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Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales

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Re: Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales

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alchemist1e9 wrote: post #590
wkat4242 wrote: post #435

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> AND a culture that's always willing to accommodate new people. Try getting a green card even as a trained European. Good luck :) Not that I'd ever be interested in living in the US. I prefer a country with a decent social security safety net and socialized healthcare. And where people can't just run around carrying guns. Spain is not perfect but I have way fewer things to worry about here. So I can relax and enjoy…

You are buying into a distorted image of the typical US population experience. Access to healthcare is pretty much instant and high quality for all but the very bottom of the society. 85%+ of the population can get an appointment within a day or two and if it’s urgent can access numerous urgent care clinics with almost no wait. Best I can tell for many European countries the situation is significantly worse in terms…

I'm on FAANG provided PPO and it's a two week wait to see my physician. Specialists are 3-4 months out. Not a rural area.

Worse than my experiences in nz, Australia and UK.

Re: Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales

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m348e912 wrote: post #244
gambiting wrote: post #53

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I have a 2008 MacBook pro that still works - don't see any reason why the current generation MacBooks shouldn't work for a decade or more too.

The M1/M2 MBPs are a pretty significant leap technologically. At some point intel Macs will receive less and less support and the price point of the M1 (used and new) will drop enough to justify the upgrade.

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Re: Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales

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Post by misslibby »

burnte wrote: post #808
Dalewyn wrote: post #69

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Speaking as someone who has and uses an M2 Macbook Air with 8GB RAM, I agree it's not a lot but it's more than sufficient for any use case a Macbook Air would generally see. This literally isn't Windows where 32GB of RAM is the new minimum. I will say the Macbook Pro really should start from 16GB RAM and at least 1TB SSD; it's for professionals, isn't it?

> This literally isn't Windows where 32GB of RAM is the new minimum. 98% of users can live with 8 just fine, and 16 is great. 32 is a waste for most folks.

Yeah but they can also live with a computer that costs 500$.

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Post by asdff »

AdamN wrote: post #281
drooopy wrote: post #271

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100%. An SD card slot and a video out port are not pro features. A typical college freshman will need both of those, regardless of their discipline. In fact, my entry level, 13" MacBook Air had those a decade ago.

SD card is kind of niche these days - it's really just for people with a camera and most people just use a phone at this point. HDMI out though is definitely still useful for regular people (presentations, conferences, TV, etc...)

some internet of things stuff like a webcam will write data to an sd card.

Re: Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales

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Post by okamiueru »

kabdib wrote: post #448

I was seriously thinking of replacing an aging Dell laptop with a Mac running parallels. Until I saw the prices. I'm buying a new developer-class laptop today. Not one from Apple. It's not even a close decision.

I'm disillusioned with Apple. With any operating system, you can easily develop with good tools for Linux, Windows and Android. But for MacOS and iOS, you need to buy their hardware.

Not sure why this anti-competive behaviour has been accepted for a whole industry. There is no valid technical reason for it.

The small-ish company I'm a consultant at has started buying apple hardware to some of its developers. Not because they prefer the hardware, not because they prefer the operating system. But, we need someone to run xcode to build software.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

DrBenCarson wrote: post #764
p0nce wrote: post #357

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I had a Lenovo with double-battery and about 18 hours of autonomy, so it's not impossible to get that at a discount.

Lmao how much does that weigh?

It doesn't have to weigh a lot. The max battery you can get for regulatory reasons is 99 watt hours and that's slightly more than a pound.

Re: Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales

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dalyons wrote: post #666
hinkley wrote: post #598

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The SD card slot is a pretty good way to get yourself a little more disk space - a perennial problem with students in particular. There are a couple of companies that make aluminum trays sized to exactly fill the sd card slot on older Macbooks and remain flush (there's a detente for sticking a wire in to pull it out. The tray has wiring for a microSD card. On that machine, I moved my iTunes library there. Since it's…

> a perennial problem with students in particular. is it? AFAIK kids these days need less storage than ever before, because everything's cloud based. No one has itunes libraries, its spotify/applemusic subscriptions. etc.

Some stuff like photo or video will eat up your freeish cloud based storage for long. iphone backups into icloud too. then you are into the $120 a year plans for like 2tb of storage even though that can probably buy 4tb of local storage these days. they sell 1tb phones for a reason, people have a lot of files.

Re: Apple halted M2 chip production in January amid 'plummeting' Mac sales

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Post by asdff »

amai wrote: post #822

M2 has more power, but drains the battery faster. Why should one buy a M2 if M1 has more than enough power?

I wonder if you could throttle the m2 yourself and end up with greater battery life than m1? its easy to throttle a cpu in windows settings at least with a dropdown menu, not sure the process for mac but there has to be some analog.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

jpeter wrote: post #292
izacus wrote: post #36

I was just buying a laptop for my family and the prices of MacBooks here in Europe are utterly crazy. The crappiest 8GB RAM (?!) 256SSD M2 Air model is 1650EUR. 1650EUR for a laptop that won't have enough ram to run the browser in two years. The 16GB model is rounded 2000EUR, which was before reserved for a high-end gaming laptops. It's bonkers.

And 200€ for 8GB more ram. Insane. You can buy 64GB of Desktop Ram for that.

You can buy 64GB of laptop ram for that price too.

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Post by Peanuts99 »

varispeed wrote: post #696
nrki wrote: post #404

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> Technically it is replaceable It's not user-replaceable. It would not be _that_ difficult for Apple to keep a SODIMM slot free, or even come up with a new standard - as they are wont to do. Apple sacrificed upgradability in the name of making more money - it's as simple as that.

> It's not user-replaceable. Well, it's not because Apple doesn't give access to parts, otherwise it would be. Not sure how use of hot air station suddenly makes it something that a user can't do? You can buy a hot air station for less than $100 and it will do the job. Only caveat is that the replacement part needs to be new (so it has pre-applied solder balls) - otherwise you'd need to reball which a bit more diffic…

A bit like saying your car's engine is user replaceable. It is but it's wildly out of the skill set of most users.
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