The Galaxy Book3 Ultra Is Samsung's Shot At the MacBook Pro (theverge.com) 112
At the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event today, Samsung announced the Galaxy Book3 Ultra, a 16-inch workstation laptop with a 120Hz OLED screen, an H-Series Core i7 or Core i9, and an RTX 4050 or 4070 GPU. "Samsung makes a number of Galaxy Book models, but this is the first one of the past few years that has really targeted the deep-pocketed professional user -- that is, the core audience for Apple's high-powered and wildly expensive MacBook Pro 16," reports The Verge. "It'll start at $2,399.99 ($100 cheaper than the base MacBook Pro 16), with a release date still to be announced." From the report: Like its siblings in the Galaxy Book3 line, a big draw of this workstation will be its screen. It's got a 2880 x 1800 120Hz 16:10 OLED display (a welcome change from the 16:9 panels that adorned last year's Galaxy Book2) rated for 400 nits of brightness [...]. Elsewhere, using the device felt pretty similar to using any number of other Samsung Galaxy Books, with a satisfyingly clicky keyboard, a smooth finish, a high-quality build, and a compact chassis. The Ultra is 0.65 inches thick and 3.9 pounds, which is slightly thinner and close to a pound lighter than the 16-inch MacBook Pro that Apple just released [...].
I was able to use a number of Samsung's continuity features, including Second Screen (which allows you to easily use a Galaxy Tab as a second monitor) and Quick Share (which allows you to quickly transfer images and other files between Samsung devices). For Samsung enthusiasts, those seem like handy features that aren't too much of a hassle to set up. The one feature I had issues with was the touchpad -- it registered some of my two-finger clicks as one-finger clicks and wasn't quite picking up all of my scrolls. The units in Samsung's demo area were preproduction devices, so I hope this is a kink Samsung can iron out before the final release.
Unfortunately, we don't yet know how it will stack up when it comes to battery life. The M2 generation of MacBooks is very strong on that front -- and given that the Galaxy Book3 Ultra is running a high-resolution screen, a power-hungry H-series processor, and a very power-hungry RTX GPU, I'm a little bit nervous about that. If Samsung can pull off a device that lasts nearly as long as Apple's do, given those factors, hats off to them. Further reading:
The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Is a Minor Update To a Spec Monster
Samsung, Google and Qualcomm Team Up To Build a New Mixed-Reality Platform
I was able to use a number of Samsung's continuity features, including Second Screen (which allows you to easily use a Galaxy Tab as a second monitor) and Quick Share (which allows you to quickly transfer images and other files between Samsung devices). For Samsung enthusiasts, those seem like handy features that aren't too much of a hassle to set up. The one feature I had issues with was the touchpad -- it registered some of my two-finger clicks as one-finger clicks and wasn't quite picking up all of my scrolls. The units in Samsung's demo area were preproduction devices, so I hope this is a kink Samsung can iron out before the final release.
Unfortunately, we don't yet know how it will stack up when it comes to battery life. The M2 generation of MacBooks is very strong on that front -- and given that the Galaxy Book3 Ultra is running a high-resolution screen, a power-hungry H-series processor, and a very power-hungry RTX GPU, I'm a little bit nervous about that. If Samsung can pull off a device that lasts nearly as long as Apple's do, given those factors, hats off to them. Further reading:
The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Is a Minor Update To a Spec Monster
Samsung, Google and Qualcomm Team Up To Build a New Mixed-Reality Platform
16:10, it's about time (Score:5, Interesting)
I've hated the shift to 16:9 ever since they started doing it. Hopefully, these 16:10 panels will make it into other laptops and displays obviously in larger sizes too.
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Comparing all the macs to PCs though has always seemed to me a fools errand. No one believes they are equal. Either you use Macs, believe they are better, and pay for the appliance or you use PCs and believe they are better be find your fit among the options.
Yep. No Mac user is going to switch because of this and no PC user will be saved from going to the dark side. This is just for PC users with deep pockets.
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I've hated the shift to 16:9 ever since they started doing it. Hopefully, these 16:10 panels will make it into other laptops and displays obviously in larger sizes too.
I'm holding out for 16:11.
The benefits over 16:10 are huge.
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Shirley you mean 16:12.
Right?!?
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One step at a time...
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Most of Lenovo's Thinkpads have 16:10 displays now. It seems to be the new standard for workstation machines.
