• @[email protected]
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    -82 years ago

    Overpriced? Yes, garbage? No. The MacBooks are far beyond the close competition in both quality and performance. Apple Silicon is a game changer for the industry and it’s making Intel and AMD look very bad.

    • @[email protected]
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      402 years ago

      Right. Buy products that is not only expensive to buy, but also expensive to repair. Pass…

      • FiveMacs
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        292 years ago

        And you are forced to give up system control, and choice of software

    • @[email protected]
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      352 years ago

      Before I will even think about buying a Mac I will buy a Framework laptop and install debian.
      And I don’t even use Linux outside of a home server.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        Yeah those laptops from Framework seems very interesting. They don’t ship here yet, but I’m indeed keeping an eye on them. I know Framework project thanks to LTT, which is one of the few things right they’ve been doing these latest months: introducing people to easy to repair projects.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      far beyond the close competition in both quality and performance

      It’s true that Apple continues to be the king of build quality. And while they do currently hold the performance per watt crown, there are plenty of laptops that beat the M2 when it comes to raw performance, especially if you throw in a dGPU. And of course, none of this matters if the device doesn’t run the software you want, which is what I suspect most people on Lemmy have issue with.

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        12 years ago

        When I say performance I include the package as a whole. Battery-wise is top in the competition lasting more hours than the average Windows competitor, also the productivity software most times work a lot better on Mac than on Windows, so even if the Windows laptop has more raw power, while even consuming a lot more energy, Windows itself will for sure cripple the computer’s performance.

        If I was working on ASUS or any other OEM, I’d be pushing for usage of Linux distros like hell (I’d be pushing those based on Debian, like Ubuntu, Pop_OS, etc…).