oren @oren

Complaints about Apple silicon Macs when they were first released:

  1. Low base RAM (FIXED with M4 chips, 16gb is standard)✅

  2. Egregious upgrade prices (Not fixed)❌

  3. No way to use external GPUs (FIXED because the integrated GPUs are actually good enough)✅

  4. Small SSDs (Not fixed but also not a very strong complaint, because you can plug in external SSDs) ⚠️

  5. Bad repairability (They have been getting better on publishing repair details and making parts available, but Macs are still physically hard to repair, even if you know how) ❌

Oct 29, 2024, 4:07 PM
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chiroyce @chiroyce Nov 5, 2024, 4:09 PM

i dont agree with 3: its good but not enough to beat similarly priced windows laptops with RTX 40 series GPUs (they support CUDA too)… and point 4: 256gb as base is just SAD, if they upped that to 512 like they did with the RAM (8 → 16) then that’d be great
oren @oren Nov 5, 2024, 5:14 PM

Yeah, but I feel like I haven’t heard complaints about it for a long time though.