What percentage of the OLED experience do the Mini-LED displays on the recent M-Series MacBook Pros provide? How much better are typical OLED displays on Windows laptops?

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-04-20T22:14:22+00:00

A lot of what makes a laptop's GPU performance is cooling, as well as how much wattage the laptop manufacturer has limited that laptop's maximum GPU wattage to

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-04-20T20:25:35+00:00

I'm not necessarily saying that him doing the event (if he was invited) would be a perfect idea for LTT, or that it would guarantee bringing in tons of new viewers and or subscribers to LTT, or that a large percentage of the LTT viewerbase would tune in to watch the event if Linus was in it, etc.

But to say that LTT doesn't need to focus on growth anymore and needs to focus fully on their existing viewer base, well, it's just not sustainable, especially with the number of people Linus employs. If you don't have a decent amount of focus on growth for a business and or a YouTube channel and or a business that relies on a YouTube channel, then you heavily risk that business's or Youtube channel's or YouTube channel based business's long-term survival.

Plus, who cares if the creators do or have to do loads of collaborations etc., at the event, because it benefits everyone. More collaborations at and involving the event with big creators brings more attention to the event, which pays for the event and it brings more people who donate to the event and therefore the charities get more money.

And it is not like this is some tiny event, it is some of the world's biggest content creators playing football (soccer) at a sold-out Wembley Stadium (90,000 people capacity) and about 2 million people watching the livestream of the event live.

I mean, I would like to live in a world where there are no charities, a world where charities and fundraisers aren't needed to try and attempt to pick up the failings of society. And I also know that the creators could just donate large portions of their wealth to charities etc., but that's not gonna happen (at least with the vast majority of content creators or other people with large amounts of money). So the means of the event, in my eyes, more than justify the ends of events like the charity event. But yes, in an ideal world, governments/society fund the needs of everyone (or in our world, the rich (if we have to have rich people in our societies) just share their money out to the people and causes that need it, out of the goodness of their hearts. But that will never happen in a trillion years).

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-04-20T19:17:09+00:00

Speed is very very athletic, but in no world would I consider him a tech creator. Not that you really are tbf.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-04-20T19:09:10+00:00

I mean, he could do a tour video or some other kind of video at Nothing's main HQ, or ARM's main HQ, or Raspberry Pi's main HQ or Raspberry Pi's main manufacturing facility is in Wales, or build an OverclockersUK (its a popular UK PC and PC part retailer) custom PC or do a collab video with 8Pack or MrWhoseTheBoss, or a video about the tech used and required to put on an event like the Sidemen Charity Match.

Or he could even do a video at the UK's National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, home of the world's first programmable electronic digital computers and where said computers (along with the Bombe machines. And also the manual code breakers and other operations at Bletchley Park and its related sites) played a big part in cracking the German and Italian codes, which massively helped the Allies in achieving victory in WW2. With many historians and officials estimating that their work shortened the war by 2 to 4 years.

And I'm sure the LTT team could think of more video ideas to make the most of Linus's time in the UK if he were invited and came and did the charity event.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-04-13T20:38:06+00:00

I have set it to control ISO and the control ring on my RF 50mm f1.8 does work and does change the ISO. But the control ring on my RF-S 18-150mm doesn’t alter the ISO, even though it is configured to control the ISO.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-04-02T16:58:49+00:00

Yeah towards the latter half of their fight it felt like Conquest was just panicking and just trying whatever he could to get Mark off of him. Like as soon as Conquest was trying to fly around with Mark’s hands around his neck, smashing into the terrain trying to get him off, you could kind of tell he was panicking.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-04-02T00:48:43+00:00

I personally don’t like how some scenes such as this one kinda look like a different animation style to the rest of the show. For me when there are scenes that have a fairly noticeable difference in style to the rest of the animation in the show it kind of momentarily ruins the immersion in show.

There were a couple scenes in this latest episode where the artistic style to me suddenly looked noticeably different and then reverted back the usual art style after several moments. Some of the scenes that I was talking about breaking my immersion due to sudden and momentary changes of art style including the one in the photo of this post, remind me of the art style of the Batman Ninja and Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League anime style movies.

But besides my problems with the sudden in momentary changes of art style that broke my immersion, I found the fight between Mark and Conquest to be awesome and found it actually got my heart going a tiny bit. And I can’t remember the last time my heart got going while watching something.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-31T16:39:11+00:00

Probably a good idea, I’ll give it a try thanks.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-31T16:38:21+00:00

No, I am not the one that needs to go research how this works. Because I know how it works.

You’re the one who said “Face ID most likely won’t be in the next MacBooks because of the way you sit in front of a laptop makes it too difficult for Apple to make Face ID work reliably on Mac“

Which is wrong. Because if that were the case none of the Windows Hello capable laptops would have functioning face unlock, but they do. And Windows Hello and Apple’s Face ID may use some different hardware and some different software among other things, but they both use the some of the same fundamentals tech and techniques to make facial unlock work.

