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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by throwaheyy on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:58PM (#25066276)
I’d extend it to mean someone for whom the non-pro model is less sufficient (for example, they are using dev tools or video editing as opposed to Excel, Word and email).
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by stu2b50 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:03PM (#25066305)
That would exclude many programming positions, though, since really the old Air is perfectly fine for most SWE positions. Not optimal, but you can run iterm2, you can run a web browser, and you can run vim.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by numpad0 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:13PM (#25066364)
I don’t think it’s necessarily good that people say Word or Excel is non-Pro tasks fit for cheap and “lite” computers.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by throwaheyy on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:31PM (#25066468)
It’s a generalization, of course there are exceptions
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:45PM (#25066542)
> someone for whom the non-pro model is less sufficient

Given how powered up the Air has become, this is a thin envelope.

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