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> I think you're making massive assumptions on how people use computers these days. I hear this a lot, but my own experience doesn’t stack up. It’s just anecda
by nozzlegear 3y ago
> I think you're making massive assumptions on how people use computers these days.
I hear this a lot, but my own experience doesn’t stack up. It’s just anecdata or whatever the cool kids say, but: my mother, two sisters and brother all have their own laptops. None of them work in tech, and I’ve never put my finger on the scale to persuade them to get a laptop either — if anything I’ve tried to persuade them to get iPads in the past so I don’t have to play IT department when something goes wrong.
For reference, my mother is a nurse practitioner, sister 1 is a daycare director, sister 2 is self-employed working for her husband’s construction company, and my brother just has odd jobs working at gas stations and youth counseling.
All four of them have asked me for some kind of help or advice about their laptops in the last couple of months, so I know they actively use them. My sister with the daycare called me just a couple days ago to help her get her laptop connected to a projector so she could give a PowerPoint presentation to her employees.
- lesserknowndan 3y agoSorry, but I think you forgot to make your actual point. You haven't mentioned how your "anecdata" supports either viewpoint. Do they have Apple laptops? What actual applications do they use? Do they run out of memory? I can't see a previous comment from you that would provide context...
- nozzlegear 3y agoI was only making a point to the part of the comment that I quoted, where they surmised that most people don't use computers these days. I don't personally think this bit of tech folklore holds true. Edit: actually I see now that I misread the comment, so my reply was indeed out of place.
- a_random_canuck 3y agoYou haven’t mentioned what kind of laptop they own. Everyone I know who owns MacBooks uses them for: photography editing, video editing, graphic design, programming.
- okdood64 3y agoI live in the SF Bay Area and know tons of people; and almost everyone is in tech. I know exactly 2 people that program on their personal laptop, and one that does photo editing. For everyone else it's a glorified Chrome or Safari browser. They almost all have whatever affordable Macbook they got the last time they needed a new laptop. The only people I've ever heard complain about their laptops were non-Macbook users.
- smcleod 3y agoYeah, everyone I know uses their MacBooks for work, coding, music, music and video editing, photo editing, some games, some doing AI/ML (though this is currently the minority), lots of crappy Electron apps like MS Teams, Slack, Spotify, 1Password, Chrome etc…
- nozzlegear 3y agoSorry, my brother owns a Surface something, my mother owns an ancient Surface Book, and my two sisters have Macbooks.
- washadjeffmad 3y agoSure, and generally, those are performed either in the same app or one at a time. All of those are also doable in 6GB of memory (iPhones and iPads are great for it). "For iMovie for macOS, you can edit and share 4K video on Mac computers from 2011 or later with at least 4GB of memory." [0] I think a lot of people over-purchase with Apple devices because they're not sure what the hardware specs mean and end up generalizing to cost. "Well, I /use/ my computer (for photos, video, etc) and that seems like it'd require more, so I probably shouldn't buy lowest tier... What's the next one up that I can afford?" In the end, they feel good about their choice for being "just right", even though all of the options would have been. [0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102276 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102276
- nozzlegear 3y agoI can't edit this comment anymore so I'll just add here that I misread smcleod's comment – I thought they were implying that most people don't use computers/laptops these days, something that I've heard in tech circles before.