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What killed Steve Jobs?

  • Pancreatic Cancer

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I am about to pull the trigger on a 13 inch M3 Air. Wife needs a computer and we have been using facetime a lot with relatives so it seems like a decent machine.

I feel a bit dirty but I cant find a single windows laptop I like at the moment.
 
Almighty Space Duck said:
@CHARizard Any reason you want the 13 over the 15? Dinky laptops can be a pain.
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Current is a X1 Carbon 2017, which is 14 inches. I looked it up and the size difference is negligible.

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I prefer the MBP 14inch but I cant justify that things price for something like a screen size.
 
CHARizard said:
Current is a X1 Carbon 2017, which is 14 inches. I looked it up and the size difference is negligible.

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I prefer the MBP 14inch but I cant justify that things price for something like a screen size.
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Fair enough. Be sure to get the 16GB RAM upgrade, even if it’s a Facebook chariot the extra 8GB makes the world of difference. And it’s not like you can add more down the line.

Storage isn’t much of an issue as decent 1TB+ externals aren’t hard to find. Plus there’s the whole iCloud offload thing.
 
Almighty Space Duck said:
Fair enough. Be sure to get the 16GB RAM upgrade, even if it’s a Facebook chariot the extra 8GB makes the world of difference. And it’s not like you can add more down the line.
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Yeah aiming for 16gb memory and 512gb storage.

Still on the fence about m2 vs m3. Used market for M2 is a few hundred cheaper on ebay, but the M2 has this thing with external displays where it can only do 1 as opposed to 2 with the M3.

Pricing is kinda insane but I am due for a new laptop anyways. Would love another X1 (this one has taken a real beating the last 8 years) but the pricing is about the same and we both are pretty integrated into the Apple ecosystem so it makes sense to just transition over to OSX.
 
CHARizard said:
Yeah aiming for 16gb memory and 512gb storage.

Still on the fence about m2 vs m3. Used market for M2 is a few hundred cheaper on ebay, but the M2 has this thing with external displays where it can only do 1 as opposed to 2 with the M3.

Pricing is kinda insane but I am due for a new laptop anyways. Would love another X1 (this one has taken a real beating the last 8 years) but the pricing is about the same and we both are pretty integrated into the Apple ecosystem so it makes sense to just transition over to OSX.
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I’d be inclined to go for the M3 for the better CPU performance. On my Mac mini M1 those efficiency cores do most of the work when web browsing/emails etc so having those be more performant would be nice.
 
I was initially worried about storage but looking at my current usage I think 512gb is fine. All of my media is offloaded to my server, and all my games are on my desktop.

I have 3 TB on my current laptop and am only using 500gb of it, and thats because I havnt organized it in over a year.
 
It’s hilarious how people will complain about Apple and then buy some spyware Google shit.

I don’t like Macintosh ever since they went to OS X (Classic was brilliant, but I understand how it wasn’t sustainable), but iPhones have great battery life and life of support. I don’t need to do power user tasks on a phone (I don’t even have the eyesight and physical dexterity to work on a phone all day these days). It’s worth the extra cost because the phone will last years. Apple provides updates for old phones for many, many years.
 
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CHARizard said:
I am about to pull the trigger on a 13 inch M3 Air. Wife needs a computer and we have been using facetime a lot with relatives so it seems like a decent machine.

I feel a bit dirty but I cant find a single windows laptop I like at the moment.
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I generally have found the Air to be underpowered and overpriced. That said they're pretty.
Almighty Space Duck said:
@CHARizard Any reason you want the 13 over the 15? Dinky laptops can be a pain.
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I generally think the opposite and the larger the screen, the more likely it is on an exponential scale to break either from inherent defects or even ordinary use. Also you're paying a lot with Apple for just a 15 over a 13. If I'm going to put that kind of money into an already expensive device it's going to be into storage or RAM.
George Lucas said:
It’s hilarious how people will complain about Apple and then buy some spyware Google shit.

I don’t like Macintosh ever since they went to OS X (Classic was brilliant, but I understand how it wasn’t sustainable), but iPhones have great battery life and lifetime support.
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OS X was actually what brought me back to Apple because I had been nearly exclusively using a NeXTcube for a couple years when it came out, and its kernel was a direct descendant of the kernel in NeXTSTEP.
 
AnOminous said:
I generally have found the Air to be underpowered and overpriced. That said they're pretty.
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Overpriced, yes I fully agree, thats all Apple products really.

Underpowered, from what I have seen online it seems to be exactly what I want from an ultrabook. If it falters in any of the menial tasks my family will put it through I wont hesitate to return it. At the prices Apple charges, if I am not 100% satisfied I just wont deal with it.
 
Aero the Alcoholic Bat said:
I was talking brand-new phones, not 3-4 year old phones.
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Usually for flagship stuff like Google pixel, yes. But like, I'm using a Pixel 3, a phone from 2018, and through a custom kernel, I am on Android 14 and have the latest security updates, despite Google not supporting it since Android 12. It likely runs better than a new midrange phone made by Samsung because they now come with so much shovelware it bogs down the phone.

Again, a perfectly usable phone with the latest security updates for like $50.
 
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CHARizard said:
Still on the fence about m2 vs m3. Used market for M2 is a few hundred cheaper on ebay, but the M2 has this thing with external displays where it can only do 1 as opposed to 2 with the M3.
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something is getting a software upgrade to add that capability not sure if it's the M2 or M3 MBP? I only skimmed the article I read as running 2 displays only happens with the lid closed so yeah that's a big fuck that to it.
if you can afford it go the M3 now not much point buying old tech unless it's from Apple refurbished with maxed ram & storage
15" is supposedly better at cooling since it's bigger I dunno how solid that info is
 
CHARizard said:
Overpriced, yes I fully agree, thats all Apple products really.

Underpowered, from what I have seen online it seems to be exactly what I want from an ultrabook. If it falters in any of the menial tasks my family will put it through I wont hesitate to return it. At the prices Apple charges, if I am not 100% satisfied I just wont deal with it.
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Isn't it practically a meme to use PC parts picker or something else to figure out how to build a computer, even laptop, that's more powerful than an equivalent mac computer at a fraction of the cost?
 
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