Ryan J. Shaw
@rjs
First time buying a computer in 15 years. Why do these two options have to cost the same? 😭 MBP 16" M3 Max / 14c CPU / 30c GPU / 96GB RAM / 2 TB SSD vs. MBP 16" M4 Pro / 14c CPU / 20c GPU / 48GB RAM / 2 TB SSD / much better screen in bright light apparently / 10-20% better battery life than above
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Drachetech11
@drachetech11
I’d go with the 486 with turbo button and a whopping 16gb ram, also splurge on the 16bit soundblaster card
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Ryan J. Shaw
@rjs
my days of SET BLASTER are done, man whole point of buying an MBP is I just want stuff to work, and happy to pay a premium not to ever worry about it ever again won't lie though, the Wintel laptops at half the price and 2x the power are super appealing...
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Drachetech11
@drachetech11
Well I’ve been super happy with my ASUS gaming laptop. MBP work fantastic but that premium I’m not willing to pay any more.
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Ryan J. Shaw
@rjs
I just run into so much open source software I want to use where Windows is an after thought, and Mac/Linux are 1st class. Then there's W11 with all the advertising and built-in spyware which makes me nauseous, and most malware seems to target Windows. Sure I can lock things down, but you have to constantly fight Microsoft (and I say this as a professional Microsoft full-stack dev for nearly 20 years now). I've been running Linux (Ubuntu / Mint) for nearly a year and I've had multiple reinstall/rebuild/pray incidents. Linux Desktop is just not stable enough. Which leaves mac...
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Drachetech11
@drachetech11
Have tried a Commodore 64 or Amiga?
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