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Intel’s secret Macbook Pro KILLER…

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Since when does Intel make their own laptops!? And why did they wait so long? Because their collaboration with XPG, the Xenia Xe, may just be a Macbook killer...

 

 

 

Buy XPG Xenia Xe Lifestyle Gaming Notebook: (Not actually available yet so... you can shop for... other stuff heh)

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Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

Procedure to make one:

1. Buy a MacBook 2019

2. Change the keyboard and logo

3. Change the OS

4. Sell it as a new laptop

 

Boom, done!

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Never going to be a "killer" because apple operates in a different space than Wintel. Even more so now that they've moved to their own silicon.

It might be a better deal, but if you are firmly invested in the Apple ecosphere, short of Intel giving this laptop away for free, very little with cause you to change.

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2 hours ago, sounds said:

I didn't see anything in the video talking about the keyboard and trackpad. Isn't that usually where these laptops fall flat on their face, compared to an Apple device?

Well trackpad, yes. Keyboard, definitely not.

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When you find an Intel laptop worth a damn, and it just isn't available anywhere...

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That's what I get for lumping "what did Linus review?" in with "what falls flat on its face compared to Apple?"

 

Keyboard: Linus did not review it. Apple keyboards have been worse than your usual laptop keyboard.

 

Trackpad: Linus did not review it. Apple trackpads are pretty good, and your usual laptop trackpad falls flat on its face in comparison.

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I don't get it. It seems like Intel can't cope with the hassles of manufacturing laptops or they just don't wanna get into this market.

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Looks like 16:9 1080p IPS screen. Not tall enough for me. Otherwise i like the design and thundebolt eGPU upgradability. 

 https://www.amazon.com/ask/questions/Tx1CVKAJHZQRNWB?_encoding=UTF8&sort=helpful&ref_=pe_623860_70668520_ans_notf_saa_aas   

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9 hours ago, sounds said:

Apple keyboards have been worse than your usual laptop keyboard.

The newer generation of keyboards on mac laptops are in fact very good after apple got rid of the butterfly when went back to the magic keyboard. 

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People keep forgetting (or intentionally ignoring) the Apple magic is not in hardware only. If iPhone hardware was just running Android it would be about as shit as all the other high end Android phones. And same goes for laptops. If M1 was just another laptop running Windows (or Linux for that matter) badly on ARM chipset, it would be just another ARM laptop that people totally wouldn't recommend. Yet with MacOS it's just "magical" despite whatever limitations they have. But it's this custom hardware+software configuration that brings that magic.

 

In smartphones, it's almost magical updating and because it's their phones only they release updates to all devices at once, keep them updated for far longer than any Android device and because iOS is specifically coded for their devices it's super optimized to near console level of optimizations.

 

Android phones have these super fast chipsets, 3x RAM capacity, massive batteries, awesome cameras and seamless high res displays with fancy workarounds like popup/flip cameras and whatnot to achieve that and all of this is almost irrelevant because you'll end up running inferior generic OS intended for all phone makers (same issue as Windows), waiting for months to get the updates after Google releases new version and even when you're due for updates, you'll be waiting for months to get it and even when it's the D day they spread it up to 4 weeks. I hated this so hard on ALL Android phones. And what I hated even more was crappy short term software support. Just when Android delivered some cool fancy feature, my phones got dropped from updating cycle. Freaking always. So, if I wanted a simple god damn software feature, I had to buy another 800€ something phone. Fuck you Android phone makers. And while Apple laptops don't have such massive benefit on software side because Windows laptops also get timely updates with Windows unlike Android's nonsense, it's still specific coded and optimized OS and that certainly gives benefits, if not anything else, in terms of efficiency. Which is showcased by insane battery life which is for sure not a M1 thing only. You can run OS like a pig on super efficient silicon and it'll last just few hours. Also, anyone remembers instant-on feature of M1 laptops? Apple has been known to have standby and sleep modes super optimized where devices can just sit unused for ages. What Windows or Android device can do that?

 

It's why some of us prefer Apple over anything else even if it's inferior on paper. It's the whole package that matters. Anthony said that well in his Librem 5 phone preview and why he prefers iPhone even though he's the sort of guy who tinkers with really weird stuff regularly and it presents no challenge to him. It's the same reason why most iPhone users picked iPhone. It. Just. Works. We just don't care for stupid specs on paper. It's whether it displays nice image. Irrelevant of resolution or whatever. Does it snap amazing photos? Irrelevant of 20 cameras and billion megapixels. Does it last long despite having pathetic battery on paper? Apple devices have all this. But its shamers always point finger at specs which are always of hardware nature.  And then they look at software and say "uh oh it can't do that one or two things so it's terrible". Just no, it's not how any of it works. WHOLE PACKAGE. That's what's important. Just software or just hardware will never make an impact it's required to "win". Both together can however. And Apple is one of rare if not the only vendor in the world that can and is already pulling it off. Intel would have to start making their own software from OS up and with Microsoft, they'd have to start making hardware from CPU up to achieve that. And I find both very unlikely entirely.

 

So, comparing this laptop to anything Mac is pointless as it'll never live up to its name. Visual design of chassis, sure, but everything else it just never will happen. You can only compare it to other Windows or even Linux laptops. And there, it seems pretty capable. Although 1300-1500€ laptops are just too much if you ask me and I'd buy one only if I was earning money with it.

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I prefer my Huawei Matebook bruh!

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Apple A4 - Apple iPod touch (4th generation)
Apple A5 - Apple iPod touch (5th generation)
Apple A9 - Apple iPhone 6s Plus
HiSilicon Kirin 810 (T.S.M.C. 7nm) - Huawei P40 Lite / Huawei nova 7i
Mediatek MT2601 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - TicWatch E
Mediatek MT6580 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - TECNO Spark 2 (1GB RAM)
Mediatek MT6592M (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone my32 (orange)
Mediatek MT6592M (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone my32 (yellow)
Mediatek MT6735 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - HMD Nokia 3 Dual SIM
Mediatek MT6737 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - Cherry Mobile Flare S6
Mediatek MT6739 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone myX8 (blue)
Mediatek MT6739 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - my|phone myX8 (gold)
Mediatek MT6750 (T.S.M.C 28nm) - honor 6C Pro / honor V9 Play
Mediatek MT6765 (T.S.M.C 12nm) - TECNO Pouvoir 3 Plus
Mediatek MT6797D (T.S.M.C 20nm) - my|phone Brown Tab 1
Qualcomm MSM8926 (T.S.M.C. 28nm) - Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE
Qualcomm MSM8974AA (T.S.M.C. 28nm) - Blackberry Passport
Qualcomm SDM710 (Samsung 10nm) - Oppo Realme 3 Pro

 

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I prefer my Fujitsu laptop with a socketed CPU,4 USB 3 ports,2 USB 2 ports,SD card slot,Express card slot,a CD drive,replaceable keyboard,replaceable battery (made of standard AAA rechargeable batteries),and a dedicated NVIDIA GPU that is not bad.

I currently have a 2 cores 4 threads 3.2GHz Core i5 in there,but i plan to upgrade to a 4 cores 8 threads i7.

 

My Laptop sounds like a monster but that used to be the standard.

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