Honestly looking around and kind of thinking Apple Silicon may not be the best choice for my next machine if I can more fully embrace the Linux life.
The Asus creator machines have a ton of potential, for example. For $100 more than the base model M3 MacBook Pro you can get a 16" OLED laptop with an RTX 4070 and an i9-13980HX.
That’s value you simply cannot find in the Apple market right now. No wonder sales are down.
@ernie you could also get a souped up MacBook Air too 🤷♀️
As someone who used Linux for almost a decade and switched to Mac a few years ago, I firmly believe the Mac proposition is better
Intel comes out with their new 10 trillion core whatever that runs hotter than ever. The laptop that supports it needs to be huge, and the build quality usually isn’t the best
When it comes to Linux or Windows something always doesn’t work just right. It’s so nice to not worry anymore
@Darriengineer I just don't think the value prop makes sense if you can't upgrade.
The price gouging just makes it not worth it at some point. And the ecosystem effects are really dangerous long term—SSDs die after all, and Apple has made machines where you can't replace them.
I float between ecosystems.
Really enjoying it — beautiful screen, pretty-good keyboard and touchpad, does everything I throw at it with ease (even intense audio editing tasks), light weight for its size, etc. And way cheaper than an Apple laptop with comparable specs.
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@MossRC Glad to hear that machine is good—it certainly looks promising.