cooldown_00001's comments

> Comparing this to an M1 Mini is a bit odd since they're not competing with each other at all, and Microsoft is limited by what Qualcomm et al can put out.

Microsoft is a multi billion dollar company, they are not limited, they made a bad business decision to depend on a 3rd party to build chips for them

Their products are meant to be competitive against the competition, they should be compared for what they are, computers

> - Gaming

Mobile/Console gaming got a bigger market share

> - Cheaper hardware options than Macs

That's a valid point, although Chromebooks are better in that regard

> - Commercial software support (e.g., Adobe, Autodesk, Affinity, Office, etc.)

They support macOS too, and since they are moving to web interfaces the OS not longer matter (support Chromium / Safari / Firefox)

> - Better hardware support (e.g., Nvidia graphics cards)

Both NVIDIA / AMD offered their PRO products for a very long time on macOS

macOS also has better audio hardware support out of the box, and that includes manipulating RAW photos too ;)

> - Easier Linux VM setup with WSL and x86(_64) support than Mac (i.e., requires ARM iso or the hassle of setting up Rosetta)

That's not true, macOS doesn't need a linux VM when most of the core unix tools are available out of the box

And in that case, WSL doesn't work with the ARM windows ;)

> - Piecemeal hardware upgradability

Professionals don't care about this, they replace their machines every few years (ebay is flooded with cheap thinkpad laptops)

> - Less hassle than Linux, depending on hardware configuration and needs

Nobody waste their time constantly "configuring" their machines, it's setup once then they use it, it's valid for Windows/macOS/linux and mobile OSs, most of the settings are blocked by the sys admin anyways

> - Smoother experience for some things like (HiDPI) multi-monitor setups and video playback than Linux with the current state of Wayland and the recent drop of third-party codecs by multiple distros

Linux? linux is not meant to be a "univernal ready2go plug'n'play" OS, it's meant to scale from embedded to datacenters, you have to configure it to work the way you want, it's by design and the reason why people use it to begin with

debunk what? number of people visiting that weird website that includes `gs.statcounter` javascript tracker?

can we stop with macOS vs windows, it's clearly not the point

that was in response to:

> Comparing this to an M1 Mini is a bit odd since they're not competing with each other at all

to that it started with the evolution of the usages and why the OS/Machine no longer matter since the products target them all

so again, comparing both makes perfect sense

the people who add value, are using certain kind of devices

why did microsoft invest into Teams web interface first, and more than their native counterpart?

why was zoom the most popular product (it's a webapp), for visio conference, despite skype existing for years during the pandemic?

why is adobe investing into porting photoshop to the web?

why is microsoft investing into cloud gaming?

you have to filter out the noise if you want to have a proper analysis, and to properly project

when one say look around, it's not looking at your neighborhood, it's about looking at other stats/metrics