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They do, but Apple doesn't care if it's one of their expensive solutions or a $40 USB drive.
Time Machine works with any external hard drive or SSD. iCloud... well, it can get expensive if you really want to back up tons of content, but that's not unique to Apple.
That could be more than 6% of this message board, caring about dlss use in marketing promos and a long list of marketing team material claims or difference in upcoming game marketing material vs the actual release game.
To a point:
It doesn’t until you have to work in a confined space with them or on a floor with a crapload of them in cubicles all over.
I've done labs full of em, but thats also a space purpose setup for it. Regular office environment would be a different story. So fair enough.
Yeah, proper space is important for that sort of stuff.
I mean, it doesn't matter a ton but still the efficiency achievement is a good one, and one of the reasons they are so great for mobile. As Linus noted, Apple could and should be proud of and market their efficiency win. Them trying to claim they are the fastest thing EVAR though, well that just falls through.
I don’t think it’s the same thing.
Guess I’ll take my place with “the poors” then.
. Like I said college definitely opened my eyes to how vapid and shallow people are. “I’m better than you because I drive a BMW, have a MacBook Pro, and can do whatever I want (I didn’t work a day in my life for this though and my parents are idiots).”
I 100% agree with this statement. Nope. Apple is no bueno for me, either.
Also the number 1 line people go to when defending overtly expensive PC hardware.
I've seen that attitude quite a bit. That currency doesn't spend with me. Even if I could afford the best all the time every time, what the hell would I do with the still perfectly good hardware I'd be left with every product cycle except resell it at a loss? I'm wholly fine skipping a generation or two, as long as I have decent hardware again when I do upgrade. But real talk, some people have to make the choice between PC parts or food and rent. That's just the reality of it. People forget, there aren't the fatcats at the top without the people whose backs are breaking under them making all that money to pay them with...
The best is subjective. Is Apple the best? A lot of people seem to think so. Personally, I look down on Apple users because the stuff I can do with my Android/PC seems beyond them. I recently got a Galaxy S9 to replace my Moto X4 due to the loud speaker never being that loud. The problem I ran into was that I can't OEM Unlock the Galaxy S9, and that means no LineageOS. I could use the phone as is, with Android 10 already installed but I want the ability to install custom roms. You want real privacy, then you want the ability to control how and what software is installed on your hardware. I ended up going with a Motorola G7 Plus because they don't lock the boot loader and stereo loud speakers. I can install LineageOS and it only costed me $70. The stuff I can do with my phones is beyond anything any iPhone could ever dream of doing. Same goes for my PC.
Most people are now just charging everything on their credit cards. It's been reported that Americans have record breaking credit card debt. Stuff like Apple products aren't meant for the wealthy, but the poor who wants people to believe they are wealthy.
Does it reach that kind of load just playing games....
Considering inflation and population growth, why on earth would American not have not adjusted record credit card debt (and less than tomorrow), we should see that record broke every year.
Good points and that desktop sounds sweet. I should also note I am an iPhone 8 user myself. I don’t mess with my phone enough to warrant the customization options afforded by android. I certainly don’t look down on them either.
I dont even customize mine anymore... kind of a waste of time if you are buying a "vanilla android" phone IMO. Google Pixel or OnePlus. If I was buying Samsung I would install custom "vanilla" roms 100% of the time.
This is true for any product from clothing to a hyper car.
Games put a very heavy load on a PC. If you watched the video he was able to get the wattage down to 260 by under volting.
The point of installing a custom rom isn't for the UI but for security and flexibility. Every phone manufacturer has a tracker built into the device, and as far as I know the only way to remove it is to install a rom without it. Apple isn't an exception to this rule as governments around the world are trying to push Apple to give up your data if they were subpoena. Some roms just make my life easier and some put useful features like auto recording all conversations, just in case you want proof that some person made a threat over a phone call. Also a reminder that Apple won't let you download an ad blocker and won't let you install other web browsers unless they are built on their WebKit, which means no addons. Things I'm sure Google will eventually try to remove on Android but again custom roms fix that.
