The M1 MacBook Pro is the best Mac made since the turn of the century.
Re:The Day Windows Died
by VeninVidiaVicii on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:41AM
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I switched from Mac to Surface in 2017, and was moderately happy. I bought an M1 air when they came out, it’s essentially a different kind of product.
Surface and M1 Macs aren’t even in the same universe of utility.
Hear hear.
I have a Macbook Pro M1 Max. I upgraded from a 2015 MBP, which had previously been one of my all-time favorite Apple laptops (and I've had cough a lot).
The MBP M1 Max - to my surprise - destroyed the 2015 on virtually every level.
This is my current "from my cold dead hands" machine.
Pricepoint: $2,499.00 for 16 inch MBP, M2, 12-Core CPU, 19-Core GPU, 16GB Unified Memory, 512GB SSD Storage (which is very small storage, and 1Tb starts at $2699).
This probably goes without saying, but I feel it needs to be said anyway: 16GB must be a joke by the market segmentation folks in Cupertino. I can just barely do comfortable development with the 32GB version. If docker was native, mayyyybe 16 would be almost fine…
> 16GB must be a joke by the market segmentation folks in Cupertino.
Isn't Microsoft still selling laptops with only 4GB of RAM?
Re:The Day Windows Died
by diffeomorphism on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:57PM
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For 2500? Nope.
Ever heard of ZRAM under Linux? KVM settings with RAM deduplication?
The M1 Max MacBook is the best computer I've ever owned, period. I upgraded to it from a 2012 MBP. The hardware is top-notch (pun intended).
Re:The Day Windows Died
by localghost3000 on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:06AM
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> It’s much better on battery
This is not my experience. At best I'd get a few hours. If I'm using the GPU? An hour or so.
A more apt comparison would be that MacBook with a pangolin amd 5600? machine. It’s much better on battery, has the same ports. It’s been my daily driver work machine for almost a year. I’m not going back to Mac or windows if I can help it.
The 2015 MacBooks were the greatest apple machines, but I doubt they’ll get any support in a couple years