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I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook

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Re: I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook

#41
> - If you rely on / heavily use AI tools, you can easily use Claude's Web App etc so that's super cool but also things like Jan also exist for Linux and I haven't tried, but you can use that as well for a more native experience.

Sure, Claude Web App is an adequate replacement to full-fledged Claude Code, and then there is also something that I didn't bother to try but maybe you can try it after you bought a new laptop. What the hell.

Re: I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook

#46

I don't really get what the problem with MacOS is. It never gets in my way, so why would I switch? Yes, I found Liquid Glass ugly and two days later I completely forgot about it.

This is what happened for me. Total waste of effort complaining about it.

Re: I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook

#47
Going from complaining about Apple not having enough polish in the fine details of their UI to suggesting we all switch to Chromebooks is so completely inconsistent that there must be other motivations.

In one post they're complaining about things like Apple having the search bar in different locations in different apps, and in the next post they're seriously trying to tell us that a laptop that requires modifying the software and running shell commands copied from the internet so you can run a text editor to change settings and drivers is the solution? They dropped a note about how they haven't actually tried development on the chromebook at the end but say they assume it would be okay. For someone telling us to switch to Chromebooks, they haven't even finished doing their own homework

Linking to an SEO spam website called technical.city for performance comparisons is another clue that this choice was driven by something else first and the reasoning was backfilled. The new MediaTek part is fast, but there's more to laptop performance than a single bar chart from a site citing ancient benchmarks like PassMark.

I can't read this as anything other than an attempt to make a contrarian choice and then present it as the superior alternative.

Re: I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook

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sorry, what conclusion am i supposed to get from looking at their submissions? are you suggesting they are a bot? a lenovo employee? just say what you mean instead of being cryptic about it

Assuming they are pointing out what looks like karma farming which isn't really in the spirit of the site.
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