AMD can't get no respect.
Slight? 😒 Apple's list price in the US for the base M1 MBA is (or was) $999 and the list price for the base M2 MBA is $1,199. That's a $200 (20%) increase.
[checks Wikipedia] Epcot opened on October 1, 1982, i.e., not quite 40 years ago.
Product managers, not engineers. Steve Jobs was much more akin to a product manager than to an engineer (but product manager is a very misunderstood and underrated function)
That's easy. Your claim is simply plain wrong. Check the actual market share for different PC makers here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_computer_vendors. Notice that Apple market share has been stagnant for many years. There was minor uptick last year but that was because of pent-up demand created by people delaying purchases of Intel-based Macs in anticipation of new M Based models.
Apple killing them in? Are you kidding? Out of about 100K laptops deployed at the company I work for, about 2K are various MacBooks, the rest (about 98K of them) are ThinkPads...
Pixels per inch are what matter when it comes to the screen sharpness and the Vivobook screen has 141ppi vs 227ppi.
Really trying to be deceitful there.“As it is, this Ryzen 7 5800H implementation runs at 85-90% of its maximum potential”
Asus VivoBook Pro 15 OLED review (M3500QA, M3500QC models)
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If that is the case, where is Apple getting their increased market share from?
It's more of a professional tool than any Macbook Air.
LoL, plastic toy? That's all you've got?
Granted, bad phrasing on my part. It is an area where they are making inroads, not “killing”. The “killing” is in user experience, not in sales - yet. My point was, Lenovo is worried that your 98k Thinkpad owners will start demanding to get Macbooks. In my company (albeit smaller) they are currently investigating how to set up the possibility, coming from all Lenovo.
Financial services... On the server side it's a mix of RHEL and Windows with some iSeries here and there.
I’m guessing you got the one Wintel PC ever made with a good touchpad?
Most people (and by a huge margin) do not buy Macs. What does it tell you about Mac build quality?
Then don't claim that people buy Macs because of the "difference in build quality".
Are you insane?
There is always one with a different experience than the majority. That you for whatever reason have an issue doesn’t make the trackpad “garbage”. I just tried, I can’t get the meaty part of my palm to move the cursor, even if I want to.
I don’t think this is the segment that worries the Wintel makers. They are worried about business users for whom “work” essentially equals “MS Office”. This is where the big numbers are, not in the creative space.
2022 q1 has their highest market share of all the data presented in your link. What year do you live in? It’s very clear by now that Apple Silicon has created a lasting upwards trend in market share, compared to the stagnant trend during the Intel era.
I’m sure there are many people like you, but still this is all about you and not about the quality of the product. I was in my thirties when I shifted to Mac about 15 years ago (although I’ve mostly since still used Windows partly), and I felt liberated from day one. Only the keyboard differences sometimes still throw me off. But no doubt that the engrained habits of users is Microsofts biggest advantage. I will harshly defend my stance that in an imaginary world where noone had any pre-conceived notions, very few people would choose Microsoft when given the choice (except for price reasons).
The amount of money my company would SAVE by replacing my quite expensive Lenovo (that I did not choose) with a Macbook would buy a lot of adapters…
