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Re: MacBook Air with M5

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timothyduong wrote: post #272
PaulHoule wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ll add that MacOS is crammed with spammy ads for Apple Music and other services I don’t want. To be fair somebody wants Apple Music whereas the Microsoft versions of those things are completely unwanted. Ads and nags in the Windows World are drawn using the same HTML-based technology that has replaced Windows native apps since Windows 8, the ads and nags in MacOS are the 2025 anti-antialiased retreads of the 1999 M…

Just wait til she jumps on a windows 11 device! But I do agree with you. Thankfully it is minimal relative to windows.

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Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by dagmx »

elxr wrote: post #91
honeycrispy wrote: post #19

I wish they would provide Linux support. I can't stand OSX.

Good news, intel panther lake (and the laptops they come in) are on par with M5 macbooks in almost every way. This year is a lot more competitive than any of the past ~4 years for premium laptops. The asus expertbook ultra even has a much better screen, a much better keyboard, and a very similar haptic trackpad. Weighs less than a 13 inch macbook air too. There's cheaper options too that are close to as good (minus t…

Can you quantify your claim?

PTL’s highest SKU is comparable to the base M5 for only multicore perf at double the power use in every benchmark I’ve seen. It lags significantly behind in single core.

But I’d love to see a benchmark showing otherwise.

Just the latest I’ve seen https://youtu.be/7OxE7FwJPJM?si=b5T0PbmhUD1TXhX4

But I can find none that have PTL actually anywhere near M5 without strapping a much larger battery to the device

Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by Forgeties79 »

dijit wrote: post #232
Forgeties79 wrote: post #224

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maybe I’m forgetting all the benefits of time capsule but you can plug any old storage device into a Mac now and turn it into a “Time Machine.“ It’s pretty turnkey at this point. What would a modern time capsule offer besides maybe remote back ups?

oh no, absolutely- apologies for the confusion. Time "Machine" on MacOS continues to work (though it's clearly not as important to Apple as it once was). The issue is: if you want to back up a phone: it will take space from your laptop and it must be tethered to do the backup. This means that if you have a 1TiB phone, like I do, you need at least 1TiB of local disk on your laptop to be able to do a single backup if t…

That’s a really good point.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

normie3000 wrote: post #290
haunter wrote: post #282

The new cheap Macbooks have also been more or less confirmed. Macbook Neo, probably coming with the iPhone A-series chips https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/03/apple-accidentally-leak...

iPhone processor? Should be interesting to see how performance is.

The latest iPhone processors are faster for single core performance than an M1.

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Post by bornfreddy »

madeofpalk wrote: post #265
PaulHoule wrote: post #246

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What am I supposed to do, drive 300 miles to the nearest Genius Bar?

What would you do if your non-Apple computer was having performance issues?

Debug it? Swap some components? Good luck with that on that shiny closed box.

Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by wiremine »

noman-land wrote: post #297
std_move wrote: post #216

This is the best laptop for the general consumer around $1k. - it has no annoying fans, it is completely silent - a high res display with no PWM flickering and reasonable response times, no burn-in issues, enough brightness for outdoor use - best-in-class hardware, very very efficient, amazing single thread performance, good multi thread, very good GPU - no Microsoft Windows annoyances, ads, bloatware, broken stuff a…

"it has no annoying fans" I beg to differ ;)

That it has no fans or the fans are annoying?

Re: MacBook Air with M5

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Post by Tepix »

HanClinto wrote: post #201

Is it weird to anyone else that the M5 keeps the same limitations of the M4, and tops out at 128 GB of RAM? If one wants to serve large-ish LLMs locally, an M3 Mac Studio w/ 512 GB/RAM is still a super compelling option, and I was hoping that the M5's would bump us up to 1TB of unified memory. Don't get me wrong -- seeing them use LMStudio as the benchmark for measuring local LLM inference is super awesome for the lo…

I'm pretty sure that the market for notebooks with more than 128GB memory at Apples prices is rather small.

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Post by BoneShard »

zem wrote: post #115
nosioptar wrote: post #94

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Thinkpads have track points, macs don't. That benchmark is really important to me due to RSI. Track points save me a buttload of hand pain.

interesting, I had to stop using my trackpoint because it was giving me rsi in my index finger. the track pad hasn't given me any issues.

Same here, had to stop using the trackpoint (after maybe 10-15 years of heavy usage). And macbook trackpads are awesome.
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