Depend on core count and stuff, a 13900k can use less than 80 watt on some game, tend to be 100-140 watt, can go close to 300 watt doing heavy load, would be misleading to assume game achieve to use most of a 13900k and I would not assume they (and the game driverstack) is good at using all of an Mac when gaming.
It depends on the game. CyberPunk 2077 will certainly push a Mac Studio to use over 300 watts. It's hard to compare a Mac Studio to a PC in power consumption when nobody is running the same tests. Linus used Blender to test for power because it uses both the CPU and GPU, but games also make heavy use of the CPU and GPU.
Graphene's focus is on privacy, while LineageOS what I use is mainly a successor to CyanogenMod. PixelExperience is a rom that gives you everything you'll find on Pixel phones, which I try to avoid Google stuff personally.
It does not push a 13900k at all too, I do not imagine it would use most of a 24 core cpu, games does not tend to make heavy use of that kind of CPU
Have you priced an Android flagship phone recently, they are well over 1000 USD. Not exactly for the poor. I agree Apple has a cult like following.
I have also heard that organizations that use Dell computers tend to "not be successful" but that those organizations that use Apple, Lenovo, or HP computers are more successful - can't make this shit up.
I can afford it.
Same here. I have other reasons for not wanting an Apple desktop/laptop but I thought about an iPhone when I got a Samsung Ultra. I was paying full price, a price they had recently increased and I thought "Damn, that's Apple money right there, I should at least give the iPhone a look." Well I did... and it turns out that no, it WASN'T Apple money. While indeed the base model was similar in cost, it only had 64GB of storage, and very little (4GB I think?) RAM. Upgrading that raised the price, a lot, quite a bit more than a similar Ultra. It wasn't the only reason I ended up getting the Ultra but it was one of them.
I am a bit different, but the same end result with Apple. Sometimes I actually am willing to pay the very high "luxury brand" tax because the competition have flaws that annoy me too much. The "top of the line" of the competition are not high quality products - they are just "medium quality", with all the flaws that comes with in modern day products.
I think there's a different between true premium or top of the line and luxury. I'm known to buy professional/enterprise grade products at times because I want something that is built really well and I'll pay for it. That's different than luxury, where you are paying for name and/or style. Sometimes those products are also well built, but not necessiarly.
There is some weird thought process when it comes to tshirts that the thinner and softer they are, the better.
I love spending more for less. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
My example would be BMW vs Lexus. You see a lot of people driving BMW's here, because it is prestige German luxury vehicle. The reputation BMW's have is infamous, and yet people still buy them. A lot of that is due to their history when BMW did make good cars, before the year 2000. Yet, if you look at the resale value of a used BMW vs a Lexus, it isn't a contest. Lexus has true luxury value. It's the same idea with Apple where the reputation from the Apple II and Macintosh computers are still holding Apple's reputation up. Nobody wants to mention the time period when Apple's iMac's looked like a Fisher Price toy, or when Apple was preaching about PowerPC and how it was many times faster than Intel, only for them to go dump PowerPC and go Intel themselves. An Apple G5 today is absolutely worthless, but a Pentium 4 with 64-bit instructions can actually be used today, not that you should. It's now so bad that people credit Apple for things Apple had nothing to do with. The iPhone gets credited a lot for being the first smart phone, but my Nokia Ngage running SymbianOS and HTC TyTN II running Windows Mobile would like to have a word with you. Same goes for the iPod, because the mp3 player existed long before it. Steve Jobs and not Steve Wozniak is often credited for creating Apple's computers. Steve Jobs was so "smart" that he refused potentially life-saving cancer surgery for nine months and instead he ate fruit. Apple's brand recognition is more myth than fact.
That's not an accurate representation of how things went down, or how Apple's reputation is maintained.
Yeah, what saved Apple was Steve Jobs coming in and putting a quick stop to the PowerPC enthusiast stuff that was running the company into the ground. While those were technically the best Macs from a hardware and openness perspective - It was basically Apple turning into a Dell which was a battle they 100% were going to loose.