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> I'm def smarter than people who spend $2500 on a few GB ram and no GPU Tell that to Linus Torvalds, seen using a few different MacBooks over the years. So fa

> I'm def smarter than people who spend $2500 on a few GB ram and no GPU Tell that to Linus Torvalds, seen using a few different MacBooks over the years. So far, you've made the impression of an arrogant nobody who doesn't know what a GPU is. > Apple is found on low to middle income consumer households Citation needed.

seec 2y ago
To be fair my personal anecdotal experience seems to match that sentiment (as an Apple technician). It doesn't mean that rich people do also have Apple stuff (especially the iPhone) but at least for computers many of the rich people I know went with a Windows computer and stuck with it (because it made more financial sense). The cliché is a struggling artist with a nice Apple laptop and it's not without any merit. There was a time where indeed an Apple computer offered you some stuff that wasn't available elsewhere or at least in a significantly worse way (desktop print, illustration, audio type of stuff). But then in the 2000s it leveled off. To the point Adobe made some marketing stating that an equivalently priced PC was faster to run their software. It wasn't that successful because at this point Macs were already iconic status symbol but still. Nowadays I see a lot of creators just switching to Windows PC for convenience and power. I follow some YouTube channels where the person got his start on a Mac but then switched to PC because Premiere Pro is good enough and it is rather useful to have access to all the 3D software with a powerful GPU for rendering. While Apple was busy creating their island walled garden software support has become way too atrocious because developers got tired both of their business practice and ever-changing APIs/framework that makes it not worthwhile to support a large software for the small userbase. People can't shut up about Apple Silicon but outside of efficiency it is just about competitive and not so much in other ways (max power, GPU). We will see how the ARM rollout pans out in the Windows world (I don't have much faith; the importance of efficiency is largely overstated and is a use case already met with Chromebooks for the most part) and if it works out it might be better for cross-compilation for macOS but then again Apple Silicon is not exactly standard ARM and it leaves the biggest problem of an exotic GPU with specific way of handling things. I fear Apple may have put themselves into a corner just like in the PPC days by trying to be too different and "special" for short term gains.

seec 2y ago

To be fair my personal anecdotal experience seems to match that sentiment (as an Apple technician). It doesn't mean that rich people do also have Apple stuff (especially the iPhone) but at least for computers many of the rich people I know went with a Windows computer and stuck with it (because it made more financial sense). The cliché is a struggling artist with a nice Apple laptop and it's not without any merit. There was a time where indeed an Apple computer offered you some stuff that wasn't available elsewhere or at least in a significantly worse way (desktop print, illustration, audio type of stuff). But then in the 2000s it leveled off. To the point Adobe made some marketing stating that an equivalently priced PC was faster to run their software. It wasn't that successful because at this point Macs were already iconic status symbol but still. Nowadays I see a lot of creators just switching to Windows PC for convenience and power. I follow some YouTube channels where the person got his start on a Mac but then switched to PC because Premiere Pro is good enough and it is rather useful to have access to all the 3D software with a powerful GPU for rendering. While Apple was busy creating their island walled garden software support has become way too atrocious because developers got tired both of their business practice and ever-changing APIs/framework that makes it not worthwhile to support a large software for the small userbase. People can't shut up about Apple Silicon but outside of efficiency it is just about competitive and not so much in other ways (max power, GPU). We will see how the ARM rollout pans out in the Windows world (I don't have much faith; the importance of efficiency is largely overstated and is a use case already met with Chromebooks for the most part) and if it works out it might be better for cross-compilation for macOS but then again Apple Silicon is not exactly standard ARM and it leaves the biggest problem of an exotic GPU with specific way of handling things. I fear Apple may have put themselves into a corner just like in the PPC days by trying to be too different and "special" for short term gains.