First of all, this is not criticising or taking a cheap shot or really political at all. I am fascinated that a lawyer uses/brings a gaming laptop to trial and I can’t help but think it was contrived as another distraction.

What do y’all think? BTW, how expensive are they generally?

You think she plays League?

  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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    1 year ago

    Now I’m curious why a law person would need a fast computer for their job :-)

    I mean isn’t they mostly operating spreadsheets and presentations? Not like rendering 3D worlds or Spirting or something?

    I mean I totally get someone want a beefy laptop and to be fair, I don’t even know what the “controversy” is about.

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      Trial lawyers often work with fairly large datasets and some specialized applications. There’s a ton of discovery materials for a case like this one and it’s all indexed and searchable. They will have deposition transcripts that need to be searchable so they can check them while a witness is on the stand. They will also be running presentations and playing weird video formats. They usually need a good CPU and a nice chunk of RAM because the last thing they need is a laggy computer in court when everyone is watching.

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        Like the case with blue origins recently, I remember something like a trial being postpone because the PDFs they sent were so big that the court system would crash.