- a checkmate to most 3rd party external monitors.
- a checkmate to the right of repair.
- a checkmate to the environment.
- a checkmate to most hardware terminology (they will create their own so you cannot compare products)
- a checkmate to modularity.
I literally own a Framework. I care about this stuff in general, but it's not like they're making equal or worse products. What Apple is getting out of their M# processor lines is insane. Honestly, it's questionable if my modular laptop is better for the environment with how much more power I have to spend charging it vs. most of Apple's options, given that I've generally kept using my laptops for 5-7 years at least.
I've thrown away way more e-waste on my fully modular external monitor Windows/Linux desktop than I've thrown away Apple products over the years. Modular essentially means "throw away some of your parts regularly". What else am I supposed to do with a 6 year old CPU and Motherboard? I could run it as a server, but I don't need to consume that power for anything really, so it just sits in a closet for years until I throw it out.
Anecdotally, I was between buying a M1 Macbook Air and a Framework 2 years ago. I'm already curious about upgrading my Framework to the new AMD mainboard/CPU set. I can almost promise you if I'd bought the M1 Air, I wouldn't even be considering an upgrade for another 2-3 years. Repair/upgradeability also makes it way easier to impulsively generate e-waste.
Because you keep editing in more stuff - I'm really not sure I can blame them on the "making new hardware terminology" line. It really doesn't seem like it's so you can't compare it. There's plenty of benchmarks comparing it. They clearly went to ARM because it got them a ton of compute power on very little power. Yes, it can't compare to an old Intel chip the same way, but there's plenty of folks pursuing this line, and it seems like it's been well worthwhile.
In my experience, no.
I had an MBA, battery charging chip was damaged. The laptop ran fine on AC, the battery was intact and fine - it just could not get a charge delivered to it.
Took it to Apple Store. Thought what might be reasonable... $200, maybe $300, parts and labor.
Genius comes back out with a quote for $900, to repair the charging circuit on what was an $1,100 laptop. First words, "Maybe we can talk about getting you set up in a new Mac today."
From a turnaround and customer experience perspective, it makes sense to just swap the part and do the diagnostic later so that you avoid having to guess-and-check through the multitude of parts that could be broken.
Why? Their display is extremely niche and iMacs aren’t really a big deal these days either
a checkmate to most 3rd party external monitors.
The result is tiny widgets.
I'm typing this on a 4K monitor connected to a Mac and everything is perfect.
I don't remember what the default behavior is when MacOS sees a new 4K monitor, but you can go into the display preferences and choose "Larger Text" (essentially, 2X UI scaling) or "More Space" (no scaling, "tiny widgets") or incremental noninteger scaling modes in between.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dmin2flhod4rkqxfm494k/macos_d...
Try using the same screen on Linux, take a close picture of text and compare.
3rd party monitors have the HiDPI mode disabled.
After some googling, it looks like M1 (and I guess M2) Macs don't always expose HiDPI options for 3rd party displays. That sucks. WTF is Apple doing? I'm not sure if there are workarounds or what. I will research this before buying an Apple Silicon based Mac, that's for sure.
I have a Intel Mac (latest MacOS) and have never experienced this problem with a variety of 3rd party monitors over the years. So I didn't even realize this was an issue.
Additionally, I forgot that subpixel rendering is disabled by default. You can enable it with `defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO` but I forgot that was a required step.
My cheesegrater Mac Pro with a beefy graphics card under Catalina, I was happily running 2 4K displays in HDR10, at 144Hz.
First beta of Big Sur, which came out with the Pro Display? I could drive them in HDR10 at 60Hz. 95Hz in SDR.
Was reproducible - by me, by many others.
Turn DSC 1.4 down to 1.2 on my monitors, and it got a bit better, HDR10 @ 75Hz, 120Hz SDR, IIRC.
That remained broken all through Big Sur, despite a huge number of reports.
Remained broken through Monterey too.
I believe it's fixed in Ventura, but I've since changed monitors.
Initially, people were wondering about the Pro Display's bandwidth and how it was doing 6K HDR and other USB connectivity, and it sure as hell seems like they messed with the DSC spec to make it happen, and 'screw other monitor owners'.
Honestly life has been turbulent the last few years and I just haven't had the energy to switch, even though I think everything I do at this point is easily doable in Linux anyway.
more than other personal computers/devices? how so?