4 ms·

The $8k machine will out preform the 1k gaming machine sure but it wont out preform anything in a similar price range.

EagnaIonat 1mo ago
Mine cost $5K probably because I only have ever needed 2TB of SSD. But this is an old argument that seems to be thrown at Macs. Normally everything is cherry picked to show it's better than the Mac while ignoring all the features. Although I would hope if you pay $8K you can get something that outperforms the Mac in every way.
- ActorNightly 1mo ago
  Name one feature that Mac has that you think is so great.
  - EagnaIonat 1mo ago
    It's funny because I was the same as you. I hated Macs with a passion. I saw them as overpriced shiny things that weren't as good as a PC. Back in early 2000's I was commissioned to build an application that should also run on the Mac. I bought a second hand old Mac Mini. Within a couple of months I bought a brand new one, and since then I have been on Mac when it comes to non-gaming (even though it can do gaming). The main reason was I could just get shit done. The operating system is transparent to what I needed to do. With Windows you were forever dealing with the operating system to solve things. Windows eventually got better in this regards, and more recently worse again. I own/use windows as well. But mainly for gaming or a VM on an internal server. Often when people give a comparison of how much PC is better, they compare a PC desktop to a laptop. Windows laptops for the same features is same or more expensive, while feeling cheap/heavy/noisy. So form factor is one part of it, and then how the whole ecosystem works together with my phone/iPad and other devices. At the end of the day, if I am doing any serious inferencing then I use my companies server, or Claude. ... What has amazed me over the years is the sheer hate I get from some people for even owning a Mac. I was probably the same, but I was younger then. Its died down since ARM came in, but the irrational hate seems wasted. Someone prefers Linux, Android, Windows, etc. Good for them.

Mine cost $5K probably because I only have ever needed 2TB of SSD. But this is an old argument that seems to be thrown at Macs. Normally everything is cherry picked to show it's better than the Mac while ignoring all the features. Although I would hope if you pay $8K you can get something that outperforms the Mac in every way.

ActorNightly 1mo ago
Name one feature that Mac has that you think is so great.
- EagnaIonat 1mo ago
  It's funny because I was the same as you. I hated Macs with a passion. I saw them as overpriced shiny things that weren't as good as a PC. Back in early 2000's I was commissioned to build an application that should also run on the Mac. I bought a second hand old Mac Mini. Within a couple of months I bought a brand new one, and since then I have been on Mac when it comes to non-gaming (even though it can do gaming). The main reason was I could just get shit done. The operating system is transparent to what I needed to do. With Windows you were forever dealing with the operating system to solve things. Windows eventually got better in this regards, and more recently worse again. I own/use windows as well. But mainly for gaming or a VM on an internal server. Often when people give a comparison of how much PC is better, they compare a PC desktop to a laptop. Windows laptops for the same features is same or more expensive, while feeling cheap/heavy/noisy. So form factor is one part of it, and then how the whole ecosystem works together with my phone/iPad and other devices. At the end of the day, if I am doing any serious inferencing then I use my companies server, or Claude. ... What has amazed me over the years is the sheer hate I get from some people for even owning a Mac. I was probably the same, but I was younger then. Its died down since ARM came in, but the irrational hate seems wasted. Someone prefers Linux, Android, Windows, etc. Good for them.