I don't like Apple as a company or how they act around locking people out of the devices they buy.
replyI'm willing to pay double the cost of a MacBook Pro for anything that can run Linux, similar performance to M5, have a decent battery, good touchpad, be silent, have a good display, be light and portable.
It doesn't exist. MacBook's simply have the best hardware, but terrible software/philosophy of software.
So I'd say their moat is hardware in general. Performance, yes to an extent, but it's performance vs heat vs energy vs battery life and all their peripherals.
> I'm willing to pay double the cost of a MacBook Pro for anything that can run Linux, similar performance to M5, have a decent battery, good touchpad, be silent, have a good display, be light and portable.
replyThis is Zenbook A16 right now, with recent patches posted to Linux ARM mailing list that support it in full.
Any thoughts on the "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"?
replyYes it is. I've bought a MacBook air despite despising MacOS (with the hope that Asahi support will come eventually) because the processor currently has no competition.
replyThat's sort of weird though because unless the operating system supports your applications, the performance of the processor cannot be appreciated.
replyMy applications are generally open-source and volunteers have already compiled them to any and all operating systems whose tool chain is available.
replyYes it is. And it has been that way for more than a decade for typical consumer-oriented single-threaded workloads like running JavaScript on a webpage.
replyThe general workload performance (browsing, text editing) is comparable for neo and m* MacBooks afaict.
replyGhastly was macOS on an Intel MacBook Air.
Why would we compare it to an 8-year-old design? For browsing, the current MBP smokes the MBN, by margins of roughly one-third. It is a significant and noticeable regression. For sustained workloads like software development or even running the MacOS updates, it is a huge and glaring regression. But it's still good kit.
replythe MacBook neo has faster single core perf than any x86 laptop (for the first 0.5 sec which is what matters for ui responsiveness).
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