If You’re Tired of MacBooks Winning…

These new laptops look RIPE

Apple got me entirely based on the battery life. I have zero brand loyalty, it’s simply that battery is mandatory for my work and leisure. Very excited for competition in the space.

"I don't think Microsoft will allow 8GB 256GB devices." Please don't look at the current Surface devices 😬

Just a developer's POV here, but in my opinion, the part that really gave us devs the push to move our apps to be native on Apple Silicon was the knowledge that all Macs would be moving to this architecture in less than a couple years. It really was one of those 'you snooze you lose' moments, where not releasing an M1-compatible app as-soon-as-possible could actually lead to people leaving your app for a competitor. Contrast that to the Windows market, which is so large, and these new ARM machines are probably going to account for less than a percent of Windows devices deployed. These statistics certainly aren't any positive incentives for devs on Windows, who then have to compile to ARM and maintain support for it (which can be very costly).

So great seeing you this past week, man. Always love seeing what you’re working on.

Honestly, the better these Windows devices do, the better it will be for all the end consumers, both Windows and Apple users alike, since this will put at least some more pressure on Apple to step up their baseline configurations or at least charge less.

The biggest test would be the variants they've shown so far - as you said, "23W" and "80W". They may perform much better than a regular M2 and M3, but we don't know yet how efficient they are compared to the sheer efficiency the M-series chips have. And as much as the performance of Apple Silicon was good, I think the most amazing thing about them is just how energy-efficient they are. 5-8W on light tasks! And that's without fans! I'd like to think we've past the point of being concerned about power in a thin and light laptop. The biggest test for these X Elite chips is simply to normalise 15-16 hours laptop battery life. Exciting times! (Also, light a fire under Apple's buttocks and make them realize that laptops starting at 8GB RAM and asking USD200 for a RAM upgrade is rich for a multi-trillion dollar company.)

The Mac Studio has removable proprietary SSDs. However, Apple will not sell you an upgrade SSD yet. This is Apple at its worst, where making the Mac Studio upgradable would be really easy but Apple still choose to force you to buy a new Mac Studio if you want more storage.

Dave, there is something you didn't say and I'm guessing that you didn't know, is that Rosetta is not only a software, it's a hardware as well: the Apple Silicon M series embarks an emulation layer on the CPU cores that Rosetta activates, and when it does then the CPU core that has switched won't multitask with Apple ARM native apps anymore; and that's why Rosetta is so strangely good and barely suffers from any slowing down from native code. PCs won't have that technology so don't expect emulation to perform well there

Yo dave with that dope hair style

Cant wait for you to review one dave!!! Wanna see the performance!!

Thanks for doing what you do so well Dave ❤

Saw the X Elite in person last week and I can say it looks VERY promising.

I can picture the Surface ones having the 8/256gb base configuration for $1,699.

The background lighting in this frame is insanely good 🤩

Hey Dave, it would be fair if you mentioned that the Pro X became a good device after some updates. And imo, it was important to get ARM dev for W going since ppl showed excitement for it. But what do I know, you're the tech guy 😄 Thanks for the content btw 👍

Build quality, speaker, battery efficiency and marketing

I dont know if i watch Dave for his tech analysis or to see what new hair style hes rocking.

Dave looking forward to your take on the new HP Omen Transcend 14 - hope you're gonna be covering that soon!

Looking forward to these chips! It has to be a seamless experience to the end user though. If there are tons of application incompatiblities, it will be DOA again. Hopefully that emulation works as well as they hope!