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AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 year agoThey have so much prestige and influence under their name that their super fans would buy anything from them at 1000% markup all because it’s a status symbol.
Hell, they could sell bottles of piss and the super fans would gladly sell off all their sperm/eggs and all unnecessary organs just to get a drop of it because sTaTuS SyMbOl.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They’d call it the AppleZeus
Wolo@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
That might be true but it’s also embarrassing for all pc brands who get slaughtered by apples performance as soon as they actually attempt to make things. For example there isn’t a single laptop in the windows world that can match anything apple does
Calcium5332@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Any laptop with a recent GPU will beat an Apple Laptop for performance. Some higher end CPUs too. Apple has really good power efficiency, which is great when unpluged, but plugged in laptops with 200 to 300W TDPs are still better.
xts@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lol sure if you don’t mind an aircraft carrier and mini oven on your legs. Trust me I used to use one of those 200W laptops and honestly I didn’t even need a blanket in the winter because they run SO hot. not to mention odds are it will last a lot longer not running at those insane temps (which literally approach the max safe operating temp of the CPU on some laptops)
Calcium5332@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So? I know they get hot, that’s what 200-300W means. But when you said “there isn’t a single laptop in the windows world that can match anything apple does”, you were wrong. Laptops with GPUs still win in performance.
Stop moving the goalposts.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Hahahahaha
I have friends who spec for their clients every day (I only do it occasionally). Mac laptops cost anywhere from 50% to 100% more than equivalent Dell and Lenovo laptops (ignoring the even less-costly brands, because none of us spec those).
They all have access to the same hardware. And MacOS, despite the gaslighting in this article, isn’t any more performant on the same hardware in the real world.
xts@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah yes please tell me which PC OEMs are using the M-series chips 🙄
Also AFAIK no other company makes their laptop top case/lid out of a single piece of metal. ALL other laptops glue/epoxy the hinges to the lid and they will (sooner rather than later) break. So if durability is what you’re looking for Mac’s are still built better than all other laptops.
raptir@lemdro.id 1 year ago
What a strange boogeyman here. I have a 15 year old HP that was $400 when I bought it and the hinges are still fine.
SeriousBug@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Have you ever actually seen a laptop lid just break off because the epoxy failed, or is this just a hypothetical? I used my last laptop for around 8 years, I took it with me to college every day in a backpack, on public transit. It got thrown around, scratched up, but the hinges didn’t break lol
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
RP2040. Cortex M-series. :wheeze:
I’m trying to imagine hinge that is one solid object. I guess you bend you laptop to close it.
insomniac@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Circumstances outside gaming where any high end laptop isn’t good enough is pretty niche and I don’t think this really matters to most consumers. I would prefer to run Linux but at work, my options are Windows or MacOS. It’s a pretty easy choice. Apple products are great when someone else is paying for them.