I think it's most likely she just has a beefy computer, and rog makes them. The RGB lights have a default profile unless manually disabled. She may want the compute power but not know the nerdy settings that a computer nerd would know to turn them off. I think this is completely a non story.
They probably just wanted a powerful spec computer. That's what gamer laptops are for. They're actually not that expensive, probably just as expensive, or cheaper, then a Lenovo x1 carbon.
But also, literally who gives a fuck.
Sleek powerful laptops are charged at a premium because they expect companies to buy them to look more professional
I gave a fuck once. I gave it to this cute girl I met at a party. She never talked to me after that. I'm never giving a fuck again.
Of all the things I can criticize about Trump, the type of laptop his lawyer for this week is using is far down on that list.
Well, it's a ROG laptop, and they can go for north of $1000 USD fairly easily.
What I'm curious about is why does her law firm do byod? You'd want client files locked down with whole disk encryption - and probably domain joined. It's much more likely that you get a Thinkpad or Dell something.
Almost zero chance she is with a serious firm right now. No large firm wants Trump as a client. She’s most likely operating a little boutique firm. This happens all the time when a lawyer wants the client and the firm doesn’t due to a conflict, negative attention, etc. A handful of people and maybe an office manager with no other admin staff. There’s no IT. She needed a laptop with HDMI out for presentations in court and wanted it to be fast too. She probably went to Best Buy asking for that and walked out with a gaming laptop.
It doesn't have to be BYOD. The firm might willing to procure a specific machine for her. Or she might have enough clout to make them get her what she wants.
Maybe. It's also weird because ROG has their led control app, Aura which will auto adjust your RGB based on apps/profiles. She either had a profile set up to do the flashy-lid or it was triggered by an application.
Regardless, you would think a lawyer who requested such a device would know how to disable that profile and/or how to disable the light show without literally shutting the lid and covering it.
Or she doesn't care
Probably should care a little, since lawyers work hard to look "presentable" and "professional" in court. While it shouldn't affect anything, it does have an effect on the outcome of a trial.
So it comes back to if she didn't know how, or if it was intentional
Since when does Trump have a history of hiring "presentable" and "professional" lawyers?
What I’m curious about is why does her law firm do byod?
Trump is no longer able to hire attorneys from large firms. He’s toxic to their other clients and also tends to not pay. You have to be an ideologue without any other big clients in order to work for him. From their website, she seems to be the head of a four-attorney firm.
Exactly. Attorneys leave their big firms and start their own for clients like him. No serious firm is going to take him. She doesn’t have any IT people. She went to Best Buy looking for a laptop with HDMI out and they sold her that thing.
This. I have two laptops that I use daily; they're both 15", but the main difference is that one is for work, while the other is for personal stuff (Columbian fart porn, obviously).
The work laptop is not only of a much more practical weight for when I'm out and about for work-related purposes, but it's also encrypted, on a domain where everything is SSO, and if it gets lost/stolen I can phone up a coworker to have him wipe it. It's a dell latitude 4something.
Of course, my other laptop could have the same setup, but the fact that it's a gaming laptop makes it considerably heavier, more power hungry, and not even close to practical to haul around all the time.
Is Columbian different from Brazilian? Asking for a friend.
The difference is in the waxing.
Yes because Columbia is usually found in the US while Brazil is in Latin America.
I once worked for a company who had an accountant who used a gaming laptop. They didn't play games, but it was the only decent one they could get with a number pad.
The administrative offices in my little bro's college also use HP Omen laptops for some reason. It was a treat watching boomers one-finger-type on RGB keyboards 😂
See, like that is a perfectly reasonable off-label use for something like this given the context.
So, hot take here, who cares what laptop she uses? Criticize her for the direct harm to democracy that she's doing, not the fucking rig she has. Some of y'all need to grow the fuck up.
Again, the tenor of this post might be getting away from us here. This is a novel/neat thing to see since I've never seen anything like it in a courtroom at trial.
There's zero moral or whatever judgement. I find it amusing and harmless and more of a conversation piece than having any implicit commentary.
Some of my requirements for a laptop are matte screen, backlit keyboard, and a properly centered trackpad. My choices were either a Macbook or a ROG without a numpad.
Who cares? Like genuinely who cares? It's a chunky laptop. Big whoop.
No you all are wrong, she is using a gaming laptop bcz it is the only thing that can run stable defusion on the go which she is going to use to generate false evidence for trump
You might say she's a StableDiffusionGenius
Edit: excellent plot twist, I love this shit
We have a gaming laptop at work, but there's a hand held 3d scanner attached to it and it builds the model as we scan. Only gaming laptops have a GPU good enough to do this.
I'm so happy this distraction tactic is working and everyone is talking about a goddamn laptop instead of the actual court case.
You’d want a Lenovo think pad or dell. They are enterprise-grade, with enterprise support and enterprise software.
The legal industry is almost 100% Lenovo/dell/hp. All legal software runs on them, and the legal it industry collaborates on issues,testing.
Lenovo and dell can spec an enterprise laptop that would be just as good if not better than what’s on that desk.
This screams “buy me the most expensive laptop you can” but they were talking to their nephew who “knows computers”
What a clown show.
I doubt any legal software requires enterprise hardware to run. You tend to go through those companies because they have the support structure setup for enterprises, otherwise the majority of what people do on their computers is pretty hardware agnostic, especially with how much is web based these days.
Also with the shortages over the past couple years just getting any laptop matters more in many cases than getting a specific laptop. At the same time, at least learn to turn off the RGB for a business environment.
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I think it's judging not using the right tool for a job. Legal work is usually communication and looking through tons of documents over long hours. A gaming laptop has bad battery life and has a bunch of goofy drivers required to run them which can be a security risk.
Nice having a big keyboard
I don't care what kind of laptop it is. I do wonder why she doesn't turn off the rgb. That's weird and I could see it being seen as not professional due to it being a distraction during the proceedings.
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