Re:Tailscale's new macOS home
by dangus on Saturday April 04, 2026 @12:08PM
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Call me crazy for wanting to compute on my computer. Maybe that’s old fashioned.
This argument falls apart since Apple themselves offer computers with fans. Even the Mac mini has a fan and that’s their cheapest system.
They just don’t care about sustained compute on their cheaper consumer laptops not only because they alienated gamers a long time ago, but because it’s a price segmentation to the Pro systems. Their users derp around on safari and their video encodes are done by the time the system throttles.
That’s totally fine for those users but there are 9X more PC gamers in the world than the entire install base of Mac users and those people like myself benefit from sustained performance.
Apple’s loss if they don’t want to sell affordable machines that have sustained performance, they gate that to professional machines that have a bunch of stuff I don’t need.
This argument falls apart since Apple themselves offer computers with fans. Even the Mac mini has a fan and that’s their cheapest system.
They just don’t care about sustained compute on their cheaper consumer laptops not only because they alienated gamers a long time ago, but because it’s a price segmentation to the Pro systems. Their users derp around on safari and their video encodes are done by the time the system throttles.
That’s totally fine for those users but there are 9X more PC gamers in the world than the entire install base of Mac users and those people like myself benefit from sustained performance.
Apple’s loss if they don’t want to sell affordable machines that have sustained performance, they gate that to professional machines that have a bunch of stuff I don’t need.