@TOTOSA, of course, a macbook is better for doing editing and video stuff they are more a type of only hard work machine but who needs more power when an m1 is better for price and performance
@@totosa2713 everyone hates them for the past when apple used intels for macb9oks and the price was 1300€/$ and the performance was worse than a good windows laptop. And everyone hates the apple why to choose prices like the ipad 9 was 329€/$ base 64gb and now the 10 gen is 530€/$ base 64gb
I got a Mid 2010 MacBook (polycarbonate) for £25 in the UK a year and a half ago and so far it’s done a great job of getting me through my College years. I upgraded it to 6GB RAM and installed a Crucial MX500 512GB SSD to make a big difference in system responsiveness (I’m well aware of the SATA 2 limitations). Cost something like £75 in the end seeing that the RAM was already lying around in my household
I have a dell optiplex 7010 from 2011 i upgraded the psu the ram to 32gb to a 256gb ssd and 2tb of storage hdd and a core i7 3770 cpu and a nvidia gtx 1050ti runs all my games fine the gpu is from 2016 i should upgrade probs but it runs what i need just fine and i game on linux
I remember as a kid in the 00s when you would use a 3 year old laptop you could feel see and hear the difference. New games would bug, downloads were slow, ram would get overloaded, etc. But nowadays, even 5 year old phones are still perfectly usable. My gaming PC I built in 2018 runs anything I throw at it and my work laptop from 2019 is still lightning quick in adobe. 16 gb of ram on a 4.8 ghz processor with a 2tb m.2 is as good then as it is now, so there’s no point in upgrading.
@@pk-so1mjI was going to upgrade yet but my 2018 15” MacBook Pro broke last week, it just randomly turned off and never came back on, the repair price was going to be £800 (GBP)
It’ll generally last a lot longer than a Windows PC I’ve got a 2011 MacBook Pro that albeit really slow by today’s standards compared to the M1 I just got it’s still alive😂
@@1manec I have M1 MB Air and its great! but I also have 2007 Acer Aspire and 2012 Sony Vaio and 2009 Toshiba Satellite. They just needed SSD upgrade just like your Mac after that they run flawlessly. Your argument is invalid.
@@1manec I remember my cousin asked me to let him borrow my MacBook for sometime as he wanted to flex in front of his friends. My MacBook felt so disrespectful that it didn't work for the next 2 days 🤣🤣... The last sentence was a joke lmao... Nothing happened to the MacBook but it's true that my cousin asked for it to flex lol~
@@sobasically2299 you're comparing a gaming pc to a laptop. There's a cost that comes with putting a high performance workstation in the form factor of a laptop. It's comparing apples to oranges (no pun intended)
The issue isn’t the economy. The issue is that Apple keeps raising their prices. The actual value of a MacBook is much lower than the price tag that they sell it for.
As a lifelong PC user, the M1 air was genuinely my favourite tech purchase. Amazing battery, good workhorse, super portable, and just as fast as the day I bought it. I probably won’t need a new one for years to come.
Meanwhile I’m still using my 5 year old Gaming Laptop, because I have the privilege of being able to use power outlets instead of praising a Laptop for its Battery life when everyone just sits at a desk with it plugged into a dock or a charger. Also my Laptop has 4TBs of SSDs that are faster than the ones shipped with the new M3 MBP and dont cost 2000$
@@marlo8850 at least while out and about, a lot of places don't like it when you plug in, so having some flexibility is nice when your average laptop these days can barely last an hour of actual work off the charger before the battery starts to get ruined. While I think Apple's upcharges are asinine, 4tb is generally excessive and if you think you need that much storage, you're probably doing something that would be better suited to ruining portable drives.
@@marlo8850 Well said. Good battery-life is welcome, but it can't be your main feature. Unless you're working on-site, or in remote villages, I just don't see the point.
I literally just bought the M2 yesterday so excited to get it tomorrow. I never had an apple tablet at all my whole life I’m 31. Things were just more important then myself. Working non stop for 14 years straight for other people and not spending a dime on yourself for that long you learn to appreciate what you have and receive. Stay humble y’all
It’s because most of the MacBooks that have come out on the past few years have been so good nobody is upgrading to the new ones. M1 MacBook Air is the best Mac apple has made in a decade
Or, you could have the issue of the M1 laptop being barely 2 years old and suddenly not showing the display - amongst other common issues. I hate the black screen of death.
Need a graph of last few years for context. Show surge of people buying M1 and M2 machines, who won't need another machine for a long time. New,desirable apps that are CPU/GPU starved would help drive sales -- games? Heavy duty dailly needs for majority of people may be in a different product: AR glasses would benefit from much more compute power than the current Apple Vision Pro ships with. When AR glasses are way less clunky and more powerful, "laptop" mode can be a glasses app, just like "iPod" mode became a phone app.
Yeah no pal. Only SSD issues if you overexert the swap. Those slowing myths are solely caused by an old battery. You swap the battery and it will be as good as new.
lmao why would they decrease prices? there is no substitute for macbooks now. every laptop besides a macbook has shit battery life. apple knows people will buy macbooks regardless of price.
@@Networknukes Many people I know rely on applications such as Logic Pro and Final Cut. These same people can’t afford to get the “new model” every year or two. It’s a lot easier to upgrade your preexisting Mac rather than upgrade to a new one. Lowering the price will also allow more MacBooks to sell. But I get it, you support higher prices so rich snobs such as yourself can brag about owning a high-end computer.
@@rayyanshaikh5591 well as he explained, people AREN’T buying them as much. MacBooks are NOT the only laptops with good battery life. The best way to increase sales is to lower prices and entice customers with user-upgradability. Simple supply and demand.
In 2012 the 13" MBP started at US$1,199 and the 15" at US$2,199. Adjusting for inflation, those prices would be $1,576 and $2,890 in 2023 dollars. Meanwhile 2023 MBPs cost.....$1,299(M2 13"), $1,999 (M2 Pro 14") and $2,499 (M2 Pro 16"). So no, they were not more affordable in 2012 at all. In fact they are cheaper now.
@@MichaelGGarryI was intending for that to be interpreted as ‘Priced exactly the same’ while ignoring inflation but yeah, bigger number scares people more
if the macbook pros were “more affordable” then they wouldn’t be macbook pros. macbook pros are meant for high computational work, not just browsing the web. there is no reason the average person needs a macbook pro. the air option exists, and is excellently priced. if you’re a professional then you know what you’re spending your money on.
The M1 can do 90% of what the M2 and M3 does, which is watching RU-vid and writing google docs. the MacBook best selling point is the speed of video editing, in which barely anyone whose owned a MacBook ever use it for.
@@chrstphrxmllr That logic doesn't even hold water... What would comparaable beverages cost from another company? Odds are quite similar. For memory, I can tell you prices. I'm looking at a 2x16 gb kit of DDR5 that you can pick up for a list price of US$150 plus any applicable taxes. For 75% of what apple charges to upgrade to just 16 gigs you can have double that.
@@ZeldagigafanMatthew what I was trying to say more was people waste money on coffee and that’s why they are broke. If you didn’t want a Mac you wouldn’t be complaining about the price. Maybe save that coffee money so you can buy things that you actually want. Therefore people complaining about the price want a Mac but because they waste so much money it’s out of their reach. Say no to things so you can make room for things that actually matter to you. I have a windows desktop with 64 GB I know ram isn’t as expensive as Apple charges, but I prefer a Unix environment and don’t mind paying the Apple tax. I can pay the Apple tax because I don’t waste money on take out and coffee. I used to get a few coffees a day that can add up to a few hundred a month. And that’s a few grand each year. Again if you didn’t want a Mac you wouldn’t even complain about the price so I was just trying to help people that want a Mac see that it’s not nearly as expensive as their bad spending habits are. I’d rather have something tangible like a computer than waste money on consumables that don’t last more than 10 minutes.
€80-90 for 16gb of normal DDR5 memory no way should you be getting charged more than an extra 50 because don’t forget, it just straight soldered onto the mb and it’s not it’s own product on laptops
The performance has gotten good enough to meet the masses' needs for years to come. We are simply entering the territory with tech at which the vast majority of consumers do not need to upgrade because what they have is already overkill for their needs.
I'd rather say this decline is also happening because of the saturation of home office laptop needs. In 2020 and 2021 many companies needed massive amounts of laptops to give them to their employees in home office. Then in 2022 the market got saturated and now the demand is plummeting. And yes, the general economic situation is a big factor as well.
Yes this is the most reasonable answer here. I feel like most people don’t even need any type of PC anymore for personal use at least, can do everything from a smartphone
Because we’re all tired of the sales hype, they’ll do minor upgrades that is not even worth upgrading than slap a high price stamp and expect us to waist our hard earn money on it smh.
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MacBooks are quite expensive. It’s better to just buy a PC. But if you need portability, you can just buy any other affordable laptop, That works just fine.
