wickedpotus wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 7:42 pmThis!!
Why pay upwards of 3-4000 USD for an "M1 Max" laptop if your use case is something you can do just as well on a cheap tablet, phone, or netbook for less money and with even greater battery stamina?
I like to have a laptop powerful enough to game, analyze, develop, build and test on (and maybe even do so NN training), that is open and flexible (for example to plug in an external GPU, add some extra RAM or bigger SSD for example). I don't see the attractive proposition of paying a premium for a slower less capable computer. This is not "Apple hate" this is just common sense in my view.
For most people, a Chromebook would be ideal: when work is done, flip back the keyboard and use it as a tablet computer! Touch screen an easy way to play chess. Long battery life when you go out. Usually cheaper to buy than a Windows laptop. Starts up quickly (unlike Windows after it has been used for a while), is relatively secure. For meetings you've got Zoom/Teams, just like any other computer.
We can talk about how you actually CAN do things people assume that you cannot (yes - there is video editing software - but if you do that professionally you'd probably choose a different computer). There are ways to run Windows/Linux programs, for example, but most of the time you just don't need to. Increasingly, software is becoming device agnostic (especially now browsers have WebAssembly (WASM), which allows you to run compiled code in the browser), so increasingly it makes sense to buy the cheap device which starts quickly, on which the keyboard can flip all the way around allowing you to use it as a tablet computer, and which has a long battery life.
Or you can...
1. Choose GeekBench/NPS scores
2. Swallow Microsoft's subtle propaganda that you need Windows. You don't. You're free to move on from perennial Windows sluggishness!
That sort of sums up my view of ceritain fanvboys