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0 pointshn_throwaway_993y ago0 comments

> Intel/AMD chips are bad and not getting that much better (this one is true, but missed the mark entirely because of Apple silicon throwing a curve ball)

Define "bad". I'm on a 2019 MB Pro with an i9 with 32G of ram. I pretty much never have browser performance issues that bother me. I have Chrome open with 2 windows and a total of 39 tabs, plus some other apps that people always like to bitch about resource-wise (Slack, VSCode). Granted I'm not a designer so I don't have what would be some of the most resource-hungry apps like Figma, but if there is one group of people who I've always seen spend a shitload on their desktops/laptops it's designers.

I think Mighty was always a weird project that pretty much only solved a problem for people that would never be willing to pay for it.

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wmf3y ago· 2 in thread

2019 MB Pro with an i9 with 32G of RAM

You know that's a very expensive laptop, right? Like more expensive than 99.9% of all laptops. Of course you don't have a problem.

I think Mighty was always a weird project that pretty much only solved a problem for people that would never be willing to pay for it.

Amen. If it could have been, say, $10/month or less it would have been great for people who can't afford a fast computer.

icedchai3y ago

Expensive, but basically obsolete now, thanks to the M1. I had a 2019 MB Pro (i9, 32 gigs RAM) as a dev machine. It was terrible: fans running constantly, throttling. My M1 Pro machine is soooo much better.

hn_throwaway_99OP3y ago

Yes, I know it was a high end laptop at the time, but you can get refurbished ones now for about 800-900 dollars, putting it squarely in a mid-range laptop market. Would be even cheaper with, say, 16G of RAM, and still be totally capable as long as I just closed some unused browser tabs a bit more frequently.

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