Not only is everything expensive but the last gen MacBooks were super good. They were so powerful and good that there’s not a need for the upgrade except for a select few people
Two things. Most people don't buy 1000$ laptops in general. Second - there is no cheap entry machine. I personally would buy a 1000$+ Laptop but I am not gonna risk it on some OS i have almost no experience with. They need a sub 600$ Macbook SE Type device for people to try MacOS out without being super expensive.
I disagree. Apple doesn't do cheap. They fit top quality components which last. It's common for a MacBook to perform well for 10 years. Also Mac OS is just like using iOS on your iPhone or iPadOS on an iPad but better. You get what you pay for. Quality costs.
@@BarcelonasHotCrowd I am pretty sure they could figure out a way to bring the cost down to a 600$ pricepoint. They did with the entry iPad. Only costs around 300$ and sold me on iPads. Now I upgraded to a 11" M1 iPad Pro.
Well everyone I know spends over 1000$ on their laptops. I don't even know a single person who has a laptop for under 1K$. Maybe you are just around the wrong people...
I’m still using MacBook Pro from mid-2012 and this was one of the last MacBook Pro that was upgradable. It’s still working remarkably well, minus the fact that the battery no longer holds and it heats up quite quickly. I think a good 7-10 years use of a laptop is enough to justify the price. The idea of buying new one every year is absurd and how good is that laptop if you have to buy a new one every year 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
@@EmpolyIsHere thanks to your comment and a bit of research. I changed the thermal paste (still hot) but then I research further and downloaded the Mac fans control apps, now at full blast setting and possibly with new thermal paste, my Mac runs a lot cooler now. So thank you.
One more thing people ignore is that, even in professional uses, a high-end gaming PC is now cheaper than a Mac Pro, you need Atleast 7000 USD for that but on the other hand, PCs with components like a threadripper and a 4090 cost Atleast a 1000 dollars less, which can compensate for the security difference in both systems
Honestly, macOS is one of the main reasons I don’t wanna get a new MacBook (besides the lack of io) the OS gets in my way sooo much that I just can’t deal with it anymore, it’s hard for me to imagine using it for anything other than light web browsing, not like it can do that much with barely any third party support (and I’m not paying 2000 for 8gbs of ram) if you really want macOS go for a used intel model
@@ArthropodSpidey if you have to use a virtual machine to do your daily tasks (unless you work in security) there's literally no point paying for expensive hardware and wasting the performance with virtualisation (do people _really_ want to play games in virtual machines, etc)
@@ArthropodSpidey well, I have much more specific use cases, one of which requires me to zip files, so let’s say that I zipped multiple items into a .zip to upload onto a website, and the website denies the file due to “unknown files” these “files” are automatically created when zipping a file, specifically on macOS, so I usually have to use a third party app, or just use another computer/OS, All of these things are doable, but you just have to jump through hoops whereas other OS’ can do these out of the box
MacBooks (and Macs in general) typically last forever. My 2010 iMac still works perfectly fine (even though they cut support for some iCloud features with older versions of MacOS). The only reason I gave it to my mother (who’s well in her 80s and doesn’t need the latest and greatest) is because I needed the portability of a MacBook. Unfortunately the Touch Bar did go out on my early 2020 MBP but I don’t foresee any issues like that happening with my M3 Pro MBP so I’ll probably keep it for at least a good five years before I need to upgrade again
MacBooks have such longevity too. I have had a 2017 MacBook Pro since new, and it runs the most current software and is perfect for uni work. I just think their laptops and other products have been that good and stay that good for a while that people don’t see the point in upgrading
@@LegoMaster5197 nah not to the same standard. My dad has a windows laptop from the same year also with the I5 processor in it and it’s so slow and terrible. And I know a few mates who got similar laptops around the same time and they’ve ended up binning them for MacBooks cos they went so slow and unusable
@@lucasorourke7887As someone who's not a beginner. Cheap laptops are cheap for a reason. If you expect same performance from a cheap laptop as one that is $1000 plus, you are not smart. Now given that, put an SSD in a laptop and upgrade the memory for less than $100 to breathe life back in it. As time goes on, memory and storage demand for apps goes up putting strain on older hardware. Also Apple should not be rewarded for anti consumer and anti repair practices.
