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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by kergonath on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:01AM (#25243697)
There is some genuine excitement about a new CPU architecture, that’s quite natural. If anything the opposite would be surprising on HN. Some of these people are Apple users, some of them are hoping another vendor will follow and offer powerful ARM laptops and desktops, some of them are just happy that a breakthrough has been made and that it will stimulate the competition. There is quite a lot of diversity in these opinions, actually.

You even find the usual contrarians who moan that it’s Apple, so anyone saying anything positive have to be shills and the CPU has to be terrible (plenty of those in this thread).

Since when do he have to buy something to have an opinion? Are you saying that the people who complain about the M1 (or Macs in general) without having bought one should just shut up?

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by totalZero on Sunday November 29, 2020 @02:45PM (#25247486)
> Since when do he have to buy something to have an opinion?

It's pretty difficult to have an informed opinion about a product that you've never seen/used/tested/tried.

Due to the requirements for a shopping appointment at an Apple Store (hard to come by, if you check online), and due to social distancing, it's fairly unlikely that a person who hasn't bought/received an M1 machine can have an informed opinion about it -- especially so soon after the release.

That's why I take the hype regurgitation with a grain of salt. Has nothing to do with buying the right to have an opinion.

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