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Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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fritzo wrote: post #800
silverlake wrote: post #71

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The weight of the 13" Air vs 15" Air vs 14" Pro is 2.7 > 3.3 > 3.4 lbs. For developers who do development on remote machines, weight and form factor are more important. I would pay top dollar for a 12" Macbook with M processor because I do my focused editing on a big screen. Other people use their laptop for everything so a 15" screen is preferred. Also, different strokes for different folks.

> For developers who do development on remote machines Gosh having started program on 286s in the 1980s, my M1 air feels blazingly opulently fast. What sort of local development are people doing that requires heavier compute than an M1 air, but doesn't require a full on cluster?

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Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by jhatemyjob »

jcadam wrote: post #450

Finding a laptop that runs Linux natively and acceptably is always a challenge. My Dell XPS 9315 touts linux support, but only with an older version of Ubuntu using custom drivers (as I discovered after purchasing it). So I've got manjaro running that took quite a bit of coaxing - though the built-in webcam has never, and probably will never work with any linux other than Ubuntu 20.04, and the APM has always been ext…

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Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by gxs »

skyyler wrote: post #60
gxs wrote: post #39

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This is far from a "genuine" question. It's easy to deduce that it's a big deal for macbook air users because it wasn't possible before. It's easy to deduce both from the article and from other comments here, which presumably you read if you're going through the trouble of responding to someone else's comment. I typically despise this type of question, where you're obviously trying to make a point but playing dumb an…

It seems like their question struck a nerve. Did you really feel it necessary to bring up hot political issues to explain why it's interesting that the new apple laptops can drive two external displays? Just for clarity, it's so far from novel in the world of windows laptops that it's genuinely confusing why that would be an advertised feature.

No, not every stern response you see online means it “struck a nerve”.

I must have struck a nerve with you after my objection to the format of the question.

My only mistake here was not saying those were oversimplified made up examples, thought it was obvious but apparently not.

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by hnfong »

skybrian wrote: post #986
hnfong wrote: post #973

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Using M1/2/3 Max for LLM inference isn't at all "speculative", it's a thing today and high end Apple Silicon being an option for LLM inference is becoming general knowledge among the local inference community. The original author of llama.cpp (one of the leading LLM inference projects) developed it on a Mac and it has full Metal acceleration support. The $20/month subscription is going to give you access to commercia…

Okay, but this is rather low-level. Most users aren’t going to care about “running an LLM.” They want to ask an AI chatbot questions or get code autocompletion or something like that. What applications are there that need a local LLM and who is using them? What do they do with them? Personally, I’m reasonably happy with GPT4 and Github Copilot, and I’ve sometimes used Midjourney, though I cancelled my subscription si…

If you're happy with the commercial offerings there isn't a very compelling reason to use local models. The local ones are not "better" in general. But sometimes people have reasons to use local models, eg. privacy, customization, control, etc.

I personally use it mostly to keep tabs on the latest models released on huggingface. There has been a lot of interesting developments since last year, and models have become more and more powerful.

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by SamuelAdams »

skydhash wrote: post #828
nine_k wrote: post #809

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Good that it works for you and your daughter! I have to use macbooks at work, and they do bother me. The mirror-finish screen always reflects bright lights into my eyes, be it a window or a ceiling light at a distance. The OS is thankfully a certified Unix, but the GUI, while having a few brilliant features, also has warts like no way to align or snap windows, apps running without a window, with only a menu bar, with…

> This continues for many years, so it's likely a design principle. I read that Apple follows a document model, where the application is kinda a background thing a window is supposed to be for a specific task. Not like Windows where the main windows is the hub of interaction. So you use CMD + to switch between these tasks and CMD + TAB for switching between applications. The menu bar is part of the application, but w…

You can also use AltTab if you prefer windows tab styles.

https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by dml2135 »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #963
dml2135 wrote: post #212

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I have an M2 13" air for a personal computer and a 14" pro for work. The Air is noticeably lighter and much easier to throw in a bag without thinking about managing weight. The Pro is a fine weight for commuting, but for traveling longer distances, the weight definitely makes a difference. To the point where I'm seriously considering setting up a work partition on my personal machine so I don't need to lug the pro ar…

If a seventh of a pound is the straw that breaks the camels back there are larger problems than the macbooks weight

Well, a macbook is not the only thing in my bag. If you want to keep down the weight of your pack, you shave off the ounces where you can.

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by bowsamic »

fennecbutt wrote: post #967
bowsamic wrote: post #373

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> Edit: Weight class and weight-of-laptop are not the same thing. I don't know how to explain the idiom "weight class" so that the more... literal-minded Hacker News commenters will understand what I mean, but let's start there. Just don't ever use a metaphor on Hacker News. People will always misinterpret it

People don't think about sports or boxing etc in the context of talking about laptops, and some people here speak English as a second or third or more language. But no, let's be snarky about HN peeps being literal and misinterpreting things.

I agree, let’s do that. Thanks for saying it

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by ksec »

anakaine wrote: post #468
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #457

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I finally made the switch to Apple after being thoroughly frustrated with Windows laptops. It's not even close to a competition. Macbooks are just so far ahead of everyone else that you can't even compare them. Most Windows laptops have abysmal batteries, to the point that you can barely call them laptops. The trackpads are downright unusable. The keyboards are a hit or a miss. And for some reason, so many companies…

I'm one of those industry long timers who can and will use just about anything, and has occasionally over the years owned macs of various form factors. For the past decade thanks to corporate work I've been entirely Windows and Linux based. I picked my daughter up an m1 macbook air about a year ago. It was an absolute delight of a machine to use. Light weight, no fans, no hot bits during general usage, long battery l…

I really wish Apple would put 12GB RAM by default instead of 8GB. We now have high resolution that uses more memory and sharing Memory with GPU. In reality this is less than 8GB with Graphics Memory.

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by dodslaser »

askonomm wrote: post #511
dodslaser wrote: post #441

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I tried a DisplayLink dock once with my M1 Max MBP. It was incredibly laggy, pegged my cpu at 40%, and didn't let me set the correct resolution/scaling level for either of my monitors (horizontal 4k 32" and a vertical 4k 27", nothing exotic). A TB4 dock fixes most problems, but I have to hack the EDID to disable YCbCr and force RGB, or the colors look like absolute shit. The external monitors still look significantly…

> External display handling is easily the worst part of using a Mac for me. Using more than is explicitly mentioned that is supported, you mean? I mean yeah, duh.

An M1 Max MBP should, according to Apple, support up to 4 external displays.

Re: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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Post by Dah00n »

threeseed wrote: post #750
Dah00n wrote: post #626

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Depends. To me, software is the thing that will keep me from Apple products. IMO Linux and Android are light-years ahead and are becoming even further ahead every year.

> IMO Linux and Android are light-years ahead Linux on the Desktop has finally arrived !

It has always been there and it has always been better for some people. Nothing has changed. The day Linux on the desktop arrive, for the masses as meant in the meme, is the day Linux dies.
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