Its because when it comes to almost any Apple repair without Apple care it costs around half of what you paid for meanwhile windows it’s like a $100 here and there
The problem is they made them too good. My m1 runs as well as when I bought it 4 years ago so I can’t justify an upgrade. Not asking for them to make a bad product but these are kinda too good
My macbook pro with the touch bar i bought in 2019. It just stopped working in 2022. Tried getting it fixed from 3 different people and they said its fried. I legit didnt do anything but school work and use illustrator. After that i just bought an entire pc set up used for less than $500. Honestly like it better than the macbook I had.
Why would anyone buy a Mac? There are so many things you can do on a PC that you can’t on a Mac, gaming, downloading vast majority of all programs just to name a few! But can you name one thing you can do on a Mac that you can’t on a Windows? Exactly! It costs more and does less, it doesn’t even have USB ports!
As some others have pointed out, over the last 2 years the pandemic forced people to need laptops... most of that is gone now, so it makes sense that they'd see a decline
I think it is a good thing tho tbh, I think they've established that their m1 chip is powerful and long lasting, honestly looking to get one myself as most windows based laptops tend to fail fairly quickly
Might be a hot take, but Apple should look at Gaming as their next big market. The M1 and M2 are ridiculously powerful laptop chips that don't get as hot as Intel or Nvidia - it's a huge pain to install games though and make them run. If they spend just a little bit more dev time on this, Apple could overtake a good chunk of the gaming laptop market.
I don't think this would really work out. Apple's new chips are ARM based so you need to deal with emulating x86. MacOS also doesn't have native Vulkan support. Apple's chips also aren't the best in terms of GPU performance. Not to mention that gamers care about bang for the buck a lot. Apple also has no brand around gaming.
There’s been a lot of rumors about Microsoft wanting to transition Windows to ARM architecture processors, they would shoot themselves on the foot if they do 😂
@@JoeOrber I wouldn't be surprised to be honest. Intel's CPU architecture is so far behind everything Apple builds, it's wild. When you look at an Intel i9, which gets so hot, it requires cooling almost from booting, while the M1 only activates their highest fan speed when you render something in 4K.
@@JoeOrber they would shoot themselves in the foot if they didn't. The future is low power, high performance. If they lack behind on the ARM market nothing could save them.
The one thing that irks me about MacBooks now is how modularity has absolutely gone out the window. You can't upgrade your RAM anymore, you can't upgrade your storage, nothing. If you buy a used one, you get what you get and that absolutely sucks IMO. The MacBook will only be as good as it came from the factory unless you pay exorbitant prices for a new one yourself.
I just bought an M1 MacBook Pro instead of an M2 because there is little to no performance increase and they can be found brand new for so much cheaper
You shouldve just built a computer. and your thinking, thats too much work and its too hard. Its not at all. and your gonna get something way better. Without a company always looking over your should of what your doing and how to destroy your performance or fuck you over when you need a warranty so you buy a new one 1 year later and spend more than you ever would have if you just build a PC INSTEAD.
@@aux1322 already have, have a 3070ti and i7-12700k. That’s my gaming rig, MacBook is my school / productivity laptop. Did you also keep in mind that people need a laptop instead of a desktop? Really shouldn’t assume people’s reasoning to things.
@@aux1322 "you shouldn't buy a laptop. Get a desktop computer, an entirely different class of product". Also I hate Apple as much as the next guy but there's a reason macbooks are popular (m1, screen, etc)
My MacBook Pro mid-2015 is a very sought after product on the used market and apart from my fans taking off when I’m gaming or doing video heavy tasks, it still runs fine. Though I may downgrade from MacOS Monterey though.
I have an i7 12700k and 4080 build for gaming and a 2022 13” MacBook Pro M2 for Lightroom and post processing. The M2 chip is outrageously powerful, especially considering it only has 8gb ram and I’m launching 61MP files (124mb +/-) through it. Apple did good with their silicone.
I havent had any brand new apple product in my 40yrs of my life so this year has been a treat myself 😂 its good to see the hard earned money that you use everyday and wont put to waste. 1st an iPhone promax 2nd Macbook Pro M2 and 3rd Apple Watch series 7 because it was on almost half the price sale😅 and im loving it because i use it every single day.
They are creating products that should last a decade. Obviously people are going to buy less if they’re lasting longer. It has nothing to do with it being bad
100%. The M1 is insane as it is. I use it for heavy workloads, and it absolutely cleans up. My M1 has never, ever lagged on me in more than a year and a half. It also uses like 0 Watts. The M1 is unlike anything else on the market, and has no competition beyond the M2 lol.
@@moustaphadiallo600 No obviously not lmao, I meant the best of the best in terms of Apple's Mac offerings. Apple sell overpriced mediocre devices, yet people still buy their stuff.