Safe guesses (Score:3, Insightful)
1. Lose a lot of juice while "sleeping". Modern Standby on all Windows laptops is hot garbage.
2. When awake, will lose battery much faster than any modern Macbook.
3. Run hotter than a modern Macbook.
4. Make more noise than a modern Macbook.
5. Underperform a modern Macbook.
Linux solve all that (Score:1)
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A lot of people are seeing the same with the M1 and M2 chips. While they are cooler and more efficient, apple has done an absolute shit job at cooling, if you are doing professional workloads you can just about cook an egg on them. And like all Apple approaches to usage this is classed as a user issue on their forums, you should not be maxing out your machine, you should be always using it on a cool flat and hard surface and never using it for extended periods with heavy workloads.
You are nuts.
And a Troll.
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oir you could have spent 30 seconds on google and seen the mass of overheating and thermal throttling articles for them.
Those Articles deliberately obsfucate the fanless M2 MacBook Air with the (single-fan) 13" M2 MacBook Pro. Spoiler Alert: The M2 MacBook Pro does NOT Throttle; and if it does, it is hardly noticeable.
This video de-obsfucates the difference quite nicely:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... [youtube.com]
If you wish, start watching around time-index 08:00. You'll see.
Let's see what happens with the 14/16" Dual-Fan MacBook Pros. . .
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I would be thrilled to dump my modern MacBook Pro to get almost anything with Linux on it. Mine thinks it has an overheating problem that it does not have. I kernel process takes over when it thinks things are too hot and shuts down the network mostly until things cool off, usually about 5-10 minutes. It's frustrating when I'm in a critical meeting and the network dies. Strangely one of the recommended fixes is you move your power plug from the left to the right side. That didn't seem to make much diff
Re:Linux solve all that (Score:4, Informative)
Strangely one of the recommended fixes is you move your power plug from the left to the right side.
Not strange. The CPU is on the left, and the thunderbolt/USB3 chip puts out a bit of heat when the power is plugged in. Plugging in on the right moves some of the thermal load to the right.
I do not like my work macbook pro.
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I would be thrilled to dump my modern MacBook Pro to get almost anything with Linux on it. Mine thinks it has an overheating problem that it does not have. I kernel process takes over when it thinks things are too hot and shuts down the network mostly until things cool off, usually about 5-10 minutes. It's frustrating when I'm in a critical meeting and the network dies. Strangely one of the recommended fixes is you move your power plug from the left to the right side. That didn't seem to make much difference.
Besides the obvious hardware problems on a Mac, there is so much broken in the software interface on a Mac that just makes it harder to get work done. Don't get me going on how bad it is.
So, you just don't like Macs; so any little thing is magnified by your hatred. Got it!
And what are you doing while in these meetings, that your unspecified "Modern MacBook Pro" feels the need to "shut down" due to thermals?!?
I call shennanigans!
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You have no idea what you are talking about.
Being a paid apple shill should really require you to make a bit more effort then just telling people there are wrong
Im sure you where calling everyone a liar when their butterfly keyboards broke.
Your hatred of Samsung and all other real technology is laughable.
I wish I were paid, you pathetic, simple boy.
I stayed out of the butterfly keyboard fight; because I never had one. I did have one friend that had problems; but didn't realize it until much later.
Apple did eventually fix the problem (by ditching the whole design), and had an extended recall to "make good" on their mistake. What more could they do? Seriously.
I don't hate Samsung; nor "all other real technology" (whatever THAT means!); I have an Samsung SSD in my MacBook Pro, an LG TV and Monitor, etc. But I
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Blah blah blah
only someone getting paid to do it would take the time to write such a boring novel
apple simp.
Retard.
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I have AlmaLinux running on my 2019 MBP. Works great apart from the touchpad. That is a bit erratic but a USB mouse soon solves that.
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try using those M1 or M2's for real workloads, not internet browsing. Or just have a search for all the articles on them overheating. My wifes who does visual arts and 3D on it basically has to have it sitting on a cooling pad or it is constantly thermally throttled.
Let me guess: MacBook Air, right?
You know that doesn't have a fan.
I don't believe she has a MacBook Pro with any Apple Silicon SoC.
See this video comparison, then come back and apologize:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... [youtube.com]
If you wish, you can start watching at about time-index 06:00. I'll wait.
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Let me guess: MacBook Air, right?
You know that doesn't have a fan.
