[dsimmons]

God I genuinely hope they survive!

I bought a gen1 laptop as an early adopter in part because I wanted to "vote with my dollars" and support their mission. A lot of people I know did the same.

As someone who has used Apple products in various capacities since like 2007 (MacBooks, MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros, etc...), I'm just so completely done giving that company any of my hard-earned dollars.

Setting aside the M1/M2 processor specifically, they haven't put out a good laptop in the better part of a decade.

I realized a long time ago that I'm not Apple's target audience! They're more fashion/status these days than they are a technology company.

[jshzglr]

Seems like apple silicon is really throwing a wrench in people's incessant damnation of apple.

[smoldesu]

Conversely, I think Apple Silicon has drawn the line exactly where it needs to be. It's a fine laptop, but I'm not paying more than $300 for an ARM computer until the software support isn't treated like an afterthought. By the time people actually get multi-arch builds on most of their software, I reckon we'll have moved on to RISC-V anyways.