Why not start calling this place SamsungInsider. Any sales figures regarding Samsung laptops vs Macintosh laptops? I would venture Mac laptops outsell Samsung laptops (not fake Chromebooks) by a wide margin because I have never, EVER, seen a Samsung laptop in person anywhere. All I ever see are HP, Dell, Acer, or Lenovo. To me this is like comparing iPhones to Pixels, top sellers to virtual non-sellers.
So what are the purpose of these Samsung comparisons in an Apple centric (maybe not Apple centric anymore?) tech blog? To encourage switching platforms? To validate ad revenue? To feed the resident trolls? What?
Slow your roll. I have no idea how well Mac notebooks sell in comparison to Samsung notebooks, but I'm very aware that my anecdotal observations don't account for every country's buying patterns so I wouldn't claim that because I see 8 iPhones for every 2 Android-baed phones that it's the same thing through Europe, Brazil, China, South Korea, etc. Do you think that your anecdotal observations are indicative of the world's tech habits?
As for calling this SamsungInsider, I mostly like to see the comparisons made and I simply ignore articles of others. It's better form than complaining that Samsung news is on your lawn, old man.
I hate to beat a dead horse but for a large number of people buying higher spec and higher price desktops like the ones compared here the choice of what to buy effectively occurs at the software application/tool level. If I’m a Windows application developer targeting .NET and native apps using an Apple Silicon Mac is not a smart choice no matter how well put together the machine is. I’m going to buy a Windows machine that runs Visual Studio especially well. Same deal on the Mac developer side, I’m going to get a Mac machine that makes XCode sing. Yes, you can use virtualization to some degree either way, but why spend all that cash and never have the option of being able to run a full blown on-the-metal native experience?
As a side note I’m always astonished by the system attributes that are deemed to necessary for “developers.” There are very many different types of developers and each one has unique needs. Of course, when you’re spending other people’s money or writing down your business investments through depreciation, you’re going to try to get as powerful tool as you can. But across the spectrum of “developers” there’s as many variations of needs and requirements for development support tools, including desktops and notebooks, as there are across any other identifiable population of consumers. I’d have a hard time saying that “developers” are even a singularly unique group in today’s environment where anyone can be a developer at any level and in any domain they choose. Same thing with “creatives.” By the way, this is a very good thing for the world of software and software reliant products in general, which is most everything these days.
Personally, one of my biggest needs for the type of development that I’ve been involved with is screen real estate. Notebooks in general have been limited in this department unless you have access to externally available monitors. Sometimes you have to rough-it and work within the confines of every notebook’s rather tiny screen when on the road, but being able to plug into one or two external monitors when at your home base matters more to me than a 20% difference in a benchmark, slightly less memory, or slightly less built-in storage. But getting back to “not all developers are the same” theme, that’s my personal need, not yours.
Tech inertia is working for ya?, Apple is in the same position it was 30 years ago, no matter how well Apple OS works no matter how good they make their Apple Silicon SOC, hardware a large part of the market will never buy their products (which is fine), or port software over, but thank you Apple for being vertical, despite all the obstacles, including the EU these days, who want you to get down and dirty, and become mediocre and drop to the low non-vertical level with HP and Dell as a OEM to the tech industry.
Apple has that same problem with AAA games currently, Apple also had that same problem with Maps, messaging programs, smart watches and payment systems each time they’ve had to roll up their sleeves and get busy if they wanted to stay in the game, now the way they do business is under attack, particularly by the EU, despite the fact that Apple has no monopoly in any business that they are in, but if you are a vertical computer company (last Man standing). You have to make a OS and many other programs to support your hardware if you have any hopes of selling any. At one time there were six or seven companies in the 1980s that did the same thing. All were crushed by the Wintel monopoly, but Apple persevered.
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As for calling this SamsungInsider, I mostly like to see the comparisons made and I simply ignore articles of others. It's better form than complaining that Samsung news is on your lawn, old man.
Apple has that same problem with AAA games currently, Apple also had that same problem with Maps, messaging programs, smart watches and payment systems each time they’ve had to roll up their sleeves and get busy if they wanted to stay in the game, now the way they do business is under attack, particularly by the EU, despite the fact that Apple has no monopoly in any business that they are in, but if you are a vertical computer company (last Man standing). You have to make a OS and many other programs to support your hardware if you have any hopes of selling any. At one time there were six or seven companies in the 1980s that did the same thing. All were crushed by the Wintel monopoly, but Apple persevered.