Beat me to it. This alone is why the article is a joke. Who uses Edge!!??
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Forbes goes in hard with damming review on M1 Pro
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If you're a web developer it matters a lot - Edge is the second most used desktop browser after Chrome.
I mean Edge is Chromium, so it’s basically the same as Chrome, so you don’t exactly need to use Edge even as a web developer. They should work exactly the same.
In theory, that should be the expectation, but on my W10 laptop at work, I notice a lot less CPU usage and high fan speed using Chromium Edge vs using Chrome.
I’m saying pages render and function the same. Microsoft has tweaked things to be more efficient.
Forbes. Be smart and never click on any links to Forbes. If you are getting news/info from there you have MUCH bigger problems than which computer to buy.
That's typical of Apple forums, but every contrarian fancies themselves the oh-so-oppressed, only-sensible one. It's tiring.
Apple fandom is very strong with the M1. Apple could have built a kill switch into the machine that renders the machine useless after 2 years and many members would still defend Apple. It's enjoyable to read to see the lengths people will go to to defend Apple against any negativity 
Forbes is a joke. About once a week they have an article about a "nasty little surprise about your iPhone"
Seriously? You actually believe that?
Headlines like “A Slow-Motion Dumpster Fire” are “almost but not quite criticizing”?
Every critic claims he’s “the only one willing to speak the truth”.
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Marketing 101. Apple only gives review models to those who post pretty. Those who step out of line don't get review models. The volume of flag waving reviews drowned out anybody else who said anything negative. It's a classic Apple Marketing tactic we see every product release. This Forbes reviewer simply took an alternate approach by skipping the stuff you know about and reporting the issues he's encountered. I think it's a pretty clever piece that drives home the lack of objectivity in the Apple 'review' press.
So he’s purposely using I compatible software from the perspective of “I’m a regular user so how would I know the difference between native and not?”. Which is fine and a fine thing to do.
What I don’t understand is how in the world he chewed through the battery so fast. It seems to be universal amongst heavy benchmarking, gaming, literally throwing anything at it that the M1 machines have terrific battery life any way you look at it....so I’m at a loss as to the battery claims this author is making and why he didn’t include any actual information beyond how quickly he killed it.
What I don’t understand is how in the world he chewed through the battery so fast. It seems to be universal amongst heavy benchmarking, gaming, literally throwing anything at it that the M1 machines have terrific battery life any way you look at it....so I’m at a loss as to the battery claims this author is making and why he didn’t include any actual information beyond how quickly he killed it.
I don't know if this has been mentioned but that Edge error came while he was updating Big Sur in the background. He probably hasn't even finished letting macOS finish up all the stuff it needs to do on a clean install. Tech reviewer indeed.
And yet, here you are. Victim card declined.
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But why would it? Because its genuine a great step up from intel. That's no fandom.Apple fandom is very strong with the M1. Apple could have built a kill switch into the machine that renders the machine useless after 2 years and many members would still defend Apple. It's enjoyable to read to see the lengths people will go to to defend Apple against any negativity
The crashes reported in this article constantly happen on Windows 10 too so ...
Quite frankly ANY group of people that meets physically or virtually on a mutual basis is going to have a general underlying direction.
I've been on these forums for about 13 years and this place is full of ALL points of view, good, bad, and ugly.
If you think that Apple isn't going to be able to see what is wrong with their products because of some website, you aren't able to see the bigger picture. This site has scathingly highlighted some of Apple's biggest flops and shortcomings which have, in turn, been picked up by national media.
And if you also think this website could drive Apple to, as you say "The Abyss", maybe you should get out more and deal with real world experiences and people, and less with a supposedly problematic and fan'ish website. I'm going to guess that somewhere in the area of >99% of Apple's customers have never even visited these forums so Apple's $2,000,000,000,000 value is pretty safe.
I know it's harder these days with COVID scaring so many people into hermit mode, but trust me, it's worth opening your views a bit more.
I won’t speak to the article. I’ll speak to the publication. Decades ago I had a higher opinion of them. I haven’t seen anything I want to read from that publication for many years. I view them along the lines of The National Equirer.
Forbes seems to hate on Apple devices as a general rule and they play a lot of clickbait games with iPhone-related news, sometimes using just one or two Twitter posts to argue systematic issues might exist. Many of their points about the current limitations are valid, but they completely glossed over all of the positive aspects. It's really not a balanced perspective.
However, the point about lack of objectivity with Apple reviews is potentially valid--some reviewers will give Apple huge amounts of praise while missing (or outright ignoring) everything ranging from minor annoyances to bugs to outright design flaws. This is partly a reason why I don't upgrade early on in a product's lifecycle as reviews rarely report the not-so-great parts of the owner experience.
However, the point about lack of objectivity with Apple reviews is potentially valid--some reviewers will give Apple huge amounts of praise while missing (or outright ignoring) everything ranging from minor annoyances to bugs to outright design flaws. This is partly a reason why I don't upgrade early on in a product's lifecycle as reviews rarely report the not-so-great parts of the owner experience.
“Complains about not being able to use Micro$oft Edge on Mac”.
Please, get real, even on Windows people don’t use Edge. Not to mention how are they trying to force people to use Edge, that’s a story for another time.
Please, get real, even on Windows people don’t use Edge. Not to mention how are they trying to force people to use Edge, that’s a story for another time.
I’m running Outlook, Word, OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint and Skype just fine. And they’ll be even better when native.
They aren’t really a publication these days so much as a blogging platform. Their “contributors” often have their own agendas. One frequent aerospace contributor, for example, is actually a lobbyist for Lockheed Martin.
I imagine a substantial portion of Edge users are in managed corporate environments and have no choice in the matter. I still see IE installed for purposes of running legacy Java Apps, though that can usually be done in a chromium extension.