[HN Gopher] Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be ...
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Review: The fastest of the M4 MacBook Pros might be the least
interesting one
Author : freeqaz
Score : 22 points
Date : 2024-11-12 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| brink wrote:
| Nice machines, but $600 for an extra 16GB of ram and an extra
| 512GB of storage is theft.
|
| My new AMD linux laptop compiles my projects faster than my old
| M1, and that's good enough for me. It has 32GB of ram, 4tb of
| storage, and was half the price of the equivalent Macbook. Apple
| may make the best laptops right now, but other manufacturers are
| closing the gap.
| porphyra wrote:
| Yeah that is just insane.
|
| I saw some videos from China [1] where people were upgrading
| the storage in the new M4 Mac Minis. The Mac Mini's SSD is on a
| removable pcb but it is raw nand flash as opposed to, say,
| typical m2 2230 SSDs that have a built-in controller. So they
| had to desolder it. But getting someone in China to desolder
| and upgrade the SSD to 2 TB is like 90% cheaper than buying it
| from Apple.
|
| [1] http://xhslink.com/a/o0tLp4thqsDZ
| seanmcdirmid wrote:
| Is there really much point though? With thunderbolt 5
| external storage seems really viable.
| samatman wrote:
| How much realistic battery life do you get?
|
| Can you hear the fans spin in a typical week?
| brink wrote:
| About 8 hours. That is the biggest sacrifice I make by not
| going with a Macbook. But fwiw I'm on Arch, I haven't spent
| any time on battery optimization config. I'm sure I could get
| a few extra hours if I played with the configs.
| nakovet wrote:
| It's expensive and it's good that other options are available,
| it's not insanely expensive though, the people that need the
| upgrade often make 6 figure salaries and can afford the upgrade
| although they might not like the idea of paying it, I
| personally hate it but I know when I buy the machine will last
| me at least 5 years, which is good enough for me.
| Kudos wrote:
| I took a different route and went with a Framework laptop.
| I'll be interested to see how long it takes for it to fully
| ship of Theseus.
| nakovet wrote:
| I find the cinebench benchmarks meh, every YouTuber and every
| publisher uses it, few YouTubers do more of a practical test
| which is quite more useful. I would like to see a comparison with
| older models as most people that have an m3 are not considering
| an upgrade.
| ArchOversight wrote:
| > RAM upgrades across the whole lineup. This particularly
| benefits the $1,599 M4 MacBook Air, which jumps from 8GB to 16GB
|
| The MacBook Air is still an M3 only as the highest end
| M-processor.
| zuminator wrote:
| From earlier in the article it's apparent that "Air" is a typo
| and should be "Pro."
| Kon-Peki wrote:
| It's always worth remembering that a year from now the media will
| be breathlessly talking about the M5 Macs. These M4 ones are
| fantastic machines and are a great upgrade for many, and it is
| nice to see the yearly progress. But most people who already have
| Apple Silicon computers should probably wait at least another
| year.
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