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    The Alvin Greene DreamJordan Sargent
    1/06/16 12:35pm

    I cannot, for the life of me, understand why you wasted time writing this article.

    Oh wait, now I understand. It was so people like me would click on it and make comments like this.

    Fuck.

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      iHateHumanity...and lost burner passwordsThe Alvin Greene Dream
      1/06/16 12:42pm

      Yeah, doing the same ‘kick me’ dance over here. Should have known the article would be mostly Jordan talking about living in New York. Because hey guys, he lives in NY! And uses Apple products! Look at how cool he is.

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      This is Bat CountryThe Alvin Greene Dream
      1/06/16 1:09pm

      I also thought this article was a little too shallow and pointless to be posted on the gawker main page. And that’s really saying something, as I am a huge fan of “500 Days of Kristin.”

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    gramercypoliceJordan Sargent
    1/06/16 1:14pm

    This is an exemplum for Silicon Valley’s relation to the rest of the country / world. It doesn’t get cold there, so why consider it?

    Fwiw, though, you should appreciate that cold touch of the metal in the morning. Before too many more years, cold winter mornings will be just a memory no matter where on the planet you live — if you can call dying living.

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      Jordan Sargentgramercypolice
      1/06/16 1:51pm

      gramercypolice, thank you for your kind comment. I appreciate it.

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      gramercypoliceJordan Sargent
      1/06/16 2:02pm

      I hope you know that my comment was referring to global warming. I read it back to myself and worried you might think i was making a dig at you, and that’s definitely not the case. But I really do think your experience is a microcosm of SV’s disconnect from so much of the rest of the country. And I was kind of (and maybe too) pleased with myself for finding an opportunity to include ‘exemplum’ in a comment.

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    DiscoInfernoSupressionSystemJordan Sargent
    1/06/16 12:49pm

    I’ve been using Apple products since I first got to use an Apple II in kindergarten way back in the far-off land of 1987.

    I’ve seen the company go through ups and downs. Good trends and bad.

    The current obsession with thinness at the expense of everything else is squarely in the bad category. Heat dissipation sucks, so throttling kicks in hard and fast on many machines.

    Battery life suffers, keyboards get replaced with very cheap-feeling designs, discrete graphics are pushed to the margins in favor of integrated chipsets that are almost equal to the dGPUs sold years ago.

    Ports get cut to the point where you can either use one or plug in a power adapter. Slots and drive bays get removed from high end pro models. The solution is always “carry more adapters”.

    Instead of a sleek package that contains everything you need, you get a super thin case and the expectation that you’ll buy, carry and plug-in countless extra dongles and cables just to get basic things done. It undermines the whole approach Apple has taken since the beginning. Even the earliest sealed box designs were capable enough to function well without a pile of accessories hanging off them. That was the whole point.

    Thinness is not a feature that outweighs all others. The current obsession is a creative dead-end that allows specs and basic performance to suffer to benefit margins and provide marketing talking points.

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      flamingolingoDiscoInfernoSupressionSystem
      1/06/16 12:56pm

      Very good comment. It reminds me of an article I read recently about how Apple is sacrificing good design (which is about user experience) for aesthetics.

      Apple is destroying design. Worse, it is revitalizing the old belief that design is only about making things look pretty. No, not so! Design is a way of thinking, of determining people’s true, underlying needs, and then delivering products and services that help them. Design combines an understanding of people, technology, society, and business. The production of beautiful objects is only one small component of modern design: Designers today work on such problems as the design of cities, of transportation systems, of health care. Apple is reinforcing the old, discredited idea that the designer’s sole job is to make things beautiful, even at the expense of providing the right functions, aiding understandability, and ensuring ease of use.

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      D.J.DiscoInfernoSupressionSystem
      1/06/16 12:59pm

      My Samsung tablet is as thin as they get, and yet it doesn’t semester to suffer from short battery life or any noticeable slow down in the cold. I love this thing.

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    BrocephalusJordan Sargent
    1/06/16 12:37pm

    APPLE ELECTRONICS RESPOND EXACTLY LIKE ALL OTHER ELECTRONICS NOT BUILT SPECIFICALLY FOR EXTREME COLD WEATHER:

    NEWS AT 11

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      scalfinBrocephalus
      1/06/16 12:44pm

      Since when was thirty degrees considered “extreme?”

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      Syphilitic Scalia Saysscalfin
      1/06/16 12:57pm

      When it was done by this guy.

