Ashley MLP Fangirl

uhh no. there is a very real pattern. for example, whenever they mention thermals they mention MacBooks, but ZenBooks are just as bad if you put an i9 in them. as are most other laptops that aren't thicc gaming laptops. 
 
when you are a reviewer you can't factor preference into things. that's not how it works. 

source : The verge
 
I'm surprised the app store and apple music wasn't available in these countries in the first place 

I stand corrected. I apologise for assuming, I'll try not to in the future. 

I stand corrected. I apologise for assuming, I'll try not to in the future. 

I stand corrected. I apologise for assuming, I'll try not to in the future. 

100c is the limit that intel sets, not that apple sets. again, your problem is with intel, not apple. 
 
if the cpu runs at base clock at 100c, it's within intel's spec. 

Apple doesn't determine base clock, intel does. apple doesn't decide tdp is based on base clock, intel does. a cpu throttles if it goes below base clock, not below boost clock. your problem is with intel here, not apple. 

evidence of this?
 
regardless of the reason they do it, they do it. no other manufacturer does, at least that I'm aware of. with others it's warranty or pay up for repairs. 

I didn't read the thread so please forgive me if I am saying something that has already been said. These are my own personal thoughts and experiences and nothing more. I personally own and use on a consistent basis many apple and many non-apple devices. In my opinion, though legitimately flawed in design and needing to be changed, aside from the butterfly keyboard, most of the reliability issues with macbooks are seen as so serious because they are in the spotlight. Everyone is focusing on these devices, and their flaws have been made more public. The picture gets painted that the macbook is unreliable, whereas windows laptops are reliable, and in my experience, I have experienced similar flaws on both machines. No machine is without flaws, and apple's just seem to get published much more. MBA cooling is a horrible design that should be changed but for most people it isn't a large worry. Prices are high, but the products are also premium products that warrant a high price for their build (to this day I have never found a laptop that feels as good as a MBP). This is mostly a rant at this point, but can't we all just let people continue to use what works best for them without judging them for it? 

reviewers conveniently ignore it when they wanna bash apple

ltt: gaming desks are stupid. 
 
also ltt: builds gaming desk.

LTT themselves are usually pretty fair to Apple, even if they seem anti-Apple at times to be hip with a massive portion of the enthusiast community. Fact is a massive portion of the PCMR really hates Apple, and LTT caters to that audience. In the mobile tech enthusiast space you still see a lot of people who decry iPhones, but a lot of people really love them. In the end it's the typical fanboy thing that tends to happen, you see it in all the Intel vs AMD wars and such too. Not really way to stop it, but it does get tiring when people insist they're objective while subjectively setting the requirements for a "good" device, then refusing to acknowledge that other people subjectively decide other criteria matter more. 

I use Apple stuff for work, Windows doesn't go well with my workflow, and Linux cannot do what I need without more hassle than it's worth. I use iOS on mobile because it works well with my Macs and I prefer the OS to Android for very specific reasons (I like the keyboard and how it handles notifications better, for quick shots I prefer Apple's camera app). I use Windows at home, Linux and Mac cannot run my games and/or don't support my hardware. I prefer Intel because I have a specific set of wants most other people don't share, so Ryzen isn't fun for me. I'm leaning towards Nvidia because my personal experience with recent AMD cards hasn't been too great. 

These are all subjective and specific to me. A lot of people don't want to recognize personal preference, while loudly advocating for value to be decided solely by the metric they personally prefer. 
 
The MacBook Air cooler is objectively terrible if you're regularly running all-core load. I have two on the way for work, I'll be able to see how they actually behave under normal office load. 

MacBook Pros aren't regularly hitting 100C, the base model quads will go up to 97C then hold there at 2.7Ghz, much higher than the 1.4Ghz base clock, so that's a moot point. Under normal office work they sit at around 40-50C. 

ltt: gaming desks are stupid. 
 
also ltt: builds gaming desk.

I think the world would be a better place if adults were required to comprehend the difference between objective fact and subjective opinion.
 
