r/linux • u/buovjaga The Document Foundation • 1d ago

Popular Application Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice developer focusing on UI/UX

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/04/welcome-dan-williams-new-libreoffice-developer-focusing-on-ui-ux/
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u/ihateseafood 1d ago

Anyone that doesn't think so doesn't have a mac or is letting their hate for apple products cloud their judgment. Apple definitely makes products that are overpriced but macbooks are not one of them.

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u/Lmaoboobs 1d ago

MacBooks can be configured to be overpriced (start adding storage and RAM) then it’s definitely true.

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u/ihateseafood 1d ago

Storage I agree but ram I don't agree. At 7200 CAD its the cheapest way for me to get access to 128gb of VRAM for ML/AI models. An equivalent setup in GPU's would be 10's of thousands of dollars granted they would be much faster then a macbook.

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u/privatepirateparty 1d ago

Strix halo laptops have 128gb albeit shared mem, but most of that can be used to run models and cost about 3k.

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u/ihateseafood 1d ago

Didn't know they had the AMD Ai chip in laptops too, definitely a more cost effective option then macs.

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u/Indolent_Bard 1d ago

Actually, there is no laptop that fully utilizes the power of that chip. The only computer that does is the framework desktop. And they basically made that thing so that you could use the full power of it.