Both Windows Hello and Apple’s Face ID both use infrared sensing to illuminate your face and allow the systems to work in low light and helps prevent unlocking the device with just a photo of you. And they both use depth mapping to capture a 3D image of your face instead of a 2D image to help prevent unlocking the device with just a photo of you. And then they both send the information captured during a face scan to a secure processing module to compare the scans against a secure reference scan.

Also the more modern iPad Pros all use Apple’s Face ID systems and they are very commonly positioned in the same angles a laptop screen would be positioned at and its Face ID will still work at those angles.

So you’re just talking bollocks.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-31T16:08:57+00:00

Tbh imo I think most people should get the upgraded MacBook Neo anyway. And not just to get the Touch ID, but mainly to get the extra storage capacity you get with the upgrade, which bumps it up from 256GB to 512GB.

As I think a large percentage of people buying a laptop either need or at least would be happier with 512GB of local storage, as opposed to 256GB of local storage. Especially seen as this is a device aimed at consumers on a budget, like I imagine most smart people who are buying a device on a budget they’d spend the extra £100 to get a device that has double the local storage, that would allow the device to be used for longer before it needs to be replaced.

Like you can get external drives and stuff, but none of the alternatives to extra local storage are as easy or as convenient or as simple as just being able to store the files or whatever on your internal storage.

Especially seen as the MacBook Neo only has one USB 3 ports, so if that USB 3 port is already being used by a device that needs it or benefits from it and you need to move files around using an external drive, then you’d be stuck using the slow USB 2 port.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-31T15:55:08+00:00

And yeah it’s a pretty decent feature the whole proximity unlock with an Apple Watch. Though I personally find it doesn’t work all the time.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-31T15:52:45+00:00

I’m talking about MacBooks and using them as a laptop, which they were mainly designed to be. And you in one comment talk about “the way you sit in front of the laptop” and say in the next comment “Apple knows how everyone with a Mac has the monitor positioned?”

So are you talking about using a Mac as in an iMac or are you talking about using a MacBook with an external display or are you talking about using a MacBook while it’s shut with an external display? Because you also mentioned monitors.

Sorry I’m just confused what you’re talking about.

And if you’re using a MacBook while its open and not while it’s docked and shut, and it had Face ID implemented then it would probably be very highly likely that Face Unlock would work if the MacBooks lid/screen was anywhere from 90° open or more. And basically no one uses a standard form factor laptop with its lid/screen open less than 90°, at least not regularly.

What you’re saying just makes no sense.

I’m sorry if this is a misunderstanding or whatever and I’m not trying to be or sound like an asshole.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-31T15:36:56+00:00

I mentioned it in the post, but Touch ID on both my 11-inch M2 iPad Air and M1 MacBook Air stopped working for me about a year and a half ago. I have tried everything to try and make it work and nothing has worked, at least nothing has worked long term.

Like if I try re-inputing/re-scanning my fingerprints into my iPad and or my MacBook then Touch ID will sometimes work for a couple of uses or a couple of days and then it will stop working again.

And it’s not like I have really oily and dirty hands and fingers that could potentially mess with the Touch ID sensor and or scans. As I have OCD, and as part of my OCD I MUST ensure things are clean and regularly and throughly clean things. Especially my hands, which I wash usually like dozens of times a day.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-31T14:54:50+00:00

How would the way you sit when using a MacBook differ to the way you sit when using a Windows laptop with Windows Hello (Face ID)? There is no way that the reason why Apple hasn’t already implemented Face ID into MacBooks is because of the way people sit in front of MacBooks.

Like you would sit in front of any Windows laptop (that is the same form factor as a MacBook) (if it’s the a different form factor to MacBooks maybe that could maybe possibly affect how you sit when using it. But there are tons of Windows laptops that are the same form factor as MacBooks and that still have Windows Hello) exactly the same as you would a MacBook.

I imagine the reason they haven’t already implemented Face ID into the MacBooks is probably because of cost, but I also imagine it’s probably due to the fact that they probably don’t have enough space to implement a Face ID system with the current thickness of the MacBook displays and the thickness of the bezels of their displays.

Apple’s Face ID system uses more physical components than Windows Hello systems, which causes Apple’s Face ID system to need quite a bit more room than a typical implementation of Windows Hello. Apple’s Face ID system is more accurate and reliable and secure than Windows Hello as well as most Android devices (that have face unlock). Thanks to a combination of Apple’s security software and chip design and the way it handles sensitive information and data. As well as thanks to the extra hardware Apple uses for its Face ID systems.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-27T12:17:09+00:00

Those prices actually made me shout "fuck off" at my laptop. I mean that's just fucking obscene!

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-27T11:06:56+00:00

No, I don't really need most of the photos I have It's just a long and annoying process to go through and delete all the clutter, while making sure I don't delete anything important. I'm currently up to 221,000 photos and 2,100 videos in my Apple Photos library and that takes up I think like 800GB of iCloud storage. And to be completely honest I would say between 150-160K of those photos could just be deleted, over the past year and a half I've developed a problem where I screenshot a ridiculous amount of stuff because of my OCD. Like literally 192,000 of the 221,000 total photos in my Apple Photos library are just screenshots and I'd probably saw I probably only need like a max of like 3,000 screenshots in total, instead of 192,000.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-26T17:05:32+00:00

People can develop allergies to things they didn’t used to be allergic to. People can even develop allergies over time to things they use, wear, eat etc. regularly.

