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by diffeomorphism 673 days ago
From my recent purchase decision:

14 macbook pro, 32gb of ram, 1tb of storage, 120Hz high res sceen: 2900€

HP Elitebook, same specs, same weight, etc.: 1200€

https://www.campuspoint.de/hp-elitebook-845-g11-sondermodell...

Surely, the macbook pro will be better in some ways but at that price difference "better" is just not good enough.

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A Macbook Air M3 is significantly faster than this HP Elitebook in for example compilation tasks.

I don’t know about all of you but in my day to day work I compile code very often, and I used personally a work issued M2 Air and a work issued HP Elitebook Raptor Lake. The M2 Air was leaps faster, leaps.

Some older and more traditional colleague who had a Alder Lake workstation laptop was surprised how much faster the M2 was to his machine.

The M3? No, the opposite. It is pretty much a wash with the M3 Pro and for 3x the price this is not at all "significant".