Thread 105913888

Is there a mini PC that can compete with Mac mini in terms of power efficiency?
https://youtu.be/SkE0XjGPsgM?si=gwylGbUJtDccTxIv

>>105913888 (OP)
Yea its called an alienware alpha idiot

>>105913888 (OP)
you already have another thread in the catalog

>>105913888 (OP)
The answer is simple: no. There is none. If there were, Apple wouldn’t be a $3 trillion company.

is this what 4chin runs on?

>>105914219
>The answer is simple: no. There is none. If there were, Apple wouldn’t be a $3 trillion company.
You dont become the most valuable company by having the most powerful products, but by having the best advertising
There probably isnt anything even close on the consumer market but thats not the point. They sell 1000x more smartphones and laptops anyway

>>105914299
>but by having the best marketing
ftfy

>>105913888 (OP)
>>105914219
get a toilet currynigger

>>105914347
/thread

>>105913888 (OP)
In terms of power efficiency? Definitely not.
I hate MacOS but still ended up buying a macbook just because their ARM hardware is in a class of it's own.
It's not the most powerful, but for my use case (which is it needs to be silent and last a long time on a battery charge) it's exactly what I wanted.
I spend a lot of time fucking with MacOS getting it to behave like a tiling wm which is annoying but that's the tradeoff for having a silent, reasonably powerful, long lasting machine

>>105915324
It's very rude to keep responding to this turd of a thread when someone /thread-ed it you little cocksucker. See >>105914347

Since you insist on getting your shit pushed in by Jay(tm) it's worth noting that as energy efficient as ARM may seem it's not worth the soldered SSD, soldered RAM, soldered motherboard, soldered PSU, and so on and so on. ARM computers in general are just so abhorrently KIKED.

>>105915401
The OP question was specifically about power efficiency.
If that's the only metric on which these machines are being evaluated then the other attributes you mentioned are irrelevant.
I will also point out that none of those components will fail before you were going to replace your computer anyway. I don't disagree with the sentiment, and would love to have my cake and eat it too, but you must understand that there are situations where power efficiency could be so important as to invalidate the downsides of all other factors regarding the machine.
ARM computers occupy an important niche and are an excellent choice in certain circumstances depending on your specific use case.

>>105915324
>>105915435
get a toilet currynigger

>>105913916
>alienware alpha idiot

Why would they name it like that?

>>105915459
Ad hominem is not a logical argument.
Regarding your image, M2 macbook airs seem to be going for a little over $600
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/macbook-air-m2?st=macbook-air-m2
I'm going to work (using my macbook btw) so won't be able to respond but work on making a logical argument instead of calling people names.
Cheers

>>105915435
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>105913888 (OP)
>every day I see evidence that apple hardware is actually fantastic
>but I never see evidence that apple software is anything other than dogshit
can someone redpill me on macOS? I had a work issued MBP years ago and fucking HATED every day of using it. Why do people like this clunky shit?

>>105915324
Any tips on making MacOS behave like tiling wm?

can the poor stay out of this thread? All of those benchmarks are on a $500 in 2020 mac mini

>>105915839
If you get a toilet first then that's a deal rajeesh.

>>105913888 (OP)
>Is there a FAGGOT pc that can compete with the Mac FAGGOT in terms of FAGGOT efficiency?
No. And there never will be. There's a reason the Apple general is called /fag/, anon.

>>105913888 (OP)
>in terms of power efficiency?
nigger why the fuck would you care about power efficiency? unless you're running four 4090 you won't even notice the difference between 600W desktop and 40W mac mini

>>105915543
If you want to use macOS efficiently at all you need to watch an 18 minute youtube tutorial. Tons of shortcuts and features and what not that just aren't explained to you. The idea of it being more intuitive than Windows is nonsense. But it being faster? You can only figure that out by using it yourself for long enough to get used to it and then comparing.

>>105915499
so where was the avalanche of M1's with broken SSDs? they're over 4 years old by now

>>105913888 (OP)
>power efficiency
>arm shit so you cant run shit
Nice meme

>>105916106
>But it being faster?
it's faster if you do things you're Meant To Do (tm) on a MacOS computer.
do something you're not supposed to do, like transcode video to av1? my gaymer cpu 5700x3d (terrible for productivity) is twice as fast
macs are a joke. get a macbook cus battery life or don't bother

>>105916118
Just buy a new $1,000 computer every year, you're not POOR, right?

>>105913888 (OP)
nope

>>105913916
Definitely better than apple shit. Better specs, better ports, and you can actually open it up and repair it.
Why would anyone on /g/ buy a mac is beyond me.

>>105915543
I've used it for work for the past 10 years. I absolutely hate it.
The hardware is definitely not worth the mess of an operating system macos is. And it's not that good anyway. Everything is soldered, designed to fail the moment the warranty expires.

Apple are normie scammers.

I don't care about that, I care that no one else is putting thunderbolt 5 on theirs though

>>105913888 (OP)
Checked & MacMiniPilled; nice triple-eights... and quite the (((cohencidence))) -- I recently visited an eccentric audio engineer in his outlaw loft studio, where we set up his recently-acquired Mac Mini for music production.

It's truly a little beast with that M-class processor, sipping power compared to equivalently powerful machines.

>this buddy's dad is a freemason spook in a three letter government agency