[b7we5b7a]

Some anecdata from daily cold booting my MacBook Pro 16' 2019:

- Slack is very reactive, displays a spinner in <2s, takes a few seconds (<10s) to fully load and draw - perfectly acceptable

- Outlook (new experience mode) is a bit slower, takes a few seconds extra to draw, but is still reasonably fast and manageable considering the amount of data it handles - still reasonable, although a bit laggy at times

- New Teams ® (released somewhen Q3-Q4 2023) takes >15s to open or display anything, >15s to draw, >5s to switch across organizations, >1s switching chat tabs in the same org

I'm not spending 3k$ every 2-3 years because "my computer is the problem".

We need to force devs to use and test on non-workstation machines, that don't have 64GB of RAM and the latest CPU/NVMe drive, especially for Electron apps, which open an entire browser copy for each application.

[seec]

The only reason you would need to spend 3K is because of Apple. You could spend half that and get a similar/better computer that would last as long. Or spend as much and get something that would significantly outlast any Mac of the same price, at least from a performance point of view.

Apple has been absurdly milking its consumer for quite a while now, without much merit in the form of technological advantage.

It's not the fault of software companies if Apple hardware is overpriced, they don't have to care, their hardware are cheap enough...