I tried open office/libreoffice and while good office suites, MS Office is better in many ways, especially if there is a collaborative need and the rest of the team is using MS Office.
I definitely think its intentional. Not I'm going to get sued for antitrust level intentional, but the budget, focus and developers are on the windows side, imo.
Off topic, but a thing that gets me is I think there were people in the 80s who'd take one of those early Macs to the office each day. I guess the Plus needed an outing every day! I had a SE, and it was enough of a pain during a short period when I didn't have a good place for it to stay permanently at home.
I have my grandfather's Rabbit 286 sitting in my closet. It's a "portable computer" nearly the size of my home-built desktop but weighing what must be 50 lbs more! Apparently he must have carried that around.
im surprised to hear that about the 6800h spec computer as my lenovo laptop runs a 6800hs which is a slightly lower wattage version of the 6800h and its always been a snappy laptop. I still almost always go to pick up my macbook air as i much prefer the smaller form factor but i still keep my lenovo around. Might sell it as i doesnt see much use now that my career path has changed again. Still have a soft spot for my windows laptops so its hard to sell off lolI have my grandfather's Rabbit 286 sitting in my closet. It's a "portable computer" nearly the size of my home-built desktop but weighing what must be 50 lbs more! Apparently he must have carried that around.
So, I actually used my M1 Mini for something! Son's birthday party is coming up and I needed to make a movie which is essentially all of our cell phone videos stitched together.
I originally started with Microsoft Clipchamp on my Dell. It's fine? As someone with experience using Premiere Pro and Shotcut, Clipchamp was pretty intuitive. It's just a bit much though for what needed to be a quick, basic project. It also felt a bit slow at times, although this particular laptop always feels really slow despite its specs (Ryzen 7 6800h).
Enter the Mini and iMovie. I was originally very frustrated with it. Two tracks, and it really doesn't want me putting video on the top track? But once I started working the way it wanted me to work? Beautiful. Drag the clip in, snap to the previous. Drag, snap, drag, snap. Pop transitions into the spaces between them. Just neat.
I guess that means I've flipped back to the Mini for a bit.
It's probably the fault of Dell. I have some audio issues with it too, which were a feature of a previous Dell I had. I'd love to get rid of it, but I don't feel strongly enough to deal with the hassle (and theoretically it'll be good for Cities Skylines II). For now, it mostly sits in a convenient little cubby built into my desk.
Could always do a clean wipe and fresh windows install. Usually all the bloatware crap they put into it that wrecks most the stuff lol
Back in the heyday of AOL. CompuServe, Norton, etc, you would not even believe the crap they would preinstall on computers. Sometimes they would barely boot up there would be so many startup programs. Horrible. It still sucks, but since I never deal with hardware anymore, I am not sure to what degree they still do it.
Good to hear the update.
My relationship with my watch is complicated. Without boring you all with the details, what does it do that improves my life? Absolutely nothing. Yeah I can see the weather on it, and the time of course. I was exercising long before the apple watch, it adds little to my workouts. I won't stop using it, but I don't see any need to spend $$ on upgrading or replacing it. I think maybe once the battery dies, or it falls off of support, I'll just stop using it
Not sure what site you're buying your used products from, but it seems as a general rule these bulk listings of used tech often have highly misleading conditions. It's a crapshoot, they're basically tested for key functions and if they aren't banged up they go into the generic listing.
Yup very happy. Will still likely pick up a Pixel 8 if the Tensor G3 isn't rubbish.
Ha! Well a year ago, I had an M1 Macbook Air, M1 iPad Pro, and the watch, airpods, iPhone...so it seems like a lot less!!! I haven't been without a mac since 2009 maybe?That's a fair amount
