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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by arvinsim on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:17AM (#40294894)
Macbooks are not bang-for-buck. Most engineers I know buy it because it's like Windows but with Unix tools built-in.
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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by aplummer on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:23AM (#40294929)
I would be interested if there exists a single better value machine in $ per hour than my partners 2012 MacBook Air, which still goes
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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by jpc0 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @06:58AM (#40296555)
Any decent laptop from the same era. My parents are using both HP ProBooks and Lenovo Thinkpads from that era currently and they are working perfectly and maintenance costs are lower than the same era macbooks...

I own a MacBook Air, I won't be buying another purely because the moment I need to upgrade anything or repair anything it's effectively ewaste.

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Re:Apple introduces M4 chip by goguy on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @07:03AM (#40296599)
Not found any good proxy which works well with cisco VPN software. Charles and proxyman work intermittently at best and require disconnecting from the VPN and various such dances.

Fiddler on windows works flawlessly.

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