• PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    What? In the laptop space? The ARM chip is legit and so is the battery life w/uber high core counts; the bus speed is smokin’ quick compared to just about every other laptop on the market. GPU is really good too, between better but not the best.

    You get a lot of book with that mac. The avg wintel doesn’t come close, spec wise.

    BUT

    no way to upgrade storage, for DAWs…oof.

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      1 year ago

      Right, I completely forgot about the M chips.

      Think I’d rather save like 3-4 thousand dollars on a high end machine and go for an i7 or ryzen7 however

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        1 year ago

        100%. A realistic entry level MacBook is ~ $1.2k USD +/-

        MacOS is complete with … apps , coding (playground is nuts), ecosystem integration (including phone, tv, sharing, audio, midi, etc)!

        100% agree with saving a few bucks esp with sales on Wintel laptops < $1k: the ability to add RAM and SSD over time is really nice. Starting with 8GB RAM, recovering from the purchase and then upping to 64GB (or max size) is nicely feasible in the Wintel world.

        But should $WinTel price creep north, MacOS is worth a peek imo.