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Beautiful, looks like the days of Apple and macOS overtaking Microsoft and Windows will happen very soon

It's the complete opposite of the bloat culture from Microsoft and slowness of Windows 10

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...



In 12 years, 3 months, Windows lost 20% to 75% (1.63% per year), and OS X gained 12% to 16% (1.02% per year). At the current rate, they'll converge in just 22 years 3 months, with Windows and OSX having 39% each.


2043, the year of the Linux Desktop


2043? That's way more than 22 years from n— ...crap.


* Unix


Not with this prices. It's made for the US market salaries.

> slowness of Windows 10

Interestingly I've never had a slow experience on Windows 10 at all and I use an i7 from 2016.


If you don’t see it side-by-side, you don’t really notice it, but Windows 10 is slower at everyday tasks compared to even older Intel Macbooks. Possibly related to the antivirus implementation?

Its kind of like Light Mayo vs regular Mayo, you don’t notice the difference in isolation, but things get awkward side-by-side.

My M1 Mini is much faster than my 2017 i7 PC with 32gb ram and fast m.2 SSD

Edit: to be clear, my main way of testing was trying to launch the same apps side-by-side, and load the same websites side-by-side. 2014 Macbook Pro beat the much newer Windows 10 device every time. The Windows device doesn’t melt down with Minecraft, but that doesn’t change the fact that latency for basic tasks (e.g. opening the browser) is worse for Windows, for inexplicable reasons.


> Beautiful, looks like the days of Apple and macOS overtaking Microsoft and Windows will happen very soon

In the United States where one-third of computers on the web are already running macOS, sure. That definitely won’t be the case worldwide though.




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