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What concerns me the most is the repairability. We make extensive use of Macbook Air M1 and M2 units, and we have a support contract for repairing the devices onsite. We also have a support contract for repair of Surface Pro units, and when these die they get sent away to Microsoft and a replacement eventually arrives. From what I can tell, they have dreadful repairability.
> As for battery life, Copilot+ PCs support up to 15 hours of web browsing or 22 hours of local video playback. The MacBook Air models offer the same 15 hours of wireless web browsing, but only 18 hours of local video playback. This is so underrated. I got a new macbook air as a temp while my m1 max gets repaired and it blows my mind how I had it unplugged for 2 days over the weekend and the battery is still going. I…
Faster doesn't tell the whole story. For example, I'll take 80% as fast with 8 hours of battery life over 100% speed at 2 hours.
If you read more than just the headline you'd find that the third sentence of the article talks about battery life.
So the new pro-level laptop from MS+QCOM (they are bragging of the specs of the one with Snapdragon X Elite chip which starts at $1,500) and ships in a month beats last year's entry-level mac, which starts at $999 and has been shipping for a year?
If they ship on time they might get four months before Apple has a faster machine. And the last six weeks to two months of that, people will likely wait and see (if they consider anything from MS at all that is).
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Can’t believe it’s 2024 and Microsoft has not sorted this out yet. I switched to MacBooks 15 years ago because I liked being able to close the lid at any moment and stuff it into my laptop and go. Got burned one too many times trying to sleep/hibernate HP business laptops by closing the lid and they stayed on and got hot. Not once has that happened with a MacBook.
Exactly. I wonder if they actually use their own laptops for work. I had one HP laptop literally melt its own plastic after being left inside my bag for a night. Made it a point to always keep it on a desk overnight.
Hopefully it forces apple to up the base ram or storage. Competition is good!
Do they sleep/wake properly though? If not, it's going to be absolutely useless for me.
Can’t believe it’s 2024 and Microsoft has not sorted this out yet. I switched to MacBooks 15 years ago because I liked being able to close the lid at any moment and stuff it into my laptop and go. Got burned one too many times trying to sleep/hibernate HP business laptops by closing the lid and they stayed on and got hot. Not once has that happened with a MacBook.