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by SvenL 152 days ago
Well, at least for gaming It worked for me quite well with GeForce NOW. I have a MacBook can play here and there some games I like - as a casual gamer it’s fine. I wouldn’t bother to maintain a gaming PC for the casual gaming sessions I have. In this sense - yes, I gave up my non existing gaming PC to rent.

To be honest for 95% of stuff it would be enough to connect my smartphone via USB-C to a dock for mouse/keyboard/displays etc. (I know Microsoft had this and it was an amazing idea) For doing the non standard stuff like gaming/resource intensive development stuff I could rent a cloud pc.
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DamnInteresting 152 days ago
> To be honest for 95% of stuff it would be enough to connect my smartphone via USB-C to a dock for mouse/keyboard/displays etc.

I was blogging about this basic idea back in 2005, just over 20 years ago:

https://www.damninteresting.com/retired/mobile-phone-as-comp...

I still think it's a good idea, but it sure is being slow to materialize in a practical form factor.

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mmmlinux 152 days ago
Apple could do this if they wanted to. Hey Apple, Put the Pro back in the iPhone Pro. Give me a dock and and macOS in docked mode.
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SvenL 152 days ago
I would love that. For the things I do on my phone the hardware is so oversized - it’s really ridiculous. It’s definitely capable of running desktop things. Most of the apps out there are just webpages anyway (which are responsive).

They could basically abandon MacOS completely and focus on iOS. I mean sometimes it feels like they abandoned macOS already.

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general1465 152 days ago
30% App Store fee. Not gonna happen.
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