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Mac shipments grow 10%, as all major PC brands see downturns (9to5mac.com)

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[–] snarf@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm a Windows guy, but I just replaced my Surface Laptop with an M2 Air and love it. PC hardware is really stagnating right now. I still have my usual annoyances with macOS, but right now, I feel like they are worth living with for the performance and battery life.

[–] zalack@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really hope windows can launch support for ARM and we can start seeing M1/2 competitors in the PC space.

I love my MacBook and would get an ARM chip in a heartbeatwhen it's time to upgrade my PC.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows on ARM has existed for years btw, complete with x86/x64 emulation. The emulation is nowhere bear Rosetta levels unfortunately, which is the main thing holding it back.

Battery life and sleep/standby/resume times are amazing on it.

Microsoft need to get their own chips made like apple though, as using a slightly modified mobile phone SOC isn’t fixing the performance level to match apple.

[–] WestwardWinds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I went from about 3 hours of battery time on a high end windows laptop doing my design workload to about 10 hours with the m2 pro. I still don’t know if I’ll stick with it long term, and I still much prefer to work at my windows desktop, but having a fast, battery sipping browsing/streaming laptop that can turn into my main workhorse when I’m out and about has been great. Plus the Unix environment means I’m not spinning up arch vms when I’m programming anymore.