I use a MacBook for work and a gaming PC in private. Best combination. Both are literally worlds apart. The MacBook is a absolute beast if it comes to workflow, productivity and speed. All in a light and small package. The gaming pc is good for gaming. But I wouldn’t want to use Windows or Linux for work. Psychology is also a factor. The mac just looks so clean and professional and I wouldn’t be tempted to play a game instead of work.
The things is you can do both on a pc the term gaming pc is usually for "gaming" if you look at it as just a pc that can game you'd prefer it over a shitty macbook that can barely run programs that windows/linux can
@@garrylong2993 if you touch mike hawk and saw my comment you'd know i'm not just talking about pc's i'm talkin laptops too laptops are mobile easy to use has more programs that it can run than a macbook can game(if wanted) macOS is simply worse than windows/linux quit playing "garry goofy ahh long"
@@andrei283 mans is talking about gaming laptops. Go outside with a gaming laptop and have the battery last more than 2 hours, have the fans not sound like a jet engine and not have it be as thick as a laptop from 2002
In my young lifetime I remember a brand new MacBook costing 700 now they are over 1k and 2-4k for the pros. This might be why. They were already ridiculously expensive back then
I have a m1 Pro 14” and I don’t see any reason to upgrade. Final cut, logic and my photos editing softwares run perfectly fine. I work with 4k most of the time and its just awesome
How is the 14 inch MacBook Pro? I still have the 15inch one and when I raise the funds I am thinking it may be more versatile to get the 14inch MacBook prop as opposed to the 16 inch.
It just means you don't know what closed means. In tech it means they make their own OS and processors and no other company can buy either item. That's closed. A better word is integrated. Open simply means you are buying your processors from a company that sells to many companies and your OS is used by 200 competing companies like Android. That's open a better word is modular.
@@UrmatG At the moment x86 is just too common to be replaced with ARM, across hundreds of manufacturers and OEMs I just don't think it will happen. Like right now I'm writing this from my laptop, which uses an x86 processor. My original XBOX uses an x86 processor. My main desktop computer uses an x86 processor. The list goes on
Bought my wife an M1 Mac mini when they came out. Pretty sweet deal and it’s working great a few years later. I anticipate this easily pulling 5-6 years of active duty maybe more. Their laptop ram/SSD upgrades kinda piss me off with the Apple tax I think I’m going to pass on them until they upgrade their base models to 16GB RAM. 8 is just ridiculous and don’t tell me any different.
@@aymanmoustadrif7228 It's true, my iZotope plug-ins Ozone 8 and Neutron 2 don't work yet on my M2 Macbook. iZotope is working on making them work with M1 and M2 Macs, but so far, they haven't been able to get it done yet.
@@aymanmoustadrif7228 any darn games for starters software for collages tons of thing dont work on dumb macs unless u do like me and put windows or linux on the thing
Mac laptops arent targeted towards the gaming crowd. Moreso the scientific community or professors that need a powerful Unix system that meets their needs
@@whigmalwhim4760 Most so artists and designers that "need" those things that "only apple can deliver", such as the right colour scheme, better support for Adobe and rendering due to the things you mentioned. 👀 I even bought in on that when I studied graphic design, damnit! ☹️ At the least it got me into programming a bit of Unix and using Ubuntu too, before moving to WSL and Raspberry Pi/Single board PCs.
just bought a used m1 2 days ago. everyone bought their laptop during the pandemic and are currently are good enough to not upgrade yet. The M1 and pc gaming laptops are so good.
I wish this would happen with iPhones. We are just increasing e-waste levels by purchasing new products to replace our already perfectly fine products.
Most tech has reached the point of diminishing returns. When they first came out there was a big jump between generations which isn’t there now, only upgrade if you need to or you make money from it.
I predicted this a few months ago and safe to say I was right. While the M1 chips were literally amazing, Apple kinda screwed themselves over with how good they were.
hmm not good to fail because these efficient laptops are competing with extremely inefficient current windows laptops, so it tells the competitors to improve
bought a refurbished late 2012 MacBook last year and it does what it needs to do. it sux thst the backlight feature died quickly. after maxing out ram, i'm good.
The main reason sales have declined is that people have much less money after inflation, and the extreme prices of mac's do not encourage users to switch over to apple...
Because the M1 family is so good, most people don’t have a need to upgrade. All my college friends switched to the M1 Air, and they have been using it since without any problems
it’s because they’re good asf. i use a 2016 macbook daily for music graphic design and videos. i have literally no reason to upgrade except storage but that’s $30 on amazon for a external ssd.
