Apple MacBook M-series

The M-series Macbooks have been some of the best machines I've ever used. Why do they seem so intent on ruining that streak?

How does this compare with Parakeet? I've been using that locally in my projects on an M-series macbook and it's been working great. It's fast and accurate enough for my use cases (meeting transcription, audio transcription for demo videos, etc.) This definitely seems lighter and faster. How does accuracy compare?

I am very much a Linux person, I have been running Linux on my personal computers (and mostly on my work machine) for 20 years. But in the last few years I changed company and had to work on an M-series Macbook, and the battery life is absolutely amazing . For people who mostly use their browser and a few programs, I understand why they would want to use a Macbook. I mean, I can go for a full weekend without charging it, and I do programming stuff where I compile regularly .

My 12" powerbook from 2002 lasted well into 2011 until I formally retired it by giving to a mate. Most of my macbook airs have lasted at least 7 to 8 years. None have actually died and were still intact, but I just gave them away, so I don't know how much longer they lasted. My 2015 macbook pro (pre butterfly) is still going strong today; I did a battery replacement myself which was a huge pain in the arse, so it definitely feels replenished. I have replaced many of my family members laptops with M-series laptops, nay issue, and I have a feeling they'll easily go a decade, though at some point they'll all need the battery replaced (but I will probably just have Apple do it this time - unless it is easy now with the repair manuals being available by Apple).

I have the opposite experience. First my FW 13 came with the dodgy hinges where picking up the FW the screen flops 180 degrees. The cost to upgrade the hinge is like $30 AUD but costs like $40 AUD in shipping which is bloody ridiculous. Battery life is awful, about 4 hours if I'm lucky in Linux. The speakers are trash. The display quality is bad, I have a grey line of pixels when the screen is dark (thankfully they're not an issue when the screen is lit). The trackpad is trash. Sometimes a modular usb port doesn't work after powering the laptop, you need to eject and reseat it. The fan is really noisy. I just can't stand using the FW over my M-series Macbooks, the difference is night and day.

Are you talking about a mac? I have not had these issues on my 8gb M series laptop.

Apple hardware is absurdly good. Airpods, amazing, redefined what wireless headphones are. M-series macbooks, amazing, new benchmark in performance per core and battery life. Plenty of older products too that either created the category or completely dominate it. Apple software, on the other hand, feels like a totally different company. Stuff like Siri is miles behind the ball, things like Airplay (IME) are flaky with little recourse when they don't work, Liquid glass is slower feeling and a noticeable battery hog. Apple music still has more hiccups and random play stoppage than Spotify. I really, really like the hardware, but apple software needs some competition. Half of the features in the last 2-3 iOS releases were in Cydia over a decade ago.

Delusional take. Rosetta is for maintaining compatibility during the transition. Efficiency is fine with Rosetta. But it doesn’t matter because the ARM transition is essentially already done. Not true, unfortunately, for Windows. Aside from superior performance and battery life (even compared to ARM windows offerings), the M series devices are generally reliable, unlike windows laptops running Intel and (less so) AMD.

Personally, I feel passionately about being held back from innovating due to legal and corporate anti-competitive barriers. I feel that these artificial barriers contribute to a less competitive environment and increases the problem of e-waste. # The barriers put in place by companies to prevent their hardware from being tinkered with Locked bootloaders and the absence of hardware documentation to base the development of drivers on is an example of this. This prevents the community from taking over when a device reaches end of life or expanding a device to be more useful/open than the company originally intended. Examples of this are: - Apple's M-series Macs/MacBooks. While the hardware is remarkable, Apple's anti-competitive practices manifest in MacOS holding the devices back from their potential. Asahi Linux is an indicator of demand and its success is remarkable given what they are up against. If Apple was compelled to provide reference documentation of their hardware sufficient for driver development then the resulting alternative operating systems introduces competition to an otherwise stagnant market. - Microsoft's Surface laptops and broadly the new X-Elite hardware lineup shares the same criticism as Apple's platform - Mobile phones. Imagine an iPhone running Android. Imagine a Galaxy, Pixel, etc running Linux where Android apps are executed within Waydroid containers? Not going to happen because we are either blocked by bootloaders or blocked by a lack of drivers (d…