• REDACTED@infosec.pub
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    7 hours ago

    Is moving to ARM architecture anti-user? They easily accomplished the (correct me if I’m wrong) best energy efficiency between all available laptops in the market. Granted, it was never marketed for gaming.

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      5 hours ago

      Yes it’s anti-user because

      1: they seem to have broken compatibility with a lot of existing software

      2: they just use the efficiency improvements to make shit thinner.

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        1 hour ago

        Okay, so

        1. Rosetta 2 largely fixed that, for whereever it was feasible to fix. It came out as soon as ARM Macbooks did.

        2. They actually made their shit thicker. The M1 Pro/Max MBP is thicker than the 2016+ Intel ones were.

        I had an M1 Air, the battery lasted like 20 hours. Most I’ve gotten off any non-Apple laptop has been 6-7.