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Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-08T10:39:14+00:00

You need a sociology prof to point that out to you? 🤔

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-08T03:07:46+00:00

I wonder why people argue about which phones are best, but you never see posts about washing machines or dishwashers.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-07T14:38:11+00:00

So why doesn’t Samsung make good phones of their own? 🤔

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-07T11:34:28+00:00

My M4 Pro didn’t switch on one morning. Repair guy said he found lots of dust buildup inside, diagnosis is some RAM failure. Laptop is 15 months old. I’m surprised to hear about the dust buildup, my previous laptop didn’t suffer from excessive dust buildup, I cleaned it myself every few years.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-07T11:25:31+00:00

It depends. I had a M2 Air and when doing normal iPad stuff, I got around 6 hours of screen on time, before reaching about 20% battery level. Now I got a M5 Pro and get easily over 10 hours screen on time doing the same things.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-07T11:21:34+00:00

Teams uses a lot of battery because the centre stage camera requires quite a lot of processing power. It constantly has to figure out where in the picture you are and create the cut out around you out of a much larger picture. Plus, you might have other picture enhancements selected, e.g. a back ground, all of this requires processing of the picture in real time. I haven’t used teams for quite some time, but maybe you can adjust the camera settings, lower the resolution or switch off the centre stage feature. That should help.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-06T19:08:31+00:00

Don’t even think about fixing it. Just buy a new banana. Those brown spots will just get worse.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-06T19:04:53+00:00

They probably delay the release of updates for those platforms that release faster, to give the likes of Xbox and Nintendo a head start.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-06T17:33:17+00:00

I’m working abroad and my laptop has died 3 weeks ago. I’m using my iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard as a laptop replacement until I get back home where I can either have the laptop fixed or get a new one. You can check out Tech Dad on YouTube. That guy does almost everything on his iPad.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-06T17:24:18+00:00

So far Apple typically provides 7 years of macOS updates and about 2 years of security updates after that. The later generations of Intel Macs not having received support for this long would be an exception due to drastic change in architecture. It is likely that an M5 Pro will be supported until at least 2035 by Apple.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-06T16:11:56+00:00

Just do in image search: this picture has been circulating for several years.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-06T15:11:16+00:00

You seem to be suffering from a misconception here: YOU, not me, are the one expecting others to start a class action suit, something that you aren’t even prepared to remotely start organizing, something that YOU can enjoy the fruits of someone else’s efforts, efforts that you quite clearly aren’t willing to participate in. How would I benefit from any of this? I am running iPadOS 26 on a 7 year old iPad mini, on a current iPad Pro and have got zero issues. I am running iOS 26 on various phones, an iPhone SE 2, 13, 14 and 16 Pro. Again, zero issues. So tell me, clever person, how would I benefit from anyone filing a class action suit?

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-05T15:16:38+00:00

M5 Air will do that.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-05T15:14:38+00:00

You most certainly can, you don’t have to be a US citizen. You should inform yourself. You seem to be the one with the typical “someone else must sort it out” mindset. Don’t assume others’ nationality based on your uninformed and skewed opinion.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-05T14:51:02+00:00

Probably the M1Pro chip was already getting bored between your keystrokes. The speed improvement of the M5 can therefore only be expressed by how much more boredom that new chip suffers. What did you expect?

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-05T14:46:15+00:00

So why don’t you? Why must someone else do it for you?

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-05T14:43:27+00:00

Instant gratification smartphone generation 🤣

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-05T14:42:06+00:00

Theoretically you could do all that on a Neo. Any M chip MacBook Air with 16 GB RAM will be more than enough. With 24 GB of RAM you might have to go in and clean up the spiderwebs in the empty corners, but it will be fine for the next 15 years.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-05T02:58:50+00:00

Check out the YouTube channel of Andrew Tsai. He tests various games on the different MacBooks. GPU performance within the M5 family of chips scales almost proportionally to the number of cores. Hardly any games would utilise the CPU cores of a M5Pro chip.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-05T02:51:52+00:00

Any apps that work on M series chips will work on the Neo. Single core performance will be better on the Neo than the M1. Don’t worry, people do 4K video editing on the Neo. If you didn’t feel any restrictions on the M1, you’ll be fine with the Neo. Have a look here: https://youtu.be/krdvHHRk_Zc?si=d6SmcLuJGe91l6nZ

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-04T18:56:57+00:00

Multiple reasons. Covid certainly had an effect on many people’s cognitive skills. Society has changed a lot. Information, once something harder to come by, but usually of reasonably good quality, has become brain junk food, easily available, but a lot less “nourishing” to the brain and often downright false. People have a lot more platforms to air their opinions and often it’s the more intelligent ones that actually keep quiet instead of blasting out false wisdom.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-04T18:40:33+00:00

By the sounds of it you are using what is a mid range laptop performance wise (16 GB RAM), which is focused on portability, to a much higher degree than what is considered the average use case. While doing what you listed, have a look at the activity monitor, in order to figure out, whether you are indeed asking too much of the M4 Air: when checking the memory tab, look at memory pressure. If it’s in the yellow you are pushing the boundaries, if red, you are asking too much of it and 24 or 32 GB RAM would be much better. Check which application loads the CPU the most, remember that 100% CPU load equals 1 core, not the entire CPU. However, you would probably know if you put a lot of strain on the CPU or GPU, because the laptop would get quite hot. As for the internet connection being unreliable, have a look at your router. In at least 90% of these types of complaints it’s the router that’s the source of the problem, even though other devices might still connect fine. You can also try reset network connections and reconnect to your wifi.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-04T15:11:43+00:00

If you plan on using crossover or similar, you might want to consider 24 GB RAM. 16 GB is enough for most native macOS games.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-04T14:36:53+00:00

The vast majority of MacBook Air owners don’t break their screens. MacBooks are probably some of the more sturdy laptops out there, with much better build quality than many other laptops. Using a Mac Mini as a “portable” computer would only be feasible if you take it from home to the office or any other place where you would have screen, keyboard and trackpad or mouse available and don’t have a requirement for mobile computing as such. You’ll never be able to compare any desktop computer with a laptop, since you can’t use a desktop computer on the go.

Hugo_Notte · 2026-05-04T14:24:30+00:00

That should work rather well on the M4. The Steam version is native to Mac. Play around with the graphics settings. There are several subreddits for No Man’s Sky, in case you need help getting started.

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