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Intel's Latest PC vs. Mac Ad Involves a 'Social Experiment' With Apple Fans
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i would guess — free actors. either that, or they specifically seeked out the dumbest apple fans out there, which isn't fair advertising
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Never happened to me with a Mac and constantly happened to me with every windows computer I used.
i completely disagree — apple os is what matters, not sure where you're getting this hardware means more, but i suppose that could be a matter of opinion. and you kinda lost me with printers and scanners, apple never made those, what about them?..
Where I work it always makes me chuckle when people are using Samsung pay or whatever is used on android devices… it seems like a right hassle to pay for things, half of the time the card reader comes up with an error…
Whilst everyone and I mean everyone with Apple Watches and iPhones it’s a quick tap and it’s done…
Whilst everyone and I mean everyone with Apple Watches and iPhones it’s a quick tap and it’s done…
I didn’t say they were perfect. They have issues. However everything I mentioned has happened to me when using windows laptops/PCs. I’ve never had one without issues, be it software or hardware.
The last window laptop I had the pleasure of using was a Dell inspirion 15 inch laptop. Within the first year the charging port failed and the display stopped working. Both were fixed under warranty. After the warranty ended the display stopped working again and I had to pay to have it repaired. Later on the keyboard and trackpad stopped working and I had to use an external mouse and keyboard. I soldiered on with this. Then I had a lovely booting issue. Where the laptop would fail to boot. I’d have to leave it off for a few days before it would decide to boot up again. Refusing to wake up from sleep and having to restart it which risked it not booting up again. Then I had the lovely 20 minute boot ups, constant error messages, constantly being bugged to update software and the million and one error messages. 2 years in and it went in the trash. It did it’s usual refusing to boot up. Left it for a few days and it still wasn’t playing ball. In the end I just decided it wasn’t worth it anymore. They damn thing didn’t even have a working trackpad and keyboard.
I rememebr I had a lovely eepc (netbook) 2009/2010. Decide after 8 months it would just switch it self off after a few minutes. Failed motherboard and apparently it needed a new keyboard and all sorts.
These are some of my ‘favourites’ but they were all dreadful.
And it’s not that I’m just saying that only Apple devices are worth owning. I’ve used android devices and chromebooks and whist I prefer Apple devices I’d have no issues with using an android device or a chromebook. They work perfectly fine.
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Intel does way more than "chips". Intel is the company that oversees and actively pushes many standards critical for PC ecosystem. The design of PCs and laptops to a great degree is influenced by Intel.
I don't completely disagree about the spell - I've got that more than a little, but I'd also argue Apple earned it, and it's not without some healthy criticism of Apple's design choices, especially in laptop. If Apple don't get those MBP updated soon and stick the landing, there probably will be some people wondering about their options.
And the majority will still gravitate towards genshin impact on their M1 iPad Pro and iPhone, just for the accessibility.
the phone people are always the lowest common denominator...
My Macs have caused me way fewer problems over the last decade. So it goes back to an oft-repeated trope that Apple products may cost more upfront, but they quickly pay for themselves in the form of greater productivity and fewer issues overall.
Are you seriously expecting Intel (or any company) to advertise the disadvantages of their products?
That’s actually a super hot x86 processor from a company that hasn’t had a major breakthrough since the….well…x86.
I'm with you. I had a Dell with a touchscreen for a couple years when I couldn't use a Mac at work. I used it maybe once. It's not a great feature.
The windows cli tools STILL BLOWS today. I don't know how they are still making terminal apps as bad as they are in 2021.
Touchscreen just ain't gonna cut it for me.
Touchscreen just ain't gonna cut it for me.
All computers in the last decade caused way fewer problems than in the previous decade. This has nothing to do with Apple. There is nothing in Mac design that is exclusive to Apple. The parts that cause most problems: HDDs, SSDs, displays and to a lesser degree RAM and motherboards - are all designed and produced by companies other than Apple. In fact Apple manufactures nothing these days so the only thing that potentially might go for them is some special design but in reality, due to their desire to make the devices as small as possible, they often come up with questionable designs. Trash can MacPro and butterfly keyboard are probably the two most questionable computer related design decisions of the last decade among all computer vendors.
Definitely agree here although I just use an external keyboard. I find any laptop built-in keyboard uncomfortable to type on.
I mostly agree with this to. But, I will say on my Lenovo, the track pad is recessed into the machine as with any laptop and the keyboard is recessed such that tops of the keys are flush with the top surface of that part of the machine. So, setting the laptop with the keys and track pad facing down on a flat surface should not be a problem any more than closing the lid. But as you said, I would hate to hold it in such a way that I can feel myself pressing the keys while in "tablet mode."
I didn't care about having a single touch screen laptop. The machine I chose happens to have one, but I barely ever remember it has one much less use it that way.
50,000+ games sounds exhausting. And when you consider there really aren't that many types of games, you might think a bunch of those are almost the same game but with different graphics; different characters; etc. I don't think a lifetime would be enough to sample all of them. The App Store has plenty of games, at least for me. If I ever get the time to play any of them.
Oh, and does that 50,000+ game selection include Mario or Zelda? I kind of doubt it.
I suspect the reason Apple has a good idea about what works and what doesn't is because they prototype stuff. Then they spend time trying to use it. After a period of time, they can then say "you know what? This sucks" with conviction and authority.
I don't think people in the video are Apple users. An Apple user needing more RAM just gets a new computer.
Maybe they are just random people coming to a customer interview: People who did not feel strange that they had to sit down for pro make-up before interview, or question having to have many retakes for the reaction or notice the 10 person camera and audio crew with full 5 camera studio setup in the room. If that is the case, then the reactions are spot on
Are you talking about cmd.exe or PowerShell or various flavors of Linux one can install using WSL on Windows? PowerShell is probably the most powerful shell there is (but it's not very suitable for regular users). And the Linux shells are the same shells as what Macs have. I am not sure your point has any merits today.