Wait, wait so Apple's way of building a fanless machine is simply to make it overheat and throttle all the time? This is the famed Apple build quality?
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Let me guess: MacBook Air, right?
You know that doesn't have a fan.
Wait, wait so Apple's way of building a fanless machine is simply to make it overheat and throttle all the time? This is the famed Apple build quality?
The MacBook Air is not designed for extended, balls-to-walls heavy CPU+GPU workloads. That's why the MacBook Pros have fans. Under anything but extended artificial stress-tests (e.g. under typical workloads), the Apple Silicon MacBook Air actually runs cool to the touch.
Horses for courses, eh?
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Has been for years. The Intel ones were the same, hit the 99C thermal limit in 1 second under load and stayed pegged there. The only difference with the ARM ones is that it takes very slightly longer to thermal throttle, but we are still talking seconds.
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Don't I know it. My work laptop is one of those.
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Actually it is a Macbook Pro M1 Max. Go do a search on M1 and M2 thermal throttling, then come back and apologise. It is ok many like you don't have a lot of technical knowledge.
Well, even assuming your SO has a 14" rather than the better-cooled 16" M1 Max MacBook Pro, it sure looks like any thermal throttling is pretty minor, and only occurs while under sustained saturated workload of both the CPU and GPU simultaneously:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... [youtube.com]
If your SO's M1 Max MacBook Pro is experiencing significantly worse performance than what is seen in the video above, perhaps there is an issue with her particular machine. If so, better get it checked out!
Oh, and far as my "technic
Re:Safe guesses (Score:4, Interesting)
Try this. Put a modern Windows laptop to sleep. *Any* brand. Do the same to a modern Macbook. Throw them in a backpack. Wake them up 2 days later. The Windows laptop will have lost a lot of battery juice, while the Macbook would be near 100%.
Modern standby on Windows tries to do shit while the laptop is supposed to be asleep. It tries to download Windows updates while sleeping. And then can, and frequently does, wake up the laptop to full power to apply said updates. Why the fuck would it do that? Most of us have too often taken a hot Windows laptop out of a bag, trying to murder its own battery with heat that cannot escape the bag.
And it is not a new issue. Its been like this for years! And the people have been complaining about it for years. Linus (different Linus) Tech Tips posted a video with details recently. He says that MS told him that the issue is difficult to produce. Weird. I can produce this problem with *every* modern Windows laptop.
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Since getting my latest work machine (a T14G3 AMD) and being forced to figure out modern standby (they've removed the BIOS option for S3 sleep), I've found that setting the machine to hibernate after an hour or so is the only way to preserve your battery in a bag over night.
Modern standby itself is a complete clusterfuck....
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Since getting my latest work machine (a T14G3 AMD) and being forced to figure out modern standby (they've removed the BIOS option for S3 sleep), I've found that setting the machine to hibernate after an hour or so is the only way to preserve your battery in a bag over night.
Modern standby itself is a complete clusterfuck....
Not on macOS. . .
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Meaning it's not an issue on MacOS? Or that hibernation doesn't fix the issue on MacOS?
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Meaning it's not an issue on MacOS? Or that hibernation doesn't fix the issue on MacOS?
Except for a few times through history, macOS has generally enjoyed great Wake-From-Sleep performance.
Sorry I wasn't clear.
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The theory behind modern standby is sort of okay, I mean phones do it quite successfully. The problem is that Windows and MacOS are shit at being low power operating systems. Phones are very aggressive about throttling and simply killing tasks that try to operate in the background, and handle stuff like polling for incoming messages at the OS level so it can be done efficiently.
Windows and MacOS are just not built for that. Apps running on them are not built to be aggressively power managed in that way. Bot
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The problem is that there are two Modern Standby power states. There's Modern Standby (AC Adapter) and Modern Sta
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1. Lose a lot of juice while "sleeping". Modern Standby on all Windows laptops is hot garbage.
Oh really? My laptop has 75% charge left in it and I haven't touched it since Saturday. Hardly the definition of "hot garbage"
The rest of your points may be right, but then honestly who cares. Certainly I've not seen anyone say "this is a great laptop, but if only it were 5C cooler!". Likewise most people doing work are not waiting on their laptops to finish some computational activity. I put that firmly in the "why would anyone pay extra of the i7 model" territory.
But you're missing the obvious thing. Macb
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Worse - Samsung make nice hardware, but their software is, without exception, awful. Thus you can expect driver issues every second week too.
