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0 pointsnebula88043y ago0 comments

Using MacOS buys you some more time. Linux is a dumpster fire (no its not the year of Linux nor will I try Linux Mint for the 1000th time). While its not open source, MacOS still acts like an OS from the Win 7 days...for now anyway. They will probably end up going down the road of Win 11 but I think its going to take many more years till they get there.

They also offer excellent support. Their hardware gets like 10 years of OS updates. An M2 Mac today will last well past the next two US presidential cycles.

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bullen3y ago

You don't understand, the hardware we got 2017-2019 is peak forever.

M1-2 are brittle and controlled, the opposite of open/repairable etc.

ARM, Atom, Xeon from this period can last 100 years.

If you don't have this hardware, you'll get something that will last max 10 years.

USA has banned China from manufacturing without having a replacement.

nebula8804OP3y ago

Have you even tried an M1/M2 based computer? Its like when I moved from HDD to SSD, an unbelievable revolution in performance and snappiness.

>M1-2 are brittle and controlled, the opposite of open/repairable etc.

We have reached the point where we cannot have removable ram for technical reasons. M chips get a a lot of their performance from excellent memory bandwidth. Move on from this thought process. The software is still gives you more control compared to Windows and thats what really matters, not the arch that it is running.

>If you don't have this hardware, you'll get something that will last max 10 years.

10 years is enough time for the next computing paradigm shift. It is great that MacOS lets us hold onto the old world for 10 more years(hopefully).

>USA has banned China from manufacturing without having a replacement.

Thats a temporary issue. They mostly made low end junk silicon anyway.

bullen3y ago

Raspberry 4 has 2Gflops/W on 28nm where M1 has 2.5 on 5!!!

There wont be a next paradigm shift.

DRR3 > DDR4 > DDR 5 > DDR6 in latency.

Multicore is leveraged fully, it's the end of electric transistors.

Memory has been slower than the CPU for 30 years! L1, L2, L3 only works around the problem, it does not solve the problem!

You don't understand that SSDs peaked in 2011 when it comes to longevity at 60nm with 100.000 writes per bit.

SATA chipsets/drivers offload the IO more than PCI-e which uses the CPU to buffer.

Older is now better than new.

It's over and when you are trying to get a new laptop in a few years (because your M1 broke) and they will cost $10.000 and break in 2 years and you have to pay $100/month to be able to access/develop on it. You'll remember me.

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bullen3y ago

You don't understand, the hardware we got 2017-2019 is peak forever.

M1-2 are brittle and controlled, the opposite of open/repairable etc.

ARM, Atom, Xeon from this period can last 100 years.

If you don't have this hardware, you'll get something that will last max 10 years.

USA has banned China from manufacturing without having a replacement.

nebula8804OP3y ago

Have you even tried an M1/M2 based computer? Its like when I moved from HDD to SSD, an unbelievable revolution in performance and snappiness.

>M1-2 are brittle and controlled, the opposite of open/repairable etc.

>If you don't have this hardware, you'll get something that will last max 10 years.

10 years is enough time for the next computing paradigm shift. It is great that MacOS lets us hold onto the old world for 10 more years(hopefully).

>USA has banned China from manufacturing without having a replacement.

Thats a temporary issue. They mostly made low end junk silicon anyway.

bullen3y ago

Raspberry 4 has 2Gflops/W on 28nm where M1 has 2.5 on 5!!!

There wont be a next paradigm shift.

DRR3 > DDR4 > DDR 5 > DDR6 in latency.

Multicore is leveraged fully, it's the end of electric transistors.

Memory has been slower than the CPU for 30 years! L1, L2, L3 only works around the problem, it does not solve the problem!

You don't understand that SSDs peaked in 2011 when it comes to longevity at 60nm with 100.000 writes per bit.

SATA chipsets/drivers offload the IO more than PCI-e which uses the CPU to buffer.

Older is now better than new.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse