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Yep, that's pretty much it. Apple fanboys like to talk about how cool and long lasting a MacBook Air is but a 500 bucks Chromebook will do just as well while a
by seec 2y ago
Yep, that's pretty much it.
Apple fanboys like to talk about how cool and long lasting a MacBook Air is but a 500 bucks Chromebook will do just as well while allowing pretty much 90% of the use cases. Sure, the top end power is much lower but at the same time considering the base RAM/storage combo Apple gives it is not that relevant. If you starting loading it up, that puts the pricing in an entirely different category and in my opinion the MacBook Air becomes seriously irrelevant when compared to serious computing devices in the same price range...
- close04 2y agoThere's still a huge market for people who want higher end hardware and to run workloads locally, or put a higher price on privacy. For people who want to keep their data close to their chest, and particularly now with the AI bloom, being able to perform all tasks on device is more valuable than ever. A Chromebook "does the job" but it's closer to a thin client than a workstation. A lot of the job is done remotely and you may not want that.
- nolist_policy 2y agoNot at all, a Chromebook let's you run Linux apps. I can run full blown IDEs locally without problems. And yes, that is with 8Gb ram, ChromeOS has superb memory management.
- hollerith 2y agoSince the full blown IDE is running in a Linux VM, don't you mean, "Linux has superb memory management"?
- nolist_policy 2y agoWell, Google developed and deployed MGLRU to Chromebooks long before upstreamed it. Plus they use some magic to check the MGLRU working set size inside the VMs and balance everything.
- hollerith 2y agoNow I see. Interesting. (I'm planning to switch to ChromeOS, BTW.)
- seec 2y agoYes, but for those people if you consider the price of a fully loaded MacBook Pro it is a rather small win considering all the limitations. If the only thing you care about are battery life (only if you plan to use it lightly on the go, because even the high-end Apple Silicon sucks decent amount of power at full tilt) and privacy I guess they are decent enough. This is my argument: the base models are at the same time overkill and too limited considering the price and the high-end models are way too expensive for what they bring to the table. Apple has a big relevancy problem because of how they put a stupid pricing ladder on everything, but that is just my opinion, I guess. As long as they keep making a shit ton of cash it doesn't matter, I suppose. But if the relevant people stop buying Macs because they make no sense, it will become apparent why it matters sooner or later...
- pokerface_86 2y agowhat chromebooks come with a mini LED HDR screen and insane battery life? i’d love to know
- nolist_policy 2y agoNo mini LED, but you can configure the HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook with a 1000 nits IPS display. And AFAIK, Google dictates 10+h of battery life with mixed web browsing for all Chromebooks.
- pokerface_86 2y ago1000 nits is useless without HDR.
- nolist_policy 2y agoI'm pretty sure it does HDR too.
- pokerface_86 2y agowithout mini LED / precise backlight control though, it’s useless
- pokerface_86 2y agoand backlight control
- seec 2y agoAre you seriously arguing about mini-LED displays only found in expensive MacBook Pro when I mention a cheap 500 dollars Chromebook. There is at least a 4x difference in price for those machines, it is ridiculous to even pretend they are somewhat comparable. And if we are talking about expensive high-end hardware, mini-LED is worse than OLED found in those machines anyway so it's not like if that would be a strong argument.
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