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Your xps have 100gbs ram bandwidth? No 10 hours battery life? No Superb handling of fractional ui scaling? No Perfect trackpad? No Single cable charger? (Ma

Your xps have 100gbs ram bandwidth? No 10 hours battery life? No Superb handling of fractional ui scaling? No Perfect trackpad? No Single cable charger? (Maybe) no(t) Unix? No

5350-uiop-1130 4y ago
>Your xps have 100gbs ram bandwidth? No but at least the ram is not soldered onto the board and can be upgraded easily. >10 hours battery life? maybe 6 hours but i never used it without a charger, so not an issue. also the battery is user replaceable. >Superb handling of fractional ui scaling? Windows has better UI scaling. I can scale the UI or fonts alone up to 200% in 10% increments. I have visual problem so i can tell you without a shadow of a doubt macos is waaaaay more limited. you have like 4 scaling options only. couple this with the complete lack of contrast or affordance in the latest flatsh*t FisherPriceOS and its a disaster. >Perfect trackpad? I use a mouse. trackpad is good enough, no issues. it does have a 4k touch screen. perfect is a subjective thing. >Single cable charger? (Maybe) no(t) Yes it does >Unix? Can run a VM of any linux distro, dual boot any intel compatible linux distro or windows subsystem for linux. One of the benefits of having more than 8gb of ram and 256gb ssd ;) --- all this plus 1tb SSD 16gb of ram, dedicated gpu, 4k display also you need an apple account to install apps from the appstore, most apps get deprecated every 5 years because apple needs to sell new hardware, complete lack respect for backwards compat, where i can run pretty much any windows app from the last 20 years and sometimes more.
- gjsman-1000 4y ago
  EDIT: My message was posted when the above comment was only a "yes to all", and before that a borderline snarky response that could've gotten a mod warning for an insult. The above commentator then deceptively added far more to his comment after my response. Actually that is not possible, and if you believe so, you are misled. A top-of-the-line desktop Core i9 can't handle more than 75GB/s memory bandwidth (the Intel memory controller literally can't handle it regardless of how many RAM sticks you have), the M2 can handle over 100GB/s with M1 Ultra over 200GB/s. That is actually unheard of and cannot be matched on a desktop system. (Partially explains why Apple's RAM is so expensive.) Secondly, as for your Unix claim, unless you are running FreeBSD, Linux is not Unix. macOS ironically is a certified, commercial Unix, but Linux is not because it is a Unix clone and not a derivative. I doubt you are running FreeBSD though, because outside servers, hardware support is messy and several years behind. Finally... you might think otherwise, but it is a broadly accepted fact that Windows UI Fractional scaling sucks with certain apps and even built-in apps messing up and looking fuzzy or awkward, which almost never happens on macOS. EDIT 2: The original commentator must have never used a Mac, ever, for this message: "also you need an apple account to install apps from the appstore where i can run pretty much any windows app from the last 20 years and sometimes more." To which I simply say the situation is exactly like the Windows Store on Windows which requires a Microsoft Account but nobody really cares because not many people use either app store. EDIT 3: The original poster deceptively edited my Edit #2 out again without notice. At this point the OP has changed his message over and over to reflect my criticisms and try to put me out of context violating HN rules repeatedly.
  - howinteresting 4y ago
    Personally I would much rather run Linux than whatever "Unix" means.
  - msla 4y ago
    > Secondly, as for your Unix claim, unless you are running FreeBSD, Linux is not Unix. Inspur K-UX, which is built on Linux, is Unix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspur_K-UX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspur_K-UX FreeBSD is, legally, Unix-like.
corrral 4y ago
Let it go. I've been watching people compare apples (ha, ha) to oranges so they can declare Apple products a rip-off for over a decade now.
- npc12345 4y ago
  You're right, I have let it go too, I used to argue much more online. I got into Apple stuff at around 2005 so I have had the same experiences.

Your xps have 100gbs ram bandwidth? No 10 hours battery life? No Superb handling of fractional ui scaling? No Perfect trackpad? No Single cable charger? (Maybe) no(t) Unix? No

5350-uiop-1130 4y ago

>Your xps have 100gbs ram bandwidth? No but at least the ram is not soldered onto the board and can be upgraded easily. >10 hours battery life? maybe 6 hours but i never used it without a charger, so not an issue. also the battery is user replaceable. >Superb handling of fractional ui scaling? Windows has better UI scaling. I can scale the UI or fonts alone up to 200% in 10% increments. I have visual problem so i can tell you without a shadow of a doubt macos is waaaaay more limited. you have like 4 scaling options only. couple this with the complete lack of contrast or affordance in the latest flatsh*t FisherPriceOS and its a disaster. >Perfect trackpad? I use a mouse. trackpad is good enough, no issues. it does have a 4k touch screen. perfect is a subjective thing. >Single cable charger? (Maybe) no(t) Yes it does >Unix? Can run a VM of any linux distro, dual boot any intel compatible linux distro or windows subsystem for linux. One of the benefits of having more than 8gb of ram and 256gb ssd ;) --- all this plus 1tb SSD 16gb of ram, dedicated gpu, 4k display also you need an apple account to install apps from the appstore, most apps get deprecated every 5 years because apple needs to sell new hardware, complete lack respect for backwards compat, where i can run pretty much any windows app from the last 20 years and sometimes more.

gjsman-1000 4y ago
EDIT: My message was posted when the above comment was only a "yes to all", and before that a borderline snarky response that could've gotten a mod warning for an insult. The above commentator then deceptively added far more to his comment after my response. Actually that is not possible, and if you believe so, you are misled. A top-of-the-line desktop Core i9 can't handle more than 75GB/s memory bandwidth (the Intel memory controller literally can't handle it regardless of how many RAM sticks you have), the M2 can handle over 100GB/s with M1 Ultra over 200GB/s. That is actually unheard of and cannot be matched on a desktop system. (Partially explains why Apple's RAM is so expensive.) Secondly, as for your Unix claim, unless you are running FreeBSD, Linux is not Unix. macOS ironically is a certified, commercial Unix, but Linux is not because it is a Unix clone and not a derivative. I doubt you are running FreeBSD though, because outside servers, hardware support is messy and several years behind. Finally... you might think otherwise, but it is a broadly accepted fact that Windows UI Fractional scaling sucks with certain apps and even built-in apps messing up and looking fuzzy or awkward, which almost never happens on macOS. EDIT 2: The original commentator must have never used a Mac, ever, for this message: "also you need an apple account to install apps from the appstore where i can run pretty much any windows app from the last 20 years and sometimes more." To which I simply say the situation is exactly like the Windows Store on Windows which requires a Microsoft Account but nobody really cares because not many people use either app store. EDIT 3: The original poster deceptively edited my Edit #2 out again without notice. At this point the OP has changed his message over and over to reflect my criticisms and try to put me out of context violating HN rules repeatedly.
- howinteresting 4y ago
  Personally I would much rather run Linux than whatever "Unix" means.
- msla 4y ago
  > Secondly, as for your Unix claim, unless you are running FreeBSD, Linux is not Unix. Inspur K-UX, which is built on Linux, is Unix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspur_K-UX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspur_K-UX FreeBSD is, legally, Unix-like.

corrral 4y ago

Let it go. I've been watching people compare apples (ha, ha) to oranges so they can declare Apple products a rip-off for over a decade now.

npc12345 4y ago
You're right, I have let it go too, I used to argue much more online. I got into Apple stuff at around 2005 so I have had the same experiences.