Frustrated Windows 10 users are jumping ship to macOS.
You mean having an AI watch everything you do isn’t a good selling point?
“despite”
I mean MacOSX put AI in the OS, Siri, and all their apps as well so I can’t really see how the change would be do to AI. Privacy maybe
On MacOS, at least for now, AI isn’t prominent at all. I’ve been using an M4 Air for a month before I remembered that Apple Intelligence was a thing and had to google how to use it. So far it only seems to be partially available in 1st party Apple apps which I don’t use anyway.
Mail, Messages, Notes, Phone, Photos, Reminders, Safari, Shortcuts are all being integrated. That’s outside of the whole image creation, integration into smartlook (basically windows search), and whatever else I can’t think of at the moment. The one good thing I’ve seen is that you can turn it off. But it does scan your text to provide synonyms, summaries, rewordings… And that’s just what it shows when I click intro.
As I said, those are all 1st party applications. I don’t see it anywhere being OS-wide. And what’s “smartlook”? Do you mean Spotlight? I haven’t seen any AI in Spotlight, but I also haven’t installed (the janky) Tahoe yet.
Yeah sorry I meant spotlight, smartlook is another tool I was thinking about for a different company. (Intuit, unrelated screen sharing I got the names crossed in my head). And yes Tahoe is the product that has those features.
Yeah, I think that apple isn’t as pushy as Microsoft (they can be stubborn sometimes) when it comes to AI, not to mention that apple intelligence feels like a response to the market more than something they actually wanted (mostly due the fact it feels half-backed and rushed)
Also they haven’t had many privacy scandals as Microsoft (as far as I can remember, the Siri was the only one in modern times, besides some zero exploits in the wild)
Apple has its own can of worms, but privacy usually isn’t the issue. At least in comparison to other tech giants.
It stays out of your way though. Windows wants it to be your entire pc interface so they can charge you monthly for it eventually
Unfortunately the word ‘despite’ has been badly damaged as a result of the improper loads applied by this headline. It looks like it’ll be out of action for at least a couple months, maybe past the end of the season.
despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs
Not despite, because of.
Not only
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Went to Linux on the old laptop. A smoothing transition as we were using Libreoffice for a few years before. For most people it is not the OS but the apps that stop you moving off Windows.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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There are very few sellers that have pre-installed Linux laptops which is what majority of people buy. So Linux is automatically discarded as an option in all those sales.
This is the way!
“Despite”
For anyone who has to/wants to stay on win 10 for whatever reason, here’s a FOSS guide for enabling ESU updates, of course brought to you by a furry.
https://bsky.app/profile/socksthewolf.com/post/3m2depgbys22e
Privacy on Windows is EOL, so Windows is too.
If you really need x86 for games, there’s SteamOS.
It was EOL long long ago
The difference was that the user experience was reasonable
I wish there was a Linux or BSD OEM that sells the same build quality/QA/QC as Apple.
I only know of https://system76.com/ but have no personal experience with them.
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I’ve had pretty good luck with there support
However, my lemp11 is missing a bunch of screws and the firmware implementation leaves room to be desired
People are dumb, as I always suspected.
There’s really no good reason to buy a new laptop that isn’t a MacBook. If you’re gaming on a laptop you have no real good options. None of them are real portable laptops, they’re desktop replacements and they’re just worse than a desktop in every way and cost more. Unless you’re streaming (e.g. GeForce Now) and then you can do that on a MacBook. I don’t think Macs lead laptops in affordability, but the value is there — they last for years, and they last a long time on a charge. And hey, I can run Cyberpunk on mine, so that’s neat.
For a desktop, it’s a bit dicier. It’s hard to argue with the M4 Mac mini at $500, with 16GB RAM, but I think you can do a little better with miniature PCs. I don’t think $500 of PC beats the M4 Mac mini though, I’m just saying you can get one cheaper. Like there are mini PCs on Amazon for like $200-300 that look decent for most of what the Mac mini does. They do tend to come with Windows, but you can easily put Linux on it and then I can’t say anything about Windows and its bullshit.
Honestly, if you’re not a gamer, consider a Mac. It’s nice over here. Just go to an Apple Store and play with one. They’ll let you. Best Buy has them too. And if someone does come up, don’t worry, they aren’t pushy, I don’t think they get commissions, or at least they don’t act like they do. Feel free to tell them what you want out of a computer. See what they have to offer. I just think it’s a cleaner OS, and as someone who has 30+ years of Windows experience, I’ve been a Mac user a little over 2 years, and I took right to it, and I love it. It really is joyous to use. But they’re more for creative types, and not really for gamers.
To this day I still don’t understand the appeal of gaming laptops outside of maybe college kids. Phenomenal calculation power, itty-bitty airflow space.
Battery life of 15 minutes
I have one I take on business trips and it let’s me still play video games with my friends on weekdays, its fantastic.
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Don’t know why this has so much downvotes, but clearly people do love to hate something they don’t understand.
The M series chips that Apple has is hands down amazing. Low power usage, fast, and doesn’t heat up like any other PC chip. This translates to low fan noise, no laptop/surface burn, long battery life. It’s also somewhat of a contender for light local AI use. To put the cherry on top, the build quality supersedes any other brands on the market by scale and price. One would be foolish to not get a Mac laptop if you don’t want to dabble with Linux.
Apple PC
So many Apple users’ eyes just twitched
