That’s true. I have a MacBook as well (M1, gift from a couple of years ago) and I don’t use it. Okay it’s fast, but what I do on a laptop doesn’t need that power at all. Battery life is very valid (which is a problem with my old ThinkPad), but with Framework catching up, it’s less of an argument in the future.
And I honestly don’t feel much of a difference when using my MacBook compared to my ThinkPad in terms of performance (and my ThinkPad has 2 cores and 4 threads mind you), but I mostly just browse and do C programming (I know that there is a massive difference in power, I just don’t need it in day to day use). For everything that needs a lot power I use my desktop computer.
In the end it just comes down to priorities I suppose. For me personally, privacy has become one of the most important concerns because I think it’s fucked up how much companies are allowed to know about us individually, and I don’t want them to keep getting information about me.
No battery life, no ARM processor, no retina display, no broken glass design and no other gimmick I don’t really need can justify what they are doing, at least in my opinion. I‘d rather need to inconveniently charge my laptop every 2 hours because the battery is dead then to have some company know more about myself then I do.
That’s true. I have a MacBook as well (M1, gift from a couple of years ago) and I don’t use it. Okay it’s fast, but what I do on a laptop doesn’t need that power at all. Battery life is very valid (which is a problem with my old ThinkPad), but with Framework catching up, it’s less of an argument in the future.
And I honestly don’t feel much of a difference when using my MacBook compared to my ThinkPad in terms of performance (and my ThinkPad has 2 cores and 4 threads mind you), but I mostly just browse and do C programming (I know that there is a massive difference in power, I just don’t need it in day to day use). For everything that needs a lot power I use my desktop computer.
In the end it just comes down to priorities I suppose. For me personally, privacy has become one of the most important concerns because I think it’s fucked up how much companies are allowed to know about us individually, and I don’t want them to keep getting information about me.
No battery life, no ARM processor, no retina display, no broken glass design and no other gimmick I don’t really need can justify what they are doing, at least in my opinion. I‘d rather need to inconveniently charge my laptop every 2 hours because the battery is dead then to have some company know more about myself then I do.