Sujet : Re: Two points
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 02. Dec 2024, 06:44:38
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On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 21:47:59 -0500, -hh wrote:
On 12/1/24 7:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 14:29:48 -0500, -hh wrote:
On 11/29/24 4:54 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On 29 Nov 2024 14:52:53 GMT, vallor wrote:
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2) I own two Mac mini's, which are sitting in a drawer. They were
made from notebook equipment, and they are crap.
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Since they switched to ARM, everything named “Mac” from Apple is now
a glorified notebook anyway.
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Which makes it sound like notebooks haven't advanced in the past 20
years to be as powerful as many desktops.
They are fundamentally compromised just from the form factor.
Your opinion doesn't really matter, because Free Market decided a long
time ago that notebooks had passed the 'Good Enough' test ...
I’m sure the market likes them a lot, but the market cannot change the
laws of physics either: I can always do more with the resources of a
desktop than I can with an equivalently-specced laptop, if I don’t need
the mobility of the latter.
First, it's not you, but the user's workflow which determines what the
sustained load may be.
I do content creation a fair bit. Sure, most users aren’t doing that. Most
users don’t need workstations, either.