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On 2023-09-30 10:26 a.m., sms wrote:
> On 9/30/2023 6:05 AM, RabidPedagog wrote:
>> I see more potential from the Mx processors than I do from the x86-64
>> platform. Some might not mind the fact that they need twice the amount
>> of RAM, a much bigger battery and powerful fans to get the same kind
>> of performance, but I do. I don`t see myself buying another PC once
>> this one becomes obsolete.
>
> The Mx processors are excellent in performance/watt. Alas, many
> commercial, industrial, educational, medical, business, and engineering
> software programs are x86 only. Running them in a virtual machine, or
> via remote access, is not a great solution.
>
> From University of Colorado (most universities have similar warnings):
> "Many engineering applications only develop versions that are available
> on the Windows operating system. Students with Mac computers can access
> these applications by leveraging our remote access tools."
science-6>.
>
> Perhaps if the Mac gains more market share, like 20-25% then this
> situation will change. In 4Q22 Macs hit a peak of 17.2% after being as
> low as 10.2% in 1Q21. But now it`s fallen to 13.3%
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>
> Right now I`m on a project where we really want one of of our
> sub-contractors to use Solidworks but he uses a Macbook and can`t run
> it. So he`s using some other 3D modeling program which is not nearly as
> capable, even though in the past he used Solidworks.
Yeah, during my time in the ZephyrusG14 forum on Reddit, there were
quite a few threads of people who bought the machine over the MacBook
they really wanted simply because their university program required
x86-specific software. There`s even a guy selling his MacBook Air M2 on
eBay, not too far from where I live, most likely because he quickly
realized that as fantastic as the machine is, there just isn`t as much
software for the Mac as there is for the PC. Even in the early 2000s, I
was fixing up an old man`s Pentium 3, and I learned that he was a Mac
die-hard since it was released. When I inquired why he finally went for
a PC, I learned that the guy loved walking into a computer store and
buying random programs, but that there was less and less for the Mac
(which was true at the time).
Meanwhile, I find that the Mac equivalents of programs I use on the PC
are actually nicer.
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