points by FinnKuhn 2 days ago | 0 comments
I still have the original M1 Pro (thankfully with enough disk space) and I still don't really see a reason to upgrade. Since the M1 all these MacBooks are more than powerful enough for anything I might want to do and the original battery life was so good an upgrade would harldy be worth it.
[–] seabrookmx 2 days ago
[–] FinnKuhn 2 days ago
> I don't _need_ the battery life and still prefer to run Linux so the tradeoff is worth it to me, but for most users it's pretty hard to not recommend a Macbook.
The thing is I never had a Mac(Book) before, but the hardware at the time was just so much ahead of anything else that I didn't mind that limitation. At least for what I bought it any OS (Windows/MacOS/Linux) would have been totally fine.
[–] riffraff 2 days ago
Same here. A part of me wants to get a new MBP but I really can't justify it.
[–] pinktonio 2 days ago
playing gta 6 on it maybe.
[–] FinnKuhn 2 days ago
It's a console exclusive as of now and if/when it releases for computers at least I would rather play it on a dedicated Gaming PC and not a Laptop.
[–] KetoManx64 2 days ago
It'll be decompiled and released on PC by modders within a week of it being officially released, AI tools have gotten too good for things like that to be controlled by Sony/Rockstar.
[–] anakaine 2 days ago
Still likely to be GPU intensive even with relinking
[–] ant6n 2 days ago
I don’t understand this. I have a m4 with 16gb, and it can barely run office. Throw in a couple of browser tabs of ChatGPT and LinkedIn, and it slows to a crawl.
Every app window / browser tab is like 1GB these days.
[–] unsloppable 2 days ago
They're snappier, that's about it.
I don't _need_ the battery life and still prefer to run Linux so the tradeoff is worth it to me, but for most users it's pretty hard to not recommend a Macbook.