The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3
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Re: The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3
#2Show me Motion 5 and FCPX for Windows and I'll gladly switch.
Re: The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3
#3The Acer Swift is limited to only 8GB of (non-upgrade) ram, which is a deal breaker for most developers. I also wonder about that Wi-Fi 6 chip and its Linux support. If it wasn't for those factors, I'd probably get one.
Re: The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3
#4The Acer Swift is limited to only 8GB of (non-upgrade) ram, which is a deal breaker for most developers. I also wonder about that Wi-Fi 6 chip and its Linux support. If it wasn't for those factors, I'd probably get one.
I wonder how much money non-upgradable RAM actually saves.
Re: The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3
#5These posts are obnoxious. People don't buy Macs b/c of their impressive tech specs - they buy them b/c of macOS.
Re: The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3
#6Show me Motion 5 and FCPX for Windows and I'll gladly switch.
So we all know that can't happen; whats keeping you away from the adobe suite? From my research as a begining youtuber, the biggest hurdle seems to be price
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#7I love these articles because the writers are so earnest and seem to be oblivious to the fact that buyers do not care.
Re: The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3
#8The Acer Swift is limited to only 8GB of (non-upgrade) ram, which is a deal breaker for most developers. I also wonder about that Wi-Fi 6 chip and its Linux support. If it wasn't for those factors, I'd probably get one.
This is totally an aside, and probably shows how out of touch I am, but there must be developers who need 8+ GB, and others who don't. I was always under the impression that things like editors and compilers didn't need a lot of computing performance. So I'm curious what kinds of development demand more performance. Is it a hard wall that you hit, or more of just a progressive degradation of performance?
Re: The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3
#9This image on Acer's Swift product page really answered the question for me.
https://static.acer.com/up/Resource/Acer/Laptops/Swift_7/Ove...
Re: The $1,799 MacBook Pro 13 vs. the $650 Acer Swift 3
#10One look at the pictures and I immediately question the difference in comfort between these 2 machines. Big difference and nice benchmarks, but ... it's just not the whole story.