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I mean people around here are blown away by apple products so i’d say knowledge about hardware is scarce.

• senttoschool 4y ago
  Apple hardware is top notch. Why can't the HN crowd be blown away by Apple products? Nothing comes close to Apple Silicon for laptops.
  • gumballindie 4y ago
    My average gaming laptop comes with a cpu ranked identically with an m1 pro (my cpu is older than the m1), has 64 gb of ram and a dedicated gpu with 6 gb vram. Runs any os except macos, i can easily upgrade my ram, wifi and hdd, has a 140 hz refresh rate and loads of connectivity options, replaceable battery and a working keyboard with a numpad. Bought it for fun as it was dirt cheap by comparison. I am not convinced apple is top notch.
    • senttoschool 4y ago
      >i’d say knowledge about hardware is scarce. It's ironic you said that and then claim that your old CPU is "ranked identically" with an M1 Pro.
      • gumballindie 4y ago
        I mean benchmarks place it right next to an m1, but what you are saying is that marketing trumps real numbers? Also by old i mean 3 years or so. Do you really believe that apple silicon is the absolute best thing out there?
        • senttoschool 4y ago
          It absolutely is the best thing out there in terms of perf/watt in the laptop and desktop spce. Nothing else comes close.
  • bjoli 4y ago
    I have been unlucky with my apple devices, and the fixes made by apple have all been sub-par. From poor soldering and lack of underfill to complete lackluster solutions and expensive fixes that should have been $20, but cost ten times more. I though I just had had bad luck, but then I discovered that rossmanm guy's channel and was amazed they were actually doing a worse job on some laptops. M2 is amazing wrt performance per watt, but I have sworn to never again buy apple.