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Context: this is a legit screenshot I took on my workplace around 1.5 years ago. Hopefully it's been patched by now? Completely ridiculous behavior

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[–] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I couldn't imagine buying any laptop other than a Mac because the performance to battery life ratio on everything else is awful. Plus if you want a UNIX system, it's an easy buy.

After owning an Apple ARM laptop I'd never go back to anything else.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have an M1 Macbook Air (under half price secondhand thanks to a superficial dent on a corner) and while I agree I love having such powerful hardware that sips battery so sparingly, MacOS can go eat a whole bag of stale dicks. Homebrew makes it... tolerable, but I'm holding out hope for that new Qualcomm ARM laptop - the recent benchmarks beat Apple's chips handily.

[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can install Linux on it, the only major things not working yet are speakers and deep sleep

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those are both serious blockers for me tbh, I like to take it out away from home and watch YT / Nebula vids. I'm keeping am eye on Asahi's progress though.

[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the speakers don't bother me too much since headphones still work. Deep sleep not working really sucks though since on macOS I've had it last for weeks without opening it and still having battery left.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

But is that an Apple thing or an ARM thing?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the performance to battery life ratio on everything else is awful

You clearly haven't used Debian.

[–] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've used a number of different Linux distros (including Debian) on laptops over the years. Although most recently my XPS 15 was running Arch.

[–] adrian783@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

hear hear, if it has problem then I take it to apple store for service. I don't wanna waste time fucking about on my laptop. I'll do trouble shooting on desktop but I just want long battery life and apple silicone beat the fuck out of anything else.