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Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by meindnoch »

mvanbaak wrote: post #423
hnuser123456 wrote: post #303

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I flatly will not buy any monitor, laptop, phone, tablet, or TV with a refresh rate below 120hz. I had 120hz 1080p over DVI-dual link in 2010. I can accept graphically demanding games going down to ~50 fps, but for UI interactivity and navigation, I'll take 120hz+ only.

And there you are, watching a movie on that 120p+ tv. You do k ow the movie is only 24p right?

Movie cameras have something called "shutter angle".

A computer UI is basically a movie with 0 shutter angle, which looks super jerky at low framerates.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by ghaering »

kombine wrote: post #677
hypercube33 wrote: post #588

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I mean my AMD T14 G4 gets like 12 hours of battery running windows, 150 browser tabs and a virtual environment. Not sure how the newer ones are and no they aren't as sleek or probably durable as a metal apple or dell XPS but I haven't got any complaints for the price.

I have T14s Gen 3 AMD running Linux and I don't even come close to 12 hours, maybe half of that. That's my biggest complaint.

I never understand why people are so fixated on battery runtime. If you actually use the device indoors, don't you have a possibility to charge anytime. For me, I alternate between my home office room and the living room. Sometimes I work when on the train. And even less often in national flights and on airports. Except when flying or on very outdated trains, there never is an issue charging.

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Post by dannyw »

stetrain wrote: post #232
ragazzina wrote: post #178

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>I really wish Apple would make a MacBook Air variant with display quality on par with the iPad Pro or MacBook Pro >The screen quality is the only reason I currently use the Pro Well why should they, you already bought the more expensive one.

Because some people would pay the same price (or even more) as a MacBook Pro to have a great screen in a thinner, lighter laptop that shouldn't cost Apple that much more to make. Like how the MacBook Air was originally a premium-priced product instead of an entry-level product in Apple's lineup.

A new SKU (supply management, warehousing, logistics, employee training, etc) is pretty expensive at Apple scale.

The demand has to be there. And MacBook Pros are not that bulky.

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Post by karn97 »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #438
maleldil wrote: post #344

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Try walking a few kilometres with a 3kg gaming laptop on your back or standing up inside public transport.

I weekly carry about 10kg of groceries in my backpack about 2.5 km. Doesn't even register as anything exceptional.

You enjoy being a mule buddy

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by dannyw »

paxys wrote: post #341
metayrnc wrote: post #6

After getting the initial M1 Air, I am still struggling to find a reason to replace it. Still going strong with no hiccups!

Nor should you have a reason to replace it. The device is barely 4 years old. There was a time until very recently when laptops would be expected to last 10+ years minimum with minor RAM and SSD updates.

I don’t know when that time was. Hardware and software requirements have been moving fast for just about forever, until actually maybe the past 5 years.

There was never a time when laptops were expected to last 10+ years.

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Post by pitkali »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #308
crazygringo wrote: post #180

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> but even non-tech people I know are wondering why Android phones run smoother than iPhones. Stuff that would be completely unheard of purely because of how noticeable 60hz vs 120hz is. Are they? I'm a tech person and I can barely notice it at all. And I don't think I have a single non-tech friend who is even aware of the concept of video refresh rate. Whenever there's something that doesn't feel smooth about an int…

It just feels more "fluid" and real, and then you get used to it and 60Hz feels jittery. I have an iPad pro, and its honestly made me consider going with an iPhone Pro (I still have just the non-pro model), although not quite yet. However, I notice a huge difference between scrolling on my phone and scrolling on my ipad. Its the same thing about retina vs. the previous resolutions we had put up with. Yes, you don't n…

For me, the crisp text was the reason retina became a must.

Re: MacBook Air M4

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Post by znpy »

ako wrote: post #653
znpy wrote: post #441

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> bulky 16" ThinkPad. I'm surprised nobody mentioned the thinkpad x1 extreme laptop. It was basically the lenovo/thinkpad response to the xps 15. It's way thinner than the ThinkPad T16/P15 lines. they claim it's a 16" laptop but only because they made the bezel smaller enough to fit a larger display in the same space. it's usually mostly on par with the dell xps but i'm not sure about the specs though... my personal…

Has 32gb of memory max. My current 5 year old thinkpad P1 has 64GB, not going back to 32.

False.

I just checked https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/t... and it says the laptop has two ddr5 slots, i guess you could load up to 128gb in there using the newest 64gb sticks.

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Post by volemo »

nasretdinov wrote: post #670
volemo wrote: post #665

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What conclusion do I draw from this? “Stay away from high refresh rate screens not to spoil myself” :D

That's actually not a bad recommendation if you want to keep sanity as a tech enthusiast :). Otherwise you start noticing how much stuff still hasn't been upgraded to support high dpi and high refresh rate and you can't go back

Sadly, I’ve already tasted the forbidden fruit of HiDPI, so I do understand the feelings of 120 Hz aficionado. :’(

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Post by thanatos519 »

mrtksn wrote: post #52
metayrnc wrote: post #6

After getting the initial M1 Air, I am still struggling to find a reason to replace it. Still going strong with no hiccups!

With M1 Air, Apple had to blow us away. People, including me, had hard time believing Apple's claims and many people were coping by looking at the Keynote charts and assuming that Apple must have tricked everyone by not giving proper scale metrics etc. When people put their hands on the real device, it was slaying almost everything on the market and soon it was clear that this thing is a revolution. You don't one up…

I can't imagine 147 tabs. I have 9 pinned tabs and maybe ... 6 other tabs open if I'm particularly busy. I also turn off my work laptop at the end of the day, because all of my state is restored when this handful of tabs comes back.

Maybe this is just me managing my ADHD, but when I see people with hundreds of tabs open I just can't imagine how they work. Every tab has been mashed down to its favicon and I watch them struggle to find the right one. It seems insane to me.

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