Objectively, Apple is a great company. They're the most successful business in history, worth more than any other on the planet. Fundamentally poor businesses with poor products cannot achieve this unless there is a monopolistic aspect to the sector, which there certainly is not.
 
Subjectively, Apple may be an awful company with terrible products for you. While this is objective fact for you, you can't conflate that with the rest of the population and ignore the aforementioned objective fact that they are wildly successful and well received in comparison to the rest of the industry.
 
This post was brought to you by someone who currently doesn't own a single Apple product.

Round pegs suck because they don't fit in square holes
 
Notebooks for productivity/portability ≠ gaming/streaming machines

It's your own fault if you got a Macbook and expected it to be a gaming machine. 

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065

command and R, then do a wipe and fresh install

reinstall... 

uhh no. there is a very real pattern. for example, whenever they mention thermals they mention MacBooks, but ZenBooks are just as bad if you put an i9 in them. as are most other laptops that aren't thicc gaming laptops. 
 
when you are a reviewer you can't factor preference into things. that's not how it works. 

So I'm watching the short-circuit episode on the new MacBook Air, and I'm 1 minute in and Alex already says something that's just not true. 
 
he goes on about how you can't multitask with a dual-core and that screen recording is a pain. so, I figured I'd debunk those things. I often have more than 10 tabs open, sometimes more than 20 in Safari, and other than getting some messages of pages reloading because I only have 8gb of ram, my 2017 dual-core MacBook Pro feels fluid still, desktop animations look smooth, and it's in general not a bad experience. 
 
now, about screen recording. I was watching the video with a bunch of other stuff open (check my Dock in the video below) and I thought I'd just debunk what he said right there, so I paused the video, didn't close any apps and just started recording. 
 
if you watch the video, you can see my cpu was fine, when I opened About This Mac you can see it spike a bit, but otherwise totally fine. keep in mind I have a web browser open with this forum and YouTube, discord and some other stuff that you can see in the Dock. 
 
now full disclosure, I did open this video in Handbrake and converted it to MP4 because it was 22mb, 2mb over the size limit, but I didn't do any sort of editing. 

dualcore.mp4    
LMG, next time proof-read your scripts because this was just straight up misinformation. 

Or is she so accustomed to it's slowness and laginess that she doesn't think otherwise? Like if you gave her a slight bump in specs she'd probably think it was the best thing since sliced bread. Just a thought.

So I'm watching the short-circuit episode on the new MacBook Air, and I'm 1 minute in and Alex already says something that's just not true. 
 
he goes on about how you can't multitask with a dual-core and that screen recording is a pain. so, I figured I'd debunk those things. I often have more than 10 tabs open, sometimes more than 20 in Safari, and other than getting some messages of pages reloading because I only have 8gb of ram, my 2017 dual-core MacBook Pro feels fluid still, desktop animations look smooth, and it's in general not a bad experience. 
 
now, about screen recording. I was watching the video with a bunch of other stuff open (check my Dock in the video below) and I thought I'd just debunk what he said right there, so I paused the video, didn't close any apps and just started recording. 
 
if you watch the video, you can see my cpu was fine, when I opened About This Mac you can see it spike a bit, but otherwise totally fine. keep in mind I have a web browser open with this forum and YouTube, discord and some other stuff that you can see in the Dock. 
 
now full disclosure, I did open this video in Handbrake and converted it to MP4 because it was 22mb, 2mb over the size limit, but I didn't do any sort of editing. 

dualcore.mp4    
LMG, next time proof-read your scripts because this was just straight up misinformation. 

Relying on mobile data for internet tends to leave a hefty backlog of updates. I moved to a 15 GB/month plan (tethered), though my systems are far enough behind that I’ll need to go to someone else’s place to download new Windows image files.
 
With Windows Update not eating cpu power though, idle utilization on even an Atom is quite low (keeping in mind Silvermont has substantially less IPC than C2D). If it’s not some background task eating cpu power, then Windows Update is the only thing I know of that would put the screws to a dual core (assuming the system is for office tasks and not gaming or workstation use). 
 
 

my favorite is the start menu not popping up and the shutdown thing in start not working at all.