long work trip. I also have a smaller laptop for things on the go.
I usually get the last generation of slimmest gaming laptop because they easily cover any game I’d play at a LAN party and can handle media creation and rendering.
Steam deck runs everything that I’d want to play on it locally, way better than remote streaming. It’s punching way above it’s weight class. I’m almost done with elden ring on it and I’ll be moving to cyberpunk 2.0 if it’s as good as people are saying
I haven’t bothered with gaming laptops in a while, but it seems like the work valve put into Proton is paying dividends. Steam deck is punching far above it’s weight class. Apparently a lot of games now are running better in Linux via proton than natively in Windows, which is kind of mind boggling. I don’t have to do any troubleshooting and everything runs great. I’d guess to get comparable performance on a laptop you’d have to spend 2-3x as much. Last time I used a gaming laptop it struggled on any ‘current’ games with lots of fuckery to get it running smooth.
But like I said, I’ve long been out of the gaming laptop scene because I just never found them worth the trouble. Steam deck is the opposite of that and I play it in favor of my PC more than I care to admit.
Streaming is universally dog shit. I tried streaming elden ring and it was unplayable because of the latency. Meanwhile running locally I’ve put in 30+ hours.
If she uses one computer for work and entertainment, and has to have a laptop for work, then she is smart to have a single machine capable of everything she needs.
It is absolutely not a coincidence that Trump has the biggest screen on that desk. You just know he insisted on it because he truly is that level of insecure.
He probably also doesn’t want to need glasses in court so he has the biggest screen so each sentence can be in font size 48 and still fit on one screen.
More than likely there isn’t anything on the screen unless the lawyers put something on for him to say which he will ignore anyways.
He’s functionally illiterate. There’s video of an old deposition of him from before he was President where he’s asked to read some materials and his lawyer keeps trying to put a stop to it because it’s clear he basically can’t read.
They also knew they shouldn’t give him a keyboard because he’d crash that thing in no time while bragging about how much he knows about IT and all the FANG tech leads who told him how knowledgeable he is.
So, alright, in her defense, I have that particular laptop and a) it's not that heavy, b) at least the AMD versions can go up to 8-9 hours with the mux switch off, and c) it actually has a great typing keyboard. It is absolutely a kickass mobile workstation, especially if you need the performance to do other stuff like edit video (or game, obviously).
Now, would I have switched the RGB off during court proceedings? Yes, I would have switched the RGB off.
I've done some work for lawyers before in the it field and I would place a hefty bet of $10 that the reason that she has that laptop is that her old one broke down and she told her it guy to get her the most powerful laptop available.
Lawyers are not really known for being technologically savvy, same for doctors and teachers, but they often have a lot of money to burn for tax purposes every year.
Yeah there are so many lawyers with AOL accounts. I personally know one who is a powerhouse, won awards and whatnot. But outside the courtroom? As dumb as a bag of bricks, super naive, was shocked to learn they are an attorney, let alone the go to attorney in their field.
Yeah I actually think this is really cool because buying this sort of laptop, you have to know a thing or two about computers and intentionally buy it. It’s not a default choice, she had a reason to get this specific category of gaming laptop. She’s probably a gamer with a watercooled rig at home, but as a lawyer is often on the go between clients, and she wants to get in on some sidequests and grinds whenever she can.
It’s also possible that she just asked IT to buy her the fastest laptop they could find. I choose to believe that she’s 4th ranked in the world in Destiny 2, though.
Today when I walked into the Trump case court I saw something I dread every time I close my eyes. A lawyer had brought their new gaming laptop to courtroom. The Forklift she used to bring it was still running idle at the back. I started sweating as I sat down and gazed over at the 700lb beast that was her laptop. She had already reinforced his desk with steel support beams and was in the process of finding an outlet for a power cable thicker than Amy Schumer’s thigh. I start shaking. I keep telling myself I’m going to be alright and that there’s nothing to worry about. She somehow finds a fucking outlet. Tears are running down my cheeks as I send my last texts to my family saying I love them. The judge enters, and the lawyer turns her laptop on. The colored lights on her RGB Backlit keyboard flare to life like a nuclear flash, and a deep humming fills my ears and shakes my very soul. The entire city power grid goes dark. The courtroom begins to shake as the massive fans begin to spin. In mere seconds my world has gone from vibrant life, to a dark, earth shattering void where my body is getting torn apart by the 150mph gale force winds and the 500 decibel groan of the cooling fans. As my body finally surrenders, I weep, as my court and my city go under. I fucking hate gaming laptops.
