Is parallels running the ARM windows preview emulating 64 bit X86 fast enough for anything practical? Can I play ten year old games?
The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
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Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#92surely this is the case for any new computer anyone buys technically speaking. If you go out now and buy a new computer it replaces one less good and at that point in time is the best computer you have ever owned...
This has not been true in the past - Apple hit a peak in the early 2010s. It then had ups and downs - Retina was a good step, but the CPU bumps have been lame, the Touchbar has been an active step backwards, the port situation has got progressively worse and the keyboard have been terrible. Some models like the Air just got no progression for years on end.
Life in the Apple eco-system isn't like life in the normal computer eco-system, there's very little competition once you're committed to the OS.
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#93In my experience, the latest computer I buy is always "the best computer I've ever owned". They get better every year, why is this still surprising?
That was true 10 or 20 years ago for sure. These years it’s more of a meh, “hey look the keyboard works well again.”
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#94Unfortunately, you don't actually "own" it. https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Generally this is surprising because the user bought the "Air" model instead of his usual "pro" model which is much more expensive. The impressive part here is that the air outperforms last years pro (according to the author) which is 3x the price.
this is what people meant prior to the m1 coming out with "macs are a horrible deal" they used to be priced at roughly 3x markup compared to the market. they finally fixed their co-dependency with intel and suddenly wow the price gouging goes out the door because gasp the macbook air could have always been the pro it was just never possible with using old chips. ANYTHING using arm absolutely FLIES open your eyes peop…
yeah and then those are poor devs like me whose work notebook is a U series intel on an enterprise HP/DELL body which probably cost $800.
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#96Prediction: The M1 will make the web slower for most people.
Web devs will buy the M1 because it executes their slow dev tools faster (npm ecosystem).
Then they will test their web pages on the M1 and deploy them when they are "fast enough".
Result: web pages will be even slower on mobile phones and non-M1 laptops.
Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container - Nathan Myhrvold
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#97>It is even the best Windows PC The delusion is very strong here.
https://youtu.be/OhESSZIXvCA?t=439 windows in a VM outperforms windows PCs at the price point--plus like other commenters mention it comes with a native Unix shell
> windows PCs at the price point
£999 is a lot of PC. The processor in the M1 air is about 20% faster than the one in my laptop (£550 IIRC), but to spec an M1 out with the same amount of storage and RAM brings it to £1999.
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#98In my experience, the latest computer I buy is always "the best computer I've ever owned". They get better every year, why is this still surprising?
You must be new to Macs. I'm still on the MBP 2015 and it's "the best computer I've ever owned". Everything since then has technically upgraded parts, but the regressions (touchbar, butterfly keyboard mishaps, etc.) are not worth the upgrade.
That's why this is surprising.
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
people don't remember good also people have been absolutely IGNORING the massive speed gains and battery life of say an ARM chromebook or surface pro X apparently only apple does good when they modify the ISA for x64 memory instructions to not have to be emulated so they can pretend rosetta is miles ahead of other virtualization when its hw based...
A chromebook is a toy and a surface pro X is a terrible computer. Apple wasn't the first to transition to ARM, but they were the first to do it right. If they added things to the hardware to enable this, so what?
they ended up shipping the m1 macs running essentially SafariOS so... I guess they wanted to join the ranks of "toys" people can actually use to have all their modern apps run well on (webapps)
idk if you've noticed the transitions going basically as well as it went for other brands minus being able to... point to higher geekbench scores when emulating x64???
never did I think I'd see the day when apple is trying its best to rush literally chromeos but based on bsd out the door at the last second because catalyst barely runs any apps in a useful way
Re: The M1 MacBook Air is the best computer I've ever owned
#100...and is probably one of the least libre* computer I've seen in the 21th century, too. Before that, Linux can't run on MacBooks, and after a few years of development it's just barely working, now this thing. This is never going to be Desktop Linux compatible. Even Linus claimed he would like to but the effort is tremendous. >>> I'd absolutely love to have one, if it just ran Linux.. I have fairly fond memories of th…
Now our politics are determined by what computer we own?
Liberal
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willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas.