Um you don’t have to log in to your Microsoft account to use a Windows PC. You can simply login as a local account, no internet required.
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Macs belong in the trash along with other apple products. Garbage tier company, with garbage tier practices.
I always thought Apple would be what you’d get if you told the engineers at Fisher-Price “The whole world is five years old, but slightly more dimwitted than what you’d expect for a five year old, and they all need computers. GO!”
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I try not to be condescending or snobby about it.
Macs have come a long way, but they’re very restrictive in terms of service and upgrades. And at the same time you’re paying a premium for the privilege. To me, unless you’re willing to go all in on Apple products it’s not a good investment in my eyes.
If apple didn’t have such a anti right to repair with their products.I would enjoy and honestly pay the few extra bucks for an apple I actually like macos…
But that anti repair is just a no-go for me… not a huge windows fan either so I opted for system 76 desktop and laptop…
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I have a Mac for my main computer system because to me it seems less of a pain in the bee hind than Windows. I have my Windows systems for compatibility with work and aps that don’t run anywhere else.
Linux is clearly better than either at just being a computer and letting you do things your way, problem is it doesn’t have the applications I need.
For most aps to run on Linux you need to jump through hoops like installing “Windows compatability layers”, Stream, etc.
Of course for writing your own programs the best OS in the entire history of the universe is OpenVMS. There never has been anything as good, never will be.
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I mythic raided in wod on a macbook air. I think I had the graphics set at 2 and sometimes it would still like freeze for a second. And it got really hot. But ya you can do it. The new ones are probably alot better for playing wow. I wouldn’t ever want to go back to that tiny screen though.
I’ll just throw in my 2 cents here, and say that for laptops heat and the amount of power the computer can use is a big factor that I hadn’t thought about before buying mine. My laptop has a 2080 Super in it, and a 4k monitor. You’d think this is amazing (and it’s pretty good), but there’s games I’ll run that have performance issues. Not because the GPU can’t handle it, in fact it’s not even phased, but because the power usage is sky high and only so much can enter this machine at once.
So keep in this mind that the GPU strength is important, but not everything for a laptop. 1050/1650 seems old to me when we got 30xx’s running around, but maybe it’s good enough and you shouldn’t expect too much from a laptop.
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It really comes down to the cooling capabilities of the laptop, which come into the picture before power limits do usually. Thin and light or even middling-weight gaming laptops are likely to have heat issues… you need a laptop that’s bricklike with a huge heatsink and a GPU that’s not so powerful to overwhelm the laptop’s cooling capacity.
So yeah, something like an integrated GPU or low end dedicated GPU are a better choice for a thin and light. For power in something “portable” you’re looking at something more like a desktop-class machine.
Something that might be helpful for your particular case is disabling any overclocks the manufacturer has applied to your 2080 and undervolting it, which will reduce its peak FPS potential but will make your GPU run cooler so it doesn’t throttle.
Gaming on a Macbook is not the best idea. You’re paying $4000 for worse gaming performance than a $700 Windows laptop with a GTX 1650. Worse especially since you have to put an M1 Mac in the freezer to keep it from melting if you run it at full load for more than a few minutes. Their entire ecosystem is intentionally set up as a scam using every single possible vector that a business could scam a human being all in one convenient package.
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He is talking about a Macbook Air. You don’t get to choose the GPU that is in it. The new M1 machines are a System on a Chip. CPU, GPU, Memory, Storage, secondary processors (video encoding, natural language processing, machine learning, security enclave), etc… are all one piece of fused silicon. This is how Apple can get the blazing performance that they can out of these chips. The M1 cores are based on the same cores that you find in the iPhone 12.
However, when necessary Apple will also sacrifice a bit of performance to increase battery life. Probably why some M1 laptops last 18 hours on a charge.
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Yep, I’m quite aware. My work machine has an M1 Pro in it, and my iPad is an M1 model.
I was speaking more generally, though it wouldn’t be practical to stuff e.g. a mobile RTX 3080 into a MacBook Air chassis anyway.
