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The cause could be that they’re lasting longer. Or it could be the fact that they’re not repairable, don’t support virtual machines or windows, have cut corners internally to increase profits margins and for the most part don’t play games. The company I work for, previous the ARM CPU switch bought MacBooks exclusively and either ran windows in parallels or used boot camp. We can no longer do that to run any of the tools we use for machine programming or troubleshooting so we buy razer blade 15s now. That battery isn’t as great but they’re powerhouses and have awesome repairability.

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MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Apple and repairability are two opposites. Am not convinced about lasting longer either. Gluing and soldering everything doesn’t help with replacing parts, especially since they fought tooth and nail to ban independent repairs.

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HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why can’t you run Parallels?

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- MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I am not sure if you can not, but ARM doesn’t come with hardware level virtualization features many of the solutions today depend on. VBox for example doesn’t want to run until I enable those in BIOS. It’s certainly is possible to emulate anything, but probably less efficiently.
  
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- TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  For the same reason you can’t run Windows 11 Pro on your phone. The chip architecture.
  
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  - virtualbriefcase@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    As weird as it sounds you can (with poor performance). With something like Limbo or Termux you can actually get Windows or any x86 OS running underneath Android on a phone.
    
    Fun project maybe, but not really utilitarian though. Never used apple so can’t actually report on how well their emulation and/or translation layer is working on Arm.
    
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  - HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You might want to tell that to the people who make Parallels.
    
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- JiveTurkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  We can use parallels, just not to run x86 windows.
  
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areyouevenreal@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You can run virtual machines on Apple Silicon. I have done it myself.

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- JiveTurkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  We’ve had no problems with them so far and the fact that they can be easily dusted and cleaned has made them more reliable than the MBPs we were using. In a dirty environment they fill with dust and don’t live long.
  
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- freeindv@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  You can run virtual machines on Apple Silicon
  
  You can, but with emulationb for anything needing x86 (like Windows). Which means it’s slow and unusable
  
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  - areyouevenreal@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Nope, they use Windows for ARM
    
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    JiveTurkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Right which still isn’t the x86 version of windows that basically every vendor I’ve come across requires for tooling software and machine programming. It’s okay to be wrong fan boy.
    
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