Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,...

8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro ‘Analogous to 16GB’ on PCs, Claims Apple::Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,…

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    184·
    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.worldEnglish
      220·
      1 year ago

      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.

      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 and hinges 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.idEnglish
        111·
        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.

        • xts@lemmy.worldEnglish
          210·
          1 year ago

          Literally a lottery. I used to do laptop repair for my job. HP makes the shittiest computers I have EVER seen so you’re extraordinarily lucky.

          I lost count of how many HP laptops with broken hinges came across my desk. Too many. If you don’t know this issues exists it’s willful ignorance

          • laxmanndhotre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            Try buying laptops at same price as MacBooks. Of course they’ll break if you buy a 100$ laptop from wish. Try galaxy books or Lenovo yoga

      • SeriousBug@infosec.pubEnglish
        91·
        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

        • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          I have tbh

          It was a shitty gaming laptop, but the hinges broke within a couple years. Still cost me nearly $2k at the time. I highly regret not buying the equivalent MacBook I was offered

        • xts@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          1 year ago

          Yes, several. Acer Nitro, Dell Inspiron 7000 series, several Lenovo Yogas, too many HPs to even keep track… If you have done laptop repairs at all for work in your life it’s honestly not even an uncommon sight.

          Now in the last generation of MacBook apple made it so that the flex cables were too short and flexing the hinge back and forth over time would cause the screen to go, but I’ve never seen a MacBook with broken hinges from normal use.

          Other brands do not do this because it is cheaper. Most do not pass those savings off to customers.

      • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Ah yes please tell me which PC OEMs are using the M-series chips 🙄

        RP2040. Cortex M-series. :wheeze:

        hinges out of a single piece of metal.

        I’m trying to imagine hinge that is one solid object. I guess you bend you laptop to close it.

        • xts@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          I’m trying to imagine the mental gymnastics you must have gone through to conjure that up :wheeze: