My advice: buy a windows. Mac sucks for gaming and it’s ugly as hell. I don’t know why you like Apple over Windows laptops, but Windows has the power, I don’t know what kind of currency you’re in, but in New Zealand, $5000 could get you a rather powerful gaming laptop to run war thunder on high graphics at 60 FPS, Macbooks will never get that powerful. Even a $1000 laptop, which is what I use, has an Intel I5-10210U, 8GB DDR4, Intel UHD 620 integrated is enough to run war thunder on minimum graphics at 30 FPS.
TLDR: Buy windows, Macbooks aren’t for gaming. AT ALL.
and even in the Industries where macbooks are “industry standard” like Photography and Graphics Design, etc. They are being replaced by Windows fairly rapidly. Though there is a lot of old stereotypes to be replaced.
That’s true, in my opinion they aren’t good for anything, they were great computers when I was in primary school - but it was them or old chromebooks that didn’t work. As soon as I touched a windows I was instantly converted ahahaha. It’s just so much cleaner and so much more powerful for a cheaper price. Not sure if this is true or not but someone told me Macbooks use one chip for everything - CPU, GPU, RAM, which is just a mess and leads to a horribly performing laptop, although on the plus side makes it very slim, so good for travelling. Not to mention they’re really overpriced.
Apps that used the OS (hard to explain) but that means app open and run faster
But these days, non-mac computers have just closed that gap and more and more a good GPU is just invaluable. The IT guys at my College hated the Macs, they broke all the time, were impossible to fix and cost 3-5x more than an equal performance PC. One told me they spent a year fighting for a grant for £15k ish to buy 20 decent PCs for computer science courses but easily got a grant for £30k to buy 10 new Macs.
Oh that’s cool. I’m 16 and I mean, I’m kinda too broke to afford a proper laptop, so my old broken school computer has to have ethernet and an external keyboard to run, but ethernet is a big advantage. Internet speed went up from about 20/30 mbps to 80/90.
I’ve only ever used them at school back when I was year 3 - 6, age 7 - 10. None of this mattered as we didn’t have to download anything, and it was all just writing. They were still much more expensive than even a chromebook, which, realistically was just as powerful for the work we were doing. No idea why my school got them.
Yeahhh but that doesn’t really matter much to me, and anyway, like you said most windows/linux laptops and others have gotten better.
Absolutely wild. I hate Mac and I mean yeah sure they work but WHY would you get it.
Old stereotypes, the fact htey were industry standard like 15 years ago and therefore they must be the only options these days. In my college and uni courses Macs were the standard (though I did most of the work on my own Windows Laptop) but whenever I did use a Mac, I plugged my own windows mouses in, No right click just broke me
Those people ended up breaking it TWICE. Once when she brought it in to get serviced, came back and the keyboard didn’t work, so we brought it back to get fixed, they said it would cost $400 to fix the keyboard, so we decided not to fix it, and it came back and the wifi doesn’t work anymore.
Well that’s the thing. 15 years is a long time when speaking about technology development, be it digital or not technology advances at an incredible rate.
I don’t understand this bit because I haven’t used macbooks in ages, but one of my friends has a macbook with an apple mouse, I don’t understand how to use it
Huehue, my house had fibre, and ethernet was run through the house, but the garage was my wifi link.
So I’d have my PC in the house, and be streaming the game over the wifi to the garage to be able to be messing about out there, and still be able to queue and jam a match or 2 in breaks.
Server cabinets everywhere though, I’ve accumulated 4 of them, 3 fullsize and a half size that resides in my bedroom holding my nas, switches and various test rigs.
Basically to right click you pressed and held what is essentially ctrl on the keyboard and then “left clicked”. Just felt like unncessary extra steps. I also hated the ultra low DPI they had the mouses set to. I had mine like 5x higher. My lecturers hated helping me :D