To be fair my laptop at work has 8 cores and 64gb of ram and it's already 3 years old I'm gonna change it soon not because it's not good anymore, but because s

To be fair my laptop at work has 8 cores and 64gb of ram and it's already 3 years old I'm gonna change it soon not because it's not good anymore, but because some of the hardware has become too slow for the things are necessary nowadays Mind you it's not my choice only, things are more complex, deadlines aren't longer, quarterly reports are still every 3 months but the things we have to do have become more complex and computationally heavy and need new hardware to keep up I'm an hobbyist musician, a 300 dollars laptop is good enough and even if I was a pro it would be enough Truth is that the computational power of a 100 dollars smartphone would be enough So a new chip by Apple doesn't change that their mobile line is already overpowered for the average use cases and the laptop one is underpowered and overpriced