I think that is just it - the Media Streamer on our main TV is a family device and anyone in the family should just be able to switch it on and it all works.
That is definitely the case with the Apple TV box - switch on, everything tiled, click and away you go. All content accessible. It really is good at what it does.

No, they being the M2 Pro to rhe mini as well.

As someone who uses a Lenovo thinkpad and an (intel) MacBook Pro on a daily basis, both with 16GB ram, it’s night and day difference.

I can open as many apps as I want on the MacBook and it hardly slows, presumably macOS is very efficient at allocating memory. Meanwhile on the thinkpad it slows down after just a few applications are open.

I wondered why tech forums always obsess over memory because I’ve never found it that big a deal, but when I started using the thinkpad I realised where it came from. And this is comparing with an Intel Mac, apple silicon ones are even better apparently.

Rosetta is a thing you know

wow so compact and high performing

Easily. People are just dumb

Remember that RAM is combined on these machines. Ofc this was the case for prior Mac Minis but important to remember for anyone used to iMacs with AMD GPUs

Sooo, do you have PCIE 5??

I don't know what you mean by "real work" but it's a very capable machine with 32gb

Keep downvoting apologists but the storage on these SoC's doesn't go over 3000MB/s. Meanwhile PCs have been enjoying 7500 for years with pcie5.0 around the corner.

The 64GB ThinkPad X1 Yoga says hello

real work involves more than idling the OS

dang i feel like mines at the end of its life… it’s just so slow with everything and pretty much can’t handle the media files from my camera…

macOS is much more efficient than Windows lol

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I like using macs for literally everything other than gaming, because sadly, it just isn’t for that.

I believe that if Apple was able to push focus on making their computers able to play games well, they could create some hard competition in the PC gaming market

Fun fact. You also need an iPhone to activate the apple credit card. Despite them selling me on one when I bought an iPad.

Yes, since we are comparing the amount of ram apple ships in 1200$ devices with the amount of ram other manufacturers ship in 400$ devices.

Apple TV and Pixel 7

I always want to shit on the notion of a ouch screen laptop but I’m scared that if I do Apple will make one and I’ll enjoy it.

"game changing" is probably one of the few things they aren't. (sadly... please Apple. Spend some money on gaming...).

You totally ruined my snarky reply! Take my sullen up vote dammit!

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When the audio is out of sync with the picture.

Apple TV is far superior OS to other tv interfaces, UP Next is a top tier app feature.