Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge
whostosay@lemmy.world 1 year agoApple builds marketing, not good products. There was a time they were innovative, and it is not now. Their price/performance ratio is laughable.
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I have to disagree when it comes to laptops: the gap has closed a bit now, but there’s still no intel- or amd-based alternative that comes close to the MacBook air in terms of performance/battery life at the £1000-£1200 price point. When the M1s first came out, the fanless MacBook air shattered the intel i9 MBP in any conceivable metric other than pure GPU power (which the MacBook Pro could use for about a minute before overheating).
Even if expensive, the current MacBook lineup is really compelling. If you’re prepared to spend £3000 on a laptop, you just can’t get anything similar in terms of performance, battery life, and noise. You might get a workstation like an HP ZBook with similar oomph but then you’re looking at a beast that weighs 50% more than a comparable MBP, has the fans buzzing all the time at full blast, and lasts a couple hours on a battery charge. I’ve used my work MacBook Pro (M1 Max) for a full Atlantic flight of ≈9 hours and it still had juice to go.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They start at £1,150. Not £1000.
MacBooks in that price range fall apart frequently due to only having 8GB of RAM. They’re e-waste.
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I have no idea what you’re on about. MacBook airs start at £999, and I’ve still been able to configure one at £1199 with 16 GB of RAM.
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Also I haven’t said anything about that magic ram nonsense, please don’t try to paint me as an idiot. Even my personal laptop has 32 GB. But different needs, different price points. I still maintain that at the price points apple operates, it’s hard to find something better with windows - not because I’m an apple fanboy by any means, but because of the laziness of Intel and the lack of decent ARM alternatives (and Microsoft’s half assed approach to ARM).
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was talking about the current generation, not a 3 year old model.
And I didn’t say you said anything about magic RAM. I said please don’t regurgitate it in response.