Mastodawn

I have now completed two full working weeks with an M4-processor Apple laptop running MacOS. I had heard a lot about how amazing and fast these things are, and let me tell you: no

utter horseshit, the speed is pretty unremarkable (it's fine) but the OS itself reminds me of 2007-era linux (nothing works quite right, random UI elements lag, text scaling doesn't meaningfully work, every program comes with a quirks list because each model is apparently differently broken)

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@khm

Thank you for this. I had a similar experience with an earlier M-processor machine, where the Tame Apple Press were reporting it was clearly a million times faster than any x86 machine etc etc, I got one for a very specific purpose, and ...

It was slow. Not just "not a million times faster than an equivalent x86", but actually noticeably slower than an x86 machine that cost half as much (and came with four times as much storage, but that's another Apple gripe).

#propaganda #cult #CultOfJobs #Apple #TameApplePress