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by myrandomcomment 2868 days ago
Why? I moved from a MacPro to a MacBook because I travel to much and I did not want the extra weight. If there is something that I need to do that is CPU intensive I can just ssh to my works racks and racks of build servers and let them do the work. Laptops today for most people are nothing more then email, web, and presentation & documentation machines. Given the ability to punt the hard stuff to the cloud or remote access to your corporate systems if you are a dev, battery life, screen resolution and weight seems to be the largest driving factor in design. Also to be fair some of the benchmarks for the last Apple ARM based CPU have it beating the Intels in a few task. It is important to realize not everyone has your particular set of needs. Apple is after all a mass market company and will focus on the largest set of users.