Microsoft increased prices for all of its Surface PCs this week, with most models priced hundreds of dollars higher than they were when launching. Windows Central highlighted the increases, which now see Microsoft's mid-range models priced above $1,000 and flagship models priced starting at $1,500. A Microsoft spokesperson said the price increase was due to "recent increases in memory and component costs".
Just the other day I had a guy tell me you could get a PC equivalent to the base M4 mini for $300 after I told him I got one for $650 (both prices CAD)
buying stolen stuff is possible, but I’m sure they were just bullshitting you because apple bad
Equivalent in size, yes. Performance, no. Just look up small form factor PC on Amazon. For just web browsing and streaming, you can do alright for $300.
Just don’t expect it to run Cyberpunk 2077.
Which the M4 mini base model can.
Nice, where can I find m4 mini base model for $300?
I got insanely lucky and picked up a bunch of Lenovo tinys for under 100USD each. I5/16GB DDR4/256GB NVMe. They’re incredible. I would have gotten more if they have more!
An m4 mini still performs better, and these are used business machines. But they test out great! They perform amazingly with Linux and very well with Windows 10 LTSC IoT.
That’s pretty sick though. All my other machines run Linux, including my 2018 mini as of the day after I got the M4 :)
I’d pay 600-some for an m4 mini! I got a M4 air last year for 600USD and I didn’t think I needed one… I use the dang thing hours a day, every day, when I’m on other computers! I have not found a program, Windows or Linux, that comes ANYWHERE CLOSE to as good as iPhoto for managing my photos, too. My partner and I have over 100k photos from the decades we’ve been together and we just plop them on a library on an external SSD and back that up to a HDD. Even with a grillion photos, iPhoto doesn’t give a fuck, it handles them like a champ.
Also fuck windows for a lot of things but extra fuck windows for its lack of support for… HEIC? The nice photo format used commonly now. Linux loves it, windows refuses to touch them.
What flavor of Linux do you like?~ I’m new to Linus as a desktop OS after a few headless units doing server stuff in my house. I have a couple distros so far and they’ve all been great, Pop!_OS gave me the fewest issues and looks nice (pre-COSMIC… the COSMIC one feels unfinished as of yet)
I’m going to try some flavor of arch next but probably not expect it to go well for my first time jumping in the deep end. I love to hear folks’ opinions on what distros they like, tho! I’m also gonna throw Linux on my 2011 MacBook Pro, so we’ll see how that goes—with a SSD and 16GB DDR3, runs OSX very well still and I imagine Linux would run better!
Cachy is the easiest Linux os I’ve ever used and I’ve used a good number of them.
Dammmn you’re the second person in a row to recommend that to me. I’ve never touched arch, but I will for sure give it a shot! The other fella is a def for a really popular piece of software, crazy smart and nice dude~
Thank you for recommending! I will make that my next mission! :3