Yup, they’re ‘frikkin’ amazing at locking you in. Microslop is just chasing that with OEMs, and doing a great fucking job too.
Now, is this every single make of laptop out there allowing this at the hardware level? How are they doing it? MoBo firmware? BIOS?
hayvan@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Seems like you’re comparing €1500 MacBooks to €300 laptops.
rmuk@feddit.uk 1 day ago
It’s always this. “This brand new £1500 laptop I don’t share with anyone, coddle like a newborn and barely use for anything other than running Office is so much better than the £350 ten year old laptop I was sharing with my entire family and was used for playing video games, downloading warez and pirated media, and running Office.”
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 1 day ago
More like €4400 and it’s used heavily for 8+ hours a day as a development machine. It’s 4 years old by now (M1 Max, 64GB) and it still handles everything I can throw at it without breaking a sweat.
Cheap laptops are nothing but trouble, in the end it’ll cost you more in replacements and lost productivity.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I enjoy my T480 I got off craigs for 120$. Cheap but awesome.
hayvan@feddit.nl 1 day ago
To be fair, if I had to choose between Windows and MacOS I’d go with the latter since I do most of my job inside a terminal. A good terminal emulator, a Unix-like environment and Firefox covers most of my needs and somehow iTerm2 is a better emulator than anything I used on Linux.
Still, I’d rather avoid walled gardens and proprietary OSes.
attero@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
You can get a 2020 M1 / 2022 M2 Macbook air for ~400€, that will mop the floor with all new hardware in that price range released even today (completely fanless/noiseless btw.). It also has decent linux support via asahi and Apple will still probably provide 5+ years of macOS updates anyway.
The simple trick to owning nice hardware is to never give vendors your money directly, let others burden the depreciation.