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The one I’m using is $1000. That’s a bit pricey, but strikes me as reasonable value for money. Especially since this is the best performing laptop I’ve ever use
by nindalf 5y ago
The one I’m using is $1000. That’s a bit pricey, but strikes me as reasonable value for money. Especially since this is the best performing laptop I’ve ever used.
I get what you’re saying though. Many folks might only have budgets in the range of $500-800. With any luck, other manufacturers get their shit together.
- WJW 5y agoI think GP was actually saying that with any luck the editor devs get their shit together and make their apps load fast even on older hardware.
- saagarjha 5y agoSome people have budgets of $0; they have to use the device they're using currently. I'm already feeling empathy for them in a year or two once all their apps are written by software engineers on Apple silicon Macs who don't test performance on older hardware…
- freddie_mercury 5y agoIf their budget is $0 then Sublime Text isn't an option, so I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Sublime Text costs $100.
- saagarjha 5y agoSublime Text can (and is) used by many people who pay nothing for it. And, to be clear, I was talking about apps in general, not just Sublime Text–which is one of the few apps I trust to not fall victim to the issues I described.
- threeseed 5y agoAll of the worst performing apps on OSX are cross-platform. So not sure why you're feeling sympathy when you will have exactly the same performance issues only without the power and efficiency of the M1 SOC.
- saagarjha 5y agoThat is true, but it's possible to avoid using those. What you can't avoid using the actual OS itself. Try booting into Yosemite sometime and comparing your computer's idle resource usage to the latest Big Sur and you'll see what I mean: try as I might, I cannot get the computer to use less than 5% CPU usage, while this used to be trivial.