All hail the UNIX and UNIX-like.
I just want Macs to get gaming support cause Native games ran really well on my MBA. Which was mindblowing, not having a fan and all.
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It's not something is recommend if you are a big gamer. Windows is still king there. Linux is making a ton of progress but if you want a gaming machine do windows.
That said Macs with the new silicon and unified memory absolutely crush in a ton of areas. I run an AI job that takes 45s-120s on my Mac air m1 and 5m in my Nvidia gfx card and 10m-12m on my Ryzen cpu.
What ai stuff are you running on apple silicon where you’re seeing that much improvement? I’ve always been windows/linux but just recently switched over to a m2 MacBook Pro because I’m doing a lot of travel this year.
Lugging around my 5900hx/rtx3070 just became too much of a pain in the ass with like 3 working hours of battery life. I was able to transfer most of my development/design workflow over (and the one I couldn’t works fine in W11 parallels) but I thought most of my AI stuff would just have to live on my desktop rig.
Wallets are shrinking, so it makes sense that people would spend their money on something that's more likely to hold value, or last past 5 years of daily use. I got my M1 MacBook Pro for the same reasons.
Also PC companies are getting greedy as fuck and charging Apple prices while not delivering an Apple experience.
Sent from my iPhone, which I bought because Samsung decided to double their prices between the S9 and the S23, all the while expecting me to put up with the train wreck that is the Android app ecosystem.
Not to mention, battery life is INCREDIBLY good on Apple silicon. That, and it generally runs far cooler and quieter than earlier x86 MBPs.
Microsoft's Windows 11 malware/spyware likely has something to do with it too.
Yeah, I was opposed to buying a Mac for ages because I could never justify $1000 on a Laptop, so I bought $600-800 laptops ever 3-4 years. But I’m at 3 years with my m1 MacBook Air and it works as well as the day I bought it, and still has 98% battery health. I don’t see myself buying another laptop for a looooooong time
Popped my Mac Cherry with an M2 earlier this year and I'm very happy with the purchase.
I switched just because of the difference the chipset makes. I've been running windows for gaming and Linux for personal shit forever - I'm not generally a fan of Apple and their walled garden business mod. But the MacBook pro with the m2 will run my dev environments and teams meetings from 8-5 all day on battery and still has a good 30-40% left at the end of the day. It's not even competitive right now unfortunately, since I work remote I like to float around and work from different places and not having to worry about charging is a game changer.
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Article says it was because of supply constraints for Apple in 2022 that are now lessened in 2023. It's also a lopsided comparison when Apple shipments are in the ~5 million range while the top PC brand shipments are 10+ million each. Regardless, I will say that PC hardware has been suffering from certain hardware companies keeping hardware prices way too high for too long, which would at least partially explain the supply glut (and thus the reduction in shipments as they have excess inventory).
Although I'm not a fan of Apple, I can see the value that is provided with the price tag, especially when PC brands aren't offering a similar premium experience but want to charge similarly high prices.
I don't see Chromebooks mentioned anywhere in here. I'd be curious how they'd compare. I know a have no intention on ever buying anything but a Chromebook again. I don't need an expensive computer.
Would truly love to see it get Adobe Premiere support for the M1s. Still barely functions and I have an M1 max
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