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You previously said "the specs are the same or better for $400 less", but the A13 in the SE blows away the Snapdragon 730 in the Pixel 4a and the price difference is only $50.

Better specs for $400 less, on a Pixel? Name one phone built to last with better specs than the iPhone SE please, I'm listening. I don't care about multiple cameras, OLED displays, 120 Hz or whatever the industry is trying to push these days, I just want a reliable decently built phone with a good SW support. Furthermore, I don't see how replacing the phone more often would be a positive thing, it just means I would produce more trash.

Apple updates for 5 years. No Android manufacturer does that. Google offers 3 years and Samsung does 3 years on their high end flagships (which I don't personally like). Apple is simply on a whole different level in this regard.

I own an Android One device (Mi A2) and in the last year updates were complete garbage. The manufacturer clearly couldn't care less about my (2 years) old device. I'm using LineageOS now and I'm much happier, but I think I'll switch to an iPhone SE when my phone dies

Sure, on Android you don't have to worry about updates because you don't get them. (Coming from an Android user)

Sorry to hear that, I always assumed that at least the ThinkPads were 100% compatible

Do you have any source/documentation for this? I'd really like to read more about it, my understanding has always been that WSL2 was more or less a classic VM on a type-1 hypervisor (Hyper-V)

I agree, if you just want to use Linux a classic Thinkpad/XPS will play well with it

Sure, it has some nice integrations, but I don't see how this article is in contradiction with what I've said. (To be clear, I didn't mean it as a critique, I like Hyper-V)

It's a headless VM that runs on Hyper-V

He's talking about iOS, not macOS

I don't think that the possibility to kill yourself in a supercar has much to do with its engine placement. If you're not a trained driver and you can't control oversteer on a RWD car with the ESC turned off, you're probably going to crash no matter where the engine is.

This is the main reason why I'm thinking about not getting a MBP as my next laptop. Apple declares a laptop "vintage" after 5 years and doing so it basically kills any possibility to get the machine repaired since they're not user-serviceable at all. Furthermore they stop updating the OS just a bit later and if you have a newer model with a T2 chip you won't even be able to install Linux on it.

(To be fair though, I'm not sure I would pay for an expensive repair on a 5+ years machine anyway)

There's a difference though: on macOS the system will say "there's an update, do you want to install it now?". If you select "yes" the system will upgdate and eventually reboot, otherwise you can go on with whatever you're doing without worrying. On windows instead you get a notification that says "I just installed an update and you need to reboot, if you don't do it right now the machine will reboot outside of the active hours". I just don't understang why Microsoft doesn't put a simple toggle for automatic updates in W10. MacOS has it, all the linux distro have it, even iOS has it, why is it so difficult for them?

As I've said, the 13" 2018 I use from time to time can easily manage a 32 buffer, even on Catalina, so your device should be just as good.. My suggestion is to try with a different adapter and maybe with a different DAW such as Reaper, just to double-check (although I don't really think the DAW is the issue here). It may also be related to the plugins you're using, maybe they're just heavier than mine..

Lucky you! In the last 6 months Windows tried to install an upgrade, failing endlessly, on both my mother's and sister's laptops. It just tried to upgrade, failed during the reboot, reverted back and booted on the old version, just to start the whole process again after a few hours. And all the Microsoft Windows Update Assistant tools or whatever didn't work at all, so I just clean installed in frustration.

TBF though, my 2013 desktop never gave me a single issue on Windows..

That's weird, reliable low latency audio is one of the few things where I still find the Mac to be pretty solid. I've got a 2015 15" and I've used several times a 2018 13", on both Mojave and Catalina and I have to say that it outperforms my 2015 (it can easily manage a 32 buffer with some plugins loaded, while my 15" starts to struggle under 64). This was using Reaper with an Apple USB-A to USB-C adapter and a UMC204HD interface

MacOS Is still much cleaner though. 99% of apps only put some config files in my ~/Library folder (and homebrew can easily remove them all with the 'zap' command). On Windows, I always don't understand what the heck happened when I installed a program and the whole registry thing is just garbage. The other day I uninstalled "Everything" but it was still showing up among "start-up item". I had to go hunting in the registry to make it disappear.

I try to use Scoop whenever I can exactly for this reason: I want to use portable apps every time it's possible, they're just cleaner

They're probably selling more 8th gen models with 16GB of RAM than 10th gen models and they don't like it, as simple as that

I thought the same, but actually this method worked for me when I wanted the the Spotlight "Developer" option to show up (the CLT were already installed). I have the Developer panel under "privacy" as well, even if I never installed Xcode on my machine

Can you run everything on the iGPU and only activate the Nvidia GPU to do the render offloading on single apps? If you can, I should try 20.04 on a laptop

I've tried 19.10 and Arch Linux and the only option still was to statically choose only one GPU and reboot. How does the offloading work now? I haven't heard anything about it

I had no delay neither until I reinstalled iTerm2, I have no idea why

Maybe you need Xcode, try running "mkdir /Applications/Xcode.app"

I don't experience a delay in Terminal.app either, but I've tried running the script with a fresh install of iTerm2 while capturing with Wireshark and it does look like the script triggers a connection to an Apple server

The dual GPU is a pain in the butt since Nvidia still doesn't support Optimus on Linux (and probably never will).

I'm not 100% sure about Homebrew, but Scoop uses the "portable" installers every time it's possible, trying to put all the files in a well defined position, controlled by Scoop itself. I think that Homebrew (not Cask) does a very similar thing. What this Windows package manager does is running classical installers and there's absolutely no way to know exactly what the installer is going to do. Homebrew Cask follows a similar approach, but thanks to how .app and .pkg work it's actually possible to manage the uninstallation quite well

Two things:

First, this is not about Apple, but rather about Intel. The 10th gen chips are very expensive, but they can't compete with AMD offer and this should be pretty clear to everyone right now. Anyway, this isn't just true for the MBP: we could make the same article for pretty much every premium laptop that uses Intel instead of AMD such as the Dell XPS, the X1 Carbon, the MS Surface Laptop/Book.

Secondly, what really matters in a laptop is the cooling system. Geekbench is nice to get a general idea of what a chip is capable of, but to understand how much the laptop can take advantage of it, you should run some stress tests. In this scenario, the base MBP can sustain ~25W while the higher end model goes up to ~30W. Most laptops in this category limit the chip to ~15W and sometimes they have to go even lower than that. I'm not saying that the Swift will be bad, but Geekbench doesn't really say much about that.

So sure, every occasion is good to scream "Apple bad", but this really isn't surprising

The only important factor is Pixel density IMHO. And this is where Apple consistently get it right

The Air is not smaller nor thinner than the Pro, it just weights a bit less. On the other hand performance and thermals are just a joke