Introducing the next generation of Mac

Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by rbanffy on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @05:52PM (#25053170)

We are not looking at a typical Mac user here, are we?

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by wlesieutre on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:01PM (#25053258)

Slack, Whatsapp, Discord, and Skype, pick any two and I don't think it's unusual.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @09:49PM (#25055016)

I'm not saying your wrong, but this is such a catch-22.

When people complain about Electron apps, the response is always "modern computers have so much memory anyway, it's fine!"

But then when a manufacturer introduces a computer with slightly less memory (but still a perfectly reasonable amount) the big question is whether it can run all those Electron apps!

Is there a way to break the cycle? This isn't good!

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by ibejoeb on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:13PM (#25053369)

Never measured whatsapp but it's really pretty performant. Is it heavy?

Slack and discord, on the other hand, are real drags.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by jcelerier on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:29PM (#25053527)

> Never measured whatsapp but it's really pretty performant

are we really talking about the same whatsapp ? it takes a good 4 seconds to load here. I don't remember ever waiting for MSN Messenger to load, on potato-powered computers.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by mesid on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:15AM (#25055694)

I think that's because it's trying to connect to your phone since that's where the messages etc are stored.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by djsumdog on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:18PM (#25053417)

Electron is cancer .. but Skype is native (for now, at least on Linux. Although I'm sure they'll switch to the Teams codebase and Skype native will disappear forever too)

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by wlesieutre on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:32PM (#25053557)

Is that recent? It definitely used to be Electron https://www.codepicky.com/hacking-electron-restyle-skype/

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by vetinari on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:51PM (#25053710)

Skype 7 was native; Skype 8 is Electron. So is Teams.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by mesid on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:37AM (#25055792)

Electron is recent. What are good and widely used cross platform application frameworks other than electron?

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by isatty on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @01:15AM (#25055971)

Qt?

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by na85 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:02PM (#25053261)

I'm not sure 16 GB is enough.

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