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It helps that they've made genuinely great computers at somewhat reasonable prices. A $1k windows laptop pales in comparison to an MBA, to say nothing of how incredible the new Mac Mini is for its price and form factor.
 
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Lots of interested buyers on Reddit and those posting pictures of their new Macs or setups.

Questions of the sort: should I sell my PC and buy a Mac?
 
microsoft just EOL'd mlllions of perfectly fine windows 10 machines, so those users are likely finally jumping ship after 15+ years of macs being the better product.

The $499 mac mini and $899 MBA, both of them 16GB RAM, went in for the kill. Absolutely ruthless pricing. The average $899 windows laptop at bestbuy is a plastic piece of junk with 45 mins of battery life and loaded with 3rd party bloatware.
 
Once again, Microsoft is Apple's biggest benefactor.
They're screwing up Windows so much that Apple and Linux developers will never cease to thank them enough for it.
I don't use Windows on a regular basis anymore. What are they (MS) doing to screw it up so badly? I'm not doubting you, simply curious.
 
Dunno about anyone else but Apple finally bumping base ram to 16 was a big factor for me.
The computer worlds has moved on from 16GB though. Apple is behind as always. Nowadays, you probably want at least 32GB.

Also, Macs are still not price competitive. Just as an example. This Dell laptop, has 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD and costs $699.99. That's $1399 for Mac Air (13") for you. Twice as expensive.
 
I purchased a MBP M4pro in January.
1. Before 47 was inaugurated
2. Before tariffs
3. To replace my 2018 intel mini
4. I needed a laptop that could run LRC for work
 
Are they? Their Mac contemporaries have been in the trash for a long time. Besides, any x86 machine has many available OSes to install.
Eh, not really accurate. A 2012 MBP will run macOS 14 without a problem, it's slow with 15. So we're getting close to the point where it's time for Linux on the 2012s.

I just hope we get something like OCLP for M-chips when Apple decides to screw M1 users.
 
Hardware power is not the problem with gaming on the Mac.

It hasn't been "the issue" for a long long time.
You are incorrect, who ever told you that sold you a bill of goods. The base M4 would struggle to run most modern games unless heavily downgraded and optimized like the ones we have seen. The M4 lacks in the GPU department, something the M5 is rumored to correct.

The M4 is roughly equivalent to an NVIDIA GTX 1650 or RTX 3050 in performance, which is very entry-level for gaming PCs, and it would struggle to even compete with those cards because they have their own dedicated memory, something the M4’s unified memory lacks.

Even if the M5 does provide the much needed GPU boost with better memory bandwidth, the amount of users will be so small that there is not reason to optimize for it, unless Apple does it themselves, which would be a waste of $.
 
Windows computers dethroned Apple in terms of being the most overpriced piece of tech.

Back in the days I thought for a second “hmm, I need a new computer, a laptop. Lemme see what Windows has to offer?”. After looking at price/power ratio I immediately offered M1 Air and never looked back😄

I am not a gamer tho, maybe for gaming Windows is better. Or well, I don’t play AAA games. I play only retro games from 2000s via emulators or just simple games that don’t require lots of power. And Mac looks great for this. Pair it with something like a Nintendo Pro Controller and you basically got yourself a portable console
 
The M4 is roughly equivalent to an NVIDIA GTX 1650 or RTX 3050 in performance, which is very entry-level for gaming PCs, and it would struggle to even compete with those cards because they have their own dedicated memory, something the M4’s unified memory lacks.
I mean, those are not bad cards. I blame developers and I suspect they have entered the cartel conspiracy with NVIDIA and specifically don’t optimize their games for older hardware. Games have same or worse GFX as the ones released in 2015 but require 10x better CPU and GPU to run, as well as twice more RAM. Doesn’t add up
 
Absolutely. I was so disgusted with Microsoft forcing me to buy a new pc that I instead went out and bought a Mac. No more Windows for me.

I'm sure some of the increase in Mac sales is from current Mac users trying to get ahead of the tariffs, but I'm sure some of the sales are coming from people like me that are abandoning Windows.
Future looks bright: just :apple: and Linux
 
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