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I think it's a stretch to call Apple's ARM transition "planned obsolescence". The M-series chips are very clear improvements on what came before and there is a
by troad 6mo ago
I think it's a stretch to call Apple's ARM transition "planned obsolescence". The M-series chips are very clear improvements on what came before and there is a clear rationale for that transition.
We're talking here about an OS that hasn't even come out yet, that will get years of security support, for computers that Apple hasn't been selling for several years now. Seems pretty reasonable.
- tsunamifury 6mo agoI have a MacBook from 2017 and and m3 air today. For day to day tasks there is no difference.
- troad 6mo agoI have a MacBook Pro from 2016 and an M4 Pro from last year. There is a night and day difference. I think "M series chips are no better than ten year old Intel chips" is a take that would be somewhat difficult to sustain, given the data.
- tsunamifury 6mo ago[flagged]
- EPWN3D 6mo agoThe average user cares about their fans going full-blast when running some garbage electron app and their battery life being shit. You're just being dense.
- hagbard_c 6mo agoBack when these machines were released they were hallowed as being the ultimate in mobile computing. What happened here what did not happen to other Intel-based machines from that era?
- ryukoposting 6mo agoEerily similar story here. My wife was using her 2017 MBP (the one they got sued over) and she adored it until Tahoe suddenly caused Chrome to run like hot garbage. I bought her an open-box M3 Air. She likes the color. It doesn't provide any more value to her life than her 2017 MBP did, and yet we're out $1000 because Apple said so.
- malshe 6mo agoSo on the one hand you are so much aware of the obsolescence issue and on the other hand you just decided that upgrading a 2017 MBP to Tahoe is a good idea? I am on a M4 Pro Mac mini and it is still running Sequoia. Btw she can downgrade to Sequoia from Tahoe.
- ryukoposting 6mo agoShame on my wife for doing what she has always been told to do, and updating the software on her laptop. And why the hell would I know that? I was 8 years old the last time I used a Mac. This is shit I shouldn't have to know.
- nomel 6mo agoTry using it unplugged.
- icedchai 6mo agoFor developers, the difference is like night and day. My 2019 MacBook Pro used to sound like a jet plane taking off whenever I did any sort of build. On a bad day, I could've baked some cookies on it. Admittedly, the corporate spyware that was constantly scanning every single file didn't help matters.
- ryukoposting 6mo agoI said "manufactured," not "planned." I don't think Apple intended to do this at the outset. Tim Cook wasn't leaned back in an office chair, twirling a moustache saying "yes, let's make every mac made before 2019 SUCK!" If it was planned, Rosetta 2 would have never existed in the first place. It would have been a qemu fork haphazardly crammed into Xcode. There was no "planning" here. Here's how I imagine it went: a developer whined about tech debt, management seized an opportunity to generate revenue, neither party considered, yknow, humans, and now we're here.