Not even that. She could be dual booting windows with windows on two separate encrypted partitions. There’s going to be someone at work who knows how to set it up.
And why can’t she know how to set that up if she chooses? Because she’s a girl? You people are gross. If you want to criticize her for something, let it be for representing Trump in the first place.
She’s clearly too young to have her own practice. Whatever firm she works for placed her on his case. Her intelligence cannot be defined by the client she represents. She’s smart enough to pass the bar. I’d wager she’s also smart enough not to hand her personal laptop to some neckbeard to set up for her. It’s highly questionable at this point whether Trump can even get a firm big enough to have in house IT to work for him.
Nothing to do with their sexual identity or gender. It’s the fact that the average person doesn’t know how to do it. Most people working in a company stuff have IT that sets things up for them. If they can do it themselves, then hell, that’s great and I’m happy for them. But I wouldn’t assume anything because of someone’s gender or sexual identity. I think that’s silly.
If you care for a personal example, the company I work for has IT which give us work phones. The IT department set the phones up themselves. Because of the way the phone has been set up, there’s incredibly little that can go tits up and there’s a lot of security built in (no admin, enforced long passwords, probably more that I’m forgetting).
I’m more than capable of setting up my phone and having it be secure myself without IT doing it. Maybe she can too. Is it a usual thing for IT to thing up in a business setting, (unless you’re a programmer) probably.
Even if she works for a firm, which is likely as she looks a bit young to own her own practice, they did not provide that laptop. That is clearly hers. And unless they are a fairly large law firm, they do not have a dedicated IT guy, let alone department. I’d bet Trump would be hard pressed to get a large firm to work for him, given his reputation.
I mean, this is all speculation. How can you be sure that she couldn’t just request that laptop? I don’t know the circumstances.
As far as institutions go, there’s even fairly small ones that have at least 1 person who’s job is IT, not to mention it is also possible to outsource that position entirely.
I don’t know. Maybe I’m wrong about this entire situation but that doesn’t make me a sexist like you implied :/
How so? If you have 2 partitions encrypted separately with, say, Veracrypt, the worst thing the infected partition could do is copy the other encrypted partition. Unless I’m missing something?
You can download a copy of the encrypted partition and attempt to crack it locally.
Which depending on how deep your cascade encryption goes can require a huge amount of computation. If you’re a small business owner running a restaurant or a student, that’s plenty of security. If you’re the lawyer for a former POTUS in a history-defining trial that might decide the future of the entire planet, I hope to God you’re not relying on that encryption.
Then again it might be the same dirt that foreign intelligence already has on Trump, so maybe it doesn’t matter either way.
My friend, I hope you realise that cracking a Veracrypt partition is going to take longer than the heat death of the universe even if we use every computer ever produced. It’s not feasible to crack a partition with brute force. The one way to break it is if they have some password lists or something.
I’ve actually been thinking about this. Another very hard but possible way that I can think could work would be to take the targeted partition in its entirety, then alter the boot process in such a way where the user is tricked into producing their password at boot to the encrypted partition. The password would then be sent over the air to the attacker where they can simply decrypt the partition. I’m not sure what that would entail though.
There are plenty of reasons besides gaming to have a laptop with a dedicated GPU. There isn’t really many low end professional options, they start over $2k. 3D modelling, video rendering, ML and a bunch of other professional uses are significantly improved with dedicated hardware.
Who knows, maybe she’s running LLaMA on it locally so no one catches her using AI to write her rebuttals.
Well either she is unneccesarily using a gaming Laptop for non-gaming.
Or she uses her private gaming laptop for work and doesnt separate between those two spheres, which is unprofessional and potentially dangerous in regards to privacy security.