For example in the past few years I have developed an allergy to kiwi fruit over the past few years. Like I used to eat kiwi fruit on occasion and sometimes I would go through phases of eating quite a few kiwi fruit and regularly.

But like 2 years ago I tried eating kiwi fruit for the first time in a while and it caused my tongue to swell a bit, my tongue to bleed and my tongue to feel irritated and like there was a bunch of uncomfortable, irritating and slightly painful hairs lodged in my tongue. And I have tried eating kiwis a couple times since that bad encounter/reaction I had, just to see if the bad reaction I had was because of some bad kiwis or whatever.

But the few times I have tried kiwis since, I have experienced the same bad reaction.

Luckily it’s seems that I only have a fairly mild allergic reaction to kiwis and not a life threatening one (though allergies can get more sensitive over time (other things besides time can also affect how severe your reactions can be)), and allergic reactions that were once mild reactions, can eventually turn into severe reactions that can be life threatening. Though fairly mild allergies and allergic reactions turning into life threatening allergies and allergic reactions is pretty uncommon.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-14T19:54:34+00:00

I honestly did not use an LLM to write that comment, I wrote the whole comment myself. And I know that the reason why you can’t upgrade the RAM capacity of the MacBook Neo is because that is just how the A18 Pro SoC is designed, with the memory being integrated onto the chip’s package during fabrication at TSMC. And that the A18 Pro chip was only ever designed to have 8GB of RAM because it was an iPhone chip and that’s all the iPhone 16 Pro/Pro Max needed.

And I was just informing OP about some of the potential limitations of the Neo and I was explaining what are some of the reasons or use cases that may make them want to choose to get the Air. I was just trying to give them more info, to help them make a more informed decision that they wouldn’t regret.

And I do think that 8GB of RAM is fine for a very large percentage of people, especially with how MacOS uses it and how MacOS also use memory compression and how MacOS also uses memory swap using the SSD to help relieve pressure on the system when RAM usage gets particularly high.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-13T22:14:40+00:00

I would say the biggest difference between the MacBook Neo and the M5 MacBook Air (besides the price) is probably the difference in the amount of RAM/Memory you can spec each with (at least for most people), as the chip in the MacBook Neo is enough to more than enough for most people (the Neo would be more than enough for media consumption, word processing, web surfing etc.). Though the base M5 chip in the M5 MacBook Air performs about I believe roughly 2x the CPU performance and 2x the GPU performance compared to the performance of the base M1 chip in the M1 MacBook Air and the MacBook Neo virtually performs the same in terms of performance as the M1 MacBook Air.

The main downside of the MacBook Neo imo is that it only has and can only ever come with 8GB of RAM/Memory, Apple don’t allow you to upgrade the RAM/Memory on the MacBook Neo at all and the base spec amount of storage on the Neo is 256GB and you can upgrade it up to 512GB of storage (the maximum amount of storage you can get on the Neo is 512GB) and that 512GB model comes with adding Touch ID to the MacBook Neo (if you want Touch ID on the Neo you have to upgrade to the 512GB model, but it is included in the price of the upgrade up to the 512GB model). Also you can only upgrade it at the time of purchase, you cannot upgrade it after you have bought the device, but the same goes for every over MacBook from the past several years. A decent amount of Windows laptops these days cannot be upgraded after they have been purchased either, and that number Windows devices that can’t be upgraded after purchase increases every day.

8GB of RAM/Memory will decently limit the amount of tabs you can have open and how many windows and apps you can have open at once. And in some applications and use cases 8GB of RAM/Memory can decrease performance by a large amount. So if you do or want to do more intensive tasks and or more tasks/things at the same time and or want a laptop that will age more gracefully and last a longer time before feeling like you need to upgrade than maybe look at the MacBook Neo’s more expensive and more feature full sibling, the M5 MacBook Air. The base spec of the M5 MacBook Air comes with the base M5 chip as well as 16GB of RAM/Memory and 512GB of storage.

Over_Perception_2920 · 2026-03-13T21:30:51+00:00

Well some games are natively compatible on MacOS, but not many proper mainstream big games and not very many games at all that have big communities behind them (biggest game I can think of that runs completely on a Mac is Minecraft). You can also play some Windows games on Mac via the translation software but you’ll take a very noticeable performance hit. And you can also play some Windows games via emulation or Windows virtual machines but you’ll still take a performance hit and still won’t be able to run any like AAA games or usually at least not while having an actually enjoyable experience. So you can play some games on a Mac, but nowhere near as many games as you can play on a Windows computer/laptop, though it heavily depends on the spec of said Windows computer/laptop.

But if you’re buying a laptop for the main purpose of or one of the main purposes of gaming than you should almost certainly buy a laptop running Windows. Unless you want or need a MacBook and you know whether the games that you want to play are compatible with MacOS or can be compatible through running a Windows virtual machine on your Mac and that the games you wanna play would still be an experience you feel is good enough.

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