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by jaimex2 37 days ago
The only thing Apple silicon has going for it is power use and that gap is getting closed. I can't really see any reason why I would switch to Mac, it just seems like you pay a lot more for a closed expensive environment that fights you at every step.

I'll never pay anyone for a developer licence or fee either. They can sponsor me to port my software to their platform.
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zer0zzz 37 days ago
Is it? I recently paid $999 for a pre-build intel mini-pc system thats best case in line in perf with a M2 from four years ago. That seems roughly the same as what I'd paid for an equivalent mac mini in the past, and I thought prices for custom builds were going up quite a bit too?
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traderj0e 37 days ago
Mac lets you run any software you want, but I understand the principle of not wanting to support them.
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