Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "The first Copilot+ PC has been tested and it destroys the MacBook" Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 13:48:26 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 15:48:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5f67987470a1cda29a6913d1a571732b"; logging-data="3055614"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18E9Nkkp75+1fcaiSZhoBIl" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vmv89GsMoaiwQPE8SHYlnSl3ZJI= Bytes: 4733 On 2024-05-25, Andrzej Matuch wrote: > On 2024-05-24 8:09 p.m., RonB wrote: >> On 2024-05-24, Andrzej Matuch wrote: >>> >>> Having had a recent Mac for a while, I will be the first to admit that >>> the experience using their laptop is stellar, and even better if you own >>> other Apple hardware. It has power, battery life, excellent transitions >>> from iPhone to Mac and back depending on what it detects you are doing, >>> and so on. MacOS also doesn't bother you, is relatively stable, it's >>> quiet, and seems to respect your privacy a lot more than Microsoft does. >>> If I didn't already have so much invested in the Windows environment, I >>> would happily transition to the Mac. >> >> So you've gotten rid of the Mac now? That was quick. > > I kept it for less than a year, but I got rid of it because I'm not good > at having two of the same thing. I can't have two video game consoles, > two computers or two cars. Whenever I do, I wholly ignore one in favour > of the other. As I told my wife, I could never have two women in my life > either. It's just against my nature. Interesting (on having only one car, computer, etc.) — having one women just seems normal to me. > Its battery life was fantastic as was its resistance to battery wear. It > was fine for going from class to class to take attendance or to display > a page from the workbook or whatever. However, playing videos on it > through a hub often crashed the system (it might have been the fault of > the Anker hub, a cheap one I got for $40 or so, but I didn't care), and > that thing couldn't access my movies on Microsoft Films & TV. For me, > there were nothing but advantages to just use a Windows laptop. The last I heard you were happy with the Mac — though crashing (for whatever reason) would be a pain. I haven't flipped on my Mac Mini or MacBook Air in a couple months. I keep planning to sell the MacBook Air, but keep procrastinating. By the time I finally get around to it, the second hand stores probably won't even want to take it anymore. (Maybe I can hold out a little longer and sell it as an antique.) As for the Mac Mini, I have a second SSD in it with Linux installed — so that one will stick around for a while. >> The integration between smartphones and computers is apparently important to >> a lot of people. I use my smartphone so rarely that it doesn't really matter >> to me. I mostly use phones for talking and my flip phone does a great job >> for that. > > Seeing how addicted students in general have become to using cell > phones, I want to use mine as little as possible. Unfortunately, the > WiFi in my school is garbage, so I constantly have to use my phone's > data (which is fine because I get 100GB at full speed and unlimited slow > speeds). I also love to listen to podcasts, and the phone is great for > that. My wife also insists on being able to contact me through Telegram, > so I have no choice but to keep one. My wife and daughter (and a couple of my sons) live their lives on the damned smarphones. Maybe I can convince them to install Telegram on them — currently I'm the only one in the family who uses Telegram (mostly for the news on the Russia/Ukraine war). -- [Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." "It was pride that changed angels into devils..." — St. Augustine