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I know you are venting, but seriously, I use macs for macOS. Otherwise I’d be buying much cheaper hardware. Mac hardware is nice, but it’s not that nice. Exce

I know you are venting, but seriously, I use macs for macOS. Otherwise I’d be buying much cheaper hardware. Mac hardware is nice, but it’s not that nice. Except for maybe the trackpad.

IceWreck 5y ago
Apple Silicon has a lower power draw than any comparable AMD or Intel chip. I'd like to use one of those Mac Minis as a homeserver/homelab and macOS is the only thing standing in the way. Similarly, I doubt there is a non Apple laptop that matches the M1 Macbook Air's battery life to performance ratio, specially in that form factor. I know Asahi linux exists but reverse engineered drivers will never be as effective/performant as official drivers. Porting drivers to Linux won't even be expensive for Apple. They refuse to do it just cause theyre Apple.
cma 5y ago
I don't think there is anything else where you can run that much GPU power on battery as well as wired in a form factor anywhere close and with integrated system/gpu memory. The AMD APUs haven't gotten close yet, but as things start moving to LPDDR5 maybe they will.
alxlu 5y ago
I personally haven’t been able to find another laptop with the same battery life, design, trackpad, and screen quality of mac hardware. I bought an M1 max laptop and I’m almost tempted to go back to my Linux machine because of several issues I have with macOS. There are things that are by design like mandatory animation delays for things like switching spaces and going in/out of fullscreen, which are borderline dealbreakers for me given how often I do those things. And there are also things I suspect are either bugs or straight up performance lapses, such as scrolling through text in a terminal at 4k being slow if you have ligatures enabled. I could go on, but I think it’s a perfectly valid sentiment (regardless of whether or not they were venting) to wish for mac hardware with a Linux OS.
- alexfringes 5y ago
  You might find it helpful to turn on System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > [x] Reduce motion. I go through phases of preferring the fades it applies instead of certain animations, although it still doesn't get it to "instant". For terminal, iTerm offers better choices for you to determine the balance between perf and display settings, incl a GPU renderer.
  - howinteresting 5y ago
    The Reduce Motion setting isn't anywhere close to good enough.

I know you are venting, but seriously, I use macs for macOS. Otherwise I’d be buying much cheaper hardware. Mac hardware is nice, but it’s not that nice. Except for maybe the trackpad.

IceWreck 5y ago

Apple Silicon has a lower power draw than any comparable AMD or Intel chip. I'd like to use one of those Mac Minis as a homeserver/homelab and macOS is the only thing standing in the way. Similarly, I doubt there is a non Apple laptop that matches the M1 Macbook Air's battery life to performance ratio, specially in that form factor. I know Asahi linux exists but reverse engineered drivers will never be as effective/performant as official drivers. Porting drivers to Linux won't even be expensive for Apple. They refuse to do it just cause theyre Apple.

cma 5y ago

I don't think there is anything else where you can run that much GPU power on battery as well as wired in a form factor anywhere close and with integrated system/gpu memory. The AMD APUs haven't gotten close yet, but as things start moving to LPDDR5 maybe they will.

alxlu 5y ago

I personally haven’t been able to find another laptop with the same battery life, design, trackpad, and screen quality of mac hardware. I bought an M1 max laptop and I’m almost tempted to go back to my Linux machine because of several issues I have with macOS. There are things that are by design like mandatory animation delays for things like switching spaces and going in/out of fullscreen, which are borderline dealbreakers for me given how often I do those things. And there are also things I suspect are either bugs or straight up performance lapses, such as scrolling through text in a terminal at 4k being slow if you have ligatures enabled. I could go on, but I think it’s a perfectly valid sentiment (regardless of whether or not they were venting) to wish for mac hardware with a Linux OS.

alexfringes 5y ago
You might find it helpful to turn on System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > [x] Reduce motion. I go through phases of preferring the fades it applies instead of certain animations, although it still doesn't get it to "instant". For terminal, iTerm offers better choices for you to determine the balance between perf and display settings, incl a GPU renderer.
- howinteresting 5y ago
  The Reduce Motion setting isn't anywhere close to good enough.