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Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
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Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
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I do this nonstop using the UTM app in Apple Silicon virtualization, not QEMU, mode. I've done this from M2, M2 Max, and M5 machines, it basically wraps the hypervisor.framework (or the current name) and i had used Asahi on an M1 before that. With UTM wrapping hypervisor.framework, i have a complete fullscreen desktop running Linux (i use fedora earlier but Arch the last several months) with full graphics as if it we…
Are you able to play Steam games?
posted as a sibling to your comment, but you'd likely be interested in
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
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Also, Windows is probably significantly less secure than MacOS and Apple definitely has the best hardware security in the industry.
If that translates to you can install whatever you want on the hardware you paid for, maybe it’s a plus. Let’s see where Apple is going with that first.
Good point.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#614It’ll cost more than the equivalent MacBook Pro. It’ll be slower too. Rumor shows it beating an M5 by 56% but losing to an m5 pro.
It’s a good first start though. Competition is good. It’ll force my platform of choice — Apple — to keep competing.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
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Similarly on the higher end, I want to run linux on Apple Macbook laptops.
I do this nonstop using the UTM app in Apple Silicon virtualization, not QEMU, mode. I've done this from M2, M2 Max, and M5 machines, it basically wraps the hypervisor.framework (or the current name) and i had used Asahi on an M1 before that. With UTM wrapping hypervisor.framework, i have a complete fullscreen desktop running Linux (i use fedora earlier but Arch the last several months) with full graphics as if it we…
It’s surprisingly good to do with full screen and the Apple hvm is very nice. Don’t let the experimental tag scare you.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#616Call me a hater, but the problem is Windows, not necessarily the hardware. I get it they want to stop the MacBook Pro, but: Windows is slow for no reason; it collects everything it can about the user; takes screenshots of whatever the user is doing; has ads - even though you pay for the OS; drivers are still a mess; hardware is made by different companies and no actual proper integration like Apple does. I could go o…
> Call me a hater, but the problem is Windows, not necessarily the hardware. Thing is, MacOS was heading the same way until the new chips saved it. The last few versions that were still running on Intel shouldn't have been as slow as they were. Software is going to shit everywhere, it's just there's now M* equivalent for Windows and Intel. All that to say: yes, I think you're spot on, the problem is sowftware, not ha…
s/it's just there's now M* equivalent for Windows and Intel/it's just there's no M* equivalent for Windows and Intel
(no instead of now)
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
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Not an EE but I'll add an anecdote as a user. I went through a period of using a Macbook Pro with a dock. At the time the best option seemed to be the Caldigit TS3. It's a sleek device but luckily someone else was footing the bill because: - 3 of them failed on me. THREE; - You really learn how bad cables are. I got in the habit of ordering 2-3 at a time because experience taught me that at least 1 of them would be b…
I’m a little surprised to see how much trouble people in this thread have had with the Cal Digit TS3. Mine works pretty well — have used it with three Intel MacBooks in the past and now currently two different Apple Silicon MacBooks. One of the Intel MBPs did not like it. Would reboot every time I unplugged it from the dock. I blamed that MacBook for that one, since nothing else was ever a problem. I sent every crash…
Same, mines worked a treat across a number of laptops using a generic cheapo 6.6ft USB4 cable over the years.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
#618Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do this nonstop using the UTM app in Apple Silicon virtualization, not QEMU, mode. I've done this from M2, M2 Max, and M5 machines, it basically wraps the hypervisor.framework (or the current name) and i had used Asahi on an M1 before that. With UTM wrapping hypervisor.framework, i have a complete fullscreen desktop running Linux (i use fedora earlier but Arch the last several months) with full graphics as if it we…
people have gotten this to work (for a sufficiently sketchy definition of work) for linux run in QEMU at least. https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/ in particular, the conclusion of that article is "You can run cyberpunk 2077 on a M4 macbook air w/ a 5090 eGPU".
That looks completely esoteric, incredible stuff.
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
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I am old enough to declare it peaked with Windows 2000, which was mercifully a version of NT that crashed less and had a UI that was intended for serious use, rather than consumer market thrills. Which is why it was on the market so briefly. Every commit since has been for the bottom line, not the user.
NT 4.0 did not crash that often if you rebooted it weekly (not uncommon at the time). And it had a simpler menu. But I agree about W2000 being peak Windows.
Same with iOS 18, "Windows 2000" was great, then Apple went downhill with iOS 26 "Windows ME"
Re: Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
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It's 100% just firmware + crappy business model. Printers are hardly "complex" - a few very standard gear/roller/sensor based mechanisms we've built for 4 decades pretty identically with hardly any innovation. Besides far more complex frequent-use devices don't have such shit problems and experience. Nor is "you're out of blue ink, you can't print this b&w document" or "you didn't install the official $50 cartridge,…
You're talking about printers at home. We're talking about printers at work.
Same shit. Same shit vendors too.