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> Why Mac seems to attract so fanatic behavior?

Ever think it’s simply because they are amazing machines instead of being some conspiracy or mass brainwashing?

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Amazing machines? I haven't tried extensively the M1, so my experience is still limited to the Intel Macs.

They are OK. Not jaw droppingly good, just okay-ish. I work as a mobile app dev and unfortunately you can't avoid Mac for iOS dev :p

The new M1 Mac’s really are impressive. I suspect I might be similarly impressed by the latest AMD chips with 8 cores, but quite a lot of my everyday workloads are seeing 5x-10x performance increases over my previous 2015 MacBook.

Even the cheapest M1s?

I have the M1 Pro with (8 + 2) cores. But seeing as the cores are identical I suspect with the base models with (4 + 4) cores you'd see very similar performance except you'd be looking at 5x rather than 10x on multicore workloads.

Have the cheapest M1. It flies and the battery life is stellar. The only downside I would say is it's only 8GB of RAM. If you're doing anything with electron development, it's a no-go. You'll need a minimum of 16GB.

It's an incredible machine though. The perf and battery life remind me of the upgrade I got when switching from a HDD to a SSD for the first time. It changes how I use the device.

Long time laptop user. 2012 macbooks were solid. Just worked, never thought about them much.

The 2017-18 macbook pros (touchbar) were complete rubbish. Everything was rubbish. Keyboards. Heat. Battery. Processors.

The M1s are gods gift to developers. By far the best laptop I've used, and I don't see how anyone else can catch up

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