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You can basically either pay for this for ~3 years or buy an M1 machine for the ~same amount of money. With the differences being: 1. The M1 machine will most
by fabiospampinato 5y ago
You can basically either pay for this for ~3 years or buy an M1 machine for the ~same amount of money.
With the differences being:
1. The M1 machine will most probably feel faster, Mighty can't even build custom servers with M1 processors or whatever comes next from Apple as of today.
2. The M1 machine will probably retain some value after 3 years, your Mighty subscription will retain no value, you can't resell it or anything.
3. Using your own laptop means you won't have to send your data to Mighty servers at all, as such if there's some security bug in their system it won't impact you.
4. Using your own laptop means that downtimes or unexpected service errors from Mighty won't matter to you either.
5. Using your own laptop means that if your internet connection goes down temporarily and you are using a well designed web app that handles that case you might not even notice that you went offline, with Mighty I guess the whole thing will just stop responding, which isn't great.
6. On the other hand using Mighty might allow you to run multi-GB applications remotely consuming fewer resources, but like if you need to run those kinds of applications wouldn't it make more sense to just buy a beefier machine? Mighty servers seem to be limited to 16GB anyway, plus as far as I know V8's heap for JS is hard limited at 4GB currently, these browser apps that takes tens of GBs of RAM don't exist.
At the end of the day though without even considering all the issue will Mighty even fell faster than a 16GB M1 Macbook? If yes how much faster? If not this is already a non starter. And we haven't even seen what the M2 or M5 or whatever will ship in the new Mac Pros will be able to do.
- javierbyte 5y agoAlso getting a faster machine means everything is faster, not just web browsing.
- fabiospampinato 5y agoRight, I didn't even think about that. I hadn't thought also that you are going to need to have a computer to connect to Mighty anyway, are people really going to get a $300 piece of junk machine with a terrible screen for this? Even if they do that already makes Mighty even less appealing.