[varispeed]

My friend has Zephyrus G16 with Core 9 Ultra and 32GB RAM. This thing is abomination. It is enough to just open a browser for fans to start "drilling". It is struggling with the basics needed for studying - browser with many tabs, few Word documents, Excel, Teams. Word sometimes is a slideshow on larger documents. Typing is lagging like you press a key and a letter appear after few seconds and so on.

After using Macs M1 and M2 I can't see how people can buy these laptops. This is massively worse experience.

[ohgr]

Standard PC experience these days. The very high end dell precision are just as bad. Getting an hour of battery life doing basic tasks after only 9 months.

Using a 2021 MBP M1 Pro MBP instead of the $3000 turd my outfit said I needed to use. It’s faster and doesn’t fuck up.

[varispeed]

One time my friend called me that she cannot do anything on this laptop, at first I was unable to figure out what is wrong. CPU usage was low, memory plenty available and yet it was a slideshow. Then it clicked - it was not plugged in.

I completely forgot about that PC laptops massively lose performance when on battery as well. Now she is always plugged in, which sort of defeats the purpose of having mobile device.

When going to uni she has to get a place with the outlet to plug it in.

Never had that problem with Mac (I can get it fully charged to work, do the whole day without plugging it in. I don't have a charger in my bag...).

Unfortunately some software she has to use only works on Windows and doesn't work well in VM (I tried on my Mac to see if it was viable, unfortunately not).

[ohgr]

Yeah that. My daughter has an M2 air and doesn’t take the charger with her any more. Doesn’t need it.