Why the Black MacBook Cost More

Re:Why the Black MacBook Cost More by smoldesu on Thursday March 31, 2022 @12:20PM (#30868968)

(if your use case is running MacOS and using compiled-for-ARM software)

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Re:Why the Black MacBook Cost More by BolexNOLA on Thursday March 31, 2022 @03:09PM (#30871103)

I mean for most users, Rosetta + the ever expanding number of apps/games build for MacOS over the last decade, means it really isn’t the barrier it used to be. Plus there’s always parallels.

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Re:Why the Black MacBook Cost More by smoldesu on Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:13PM (#30872265)

> the ever expanding number of apps/games build for MacOS over the last decade

I was under impression that the number was shrinking after Mojave cut support for 32-bit apps/libraries, since many developers never bothered to update their apps and games to 64-bit, much less native ARM.

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Re:Why the Black MacBook Cost More by BolexNOLA on Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:39PM (#30872489)

That’s a fair point, though ultimately everything will be 64-bit in time so there’s a bit of an asterisk there.

Hell Apple has ultimately been vindicated going whole-hog on USB-C. Anyone who’s made the swap got over the dongle stuff pretty quickly.

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Re:Why the Black MacBook Cost More by smoldesu on Friday April 01, 2022 @10:48AM (#30878578)

I'm fully willing to forgive them for that snafu when they decide to kill off the Lightning connector for good.

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Re:Why the Black MacBook Cost More by BolexNOLA on Friday April 01, 2022 @11:03AM (#30878793)

Amen. It's such a flagrantly anti-consumer plug at this point

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