Apple M1, and generally laptops

[non_compos_mentis]

2 hours ago, Vitamanic said:

What's the issue here? You're able to spec MacBook Pros up to 64GB of memory if you really want to with 8 core i9 chips. M1 based models replaced the budget models and once they expand Apple Silicon to the higher end models they will also have options with high memory capacity.

Issue is the focus on battery life, and using most of available space for batteries while other things could get better but they don't. For a person like me, it's the least important part of laptop. It doesn't matter if it's any other mac. They all have the same approach.

M1 is an additional disappointment because with the hardware being 2x more efficient they still left the battery same size instead of shrinking it and using the space for other components.

[dizmo]

56 minutes ago, non_compos_mentis said:

I have work macbook pro and private one. All the people I work with have the same. Companies mostly buy macbooks in bulks for their developers and developers mostly buy macks, for a myriad of reasons. All the devs I know and all I spoke to share my thoughts here - the only reason they have mac is because they need to sometimes take it with them (both work and private ones) and they don't really care about battery life - they care about performance and memory.

 

I understand that this isn't the main target for apple, but this isn't a niche - not by a long shot (especially nowadays, with covid, where people need to bring their work computers home and very often work few days a week from office and the rest from home).

Even if every single dev in the US had a Macbook, that's 1.4 million people. They sell something like 20 million+ Macs a year. Do the math.

It's simple numbers. If there was that much of a demand, they'd have supplied it.

[Lord Vile]

On 11/17/2020 at 9:09 AM, non_compos_mentis said:

Issue is the focus on battery life, and using most of available space for batteries while other things could get better but they don't. For a person like me, it's the least important part of laptop. It doesn't matter if it's any other mac. They all have the same approach.

M1 is an additional disappointment because with the hardware being 2x more efficient they still left the battery same size instead of shrinking it and using the space for other components.

What other components would they have put in it exactly?

[sora.sky]

Very, very few people would buy a portable computing device that requires constant wall power. Sorry, but your desire is a niche among a niche.

If you suggested your ideal product to a major computer company like Apple, Dell, HP, you'd get laughed out of the room.

 

People and companies buy laptops for the portability, which means being able to run it off a battery

[pilot35]

You're using it wrong. You should only be using it for Facebook, like 99% of Macbook users