If she bought a gaming laptop specifically for work (this is the way you end up with a gaming laptop that’s not also your personal laptop) then it’s a silly, unnecessary, ill suited decision. There are other laptops with better battery life, cheaper, lighter, etc etc etc…. That fit the lawyer usecase better. Why would a lawyer buy a gaming laptop to lawyer?
IANAL but I don’t think you need discrete graphics for lawyer applications. But who knows, maybe she’s running an ML model locally to tell her what to do.
Well do you know if that lady bought it only for use in court?
Jesus, people drawing conclusions from a still image. It could have been a gift? Maybe it’s not even her laptop? Maybe she has so much money that she wanted it for the rgb? Maybe she does video editing as a hobbie? Maybe she uses it for traveling for gaming and work, because NOONE brings one laptop for gaming and one for work when travelling.
Tell me more about what she does after work is over, you seem to know…
It’s totally possible that she of her own informed mind made the best choice for her use case.
You make that claim, but I literally traveled with my personal and professional laptops on multiple occasions. Work policy is pretty strict on acceptable use of the work laptop, despite it being specced for running light ML tasks, and capable of gaming.
The choice of gaming laptop for suit wearing professional use just seems really odd. I’ll admit that if a guy did it, I’d have a slightly different first take… and that’d be to assume he was a gamer, and think “bro brought his fucking gaming machine to court”. And if you wanna call me out on that assumption, I’ll happily go out and double check my pre-conceived notions with statistics about pc gamers. I could be wrong.
I understand, but my point is why people are being so judgmental and prejudice about it? Maybe that’s her actual working laptop, I’ve seen companies indulging their best workers with stuff like that.
Even if it’s an odd choice to bring to court, it’s still just a laptop, it’s not like she decided to go to court in bermudas.
Hopefully, people are just taking liberties to shit talk someone they dislike for reasons unrelated to the shit talking.
Even in the worst case that it’s all Misogynistic, well… at least the attacks aren’t on her womanhood or some other protected class.
In Texas communities people were making fun of Greg Abbotts handicap, and thought that was ok because he’s a horrible excuse for a human. But, disability is a protected class. It’s a thing we agree shouldn’t be used against someone.
And I just don’t see the same problem with ridiculing someone for being a gaming laptop wielding lawyer.
There’s really no reason for a lawyer to be carrying a huge gaming laptop as their daily driver. There’s no advantage to it over an ultrabook, MBP, or any high-end productivity laptop (that’s probably in a lower price bracket to boot).
Now, if they do game on it, and also use it for work, that speaks to very poor IT security practice. Sensitive/valuable client data, especially for such a high-profile case, shouldn’t be on the same system that is built for gaming. The main reason being that games aren’t designed to be run on secure systems. So many of them arbitrarily require admin rights to perform properly, which means that this lawyer would have to have local admin privileges to be able to use them.
Giving a non-technical user admin privileges to a system that contains sensitive data for a high-profile client is absolutely a recipe for disaster. That system needs to be locked the fuck down. Not running Baldurs Gate during recess.
Now, perhaps, there’s a logical reason. Maybe her practice has a really good IT team and they’ve been able to effectively set up a good, secure BYOD environment. I’d still question this lawyers judgement in their professional image to select an RGB gaming laptop for their work. To me, this is no different than a shady personal injury lawyer that features their trashy Hummer H2 in every commercial, which exclusively airs during reruns of Jerry Springer.
I do the same thing, but it’s my home desktop. For me the big thing here isn’t about using your gaming computer for work it’s using it for work as a lawyer. There are two components to this: first law requires a degree of privacy and security that not having a separate computer for work demonstrates a habit of lack of security, second is that bringing an rgb laptop to a courtroom as a defense lawyer is akin to wearing jeans and a tshirt to court as a defense lawyer, it shouldn’t be a problem but judges tend to really not like that sort of thing and so it demonstrates a lack of professionalism in a job where professionalism impacts your performance
Possibly, I guess some of us just never seen a lawyer w a gaming laptop. I thought people in those suit wearing professions either use MacBooks or ThinkPads.
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