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Good luck with that. I've been a pretty vocal Apple critic for most of my life, but after seeing how much more energy efficient my work MacBook (i.e. Arm) was,

Good luck with that. I've been a pretty vocal Apple critic for most of my life, but after seeing how much more energy efficient my work MacBook (i.e. Arm) was, I ended up getting one for myself (I just hold my nose about the window manager and live in the terminal instead). Intel's lack of drive to innovate comes through in consequential dimensions like battery life. No amount of "made in USA" stickers is going to address that.

_mlbt 2y ago
Regarding macOS window management, have you tried Rectangle? It’s free and open source with a pro version if you want to support the developer… https://rectangleapp.com/ https://rectangleapp.com/
- __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
  I use rectangle, but the critical missing feature is the ability to move focus directionally. Why bother tile your windows if you can't have a hotkey that moves focus up, left, down, or right? Lacking such a hotkey, I now must keep track of them temporally (Cmd + tab + tab + tab to go to the one I used three times ago) which is a really clumsy way to think about something that supposed to be analogous to objects in a 2D space. This isn't Rectangle's fault, my impression is that the public window management API is just not powerful enough. Amethyst is the closest thing I've found on MacOS to the alignment of placement & focus management that I'm after (which doesn't require disabling system integrity protection) but I'd much rather think in terms of directions than monads. So I have to chose between the kind of UI sanity that you find in i3/sway and the kind of battery life that you find on an ARM MacBook, and I blame Intel.
re-thc 2y ago
> Intel's lack of drive to innovate Intel is behind yes, but they're not unwilling to innovate. Fab delays at one point held up a lot of newer designs and they had to backport it and/or use TSMC.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
  I didn't mean to imply that it was merely a problem with willpower. Just that the failure to make a competitive product for whatever reason has gone on long enough that even end users who don't bother split hairs about processor specs (that's me) are noticing differences and starting to split hairs.
throwaway5752 2y ago
This is fabrication, not design.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
  My gripe is that they only fabricate certain designs, and those designs are sub-par. If they fabricated a design which were competitive with Apple silicon, I wouldn't have had to chose between software that I like (Linux) and decent battery life. I'm aware that one can get a Linux-compatible laptop with an arm chip, but everywhere I look says that the linux kernel is still in the process of catching up. If it had been Intel making chips for general sale, rather than Apple and TSMC making an exclusive deal, there would not have been this compatibility gap that we're in right now.

_mlbt 2y ago

Regarding macOS window management, have you tried Rectangle? It’s free and open source with a pro version if you want to support the developer… https://rectangleapp.com/ https://rectangleapp.com/

__MatrixMan__ 2y ago
I use rectangle, but the critical missing feature is the ability to move focus directionally. Why bother tile your windows if you can't have a hotkey that moves focus up, left, down, or right? Lacking such a hotkey, I now must keep track of them temporally (Cmd + tab + tab + tab to go to the one I used three times ago) which is a really clumsy way to think about something that supposed to be analogous to objects in a 2D space. This isn't Rectangle's fault, my impression is that the public window management API is just not powerful enough. Amethyst is the closest thing I've found on MacOS to the alignment of placement & focus management that I'm after (which doesn't require disabling system integrity protection) but I'd much rather think in terms of directions than monads. So I have to chose between the kind of UI sanity that you find in i3/sway and the kind of battery life that you find on an ARM MacBook, and I blame Intel.

re-thc 2y ago

> Intel's lack of drive to innovate Intel is behind yes, but they're not unwilling to innovate. Fab delays at one point held up a lot of newer designs and they had to backport it and/or use TSMC.

__MatrixMan__ 2y ago
I didn't mean to imply that it was merely a problem with willpower. Just that the failure to make a competitive product for whatever reason has gone on long enough that even end users who don't bother split hairs about processor specs (that's me) are noticing differences and starting to split hairs.

throwaway5752 2y ago

This is fabrication, not design.

__MatrixMan__ 2y ago
My gripe is that they only fabricate certain designs, and those designs are sub-par. If they fabricated a design which were competitive with Apple silicon, I wouldn't have had to chose between software that I like (Linux) and decent battery life. I'm aware that one can get a Linux-compatible laptop with an arm chip, but everywhere I look says that the linux kernel is still in the process of catching up. If it had been Intel making chips for general sale, rather than Apple and TSMC making an exclusive deal, there would not have been this compatibility gap that we're in right now.