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Re: Ask HN: Windows 10 WSL2 or Macbook Pro M1??

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Post by kevinherron » Fri, Sep 09, 2022, 1:48 AM UTC

kujin88 wrote: post #8

kevinherron wrote: post #5

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I'm guessing you haven't ever laid hands upon or used a MBP. The screen quality and build quality are untouchable as well. Keyboard is definitely a personal choice, and Apple had a multi-year stretch of terrible keyboards, but they're back to being good IMO. I have both a new Dell XPS 15 with Intel i7 and a 16" M1 MBP on my desk right now... it's really no comparison. You really need to base it on whether you need Wi…

"I'm guessing you haven't ever laid hands upon or used a MBP" Nope, my work forces macbook pros upon all of us and I've been using one with an Intel CPU for years. I don't like it because it's constantly going off (the fans always spinning), and gets insanely hot. It also slows down a good deal for anything intensive. I never liked it really. I don't like Mac OsX all that much either and felt they have a weird ux,but…

Yeah, one of my personal laptops is a 2019 16" MBP with Intel i9. It's hot, loud, and slow. Just like the work issued XPS 15.

Re: Ask HN: Windows 10 WSL2 or Macbook Pro M1??

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Post by kujin88 » Fri, Sep 09, 2022, 2:00 AM UTC

kevinherron wrote: post #11

kujin88 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I'm guessing you haven't ever laid hands upon or used a MBP" Nope, my work forces macbook pros upon all of us and I've been using one with an Intel CPU for years. I don't like it because it's constantly going off (the fans always spinning), and gets insanely hot. It also slows down a good deal for anything intensive. I never liked it really. I don't like Mac OsX all that much either and felt they have a weird ux,but…

Yeah, one of my personal laptops is a 2019 16" MBP with Intel i9. It's hot, loud, and slow. Just like the work issued XPS 15.

This is what I am worried about. If it's anywhere the same with M1 then I would just rather bail out of Macbooks and go straight to Windows.

Re: Ask HN: Windows 10 WSL2 or Macbook Pro M1??

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Post by kevinherron » Fri, Sep 09, 2022, 3:09 AM UTC

kujin88 wrote: post #12

kevinherron wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, one of my personal laptops is a 2019 16" MBP with Intel i9. It's hot, loud, and slow. Just like the work issued XPS 15.

This is what I am worried about. If it's anywhere the same with M1 then I would just rather bail out of Macbooks and go straight to Windows.

That's what I was saying in my first post though. The M1 suffers none of this. It's playing in a different league than other laptops.

Re: Ask HN: Windows 10 WSL2 or Macbook Pro M1??

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Post by CoolCold » Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 2:41 PM UTC

kujin88 wrote: post #9

rhokstar wrote: post #6

I'm using both. My PC runs on Windows (9900XE 18 cores/ 36 threads /w nvidia RTX A6000) and Macbook Pro M1 Max. Both are 64GB ram. Windows crashes too much and needs constant updates (and will update in the middle of the night which messes up everything) while my Macbook rarely needs a restart and it will ask you rather than automatically update. For me, it comes down to the OS and I'm running docker on both. WSL2 ru…

Thank you for the insight. Much appreciated. Sad to know windows updates is still a problem after 10 years lol

This actually quite strange- I run 2 laptops with Windows Insider (beta releases) and I reboot once 2-3 weeks because of updates. From time to time, they may have updates spree, like near release dates, but it's couple times per year I think.

Cannot say I'm bothered by updates at all. On stable builds it should happen even less often.