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This a quite laughable video!

But also - it's gotten to the point that 'speed' isn't relevant for most tasks for most people who buy this class of notebook computer. Who are they trying to appeal to?
If you are not video editing that is quite true. The Ryzen 4600G on my desktop and the M1 Air have about the same CPU speed and are both entirely fast enough.

The Air starts out a little faster at compressing video, but it soon throttles. The Ryzen has better cooling so can maintain speed. There isn't that much performance difference in the end. Battery life is where there is a difference.

Note: I'm using the Ryzen's built in GPU, no separate video card. That is also fast enough.
 
I’m just happy that Mac can actually compete against PC “speed” let alone be actually faster, and that Microsoft would see benefit in announcing it (even qualified) in advertisements.
 
Just wondering how the M4 MacBook Pro does on cinebench. I'm guessing it's better, because if the windows PC were faster, they would've mentioned it 🍸😹
 

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At work we all work on Windows and we need 1 particular app that doesn't exist on macOS.
And I can tell you that as a Mac user (at home) Windows is a real pain for daily tasks.

- When opening a file inside a folder or subfolder, I often get the error on Windows where it says that the code is too long (I think more than 259 characters) and because of that, I can't open the file. I think this refers to te filepath being too long. So I'm required to copy paste the file to the desktop so I can open it or rename the file. But, why? This would be unacceptable in 2000, let alone in 2025
- I often get the error that I can't rename a folder because a file inside the folder is being used, despite it not being true at all! So to solve this: just restart your machine !
- when I rename a file containing a forbidden character like /, it will give me the error message telling me to change the name, but instead of retaining the text I typed so I can just remove that character, it will reset the text to the old one so I can start all over
- I use multiple desktop views on macOS where this feature is so well done. I swipe from one window to the next and am very productive, this is just painful in Windows
- and then there's something I have no idea on how to explain this difference. I use a certain website to send out quotation requests to sub-contractors, this website is sluggish on Windows, but smooth like crazy on macOS. And I tried this with Safari, Brave, Firefox and Edge and there is no performance difference between the browsers, the difference is between the machines. My Mac handles that website so smoothly
- and to top it all off: Windows is just plain ugly. Steve said it himself: they have no taste at Microsoft
 
‘our top end PC is faster than last year’s low end MacBook air. Microsoft with such a brag… show us how the top end PC goes up against the high end MacBook Pro
 
I'll believe that battery life when I see it.

I have a colleague with a battery life claimed to be 10 hours, with all the **** IT installs on Windows PCs it only lasted two hours.

Whereas I worked the entire day without plugging my M1 Max in, and ended with 30% left :)
 
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I didn't watch it because I'm not interested in ads. I will say that Apple's M-series chips do lead in performance-per-watt. That's about it though. Literally the only metric; it's an important one, for sure, but still the only one.

As a company, Apple's greed knows no bounds; we can see this with their behaviour in response to courts and governments. I find this behaviour off-putting.

I've been using macOS and Windows about 50/50 for years. I really appreciate how Macs run quiet and cool. The battery life isn't a big deal to me because I don't need that. Even on Windows I think I've run out of battery once or twice in the last 5-6 years. But, again, quiet and cool is nice. That being said, I find that Windows beats Mac in every other facet. It's not as locked down, supports more applications and games, is more configurable; and the fact that it runs on any hardware means the variety of devices available for purchase is substantially larger. If there's a particular hardware design I'm looking for, chances are it exists. The higher-priced Windows machines are built just as well as Macs, but often provide more for the money: better screens, more RAM, more storage. While the M-series chips in the Macs are fast, I often never max. out their performance. Similarly, I rarely max. out the performance of my Windows machines, so both feel just as fast to me.

Telemetry (privacy) is not much different in my opinion, either. I installed Little Snitch on a Mac and the amount of phoning home Apple services (that I'm not even using) do is absurd. Windows lets you tune some of that down and I've found (from monitoring traffic) that if you turn most of it off, it doesn't really do much short of checking for updates.

