Look, I get it you don't like a fixed SSD..no one does..
And for you its obviously important enough a consideration to disregard an otherwise great product.. No one is judging you for that.
But judging by your tone, it's fairly clear that you are judging those for whom it's not an important criteria. That part is what is annoying about this whole debate.
I'm not, I'm judging those who are
excusing this bullshit of a move from Apple, I would have done the same in windows space if any OEM pulled bullshit like this and have done so in the past, this is the main reason why I always say to skip a Dell to anyone who asks me, because its anti-repair
and anti-consumer.
I don't even hang out in Apple specific subs because I always get triggered because of Apple's usual bullshit. Like if you want to buy a Mac/iPhone or whatever, do so by all means because nobody gets to dictate what you can buy but at least don't excuse a company's bullshit by saying its fine, its "cashflow" issues, you plebians who cant even afford to rub two pennies together don't know just how much of an impact it'll be on Apple's financials or even worse, yoU hAVeN'T OwNEd a MaC So YoU dONt KnOW WHaT YoU aRE TaLKiNg aBout peeps, like bruh even if Apple has a god tier OS, a program which
needs 100mb of ram wont
magically take 50mb, I don't need to own a mac to say this with confidence, or the ones saying, I cant notice the bottleneck on my 8GB air/pro. Like good for you that you don't notice it but that doesn't mean it isnt there.
Is this a d*ck move by apple?, It is in the eyes of the consumer, because consumer has no idea what goes into manufacturing a product like this at this scale. The consumer will never understand the gravity of this until they do a business themselves and see what it takes to do such a thing. The business people know that the most of that cashflow will go back into the company and will be used for other things, the actual profit is not 240 minus 12.
This is what I don't get, like c'mon my guy, they are a billion dollar company with a revenue upwards of 70-80 billion dollars, they don't need you to defend their decisions, like this is peak capitalism, **** everything and everyone over in the name of more "cashflow", this is what
astounds me, like brother, I or people like Louis Rossman ain't the one getting screwed, its you people who buy apple products and
you all are the ones defending it.
Louis has
published his own repair presentation with proper explanation and schematics,
he has streamed himself repairing mac logic boards live, still answers questions on any repair issues, is the one who has been pushing Right to Repair for years before it picked up steam by others, and the guy who was the main driving force behind US's first right to repair law in New York?
Here's Linus covering it in WAN show for a source, like y'all do realize this guy is literally losing business when he's teaching this stuff for free? Yep he's a typical "YT Pundit", this was for you
@superczar .
PS: If the SSD were to fail on the MBA (IF), I have no intent of using it with an external disk. The only reason to share that screenshot was because the LR video you shared leads one to interpret that it's simply not feasible to use these arm machines with an external boot. A lot of Internet Pundits (including LR) tend to do this for clicks from their intended audience - and hence it was worth pointing out
P.P.S did you check for how buried in the settings it is? and just how many people would have enabled it? this comes as OOTB functionality in any windows/linux laptop, so many people would never even imagine apple restricting something like this.
I really hope Windows and Qualcomm/Arm join hands to develop something similar to MacOS on Apple Silicon - I’m so used to windows that I’ll continue without a hitch. But, and that’s a big but - the OS optimisations have to match the silicon for speed and battery longevity + legacy app support needs to be maintained + paid hardware support should match the seamless experience of AppleCare.
I’m not a fan of MacOS- I enjoy Windows, but as an example the recent update ****ed up things so much that even opening file explorer lags. Not sure if MS even wants to continue with local OS because it does seem they want to move everything to the cloud. Now with the OpenAI saga and Sam and others joining MS as a CEO of AI group, this seems all the more likely.
I am more hopeful for AMD/Nvidia, AMD has the patents for x86_64 arch, has experience in designing performant APUs (series X/S, PS5), and with reports of Nvidia powering the next gen switch, these companies have a lot of potential in this space. the main issue is backwards compatibility, Apple is at an advantage since they can just deprecate stuff easily without issues but windows needs to support programs/software written decades ago which is the main issue, I think AMD really can pull off a proper translation layer if Apple can with Rosetta.
Windows is gonna be dead in the water as you said but with stuff like Asahi Linux (for apple silicon), I am way more hopeful for Linux on Arm than windows and Microsoft will eventually wake up once they see the potential in ARM market/loss in revenue, Architecture like RISC-V or MCM in GPUs is the future since we have pretty much hit the limits of hardware optimization (
this is pretty fascinating thread discussing this topic) and we need more optimized architecture unless we achieve a breakthrough with hardware.
