So the adware comes preinstalled.😆 If you buy M2 Pro level of RAM, you better know for what you need all that compute power.
It’s by far the most popular configuration of all and you know it.
If Windows isn’t the best option for gaming, what is it even good for? 🤷
If you have a Windows machine you don't really need an Xbox, IMO.
I hope you can achieve this dream in 10 years, but to my knowledge, currently Arm64 cannot surpass X86_64.
Yes, comparison lacks though. Would be better compared to a Studio with Max SoC, so you're looking at a $2k entry price vs $759 + RAM + SSD. Still wouldn't buy it though, I'd get a "proper" case.
Macs were already better computers when both ran on the same silicon. There was nothing to surpass, Windows was never leading on quality only quantity. And that's computer history with the advent of iOS.
PlayStation has a 70% global console market share versus Xbox's 30%, according to Microsoft claims on the hearing of the takeover of Activision Blizzard. That's much better than Zune.
I don't have spare money to waste, that's why I buy one Mac a decade for about €1000. Don't tell me you're cheaper, your Mini PC still has no display, keyboard, mouse, webcam, speakers and microphone!
"Your"? How is it mine? I didn't even recommend it. Reading helps sometimes. News to me that a Mini comes with all those accessories. Wonder how they fit the display into that small box. But it's clear by your statements that you're a Mac fanboy and not open to any realistic discussion. I guess the reason that Macs can't be surpassed is also the reason they're market leader everywhere and we rarely find Windows and Linux boxes anywhere. Just look at all these Macs used in cloud services, wow... oh, wait... never mind.
Sure, they are. You can lead a market by profit, by innovation or by mindshare. I'm not going to WinRumors for the latest news. Or you can lead by market share by making cheap copies of last year's Apple products. I pity the poor people who must live on Samsung and Microsoft products, now with more ads.
Don't worry about servers. These people know about the value of energy efficiency. They won't be stuck on water-cooled x86_64 with blinking LED strips.
So if you'd need a Mac Studio, you would buy one! Most people don't, which is why it is odd that the Studio is your example for why PCs are so much more affordable? You literally picked the most expensive Mac of the lineup and argued against its price. That's like saying, you can't possibly drive a Volkswagen, because the GTI Roadster Vision Gran Turismo costs $2,000,000.
No, they're not. You don't lead a market by profit, let's not have this nonsense discussion, which has been discussed before, yet people with their head in the sand still don't get it. Check the market share for hardware and OS's used. When I approach a cloud center or supplier and ask for 10000 systems, guess what would happen Mac vs. PC hardware.
But I do. I regularly buy them and rent in cloud centers. AWS is a partner. Sure they have Macs, a tiny, tiny fraction. Other partners are Oracle, same story. Check what they've built at CERN. Macs are on many places, just tiny, tiny fraction of installed hardware. We've used ARM long before Apple made the switch.
Good god, can you read?!? Doesn't seem like it, or is it the understanding?
There were years in which Apple made even more than 100% of the entire profit in the smartphone market, because Android manufacturers on average were losing money. This is how they earned a fortune to invest in their own chip design, the one which dethroned Intel and send the entire PC industry into contraction.
So profit share means nothing, because look market share?
No, you didn't. Apple was one of three companies who founded ARM and even insisted on the name change from Acorn! Whatever you do with computers, Apple did it first. They are not the largest tech company in history of mankind, because they came late to the revolution.
Nobody asked.
I referenced that a computer won't even boot without RAM and it also couldn't come with Windows 11 preinstalled, if there was no drive in it.
I'm sure those ads in the Start menu will show up in no time, but how do you even compare this ugly mess with macOS. You'd need a completely artificial benchmark to conclude that Windows is better on something.
No I don't. I compare your dual 4090 and RTX8000 (whatever that is) with an M1/8GB/256GB and you already lost, because you don't have a 4K display, a magic mouse, a keyboard with touchID, low energy consumption, silent operation, awesome speakers and the wrong color aluminium.
Personally I think the Mac mini is useless without a display and Apple doesn't produce one that's cheap enough and third-party monitors aren't good enough with less than 218ppi.
I bought my first Mac in 2009 and I never played Myst in the 1990s. Whatever your idea of a typical "hated" Mac user is, it's not me. I'm more like a convert, who recently switched from Christianity to Islam or vice versa and can't stop telling you what was so stupid about their old belief system.😇
And yet once you configure it with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD it's $140 cheaper than an equivalent Mac Mini...
https://www.eetimes.com/hp-ships-first-arm-servers/ (dating back to 2014). Great job telling me what we did and did not do back then.And have better performance than the Mini.
And be much more comparable to a Mini.
Why would two computers with the same size of RAM and SSD be in any way equivalent? The Mac mini is an overpriced useless lump of metal, because you can't possible find a decent affordable monitor for it. Windows however doesn't look any worse on a 27-inch 4K from LG. It's just everything else about this hideous black brick that's appalling. Why would I buy anything in 2023 that still has USB-A ports on it? 2015 wants its asymmetric port back!
Why would I want to return to discrete graphics after M1 demonstrated what a blessing a SoC with unified memory can be? The way forward is M1 ➞ M2 ➞ M3 ➞ M4 ➞ M... Nobody is even slightly interested in this Radeon garbage. We're waiting for power-efficient ray tracing to be implemented into mobile CPUs. The rumors go as far back as 2014.
But why? It's still crippled by all the same problems of the Windows platform. I'm grateful I escaped this garbage town. I don't want to return. After Windows 7 had fixed the Vista disaster, the announcement of "Metro" UI for Windows 8 convinced me to say, enough already. I don't want anything to do with you any more! No RTX 9999Z will convince me otherwise. You can not overcome this mess with hardware. It is philosophically a failed system. Soon enough GPUs will be larger than their PCs and swim in liquid nitrogen tanks to be properly cooled. All in the name of triple-A gaming. I hope Microsoft's $68.7B Activision acquisition goes through, this will be such an unmitigated disaster.
I guess it means we can scratch the Mini off the list of gaming capable Macs then. 😂
macOS wants to run on a Retina monitor with 218ppi. A standard 4K 27-inch monitor has 163ppi which requires downscaling and generates weird artefacts. Basically Apple's OS works best with Apple's Displays, which are darn expensive. Better to buy a Mac with a built-in display and avoid Macs with standalone displays.
No, you can strike it from the list of cheap Macs. The first Apple One was sold only as a circuit board, early users were supposed to build the rest of the computer themselves. From then on Steve Jobs knew, the Apple II had to come with a casing and a beautiful one. But till today some people insist on buying a computer without its monitor. That's like selling a car without a dashboard. Makes no sense whatsoever.
You better tell Apple, especially considering the next Mac Pro won't have a monitor either.
I'm sure they don't mind that the computer looks a lot cheaper than the whole package actually is. At least you can perfectly use an iPad Pro without Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard. They are actual accessories. But a Mac mini without display, keyboard and mouse? It's just a lump of metal and not cheap at all. This is also a reason why most people prefer laptops over desktops. The All-in-One Macintosh and later iMac are something else indeed. And cheaper than what some people pay for a graphics card. To deliver a computer with all the things you need to use it, what a revolutionary idea! Just like some anno 1995 Multimedia-PC.