Maybe because a lower end MacBook Pro with 8gb of ram is 2k €, that's ridiculous. A windows laptop would get 32gb of ram, with a good intel or and processor, at that price.
We've hit a general stagnation point in hardware where requirements have simply stopped climbing. PS5 and Xbox whatever shipped in 2020 with the capabilities of a mid-range PC at the time, and NVIDIA's 30 series immediately blew that out of the water so now you're able to play any game at high settings for at least 4 more years with a mid range PC. Smartphones passed the compute and memory threshold to do all reasonable multitasking with all day battery life several years ago. Macbooks had a lot of self inflicted issues with the touch bar, keyboard, and thermal throttling intel chips which were solved with the M1 1st generation. We're at the point where the only reason to spend on extra hardware is for professional and enthusiast applications, since consumers can get a mid range product from 1-2 generations ago for half the price and see little to no downside.
Because they’re over priced. And they do last longer than most laptops. Why buy a new one every year when it’s good for a whole 10? 🤷🏼♂️ especially with their prices.
One reason being most companies and startups are trying to be profitable now, so they are not providing MacBooks to developers for cutting costs. A few years back every company used to provide employees with Macs now only a few do.
if your ever going to get a Mac for a good price NEVER GET A SILICON they are way to expensive and I probably can find a beater car for cheaper, id just get one of the later Intel Macs like the MacBook Pro 2017 to 2019 MacBook Pro because its somewhat modern and powerful for a cheap price used and they can still update.
I don't know why people praise MacBooks. There is more powerful hardware at a lower price in certain situations, and you don't need to pay 200$ extra for each additional 8GB of unified memory or RAM and without a forced base of 8GB. And I don't really like the way the OS works. From what I heard, it's very weirdly designed, unintuitive and harder to use in many situations. The only thing is that I like their overall UI design.
@@binthamadicamara2077 I didn't say MacOS was unstable. I just don't like the way it works. It does a lot of things badly and is unintuitive in my opinion. The only thing I like is that the overall design is rather consistent and good.
@@alphacraft9658 What does it do badly for instance. This is not an argument but trying to choose a more durable laptop. As a translator windows just do not last for my needs since we spend hours on a computer. Buying one Mac can past for up to 10 years or longer versus windows which OS crashes frequently and hardrives that also stop working. Before Mac I used to go through computer every 2 years. My last hP windows stopped working in less than a year like 8 month or so. Mac is has so many intagrated features that you do not to purchase more software. Windows nowadays even words needs subscription. Is there a third option maybe that fuses the best out of the two. I rather pay a 1000 for even a reconditioned Mac than pay Around 600 every 2 years or less.
@@binthamadicamara2077 I am not trying to talk the hardware bad. It is pretty good, but all hardware fails eventually and Apple just makes it more expensive than it needs to be. I bought a gaming PC like one or two years ago and have been using Linux on it from day one. It's still amazing and I don't have any instabilities or failing hardware. There are a few software bugs, which totally makes sense, but those are usually resolved rather quickly or being actively talked about. The things I don't like about MacOS are things like the weird way of installing apps, or maximizing windows which actually makes them full screen, or that you can only tile two windows and have nothing else opened simultaneously or that apps are not actually closed when you close fhe last window ans they stay open in the background until you fully close them. Those little things that make it less and less intuitive and are done better, even by Windows and especially by many if not most Linux desktops.
No one buys a computer every year only RU-vidrs do. The average person is buying a computer then keeping it for like a decade. Its not a phone where you pretty much need a new phone every other year
@@Jparkssyep, MacBooks these days especially are too good for those who buy them They no longer offer much better each new model as they are pretty much at their peak and people keep using them longer These millions of people who bought the M1 MacBooks who don’t have a reason to go to M2 or M3 as the M1 is still all they need from a MacBook Then they also tend to own other windows pcs Thought I did recently upgrade to the newer M3 Pro MacBook Pro 14 inch I also have a z13 rtx 4050 windows gaming tablet pc as well as a Rog ally, Legion Go and a older Aya Neo geek handheld windows pc I can see this new MacBook Pro lasting me until it’s no longer updatable which could be like 5-8 yrs away
Have you ever fixed a new laptop these days ? They are specifically made to break and be hard to repair from what i understand if you compare an old laptop and a new one you'll deduce that the newer models cut corners everywhere while the old one has many useful features like the turbo button
