Path: ...!s1-3.netnews.com!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us11.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=?j7bg[_U08?o:B7l=o;^c3HWonT5<]0T=djI?Uho:Xe;lL51CP6LDL<95GMl]75=81nEA;LeB6J[?Wim7Li1M05>bA42oJX=@0 X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net From: Joel Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "The first Copilot+ PC has been tested and it destroys the MacBook" Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 14:28:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OS: Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, with Wine 9.0 for WinAPI Lines: 60 NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1716575296 reader.netnews.com 2363136 127.0.0.1:38357 Bytes: 3982 Tyrone wrote: >On May 24, 2024 at 12:47:14?PM EDT, "Joel" wrote: >> Tyrone wrote: >>> On May 24, 2024 at 10:03:31?AM EDT, "Andrzej Matuch" wrote: >>> >>>> I agree that they should have compared processors with the same number >>>> of cores. However, the point these reviewers want to make is that at the >>>> price it will cost, the Snapdragon will beat what is available at the >>>> same price from the competition. >>> >>> If that's all they have then again, Apple has nothing to worry about. Macs >>> have always been "overpriced and underpowered", yet Macs are now 20% of the >>> market and Windows is down to 70%. I remember when it was 4% Macs and 95% >>> Windows. >> >> I think the gains Apple has made in the desktop/laptop market are what >> we've always wanted to see Linux do, but it can't because normal >> people barely know what it is. macOS, though, is commercial, and >> sleeker than Winbloat, so it offers an alternative people are aware >> of. I would never again buy a Mac, but I like that they offer >> something to drive M$ toward a better paradigm, competition works. >> Linux remains my style, as a computer nerd, but macOS offers a >> similarly functional OS for more mainstream people. > >Normal people don't even know what an "Operating System" is. Nor do they >want/need to know. All they know is Apple laptops look different from >Dell/Lenovo/HP/whoever laptops. > >The only thing that prevents Linux from becoming useful for mainstream users >is that the people writing it are not really interested in doing that. Linux >is written by computer geeks for computer geeks. Thus it appeals to a small >subset of computer users. Nothing wrong with that. It is what it is. > >It would take a company to take Linux, make it pretty AND easy to use with >lots of standard apps AND well supported AND pre-installed on computers. > >Nevermind, Apple already did that. But they used Unix instead. Same idea. I pretty much agree. Apple offers one a commercial Unix-based platform, Microsoft simply doesn't have the sleekness of that. WSL 2 isn't the answer, either. For a typical person, wanting a device to perform, in an environment that is functional like Linux, but "easy to use", macOS is a fairly strong competitor. -- Joel W. Crump Amendment XIV Section 1. [...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.