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Apple M6 Pro achieves the highest single-core CPU score in Geekbench 7

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  1. khoirul · · focus · HN ↗
    I will never understand how an intelligent, opinionated crowd like HN can be so obsessed over Apple's CPU offerings. Buying into the Mac ecosystem is without a doubt subjecting oneself to vendor lock-in. Linux won't even run on these machines until in 2-3 years, if you're lucky.
    1. brabel · · focus · HN ↗
      What kind of vendor lock in are you talking about?? I use Mac and Linux and don’t feel at all locked in by Apple.
      1. pacifika · · focus · HN ↗
        Try and export a few thousand Notes entries with images.

        Change how you like your day to day workflows in terms of window management

        Share a home made app with some friends without helping them install it

        Fix a bug in the vendors software by writing a patch

        1. ericmay · · focus · HN ↗
          This doesn’t sound like vendor lock in to me, but user preferences.
        2. zuhsetaqi · · focus · HN ↗
          > Try and export a few thousand Notes entries with images.

          Not a problem, I don’t use Apple Notes on my Mac.

          > Change how you like your day to day workflows in terms of window management

          Not a problem, I can just customize my hammerspoon config to behave differently

          > Share a home made app with some friends without helping them install it

          That depends more on what my friends are using than what I use. Me using Linux wouldn’t make it any easier if they are using Windows or macOS.

          > Fix a bug in the vendors software by writing a patch

          Not being able to fix a bug in an OS doesn’t lock me into that OS. And there are bugs in any Linux distribution that are way too complex to fix even if theoretically possible. So it doesn’t make any difference.

          A MacBook is pretty much locked to macOS even if it’s theoretically possible to boot a different OS but that doesn’t make me locked into macOS. I can sell my MacBook for a very reasonable price and buy whatever I want.

          1. lostmsu · · focus · HN ↗
            > And there are bugs in any Linux distribution that are way too complex to fix even if theoretically possible. So it doesn’t make any difference.

            It does now with LLMs

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