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811.
by seec 2y ago
Couldn't agree more. Cook deserves so much hate for what he did to Apple. I'm astounded people still worship Apple like nothing has changed at all. All the changes under the Cook leadership are appalling and reveal what is definit
812.
by seec 2y ago
I feel sorry you got downvoted so much. But it looks like nowadays people don't like to hear the truth, at least when it comes to Apple stuff. I feel bad about all this because I advised my mother to buy an iPad Pro as it was sold as a
813.
by seec 2y ago
Both are disgusting for the price asked. It would be a lot easier to excuse all the other compromises if the base was 16/512, which would cost Apple like 50 bucks tops per machine. But greed is unlimited, I guess.
814.
by seec 2y ago
But nobody is using iPads as a sole production tool. It's part of the production tooling but it's not exactly an essential part or a part that can't get rid of or replace easily, unlike a "real" computer. It's
815.
by seec 2y ago
It's not just games. There is in fact not a lot of stuff that Apple Silicon can run well. In theory you get great battery life, to use software nobody wants to use or to take longer to run stuff that is not running well. The problem is
816.
by seec 2y ago
Apple quote 18h of Apple TV playback or 12h of web browsing so I will call a large amount of bullshit on that. Even considering the marketing, best case scenario you would be between 27 and 41% battery consumption for 5h of runtime. The act
817.
by seec 2y ago
They don't care as much for the ARM stuff because software development investment vastly outweighs the chip development costs. Sure, maybe they can do better but at what cost and for what? The only thing Apple does truly better is perf
818.
by seec 2y ago
My iBook G4 was absolutely crushed by my friends Wintel laptops that they bought for half as much. Granted it was more carriable and had somewhat better battery life (needed it cause how much longer was needed to do stuff) but really perfor
819.
by seec 2y ago
My argument isn't about Chromebooks vs any MacBook. My argument is against a base MacBook Air that is too expensive for relatively limited added utility against something like a cheaper Chromebooks. Sure, the MacBook Air is better bui
820.
by seec 2y ago
The OS is not a joke since it can do some stuff better than either Windows or Linux can but I completely agree that there are some serious limitations or omissions that should have been fixed. I think they don't because they have an in
821.
by seec 2y ago
Yes, 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, bec
822.
by seec 2y ago
Are 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 so
823.
by seec 2y ago
Considering you commented on another one of my comments about the Apple "special sauce magic' RAM I can see how you could think that. I'll check myself thanks, but you should check your allegiance to a trillion dollar corp an
824.
by seec 2y ago
Funny you mention that machine I still have one of those laying around. It was a very cool machine indeed with a very capable graphics card but that's about it. It did some things better/faster than a Pentium III PC but only if yo
825.
by seec 2y ago
Exactly! Load a 4GB file and welcome the beach ball spinner any time you need to context switch to another app. I don't know how they don't realize that because it's not really hard to get there. But when I was enamored with
826.
by seec 2y ago
How do you even come to the conclusion that I don't like Apple products? I have a phone, watch and computer from them. It's not like I hate the products. I have very specific reasons to be annoyed but they are far too many to list
827.
by seec 2y ago
Yes, but I stopped caring about electron apps some time ago. You can't just drop or ignore useful software to satisfy Apple marketing. Just like you can't just ignore Chrome for Safari to satisfy the autonomy claims, because Chrom
828.
by seec 2y ago
It's not as different as the marketing would like you to think. In fact, for the low-end models even the bandwidth/speed isn't as big of a deal as they make it out to be, especially considering that bandwidth has to be shared
829.
by seec 2y ago
I don't know about your Lenovo and how your particular workload is handled by Windows. And I agree that in pure performance, the Apple Silicon Macs will kill it; however, I am really skeptical that an 8GB model would give you a better
830.
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 lo
831.
by seec 2y ago
Yeah, but the difference is that you usually don't get people arguing that it's the same thing or that it can be performance competitive in the long run. When it comes to Apple stuff, people say some irrational stuff that is total
832.
by seec 2y ago
Ye that was hilarious, my basic workload borders on the 8GB limit not even pushing it. They have fast swap but nothing beats real ram in the end, and considering their storage pricing is as stupid as their RAM pricing it really makes no di
833.
by seec 2y ago
That's funny you say that, because this is precisely the time, I started buying Macs (I got a Pismo PowerBook G3 gifted and then bought an iBook G4). And my experience was that for sure, if you put as much money into a PC than in a Mac
834.
by seec 2y ago
Don't bother the fanboys have an Apple can't do anything wrong/malicious. At this point it's closer to a religion than ever. You would be amazed at the response of some of them when I point out some shit Apple does that
835.
by seec 3y 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
836.
by seec 3y ago
Jokes on you, my old janky custom PC sleeps much better than my iMac ever did. I have a feeling that people who say that compare very expensive Macs to bottom of the barrel Windows machine where software/driver support is barely done,
837.
by seec 3y ago
To be fair, in the early days of Mac OS X the shell used to be much more up to date and hacking things around was much easier because they didn't yet put all those "security" features all other the place. The folder layout of
838.
by seec 3y ago
Nowadays, Pro at Apple mainly means "extra expensive", often doesn't have much to do with professional use even though sometimes it is actually at the intersection.
839.
by seec 3y ago
Most of the Apple Silicon praise is coming from delusional fanboys. It's only good for one thing and it is power efficiency. For the majority of people that are really into computers, that means jack shit and it is basically just some
840.
by seec 3y ago
I personally think the "forced" part is mostly bullshit. It was the default arrangement but far from the only one. In fact, when you read some historical without the feminist propaganda bias it becomes very obvious that it was mos

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