If you work in an office where most employees primarily set up laptops as desktops, meaning they fold and dock them and use external peripherals, it makes no sense for the business to order touch screen models.

The corporate sector will disagree. In offices, especially in the engineering industry, it’s extremely common to see employees primarily setting up laptops as desktops, i.e. with external peripherals and monitors. I myself do the same with my work-issued Macbook Pro. Before covid, I would only use it as an actual…

Macs are the worst for upgradeability, especially the touch bar models of today.

I love this idea.

Part of the reveal mentions that there’s an NX450h Plus variant which is a plug-in. 

Almost all modern monitors have VESA holes, so you can just buy a third party VESA stand and rotate the monitor 90 degrees. I personally keep my monitor in horizontal mode but I also have a VESA arm to help me adjust its height. Way cheaper than buying a fancier type with a built-in adjustable/rotatable stand!

Because fat boomers need a taller vehicle to reduce the strain on their knees.

Retailers could implement a curbside pickup policy where customers must arrive in cars, check in on their phones, and have the console loaded into the trunk. Limit to only one console per car to diminish the ability of scalpers to use non-gamer buddies to help out (the buddies might be less interested in helping if…

It’s possible that people might still start new PC builds and use integrated graphics or their old GPUs while they wait for more stock. I myself rebuilt my PC and just used the old GPU (my Ryzen doesn’t have integrated graphics) until I was able to score an RTX3070. I know others who have boxes of parts sitting in a…

Teslas have the Supercharging network. There is no comparable CCS network in North America. Even if the majority of owners don’t actually rely on those 99% of the time, most car buyers aren’t rational people (otherwise everyone would drive Toyota Corollas) and the knowledge that they can take cross country road trips…

Teslas are priced as premium products and don’t compete in the kei-car segment. I’ve been to Japan and there are plenty of affluent consumers who at least have apartment parking spaces big enough to fit a Mercedes S-class. Walk around the Ginza district of Tokyo and it’s almost impossible to see any Japanese cars…

It’s both. There are plenty of racist cops and plenty of cops who are “equal opportunity assholes”. 

China. As a foreigner I’m not actually allowed to drive there unless I actually reside there with a Chinese license. However, my local friend got too drunk to drive after dinner, so I had to take over and pray we wouldn’t get pulled over.

Interesting. In the US and Canada the 1 series is basically a golf cart. Why do people even bother building driveways over there if a 1 series is too long? 

Acura is not circling the toilet the way Infiniti is. It seems like they’re mainly targeting the kind of people who would’ve bought a Mercury (good riddance) or a Buick if Acura wasn’t an option.

Luxury brands are like that. Adaptive cruise control and lane keeping are now standard on the Corolla/Civic, but they’re options on Range Rovers.

Exactly, a lot of people see the letters “SUV” and think it refers to a Chevy Tahoe or some other monstrosity.

Audi A1 is 158.6" x 68.5".

Yes, width is a constraint. Height isn't. Europeans are buying subcompact SUVs in the size class of the Chevrolet Trax. They aren't buying Ford Expeditions. Tiny SUVs like the Trax are more than capable of fitting into the smallest European parking spaces. 

Subcompact SUVs have the same length and width as those hatchbacks. They just have more height to reduce the strain on boomers’ knees.