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I bet 1-4 are true, but 5 isn't, especially for any tasks which are GPU accelerated. The modern macbook doesn't have anywhere near that much GPU, and it doesn't have as much CPU either. It has more memory bandwidth, and that matters very much for some types of tasks, for not very much at all for others. They also don't say, but there's a good chance it will be available with twice the RAM (All they do say is that it's slightly cheaper with the same amount of RAM.)
The same market? (Score:5, Interesting)
That's kinda like saying a Tesla roadster is targeted to the same market as people who love the roar of a big V8.
People buy Mac hardware because they're invested in Apple's macOS ecosystem. Apple's hardware selection is what it is, take it or leave it. This Samsung laptop is targeted to people who want high-end Wintel hardware and aren't interested in jumping to Apple's platform. Basically, it's for PC users with a nice fat budget - but I guess that makes for a pretty boring article once you leave out the "poke the Apple beehive" flamebait.
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People buy Mac hardware because they're invested in Apple's macOS ecosystem. Apple's hardware selection is what it is, take it or leave it.
I am one of those invested in the Apple ecosystem, and that's exactly also what I thought when I saw the headline.
"...Samsung's shot at the MacBook Pro"? Did they run MacOS? No? Then it isn't for me.
That was what many who didn't use Apple stuff do not understand, many people buy Apple stuff because of its ecosystem, and I mean the whole Mac-iPhone-iPad-Apple Watch-iTunes ecosystem. Apple stuff works well together, and after one invested in a few of these devices, adding any non-Apple stuff often create
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Correct. If anything they are in the market of the Surface Books, not the Macbooks.
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And because it isn't made out of plastic that shatters if you look at it funny.
TFA is caught in an RDF, doublespeak:
" wildly expensive MacBook Pro 16" ...
""It'll start at $2,399.99 ($100 cheaper than the base MacBook Pro 16)"
4% big whoop. Moreover, $2500 for a tool one may use 40+ hours a week for years is hardly wildly expensive. With a nominal 3 year corporate refresh cycle, that's $69.40 a month, even less with a refresh cycle that's commonly longer.
It’ll be awesome (Score:4, Funny)
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The new Intel laptop CPUs are pretty low power. I'd expect at least 6 hours of battery life unless you start playing games on it. At that point, you would be lucky to get 2 hours before you needed to plug in.
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The new Intel laptop CPUs are pretty low power. I'd expect at least 6 hours of battery life unless you start playing games on it. At that point, you would be lucky to get 2 hours before you needed to plug in.
The only way this blast-furnace gets 6 hours on a charge is if you leave it in Sleep Mode!
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The h-series CPUs? Surely you jest. If you wanted efficiency in the x86 mobile world, get a Rembrandt or (upcoming) Phoenix-based laptop.
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SK is basically their market (Score:2)
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(which Apple is trying to do away with [slashdot.org]).
Liar.
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No lies detected. Are you really that gullible you think Apple is putting unremovable locks on laptops because it's suddenly concerned with crime?
Not gullible.
It just happens to be true.
If the (original) Owner Unlocks it before discarding/selling/giving it, a MacBook is as resellable as any other computer.
The Lie comes in the fact that this was well established in the Comments to the Article you Cited. Thus you were Assumed to Know that what you were positing (and now double-down on) was untrue.
E.g. https://apple.slashdot.org/com... [slashdot.org]
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You're treating the AC like you know it was me for sure. It was not, even though he is right.
No I wasn't; and no he isn't.
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If the (original) Owner Unlocks it before discarding/selling/giving it, a MacBook is as resellable as any other computer.
If the original owner dies, or is far away, or just doesn't want to deal with that Apple garbage any more, then it isn't. There is zero good reason for Apple not to have an unlock system where you contact Apple for an unlock, and they check with the owner of record to find out if the laptop was stolen.
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If the (original) Owner Unlocks it before discarding/selling/giving it, a MacBook is as resellable as any other computer.
If the original owner dies, or is far away, or just doesn't want to deal with that Apple garbage any more, then it isn't. There is zero good reason for Apple not to have an unlock system where you contact Apple for an unlock, and they check with the owner of record to find out if the laptop was stolen.
Why the hateful "Apple garbage" epithet?
It's both childish and borish.
Grow up.
At least Apple (and I guess Dell?) are trying to do something to make sure stolen computers are both secure and worthless to the thieves.
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Why the hateful "Apple garbage" epithet?