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    Patrick FrawleyJordan Sargent
    1/06/16 12:35pm

    Congratulations. This is the whiniest, most first-world-problems piece ever published on the Gawker network.

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      ArmchairSophistPatrick Frawley
      1/06/16 12:38pm

      And that’s no small achievement!

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      Jordan SargentPatrick Frawley
      1/06/16 1:49pm

      I hope you were one of the 6,000 people who clicked on this post http://gawker.com/bodies-of-at-l…

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    IAmNotADamnWriterJordan Sargent
    1/06/16 3:23pm

    Do you have no heat in your apartment at night? Storing your Mac in the freezer for safekeeping whilst you sleep? Something about this is awfully close to making it a problem of white people who live in the north of the country, but even so far this year it hasn’t been that cold in many of these places. I live in the Northeast and I own a few Apple products and they’ve never, ever froze. Am I doing it wrong?

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      Jordan SargentIAmNotADamnWriter
      1/06/16 4:38pm

      I try not to run the heat at night, it’s wasteful (and expensive)! I have a heavy duvet and sleep in the same bed as someone else so it’s plenty warm.

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      IAmNotADamnWriterJordan Sargent
      1/06/16 4:54pm

      I see, maybe you should bring in the laptop for a threesome and everyone will be the better for it in the morning!

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    Danger ZoneJordan Sargent
    1/06/16 2:18pm

    anything under 50 degrees might put your multi-thousand dollar laptop at risk.

    That clearly isn’t what it says. It says it “works best” above 50 degrees. The graphic clearly also states that it can be stored above -4 degrees.

    Unless you’re sitting outside in the snowbank playing minecraft for 5 hours, I’m sure you will be fine.

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      Jordan SargentDanger Zone
      1/06/16 2:25pm

      If you live in a place (such as an urban metropolis) where you might find yourself walking around a lot, say on a Friday night, while carrying multiple electronics, without staying in a heated building for an extended period of time, it’s reasonable to worry about the state of said electronics because they often do become less reliable. This is anecdotal, obviously, but I know I’ve got the world behind me.

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      Danger ZoneJordan Sargent
      1/06/16 2:36pm

      Right, but when you’re walking around outside your laptop will be closed and either virtually or entirely shut down. I would consider that a state of storage, which the chart shows is fine down to -4F (-20C).

      There may be more concern for your phone because it will see more use outside. But even at the bottom end of the optimal use range it’s cold enough that you’re probably not spending a lot of time outside.

      Obviously I can’t deny what you’ve experienced. But I haven’t had any issues with electronics in Toronto (except headphones, they turn into a stiff wire).

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    GrizzyGravesJordan Sargent
    1/06/16 2:22pm

    I smoked a bowl last night and accidentally left my iphone outside for not much longer than an hour. When I went back to retrieve it it was cold as shit and the battery had died with over half of its charge left.

    My personal solution is to try not to leave it outside again, things inside my home tend to not freeze solid overnight, fortunately.

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      Jordan SargentGrizzyGraves
      1/06/16 2:29pm

      My thoughts are with you.

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    Murry ChangJordan Sargent
    1/06/16 1:05pm

    That sucks. I was using my Kindle Fire outside while smoking last night in >10 degree weather and had no problems:)

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      DontBeSuchaBoobPunchTinaMurry Chang
      1/06/16 4:49pm

      The Kindle Fire is pretty much indestructible as far as I can tell. But that Silk browser is such crap. Have you managed to get Google Play Store on yours so you can use a better browser? I’m not all that confident of my ability to follow the instructions to do that, but it might be worth a little trial and error.

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      Murry ChangDontBeSuchaBoobPunchTina
      1/06/16 4:55pm

      The newer update to Silk actually works a lot better, though it does work better on the new 10” than it does on my last gen 7”. I have the Play store loaded on the 7” but I don’t really web surf on it so I never bothered loading a different one. If you just follow the directions to install the Google framework and Store .apk’s there really isn’t anything to screw up:)

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    nocturnalkittyJordan Sargent
    1/06/16 12:48pm

    As an experiment I took my MacBook ran it under some water for 30 minutes and put it outside. When I came back, my MacBook was gone. Conclusion: MacBooks become sentient and able to move under their own power when run under water for 30 minutes and left outside overnight in temperatures less than 25 degrees.

    I will promptly send my report to MIT so I can be rewarded.

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      OKTOBERFISTnocturnalkitty
      1/06/16 1:10pm

      Need to see this animated :)

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      DisinterestedPasserbynocturnalkitty
      1/06/16 1:24pm

      This would make a great TED talk.

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