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Context: this is a legit screenshot I took on my workplace around 1.5 years ago. Hopefully it's been patched by now? Completely ridiculous behavior

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[-] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 13 points 1 year ago

I couldn't imagine buying any laptop other than a Mac because the performance to battery life ratio on everything else is awful. Plus if you want a UNIX system, it's an easy buy.

After owning an Apple ARM laptop I'd never go back to anything else.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

But is that an Apple thing or an ARM thing?

[-] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 8 points 1 year ago

ARM, but Apple has the most advanced ARM chips and macOS /The AS Platform has the best amd64 to arm64 translation layer.

[-] grozzle@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I have an M1 Macbook Air (under half price secondhand thanks to a superficial dent on a corner) and while I agree I love having such powerful hardware that sips battery so sparingly, MacOS can go eat a whole bag of stale dicks. Homebrew makes it... tolerable, but I'm holding out hope for that new Qualcomm ARM laptop - the recent benchmarks beat Apple's chips handily.

[-] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

What do you hate about macOS? From my perspective, it beats out Windows in ease of use, performance, likelihood not to break, and being *NIX; and it beats out Linux by having things working out of the box without needing to spend a decade tinkering just to get things almost working right.

I use Windows for gaming (and work, unfortunately), Mac for general computing and programming, and Linux for servers and vms.

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

You can install Linux on it, the only major things not working yet are speakers and deep sleep

[-] grozzle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Those are both serious blockers for me tbh, I like to take it out away from home and watch YT / Nebula vids. I'm keeping am eye on Asahi's progress though.

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the speakers don't bother me too much since headphones still work. Deep sleep not working really sucks though since on macOS I've had it last for weeks without opening it and still having battery left.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago

the performance to battery life ratio on everything else is awful

You clearly haven't used Debian.

[-] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I've used a number of different Linux distros (including Debian) on laptops over the years. Although most recently my XPS 15 was running Arch.

[-] adrian783@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

hear hear, if it has problem then I take it to apple store for service. I don't wanna waste time fucking about on my laptop. I'll do trouble shooting on desktop but I just want long battery life and apple silicone beat the fuck out of anything else.

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