Because it is user-hostile, and they lie about its capabilities. Pretty much everything they make is kneecapped by their terrible thermal design. It's incompetent at best.
At least Apple (and I guess Dell?) are trying to do something to make sure stolen computers are both secure and worthless to the thieves.
If you keep putting so many miles on those iKneepads, you're going to scratch them.
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Why the hateful "Apple garbage" epithet?
Because it is user-hostile, and they lie about its capabilities. Pretty much everything they make is kneecapped by their terrible thermal design. It's incompetent at best.
At least Apple (and I guess Dell?) are trying to do something to make sure stolen computers are both secure and worthless to the thieves.
If you keep putting so many miles on those iKneepads, you're going to scratch them.
LOLWut?!?
Certainly nothing inadequate about the thermal budgets of the Mx Designs.
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Certainly nothing inadequate about the thermal budgets of the Mx Designs.
They literally all thermally throttle in seconds. If you don't care about getting the specified performance because Apple didn't want their machine to make audible noises then that's great for Apple, buy whatever you want and they will thank you for having low standards.
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Certainly nothing inadequate about the thermal budgets of the Mx Designs.
They literally all thermally throttle in seconds. If you don't care about getting the specified performance because Apple didn't want their machine to make audible noises then that's great for Apple, buy whatever you want and they will thank you for having low standards.
Citation, please.
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Tiresome Naysayer.
Probably a MAGAt, too.
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Apple can get away with those prices because it has a great following (almost cult-like) who'll pay anything for Apple products.
Let me start by saying I don't own a Mac or have any interest in owning a Mac. My last Mac was a Macbook Air in 2010 that I barely used.
What you're describing is basically 20 year old ideology. You're absolutely right, it used to be the fringe cultist who picked a objectively slower platform because of "design" or "simplicity" or some other hand-wavey bullshit. But over 15% of PC sold last year in the US were Macs [statista.com]. That's a hell of a "cult." The reality is that, in my experience, a tremendous amount
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Apple can get away with those prices because it has a great following (almost cult-like) who'll pay anything for Apple products.
Let me start by saying I don't own a Mac or have any interest in owning a Mac. My last Mac was a Macbook Air in 2010 that I barely used.
Jon3k: I have always respected your viewpoints. Even though obviously not in the Apple Camp, your Posts on these matters are refreshingly-free of the mindless rancor and tiresome outright lies of the Apple-Haters. Bravo!
BTW, now is the hour to take another look at Apple. They really do seem to be kicking-ass and taking names; particularly in certain metrics! For instance, identical performance both on off AC Power. . .
What you're describing is basically 20 year old ideology. You're absolutely right, it used to be the fringe cultist who picked a objectively slower platform because of "design" or "simplicity" or some other hand-wavey bullshit. But over 15% of PC sold last year in the US were Macs [statista.com]. That's a hell of a "cult." The reality is that, in my experience, a tremendous amount of professional software developers and professional creatives are working on Macs. These are people who's income is directly tied to the hardware and software they use on a daily basis it's not fashion.
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Sorry for forgetting to close the quote tag!
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Thanks, I appreciate that. I bought my s/o a new M2 Macbook Air and it really is incredible. It's so well built, the trackpad and display are so good and it is just so responsive. And the battery life is otherworldly. But I just prefer running linux on the desktop/laptop too much to switch to macOS personally. With that said, it's hard to be a software developer and not have a deep appreciation for the whole Apple macOS software experience.
Cool! Glad you appreciate good hardware and software product engineering! I mean that sincerely!
I do have one question, though: Isn't running macOS kinda the best of both worlds for a Linux guy? Seriously! Please educate me on how you can logically (rather than religiously) make a case for preferring Linux over macOS. I'm genuinely curious!
Afterall, if some great Linux Devs like you would throw your considerable combined talents and resources into Developing and Improving Tools and Applications tuned (rathe
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found the apple fanboi
Found the Anonymous Coward.
A Shot. . . And a Miss! (Score:3)
A screen that's 400 Nits as opposed to Apple's 1,000 Nits (1,500 max.); a joke of a Trackpad, poorly placed at that; Battery life so embarrassing they won't even mention it; the misses just keep on coming!
What a sad joke.
