3 ms·
I really don't find them any better than the competing products in the same price range these days, but you do you.
by Wohlf 6y ago
I really don't find them any better than the competing products in the same price range these days, but you do you.
- samatman 6y agoResale value is the closest thing to an objective measure we're going to get. The butterfly keyboard era Macs took a nosedive in this metric, because they were bad computers. I have what turns out to be the last Intel 16" MacBook Pro which Apple will ever build. I suspect the Intel part of it will make its resale value kind of grim, but the keyboard, speakers, monitor, build quality: all great. MacBooks traditionally resell at a significant premium, because they're good computers with a long useful life. I expect this will be true for the M-series as well, although it's too soon to know.
- klelatti 6y agoI bought a new Intel 13" MBP just before the M1 announcement specifically because I needed an x86 machine. No intention to sell but I suspect resale value will stay OK as there is likely to be ongoing demand from those who want a Mac for x86 cloud development (and non-technical users probably don't care if its x86 or M1).
- kube-system 6y agoMy shop is also all x86 in the cloud... but I took the plunge anyway. I'm glad I did; Rosetta 2 works really well.
- klelatti 6y agoThat's good to hear. The critical issue for me would be running an x86 (incldung AVX) Docker image on M1. Reasonably sure that's not going to happen in the near future.
- kube-system 6y agoFWIW I think they've got QEMU baked in to docker desktop to emulate x86. But I've just been using a remote docker daemon.
- klelatti 6y agoThanks - that'a really helpful to know. I'm not sure that QEMU has AVX but will investigate further.
- midrus 6y agoShow me your examples of competing products.