At the end of the day, Apple as a company does not seem to provide me any material gain over the competition. So, if I can get more and do more for less money elsewhere, that is what I do. My last two purchases were an Android phone and a Windows laptop; I have no regrets, they both work splendidly.
 
With our windows PCs, I am constantly dealing with driver issues, updates, etc.
Then you may be doing something incorrectly. In the two years I have owned a Mac I have done six OS updates that I can remember. I have done six OS updates on my W11 machine. I have not had one driver issue on either system. On my wife’s computer running W10 I have done two OS updates in two years. No driver issues.
 
I'll believe that battery life when I see it.

I have a colleague with a battery life claimed to be 10 hours, with all the **** IT installs on Windows PCs it only lasted two hours.

Whereas I worked the entire day without plugging my M1 Max in, and ended with 30% left :)
The Qualcomm ARM CPU's really has made a huge difference in battery performance.
The change is like the same feeling when Mac left Intel and started to use their own cpu's.
 
I hate that TikTok thing of jumpy single word subtitles.

This is a Apple forum, so naturally the comments are going to be biased towards one side, but modern Macs (macOS) and Windows PCs annoy me in different ways, so neither one is perfect. If I were to upgrade right now, I would choose an AMD Ryzen laptop instead of another Apple M laptop. I prefer x86-64 for compatibility with many software and native compatibility with Linux+Windows (latter of which Apple threw away when switching to ARM), along with the possibility of getting a laptop with user replaceable components.
 
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Microsoft has one significant advantage.

Desktops, real high performers, that can get upgraded memory for a reasonable cost. Upgraded storage for a reasonable cost. I have 4TB of storage on my desktop that cost less than an upgrade from 256 GB to 1TB on a Mac. I run 64GB on my W11 machine that on a Mac would cost more than my entire Windows machine. Apple does not have a comparable desktop machine for less than $3,800. And nothing can be upgraded or changed after purchas.
 
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Ok. Now do battery life
It wasn't Windows but... they actually did, most recent high-efficiency x86 processors for laptops both from AMD and Intel offer comparable performance to Silicon with similar battery life at lower prices. Not all computers of course, not the cheapest ones but... there's no cheap Mac so it wouldn't be a fair comparison.
I was very surprised since I've been repeating the "ARM is just inherently more efficient" lie for years.

The only measurement where Apple still clearly wins by a lot is battery consumption with sleeping laptop, if that's very important to you.
 
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It's still windows... but they are slowly catching up.

Apple, start working more on software side and give us even better battery!
 
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Windows = Cars.
Mac = Bicycles.

Why would anyone give up something that is efficient, healthy and fun, for something so out of touch with the reality of earth today?
 
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Microsoft, the McDonald's of the tech industry.
Let's see: Microsoft is advertising that some of its fastest Windows PCs are faster than some of the slowest Macs (either last year's model or the slowest of the three existing tiers of M4s, tested on a good machine but one that is sometimes constrained by not having a fan. To me, this is an admission that Windows Copilot+ pcs are slower than comparable Macs.
 
Why would Microsoft bother acknowledging a competitor that has a very minor marketshare? Answer: they've run out of ideas
True. However, also do note that Apple has a slightly larger market capitalization than Microsoft does. I suspect that Apple is hella more profitable. As regards computer sales, Apple is the world's fourth largest seller while Microsoft only has an insignificant share.

So MS has plenty of reasons to shoot at Apple today. Sure MS dominates in the market for selling OSs, but Apple is not in the market for selling OSs.
 
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Nice, coming from a company that has virtually abandoned the only PC they make (Surface) with this latetest offering: SP 12 and... whatever (ultra glossy, Arm windows driverless, 400 nits, for more than the Air)

And after they apparently fired the whole Surface PC team, which shows now.
 
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