Comment by FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today on Anon plays Metro 2033

Ha, dude bought a macbook at the end. Scammed twice in one Greentext.

Yeah, now he can work all day on battery instead of having to carry around a charger because the shitty ass laptop is out of battery in 2 hours somehow, depite being much slower than the macbook

If you wanted this, you don’t need a dam apple laptop, but at the same time, the closest competitor is the new snapdragon laptops that are closer to having up to a week of battery life. Also, they are capable of running more than you can on an apple machine, albeit it is early progress in proper x86 emulation, and more productivity programs are starting to support it.

So, no, you are NOT forced to make a decision to get a MacBook and the price gouging you experience.

Even then, picking a device for your use case is extremely important. I know many people who can survive with lower powered devices as they only use it for web browsing or documents like Excel or Word. Which an apple device would work well for but seriously is complete overkill and overpriced for.

I can buy what I want mate. But thanks for the unnecessary info dump

Wow your comprehension on this subject is just profound. Really really clever. Your parents must be so proud. Their little guy, simping for a big powerful corporation.

Go read up on the subject

I don’t care about the corporation, if microsoft was making the M2 microsoft book I would buy that, problem is, nothing in my experience is close enough to the macbooks, I wish it was, I would have loved to save some money.

I will buy framework if they start selling in my country by the time I need a new notebook.

word on the street is that you should try linux, it’s pretty good.

Lol, you really think I dont use linux?

statistically, it’s pretty likely that you don’t so… It was a safe bet.

I’ve never met an Applesexual before.

Never met a peach sexual before

I have. My boomer dad.

Cheerleading for brands is cringe

Yeah, it’s not a brand man. That’s part of what makes it great. A brand is something created to profit off of, which always ends up worse for the end user. Linux is not there to make profit. It’s whole purpose of existing is to serve the user.

From the wiki (emphasis mine): A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller’s good or service from those of other sellers.

What are they selling? It’s free. It’s not being sold.

Espousing this cooler-than-thou nonsense about a non-brand is at least as cringe as jocking a brand

linux isn’t a brand though, it’s a lifestyle and a religion if you go far enough.

This is honestly one of the most insulting things I’ve ever heard said about Linux users, and it’s so accurate.

its not insulting, just true. The insulting part is assuming that this is a bad thing :)

Idk if this is a joke but Linux is not a brand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mark_Institute

Technically, yes it is. It’s a registered trademark at the very least.

Stating facts is cheerleading?

Facts about why you should pay more to an unethical company for a use case that doesn’t exist smells like a sales pitch to me.

Where are you going to work on your computer for 16 hours straight without access to a wall outlet?

Uh, work? Sometimes I’m in meetings all day in different rooms at my company, and I really don’t like bringing my charger around. So that’s 8 hours, and I’ll be running a lot of stuff in the background, which absolutely drains my battery life.

I also like using my laptop at airports when traveling, and finding a charger can be a royal pain. I’ve had multiple occasions when my laptop battery died and I just couldn’t use it, and I get something like 3 hours battery life (which is pretty decent for a laptop).

I also WFH 3x/week, so it’s not uncommon for me to work from the couch or walk around the house when on boring calls all day.

I’m plugged in most of the time most days, but exceptions do happen, and it’s nice to not have to worry about battery life. I hope this anecdote helps.

Oh! Oh ho no, boohoo! Mr. Double-Shift-Back-to-Back isn’t able to carry a charger to use at the 176 outlets in his building.

Sounds like you don’t need a good PC, you need a union.

Ah yes, unethical company, as opposed to an Ethical company like who? Asus who was just caught overcharging their customers on RMAs?

HP? The most evil printer manufacturer on the planet?

Keep in mind my first choice, Framework did not sell in my country at the time, still might not.

Not having to have battery anxiety is not a sales pitch, it’s just good stuff, if you’d have a software developer job, you could maybe understand

And you also just betrayed this whole anti-apple shebang thats going on here, it’s about the money innit? If you can’t afford it, you need to come up with nonsensical reasons why apple bad, don’t worry, I used to do that too.

Lmao yessir Ima so poora can’t afford a machine that forces obsolescence every few years, made in a sweatshop, not allowed to repair, made a deal with ARM to kill off competition, walled garden designed, lobbies the governments, takes a picture of you every few seconds, preferred by the CCP machine.

Oh gosh if only I could afford a new machine every 3 years from Apple but it costs approximately $70 per month oh no so expensive ohmagod how can we mere peasants?

Listen dude you’re paying more to save a negligible amount on power, have a battery that lasts slightly longer than the competitors and much longer than anybody will ever need it to, and suffer much worse customer service. And you think its a status symbol or sign of wealth? You got scammed.

Just saying, if you had spent as much on a laptop as you did on a MacBook, you would get a full work days of battery.

It’s the same failure point apple fans have about Android. Yeah there are cheap androids. They suck, but also they cost$100-$200 new. What’s apples offering in that price range?

Lol, nope, you are deluding yourself.

Look at its main competitor the dell xps,

https://www.reddit.com/r/DellXPS/comments/12kk5to/xps_15_9520_6_month_review_issues/

I have done a full 8 hours of work on my Dell Latitude 5440 before on battery. I put it in bat saver and it lasted me the whole work day.

But I re cognize something: why would I need to do that?

I sat a desk or my couch all day both of which had a convenient outlet. There was no point in doing that all on bat. Yeah it’s impressive to have a crazy long battery life and is why I wanta MacBook for coffee shop coding days, but again, there’s almost guaranteed to be convenient outlets and I own a 145Watt battery bank if needed. Thus my $150 ThinkPad E495 has been reaching 16+ hours of use without needing a wall wart.

Maybe your use case is different but mine where I’m certainly going to be stationary enough to use a plug or a battery bank means I can’t justify the apple tax. Plenty of people have done this calculation hence why Apple still doesn’t have an appreciable enterprise market share let alone a competitive one.

Realistically with the new apple M-series stuff this is just not the case. The battery life is absolutely nuts. Especially compared to high end Linux laptops.

Source: forced to use apple for work

It’s insane. I really want one for that reason, but ThinkPad with a ugreen 145 Watt battery bank gives me 16 hours of use. That’s all waking hours.

It’s hard to justify spending 3x as much on a single laptop just for that kind of battery life.

the battery life of machines with hot swapable batteries is arguably better considering you can hot swap them forever. And with more modern hardware, they’re a lot more power efficient so you could get a ton of work done on a handful of batts

source: i understand how hardware works.

The new Snapdragon laptops are getting 15h+ of battery life, which is a couple of hours less than the new Macs (macs have bigger batteries) in the same benchmarks. The next gen Ryzen AI 300 Omnibook is said to have 20h+… but why do people want so much out of their battery? I’ve only used laptops for work and I can’t remember being more than a couple of hours at a time outside a dock.

I’m actually pretty happy with my ~$200 Motorola G32.

Oh wow thats so cool, Apple should introduce a way to trade in vital organs to make it more accessible to people of your capacity.

Not cool, just basic useability

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