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  • If you find that macOS and the software for it lead to good productivity, I'd advise against ditching it solely for having to allow unsigned applications to run. It's a few clicks once per app.

    I didn't use Asahi myself. I'd imagine it works for quite a few people, but I personally wouldn't use it as a daily driver, because the community support is much smaller compared to popular distributions. I'd get a non-Apple computer for using Linux. You could just try it out though, obviously.






  • iCloud Mail, because using custom domains and "Hide My Email" aliases are included in iCloud+ which I have anyway (any storage subscription includes access to iCloud+), it's free and it works fairly well.

    But ProtonMail and the likes are obviously way better in terms of privacy, but iCloud Mail works for me.



  • Nothing wrong with a full-size keyboard, but "mini keyboards" didn't really target "gamers" at all at first. Most of the OG 60% keyboards like the KNC Poker weren't marketed towards gamers, and most still aren't (though they certainly work well for gaming use).

    Not sure how they are "useless", you can be as productive or more productive compared to a full-size keyboard if it suits you.


  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eetoApple@lemmy.mlMac Sales are Down
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    8 months ago

    Well, they could decide to not gimp their base models and make storage and RAM upgrades cheaper, like you say. The new base M3 MacBook Pro only exists to upsell you to a M3 Pro MacBook Pro.

    If they feel like they have to have a normal M3 MacBook Pro model, they at least shouldn't gimp it and give it 16 GB of RAM as default. Also, add another display controller to the base M3. We all know you don't do it just so you can upsell to an M3 Pro.

    Like I said in another thread, Apple (like all companies) always try to upsell and that's fine as a concept, but these days some of the lower-end products sole reason of existence is to upsell the customer to a more expensive product. Make these lower-end products good products.

    And yeah, storage and RAM upgrades should cost half as much at most. 16/512 should absolutely be the minimum default on $1,000+ computers as well.

    Also, why would people upgrade from an M1 or M2 based Mac to an M3 based one? The vast majority of people won't.