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Not surprised your ThinkBook is beating the M1 MacBook since you crippled the Mac with 8GB of RAM.

by stuff4ben 4y ago

dtjb 4y ago
A 'Pro' device shouldn't be sold with crippled specs.
- anuragsoni 4y ago
  Macbook Air has never been marketed/sold as a 'Pro' device. There is the Macbook Pro line for that.
  - tim-- 4y ago
    I am comparing this to a MacBook Pro. Edit: Admittedly the 8GB 2020 model, but still.
    - skoskie 4y ago
      I also thought you were talking about the Air and had made a mistake when you said “pro”. I just totally forgot about that model until you doubled down.
- stuff4ben 4y ago
  That's absolutely true. I'd say it's a marketing failure on Apple's part.
tim-- 4y ago
I don't want to sound too snarky, but I don't think you got the point of my post. I love the M1, it's a great work machine, I have very few complaints about it. I hardly ever hit 100% memory usage, and if I do - it's thanks to either Chrome/Spotify/Teams/Slack/Discord. I think - and this might be a bit controversial - the ThinkBook is better... because it is. The M1 is a great chip, awesome thermals (no fan!), but the laptop booted into Windows is faster. Hey, maybe it's the memory, who knows! It doesn't swap, so I don't think it is. You can read my parent post for my reasons. You can't quite run Windows or a stable Linux on a MacBook now, can you? Can't quite remove a 4GB stick and replace it with a 32GB stick, right?
- stuff4ben 4y ago
  To each their own. I'd have spec'ed that MacBook Pro out to 16GB though. I don't do Windows and I have on-prem cloud VMs (config'd for 32GB) for Linux. I don't need a Linux desktop (shudder!) either. I'm sure your THinkBook is great, but I prefer the Apple ecosystem and the "shit just works" of my Mac (although I'm still on an i9).
  - phyalow 4y ago
    100% my flow too after a lot of experimentation. I have had several clunker lenovo machines and have run linux as a daily driver on and off for several years (I always wanted it to work, it was just infuriating with random glitches and the verbosity required to get a sane setup stable). M1 MacBooks are legit, the Pro is the best machine I have ever owned by a long shot (several X1's, T Series etc) the screens are beautiful and I can get on and do whatever I need without worrying about glitches. I run commodity cloud linux VM's on things I need to deploy/monitor, its FAR easier (imo) to write the software on my Mac and then move it out.

Not surprised your ThinkBook is beating the M1 MacBook since you crippled the Mac with 8GB of RAM.

dtjb 4y ago

A 'Pro' device shouldn't be sold with crippled specs.

anuragsoni 4y ago
Macbook Air has never been marketed/sold as a 'Pro' device. There is the Macbook Pro line for that.
- tim-- 4y ago
  I am comparing this to a MacBook Pro. Edit: Admittedly the 8GB 2020 model, but still.
  - skoskie 4y ago
    I also thought you were talking about the Air and had made a mistake when you said “pro”. I just totally forgot about that model until you doubled down.
stuff4ben 4y ago
That's absolutely true. I'd say it's a marketing failure on Apple's part.

tim-- 4y ago

I don't want to sound too snarky, but I don't think you got the point of my post. I love the M1, it's a great work machine, I have very few complaints about it. I hardly ever hit 100% memory usage, and if I do - it's thanks to either Chrome/Spotify/Teams/Slack/Discord. I think - and this might be a bit controversial - the ThinkBook is better... because it is. The M1 is a great chip, awesome thermals (no fan!), but the laptop booted into Windows is faster. Hey, maybe it's the memory, who knows! It doesn't swap, so I don't think it is. You can read my parent post for my reasons. You can't quite run Windows or a stable Linux on a MacBook now, can you? Can't quite remove a 4GB stick and replace it with a 32GB stick, right?

stuff4ben 4y ago
To each their own. I'd have spec'ed that MacBook Pro out to 16GB though. I don't do Windows and I have on-prem cloud VMs (config'd for 32GB) for Linux. I don't need a Linux desktop (shudder!) either. I'm sure your THinkBook is great, but I prefer the Apple ecosystem and the "shit just works" of my Mac (although I'm still on an i9).
- phyalow 4y ago
  100% my flow too after a lot of experimentation. I have had several clunker lenovo machines and have run linux as a daily driver on and off for several years (I always wanted it to work, it was just infuriating with random glitches and the verbosity required to get a sane setup stable). M1 MacBooks are legit, the Pro is the best machine I have ever owned by a long shot (several X1's, T Series etc) the screens are beautiful and I can get on and do whatever I need without worrying about glitches. I run commodity cloud linux VM's on things I need to deploy/monitor, its FAR easier (imo) to write the software on my Mac and then move it out.