Comment by ianbutler
2 years ago
Thinking of a mac as a fashionable media consumption device in this day and age seems odd to me. Maybe before the switch to arm, because honestly their intel devices were middling. But between the apple flavor of arm processor and amount of RAM (especially with the M3) these devices are serious work horses.
I used to daily drive a linux machine on a Thinkpad, and the experience just doesn't really compete imo, it would be hard to get me to switch back. It's not that it's a bad experience on a linux machine in the year 2023, but it's not without annoyances that add up over time that I just don't experience on mac.
I think it's even more so now that they've switched to a CPU and proprietary platform architecture that's widely used in media consumption devices --- i.e. smartphones and tablets. IMHO when they were basically PCs with some small differences, they could be considered serious business computers; but now they're just oversized smartphones.