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This is something where I’d definitely be curious to see that what-if machine alternate universe with the route they moved away from, with more photorealism with an external box powering the bulk of the compute, rather than an all in one.

I hope it can still plug into mac VR as a generic headset with TB.

What if I’m old and creaky

About the same as Windows, it also took the 8th gen bringing quad cores to the 13"s for me start to be ok with moving down a size, even just prosumer (ok, it’s the ADHD) web browsing on a dual core you can too easily bog down imo

M1 Macbook Pro also had two, so there’s been no M* no-suffix system with four TB ports, even the Mac Mini whittled it down to two. Seems like the same old IO constraint on M before you go to Pro/Max/Ultra

Anecdata isn’t data. They’re usually on the low side of hardware failures statistically, excepting the Butterfly fiasco recently. Our Lenovo systems don’t seem any different than the Dells and HPs on failure rates.

Just because you ‘only’ browse and use office (which can get very heavy if you’re doing Excel calcs, mind), doesn’t mean you don’t want a premium system with a good display, still some of the best laptop speakers out there, all day battery life, and very responsive performance.

You could make due on a 700 dollar system that’s nice, but this is just nicer-er.

200USD more is one very expensive fan, and no magsafe or new design. Touchbar fans, even though it’s surely not going to get much more software love as everything else moved on?

I guess the price difference is closed a lot if you get the 10 GPU core Air, but even at the same price, I can’t think who I’d rather recommend the Pro to.

I’m a millennial who has never used Google Docs…Am I just too old?!

Do you get the same 100GB/s memory bandwidth with every option, 8-24GB?

All that hype for Nothing

I’m a data scientist and I’ve seen way too many flimsy comparisons using data sets like these out there. You can’t safely do that, not without granular data normalizing types of miles driven, weather, etc etc. A little data and barely enough knowledge on how to use it are a dangerous thing.

Three years of major operating systems, five years of security. Better, but not the 6+ years of full OS updates Apple is hitting.

Also Tensor looks like it’s 90% Exynos.

Although there’s lots of their parody of Another in here

Scratch resistant screen? That’s probably equally 2009 lol. The more shatter proof the screens have gotten, the more soft for small scratches they’ve also gotten.

I actually do rock an XS Max naked because it’s kind of dying anyways (faceID dead, costs way too much to fix), but as soon as I took the harder screen protector off it picked up a bunch of micro scratches despite always being alone in my pocket besides whatever dust gets in there.

I think they mean the rim that goes around the whole phone? That is outside of the FCC stuff. Where it looks like the glass panel is screwed into the housing and for design purposes there’s a gap around the rim.

What I don’t know though is if that’s just design or actually like that.

Honestly I get interested in things for a split second and then think about the pita of losing iMessage and somewhat Facetime and then forget them. If Google could work a deal to get around that then maybe, but Apple knows they contribute immensely to platform stickiness so why would they, even me being conscious of why I’m stuck.

So truly a successor to the Essential phone lol

Eh, I hope these guys stick around and get many more whacks at it though, competition is cool