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which apple laptop screens are 1000 nits? my m1 air's screen is 400
Well, unless it's a typo; both the 14" and 16" XDR Displays on the M2 MacBook Pros. Read (16" shown) :
Display
Liquid Retina XDR display
16.2-inch (diagonal) Liquid Retina XDR display;1 3456-by-2234 native resolution at 254 pixels per inch
XDR (Extreme Dynamic Range)
1,000,000:1 contrast ratio
XDR brightness: 1000 nits sustained full-screen, 1600 nits peak2 (HDR content only)
SDR brightness: 500 nits
Color
1 billion colors
Wide color (P3)
True Tone technology
Refresh rates
ProMotion technology for adaptive refresh rates
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You know there are over-the-counter medicated shampoos to deal with that, right?
Indeed!
If you have Nits, it hardly matters whether you have 400, 500 or 1,000 of them!
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How many users really need more than 16 hours on a single battery charge?
Of course, those runtimes are almost always in some narrow use case like watching video. Desktop applications or software development or whatever will lose a third or more of that battery life, which is where it becomes relevant in the real world.
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How many users really need more than 16 hours on a single battery charge?
Of course, those runtimes are almost always in some narrow use case like watching video. Desktop applications or software development or whatever will lose a third or more of that battery life, which is where it becomes relevant in the real world.
It will be more like 4-6 hours.
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What a useless comment. Which one will have a battery life more like 4-6 hours? Doing what?
Battery life tests [tomsguide.com] for "continuous web surfing at 150 nits" (so pretty dim, but maybe usable indoors) show considerably above 6 hours of battery for both a 2023 MBP and a Dell XPS 15 of unspecified details. The Samsung laptop in this story will probably have considerably worse battery life than that Dell, especially when CPU or GPU use is cranked up.
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What a useless comment. Which one will have a battery life more like 4-6 hours? Doing what?
Battery life tests [tomsguide.com] for "continuous web surfing at 150 nits" (so pretty dim, but maybe usable indoors) show considerably above 6 hours of battery for both a 2023 MBP and a Dell XPS 15 of unspecified details. The Samsung laptop in this story will probably have considerably worse battery life than that Dell, especially when CPU or GPU use is cranked up.
Sorry.
I thought it was pretty obvious that I was talking about the Samsung having crappy battery life.
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Everyone, because the quoted figures of 16 hours will be based on very light use with the screen brightness turned down etc. Under more normal usage patterns the battery life is a lot lower.
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"Unfortunately, we don't yet know how it will stack up when it comes to battery life.
Oh, yes we do. . .
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It won't be close for real use. With a mac, you just open it up and start using it. It's pretty much the machine as-intended, plus whatever application you need to work on.
With windows, you need to install anti virus and whatnot and setup a thousand and one things (especially if working in a corporate). Being Samsung, you'll additionally have a plethora of bloatware applications on there, all popping up for your attention, running unexplained background services, self-updaters and whatnot too. There's no wa
I'd actually consider this... (Score:2)
...if it's half the price of a comparable MacBook Pro.
Dude... (Score:2)
Samsung makes a number of Galaxy Book models, but this is the first one of the past few years that has really targeted the deep-pocketed professional user -- that is, the core audience for Apple's high-powered and wildly expensive MacBook Pro 16.
I could never get a Samsung--I'm creative. [youtube.com]
Max GPU on battery (Score:2)
Can I use the GPU at full power when running on battery? Or is the GPU only fully available on mains power?
Resolution is sucky (Score:2)
The resolution is less than that of the a macbook: 3456 × 2234 vs. 2880 x 1800 Come on man. And yes I'd easily notice that, I have better than 20/10 vision.
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The resolution is less than that of the a macbook: 3456 × 2234 vs. 2880 x 1800 Come on man. And yes I'd easily notice that, I have better than 20/10 vision.
Epic Fail.
Feh and meh. (Score:1)
You could put a Rolls-Royce engine in a Yugo but it's still a Yugo.
Say what you want, but as a deep user of all three major OSes, I can tell you that the Mac OS has the most polish and least amount of headaches associated with it. If you enjoy dicking with your OS, Linux and Windows are good choices. If you want to get stuff done, use a Mac.
Yeah, right (Score:2)
Samsung makes a number of Galaxy Book models, but this is the first one of the past few years that has really targeted the deep-pocketed professional user [...] It'll start at $2,399.99 ($100 cheaper than the base MacBook Pro 16),
Yeah, $100 is going to make a huuuuge difference when I choose between a Macbook Pro or a non-Macbook Pro. Stupid Chaebol executive dumbasses...