It’s not necessary. You can get a Mac Mini for about the same price you mentioned, add a monitor and keyboard and off you go. You have the advantages of a mac for the price of a PC.
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Windows 11 Home requires a Microsoft account at initial setup. Currently Windows 11 Pro lacks this requirement, but the offline account option is buried in the setup wizard. Wouldn’t be surprised if Windows 12 Pro will remove the offline option too, leaving only Windows Server as having a truly offline account option.
Some of us use it for the same reason people use iOS as their main phone OS: our day jobs are fighting with computers all day so the last thing we want is something we have to fight with or tweak in leisure time. Not that Windows is unusable or anything, clearly it’s fine for most people, but when it breaks it’s in weird ways that are a real pain in the rear to fix. See the gaming laptop I used to have that would only ever run its GPU at full power with manufacturer-provided drivers (drivers direct from Nvidia or Windows Update would decrease performance by 20%) or that time last year when I was battling bluetooth audio bugs across 3 different Windows machines.
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the saddest part about the anti-mac is dont know what they dont know. They just repeat things they have “heard”
Like believing the macbook air costs $4K
I have used almost every kind of computer since the early 80s.I even was an Amiga fan at one point but have always liked Apple even when I worked for the biggest PC manufacturer at that time.
I would put Mac os right there with Linux since is BSD based.
OS2 was fun. So was NeXtstep. So was Solaris. Amiga obviously. (didnt like Ataris OS)
Windows was so great I remember our techs asking Windows 98 had been installed over 6 months and if they were having issues they need to fdisk, debug and reinstall (they still did that as an OS repair all the way till Vista)
I like current windows but I prefer Mac OS. I just get frustrated when people spout nonsense because they just dont know any better. Like an M1 (or M2) Macbook air that costs $4K and will overhead reading email. Maybe even wear the battery out in 2 hours too.
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I will use the argument I head back in the day in an old windows vs OS 7 discussion.
Mac users see a computer as a tool to accomplish other tasks.
Windows users see a computer as a tool they can show off they know how to use and occasionally get other things done.
The easier a tool to use the better it is. The pride in what you make is what you should be proud of, not in how goof you are at using the tool.
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Oh man Win98 was such a pain, even the notably improved SE version.
Around the beginning of 2000 the family Performa 6400 got handed down to me with a few minor upgrades and a new Compaq Presario with a Celeron took its place as my parents’ computer. It came with Win98SE preinstalled and would start off running ok (notably faster than the Performa, even) but without fail after 3-4 months would degrade into a crashy mess that insisted on running a full scandisk at every boot and would need to be wiped and reinstalled to be usable.
Parents thought the issue was with the Presario since it was a cheaper model (probably not entirely wrong), so they sold it and bought a Dell Dimension 4100 with a Pentium III. It also came with Win98SE, and while it was better at holding out than the Compaq, that just meant that it took 6-8 months to hit that crashy stage instead of 3-4 months.
What ultimately fixed it was when I ran across a Windows 2000 ISO on certain parts of the internet, and instead of reinstalling 98SE put 2000 on the Dimension instead. Holy cow, the difference was night and day. That took the machine from being a nuisance to being a rock solid reliable tool that could go for weeks without needing a reboot.
It amazes me that Microsoft tried to squeeze more life out of the travesty that was the Win9X architecture with Windows ME. They should’ve just went all in with the NT kernel and made ME a slightly-tweaked Win2K.
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not really a fan, I just don’t froth at the mouth when anything apple is mentioned.
half decent usually means good btw. It doesn’t literally mean “half decent”
The M1 chip is pretty damn good.
I remember that when I worked in Tech Support for a medium sized insurance company in Los Angeles. This was back in the early 2000s. When someone complained that their Windows Laptop didn’t work, we just handed them a new laptop and said sign in on this. All their documents were already stored on the network so they didn’t lose anything. Then the “not working” PC would be erased and reinstalled from a pre-built image. We almost never even asked them what was wrong.
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I presume it runs just fine. Not sure about GPU capability. GPUs and Macs tend to get rather pricey.