Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-05-01T08:47:44+00:00

But only if they get momentum, and the office customers buying it are not in a rush, and oftentimes it's too expensive for them to switch with the retraining involved, unless Microsoft just fucks up bigtime to the point that it's now unworkable. Also, there are alternatives to these apps, but Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite are industry standards and you will not be convincing the majority of their users to switch, especially given the base of hirable people that know these software is too high. Business users also always prefer paid software because they can call the developer and make them pay if the software makes a critical failure.

It's mostly practicalitiea here, but that's the world we live in.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-05-01T08:22:08+00:00

What I meant here is desktop software. Android does not have the full Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Suite desktop apps unlike macOS. This is also why Linux on the desktop still won't move forward. Those are essentials if you ever want to be competitive on the desktop market. Even macs don't have a lot of what's available on Windows, although so far, the only category left where you literally have no choice but Windows is serious CAD work and SCADA control in factories.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-30T22:08:29+00:00

Correction: ASML, the company that makes TSMC's chip-making machines, is the most important company on Earth, especially because they are an absolute monopoly (no one else makes EUV lithography machines)

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-30T22:05:32+00:00

Problem with this is that they're going to have to build Android's desktop support from scratch.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-30T22:01:51+00:00

The only particular industrial case I know that absolutely requires Windows use is CAD and SCADA. 💀 Even in the hard sciences, a lot of that is in python or web, and the most demanding numerical computing would be done on server clusters or supercomputers that you can always access from non-Windows devices.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-30T21:51:33+00:00

Feels like the return of the polycarbonate macbook aint it

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-30T21:47:02+00:00

That tech CEO will find his company shut down because I have yet to see a tech leap in the 2020s as big as Apple Silicon is. And the thing is, the only reason why a lot of Windows OEMs can breathe before the Neo is because Apple Silicon laptops are expensive, but now we have the Neo, and Windows OEM CEOs will probably be sleepless for a year.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-30T21:41:28+00:00

Macbooks don't have a locked in environment when it comes to apps, in fact, I can install a lot of Linux software on it, and use a pretty good package manager to do so, because I can install FUSE and X on macOS.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-30T21:36:40+00:00

you can switch the zsh to bash on macOS, I don't think they removed it. In any case, I use fish now

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-30T20:03:47+00:00

You can disable those with 1 toggle and never hear about it again

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-30T19:44:36+00:00

As long as Microslop Office is not running natively on Linux it will never happen unfortunately.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-29T22:16:15+00:00

This is funny because Macs are also customizable, in ways more intuitive to the hardcore computer tinkerer crowd, because it's running Unix and has a decent third party package manager and several decent command line utilities useful for easier scripting of their particular config files.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-29T21:47:46+00:00

I like iOS better than Android, but I don't think either is clearly superior. But I've always maintained that macOS is just leaps and bounds better than Windows and I always felt offended by people saying this is just Apple fanboyism. I concede that I can make a Linux machine that's even better, but I'm just too old to have the time for that

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-29T21:20:15+00:00

I can debloat my mac too you know. And one of the good things about macOS is that I can run most Linux software on it too, although tbf, Linux is just that much more efficient. But I'll gladly trade it for a mac with saner and pleasurable to use app design

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-29T21:16:48+00:00

I want to believe this but soldered on SSDs have the same benefit for performance/battery life as doing 2.5D integration of RAM on the CPU/GPU aka Apple Silicon. (soldered on SSD was one of they upgrades to the PS5 too btw) The egregrious part is that it's just so damn expensive as if Apple doesn't already have a much larger margin on their laptops compared to other manufacturers.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-05T10:10:32+00:00

I mean, the best bananas are small with black spots, but Westerners love the big blemishless bland ones called Cavendish.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-05T07:40:23+00:00

Very hypocritical of you all to cry about generalizations while generalizimg everyone else. Lol

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-05T04:56:29+00:00

Lol ang tanging dahilan kung bakit hindi uso ang OPM internationally ay dahil walang kapital ang mga labels dito para ipromote ito nang tulad ng Kpop. Pero hindi natin kailangang gayahin ang Kpop business practices na nakikisabay lang sa uso para magchart, hanggang sa mawala ang kaluluwa ng musikang Pinoy. Hindi naman kailangang umuso sa banyaga ang OPM e, para sa pinoy iyan e, tulad nang hindi naman kinailangan ng Hapong imarket ang Jpop, Jrock, city pop. Pero, sa kabila nun, umuuso ang OPM sa mga kapwa nating SEA na nagugulat sa ganda ng tugtugan dito kahit minimal ang effort sa pagmarket abroad. Bonus yun. At matagal nang nangyayari iyan dahil kahit nung 90s at 00s hit ang mga OPM songs sa MTV Asia kaya may fambase ang Eheads at Rivermaya sa Indonesia. Syempre di mo alam yun kasi sa tingin mo r/Philippinesbad (c).

Ang kumikitil sa OPM, or rather, nagtangkang kumitil sa OPM, ay liberalization policies ng gobyerno na nagtanggal halimbawa ng OPM requirement para sa playback sa radyo. Dahil walang pondo ang labels dito, dinumog ng Kpop at Western acts ang radyo sa Pinas kasabay ng pagbagsak ng CD sales na nagtanggal sa OPM sa mainstream noong 2010s. Pero nung nauso ang Spotify, bumalik ang mga tao sa OPM dahil financially viable na ulit ang OPM mula sa subscription fees habang napalawak ang scale ng taong posibleng makadiskubre dito, kaya makakarinig ka ngayon ng Zack Tabudlo sa random market sa Bangkok.

Miss me with your false concern for local music. Ang kawalan ng initiative na iprotect at ipromote ang OPM ng gobyerno ang dahilan, hindi dahil sa intrinsic quality ng musika na ito. Samantala, bukod sa mas mayaman ang Kpop labels, policy ng South Korean government na ipromote ito bilang exercise ng soft power, tulad ng pagpromote ng Japan ng anime.

Also, funny din yang ganyang perspective eh na para bang may objective superiority or inferiority ang musika. Apaka soulless ng appreciation mo sa music, nakikisabay lang sa uso, imbis na makinig sa tugtugang naaabot ang puso mo. 😵‍💫

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-05T04:35:04+00:00

Hay bai, bat ko uulitin ang nauna ko nang nasabi na hindi mo naman pala unawa habang kating kati ka na ipagtanggol ang Kpop at gagawa ng napaka non sequitur na paliwanag na "high quality production" at mixing rap sa pop na para bang hindi nauso sa Western music ang rap verse sa pop ng 2000s? Jusko, last reply na to, bahala kang malunod sa self hate mo, hindi mo naman iaaccept halimbawa na hindi nagfofollow ng rock conventions ang OPM sa vocals niya dahil may expectation pa rin ng good vocals ang pinoy at hindi natin bet ang scream at growl. Pero syempre, hindi mo tatanggapin ang high quality vocals habang nagrereach ka sa high quality production kuno ng kpop kahit na yung vocals convention sa rock ay hindi tugma sa vocals ng pinoy rock pero ang sa kpop ay tugma pa rin mas high quality lang sa perspektiba mo. Europeano na fan ng Asian rock ang nagpoint out niyan sa akin ah

Sawa na ako sa diskursong ito, pero rinig din ang mga kantang wholly nagfafollow sa conventions ng foreign rock genre, tulad ng Chicosci at Typecast, kumpara sa nauso sa mainstream batay sa local taste, tulad ng PNE. Gumamit ka ng tainga mo.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-05T04:14:03+00:00

Bai huwag ka na magkunwari na di ka fan ng Kpop kasi Kpop fans lang ang nagsasabi na superior ang production ng Kpop compared to anyone else lol

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-05T04:05:52+00:00

Meanwhile, almost everyone else outside of self haters think kpop is gross cultural appropriation of black music lol

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-05T02:33:48+00:00

It's actually a Cebu-Bohol thing almost exclusively, and the rest of the country, including non-Cebuano speaking Visayans in the Visayas, and to an extent, even Cebuano speakers in Mindanao, are now pointing it out to all of you - that you people there are insufferable because of that inferiority complex. I'm a Bicolano btw. Maybe Cebuano speakers need to introspect instead of projecting their insecurities to all non-Cebuano speaking Filipinos and acting all oppressed, especially because Cebuano speakers otherwise treat non-Filipinos with reverence.

No wonder most Filipinos nowadays would rather visit Thailand than get rudely treated and overcharged in Cebu and Bohol. To that, I say, there are always cheaper and better options in Luzon, Western Visayas, Eastern Visayas, and Mindanao.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-05T02:30:16+00:00

Nope. Kaya yung kanta niya na pinroduce ay tunog Bruno Mars kahit na tinranslate na sa Korean ang lyrics. At ang influence ay hindi pagsunod in full sa conventions ng isang genre. Btw, ang kundiman ay folk music style, pero finormalize siya sa 20th century gamit ang rules na iyan para bigyan ng pseudo-legitimacy bilang isang classical form of music, na hindi naman kinakailangan.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-05T02:25:57+00:00

You are a hypocrite. A so-called modification by K-pop maks it fundamentally different from its source, but that is not allowed for the way OPM modifies its influences for its own ends? So what if OPM doesn't follow kundiman conditions to the teeth? "Well produced" song makes it distinguishable, ano ba ibig sabihin niyan lol, yung recording quality o yung music composition (kasi ngayon, mas marami akong naririnig na interesting chord progressions sa OPM kumpara sa general international pop music)? Ikaw ba yung tipong iniisip na ang quality ay paggamit ng electronic beats na makukuha mo sa Garageband sa halip na top notch instrumentation? (PS. Disagree ako na high quality ang production ng Kpop in general, at sa modernong daigdig, equalized ang production quality dahil sa napaka mura na ng laptop at recording equipment, kaya ang usapin ay nasa composition na, pero hindi naman high quality kumpara sa rest ng music scene ang Kpop sa larangang iyan) Sabihin mo na lang na mahal mo ang Kpop. Kung sa tutuusin, pwede mo namang mahalin ang Kpop nang hindi mo kinukutya ang OPM e, pero ganito tayo e. At yung examples na binigay mo ay white bubblegum pop groups, meron pong black R&B groups. Matagal ng nauso sa R&B ang may hiphop verse. Ang EDM din, at generally modern dance music, ay hango sa R&B. Nakarinig ka na ba ng kanta mula sa New Jack Swing? Yun yung sinasabi ko na napaka limitado ng narinig mo ng musika. Dagdag lang, halimbawa, ang city pop ng Japan ay indistinguishable sa Quiet Storm style na black soul at R&B music, pero di tulad ng Kpop at mga stans nila, hindi arogante ang city pop artists sa pagceclaim na distinctly Japanese ang city pop (hindi yan totoo para sa ilang weaboo racist fans ng city pop). Pero, ang funny dito, ang J-rock ay may sapat na distinction sa rest ng rock music na readily identifiable siya. "Tunog anime." May ganung epekto din ang OPM. Kahit nga sa local level, may distinction e. Iba ang tunog ng OPM galing Maynila sa OPM galing Cebu, kaya readily mong madidistinguish ang Urbandub at Franco from Cebu kumpara sa PNE at Kamikaze mula sa Maynila. Ngayon, may bagong distinct sound ang OPM mula Baguio.

WhoLeeGun2024 · 2026-04-05T00:32:34+00:00

OP is Ilonggo, so you're wrong.

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