> Among my less technically/inclined friends and family I haven’t heard one complaint about, say, Spotify being slow, and certainly never any complaints about its size.
They don't say "modern software is slow", they say "my computer is slow, I need to buy a new one" and they do.
Let's be honest: for what the vast majority of people do on their computer, there is absolutely no need for a Macbook M3. The only reason is that the websites are developed by people who buy (or get from their company) a Macbook M3 and therefore don't see how much their website sucks on a reasonable machine.
I can track it very well on my father's homepage which has been the same for 25 years. He has a 4 years old desktop mac and the webpage takes more than 20s to load. On an M3 it takes 2s. This homepage is still loading exactly the same kind of information than 25 years ago, yet it is almost unbearable on a 4 years old desktop computer. Does my father say that this webpage is slow? No, because all software goes like this. My father says that his computer is now old and considers buying a new one.
They don't say "modern software is slow", they say "my computer is slow, I need to buy a new one" and they do.
Let's be honest: for what the vast majority of people do on their computer, there is absolutely no need for a Macbook M3. The only reason is that the websites are developed by people who buy (or get from their company) a Macbook M3 and therefore don't see how much their website sucks on a reasonable machine.
I can track it very well on my father's homepage which has been the same for 25 years. He has a 4 years old desktop mac and the webpage takes more than 20s to load. On an M3 it takes 2s. This homepage is still loading exactly the same kind of information than 25 years ago, yet it is almost unbearable on a 4 years old desktop computer. Does my father say that this webpage is slow? No, because all software goes like this. My father says that his computer is now old and considers buying a new one.