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Both of these devices were considered high-end at the time of their release (the laptop being from 2011, and the phone being from 2014). Both of them also have easily replaceable batteries, with aftermarket copies still being widely available today.
Even then, to the vast majority of people (including people on this board), only the laptop is considered usable in this day and age. For those who do not care for Linux, it is quite painless to install Win10 IoT LTSC and receive official support until 2032. The phone, however, is in a far more dire state. While a small community of volunteers continue to develop (or at least maintain) custom ROMs like LineageOS for use on it, they are generally not recommended for daily use, and it is only a matter of time before the device is abandoned entirely, likely without notice. In the United States, many cellular providers will either flat-out refuse or implicitly blacklist its use on their network (with T-Mobile as an exception), despite the fact it fully supports the 4G/LTE standard & VoLTE as well. I just don't get it.
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>>108618433
what about this confuses you? companies have to go out of their way to maintain support for older phone models, whereas x86 is much more fixed platform and driver support burden isnt on the laptop's manufacturer
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>>108618433
Stop being poor my brother in Christ!
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>>108618433
>left
has ACPI. anything that knows ACPI will run on it
>right
has a device tree that can only operate on an out dated kernel on an outdated version of android
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because at that stage smartphones were still in their growing phase, unlike laptops and pcs in general
you still dont need anything past a snapdragon 855, and probably for a very long time
so to answer your question in one word, maturity
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>>108618433
Phones in general are always closer to the edge of what they are truly capable of when released. High end android devices like a Galaxy S5 were still considered mandatory for a generally smooth experience for the apps and websites of the time.
Laptops on the other hand the ceiling was so much taller. You didn't need a quad core i5 or even i7 for general computing in 2011. So even as the web, applications and OS takes more resources to run. The Thinkpad always had the spare CPU power to accommodate.
It's not even really a matter of software support, although I can imagine a galaxy S5 has limited modern android support nowadays It still wouldn't matter that much because everything just requires so much more CPU and RAM. Just modern android alone would probably run like shit.
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>>108619292
>It's not even really a matter of software support
it literally is
>>108618433
>In the United States, many cellular providers will either flat-out refuse or implicitly blacklist its use on their network
obviously there's no technical reason for doing this