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Aqua
ah yes give apple $9999999999999999999999999999999 for a mac that will become obsolete in a few year
ah yes give apple
$9999999999999999999999999999999 for a mac that will become obsolete in a few years
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Perksey
tbh if I switch to Mac which I am genuinely considering, my plan is to just get ...
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DragonsScales
•
11/7/23, 12:51 AM
apple really has done a good job with everything only problem with mac is I don
’t know any key shortcuts
A
Aqua
ah yes give apple $9999999999999999999999999999999 for a mac that will become ob...
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:52 AM
their hardware support is pretty good
, they
're good machines i just only want to buy one because of how locked down it is
P
Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:52 AM
i don
't want to buy a desktop mac and a macbook
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:52 AM
whereas i
'm happy to do that with windows because upgrade paths exist without replacing the whole damn thing
A
Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:52 AM
it took me a solid moment to process that you didn
't say that the only reason you wanted to buy a mac was because it is locked down
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Perksey
whereas i'm happy to do that with windows because upgrade paths exist without re...
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:52 AM
SAYING THIS THOUGH
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:52 AM
every time i have upgraded recently
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:52 AM
i have replaced the whole damn thing
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:53 AM
bar the hard drives lmfao
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Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:53 AM
how long is your pc lifecycle
? cause yeah after a certain amount of time it just makes sense to replace the whole thing
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DragonsScales
•
11/7/23, 12:53 AM
1 year
;
)
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Lyris the Kitori
•
11/7/23, 12:53 AM
i keep a computer for 5
-7 years
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:53 AM
i bought my previous build at the end of AM3
+ and bought this one at the end of AM4
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Lyris the Kitori
i keep a computer for 5-7 years
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Lyris the Kitori
•
11/7/23, 12:54 AM
thats my track record right now
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Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:54 AM
ah
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Lyris the Kitori
i keep a computer for 5-7 years
A
Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:54 AM
yeah same
, its a good lifecycle imo
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Lyris the Kitori
•
11/7/23, 12:54 AM
im just poor lmao
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Maxine
•
11/7/23, 12:54 AM
im planning to upgrade from my ryzen 3200g to a 5600x
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:54 AM
i was only able to buy this one because of a really generous donation during covid tbf
, i was prepared to hold on for another year or so
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Maxine
•
11/7/23, 12:54 AM
the most recent am4 chip
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Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:54 AM
get something thats almost too good for you now
, then as it ages it will slowly get worse and at some point youll need to replace it
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:55 AM
but yeah given Apple tends to support Macs for 6
-8 years
(or longer in some cases
)
, i
'd be happy with that upgrade cycle
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:55 AM
i just don
't want to do it for multiple items because of the apple tax
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:56 AM
like mac has got to a point where basically everything is appealing to me now except for the business practices
, which are the same old
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:56 AM
but i can overlook that with enough concessions
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Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:56 AM
not the price
?
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:56 AM
falls under business practices
A
Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:56 AM
lucky
.
A
Aqua
~~not the price?~~
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DragonsScales
•
11/7/23, 12:56 AM
they
’re worth it
, kind of
A
Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:56 AM
how so
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Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:56 AM
thats an honest question
A
Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:56 AM
i see the appeal
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:56 AM
after having used Apple Silicon on Silk
.NET CI
, those things are monsters
A
Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:56 AM
but only for certain things
A
Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:57 AM
yeah true
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:57 AM
wouldn
't say worth it
, but i
'd say i
'd be willing to pay desktop prices for it
A
Aqua
how so
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DragonsScales
•
11/7/23, 12:57 AM
heir integration with their other products for one
D
DragonsScales
•
11/7/23, 12:57 AM
their
*
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Lyris the Kitori
•
11/7/23, 12:57 AM
apple silocon is great
, if i get a mac im going to be dual booting macos and linux
A
Aqua
OP
•
11/7/23, 12:57 AM
(macs are great for content creation for example
, can
't be beat
)
but the intel ones for programming i saw no advantage over windows or linux
but the m1 ones for sure
, multithreading beasts im preatty sure
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Lyris the Kitori
apple silocon is great, if i get a mac im going to be dual booting macos and lin...
L
Lyris the Kitori
•
11/7/23, 12:57 AM
linux for actual work
, macos for testing
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:57 AM
now combine my laptop and my PC into one device
, and i can just about justify the pricetag
P
Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:57 AM
as that
's basically 2x PC budget in my head
P
Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:58 AM
ridiculous that that
's for one device
P
Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:58 AM
but hey
P
Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:58 AM
won
't matter by that point because i
'll have a do
-it
-all machine
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DragonsScales
•
11/7/23, 12:58 AM
lol true
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Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:58 AM
as much as i love my framework laptop
P
Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:58 AM
it
's very much a light computing device
P
Perksey
•
11/7/23, 12:58 AM
you
can
do intense stuff on it
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