@altair21
This thread is going a little all over the place and completely outside the original topic
So i will keep my response restricted
1) On your point on printers - no one likes it if their printer gets locked for proprietary ink and such.
However with the traditional/established pricing model, it would be silly to expect HP or anyone to sell full blown ink printers for a price of 3K (e.g. just the bw+color print heads alone cost close to that and no one will ever argue that a fairly complex piece of tech for 1500/- is overpriced)
I think you got my point wrong, any printer you get from a brand like Epson wont be that much more expensive, and its not just cheaper options as you have pointed out, even their more premium models come with the same bullshit, you can search on reddit for as many threads about it as you want. And this is just one example, I can give you multitude of other usecases, where OEM bullshit is over the top but I agree with you, this is not the thread for it.
Every manuf does this , not just HP. Gillette started this with their razors - its in fact formally called the razor-razorblade business model.
To complain post-facto that cartridges are locked and expensive is disingenuous to say the least.
Nope its not, I can write entire pages on it but a quick reddit search will be far better for you to get some context on. Plus I'm lazy
2) On your point on MacOS being restrictive/ non-restrictive
I'll repeat that MacOS is not restrictive, and in fact windows is a lot more restrictive (not to mention inconsistent) but you dont hear anyone complaining about that
I never said MacOS is restrictive, please read my reply again, I said
Apple and its
Hardware choices are restrictive. I mean come on, even you will agree its ****ing bullshit that my whole mac is ****ed if my NAND fails, I already linked you a Louis Rossman video where he shows just how it happens, and the worst thing because of how its soldered on the board, a short on the NAND will fry your
entire motherboard and again if Louis is too much of a shill for you, you'll find countless threads on reddit repeating the same thing I said ad nauseam.
And lets even forget this, have you seen the memory/storage upgrades that Apple offers, Apple doesnt even offer top of the line SSDs and yet will happily charge you over 10 times its cost in upgrades. Need I say more? I can wax lyrical about the bullshit that an iPhone comes with, but again not the for this.
Since you wanted examples, here are three that i faced just within the last days:
1)try disabling the Antimalware service executable chances are you will find you cannot do it even via the group policy editor on win pro- As in of course you can disable it on the screen but windows wont honor its own policy
2) Forced updates : My ally hung while I was on a commute leaving me no option but to force restart - you probably already know what happened next. Lets just say that the battery and time were both drained out while windows did its thing!
3) try accessing any Windows platform App (UWP app from MS store) , hell try accessing even the folder they sit in and tell me what you find
I have never defended Windows, in fact link me a thread here and I'll happily rant for hours against windows in it and I'll repeat what I have said before, look into debloated windows, it'll change your life for windows laptops, I can help out in DMs if you want.
To repeat something i have said earlier, folks who buy a mac do so for their relative merits while being aware of the demerits. Most, if not all, know very well that a 16GB upgrade on a dell /HP will cost half (or less) than that on a mac yet they choose otherwise. Some (like I) make this mistake repeatedly.
and I said, the merits of mac does not justify the bullshit Apple brings and the precedent it sets in the market, I'll repeat my quote once again, if enough folks instead of going along with whatever bullshit Apple brings, just said, "**** off, I ain't buying this", we would have a way better market
along with more consumer rights, I never said it doesnt have its merits, I just said its merits atleast for me does not cancel out the bullshit that comes with it.
More often than not, they also tend to be older buyers who couldn't care less about the so called show-off factor of a Mac.
Most, probably all have also used Windows extensively
Many also tend to be active or at least erstwhile Linux users ! Wonder why that is?
And there are many, who buy just to get that shiny Apple logo, wanna bet which group has more peeps in it?
@desiibond , I agreed with all your points, but my point was you wont feel the difference between a traditional memory model and the unified one, I mean will it affect speeds when you are doing something ridiculous like editiing multiple 4k video projects? heck yea, will you feel the difference in general day to day usage or even intensive stuff? Heck no, Unified memory comes into play when you need to quickly load in assets or whatever in VRAM and you need to quick access to it, And even then while its fast, its not
that fast. in 99% of usecases you wont need it, atleast on a mac, I'd rather have the flexibility of memory upgrades.
Check out Digital FOundry's review of Ratchet and Clank, which is the game which
heavily relies on PS5's unified memory arch for its asset streaming and see how it compares to the PC port and yes while the difference is there and PS5 is faster, atleast for me its not significant enough to forego the flexibility of memory upgrades, if memory serves me, on a souped up system with a top-end Gen 4 NVME, the loading times were just a couple of seconds apart, certainly not enough to notice in daily usage considering the fact, you wont ever saturate your memory like this unless you are gaming or video editing.
And you can check out video editing benchmarks on PC vs Mac to get an idea how they compare. But anyways what I wanted to say was. I'd rather Snapdragon stick with the traditional approach than go with a unified memory model like in the Elite.