HN user

wonthegame

56 karma
Posts0
Comments54
View on HN
No posts found.

Because they're still the same price as they were at launch. It feels really bad paying 90% of the cost of current gen. In some cases Apple increased the price years later on the same product - MacBook Air 2013/2015. Combined with hitting a trillion dollar market cap it really makes the customer wonder.

No technical reason to use Edge over Chrome? Are being purposely ignorant? Edge has good pdf editing abilities - at least in the Surface line. When google can stop eating your ram and battery I'll consider it over Edge. Unfortunately MS is throwing in the towel.

Safari is also a good browser. I don't need justifications here.

I worked at a place that was the only seller of a popular product yet it was sold on my countries amazon. They were about 25% off retail price too. They used pictures of genuine packaging and genuine items. I’m not so sure that they sent the customers the real things though.

I think it goes further than just eroding expected behaviour. There is a noticeable performance impact when using these Electron based apps. Idling in the background they'll happily drain your battery. Since consumers are using mobile devices more now, battery life is an important consideration. Scroll through text document on any electron app and check the processor usage. It's really surprising that you can get up to 60+% cpu usage.

Goodbye, EdgeHTML 8 years ago

Try viewing Imgur.com on Safari. Just scroll a bit until you get a couple gifs displayed and check the CPU usage on the imgur.com tab. Just insane that a few gifs destroy an i7. Is it bad video compression? I notice imgur attempts to make gifs from mp4 files and vice versa but damn. A 5 year old iPhone has no problem with this task.

It'd be nice if you could throttle processor usage. I'd rather have a choppy experience on the occasionally website than constant fans and having my Mac turn into a heater.