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  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldmeme
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    2 months ago

    Out of interest, I just looked up the actual benchmark scores.

    A ‘13 Pro with a Xeon 2697v2 scores 4891 on multi core

    My 15” M2 MacBook Air scores 9735 on the same.

    It’s astonishing how much Apple leapt ahead when the M-series chips dropped. Sure, the Intel machines on macOS still have their uses, (I’m typing this on a 2014 Mac mini that I use for work), but Apple have done an incredible job of flooding the market with solid hardware to install Linux on.





  • And longevity. I have a 2011 MBP thats now running Debian and is still a tank. I’ve had two MacBooks since I got it but the damn thing refuses to die.

    My daily laptop is an M2 Air which is ridiculously powerful for my needs, so when Apple drop OS support for it I’ll put Asahi on it and keep it trucking until the wheels fall off.

    And that 2011 will still be going.



  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnjoy the moment
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    2 months ago

    As someone who has recently begun dipping in to Linux and trying to figure it all out, I agree with this.

    I feel like if Samsung or someone embraced Linux in the way Apple have macOS, it could very easily become a serious contender to Windows. But I guess no one could trust Samsung to not fuck it all up and make it a proprietary fork that would end up having nothing to do with Linux.




  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mllinux or windows?
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    2 months ago

    When I was studying radio production at uni back in 2010, the Adobe Audition editing suite was rammed full of 2009 iMacs, all running WinXP. It was a bit of a headfuck for a moment, but iMac hardware was second to none, the uni must have got a decent discount from Apple to buy that many, and at the time Audition was Windows only.

    And to be fair, they made for excellent editing machines.