This is insane and I can never understand why anyone would buy into this shit.

Because the new ones are obscenely fast and getting faster. Like, I never thought I’d be a Mac owner. As a teenager I thought they were cool, but that was because I was a bit of a hipster and I never had the money for one. My interest died as I got older, though I’ve still thought about getting older ones (like the iMac G3) as a novelty for fun. Then Apple started releasing the (new) Apple ARM Macs and they caught my attention. They appear to be so ridiculously fast that really the only thing stopping me from buying one is that they’d still be a downgrade from my current setup, simply because my GPU has more features than Macs do. However, with the newest version of Apple Silicon supposedly supporting raytracing, my interest is starting to reach a boiling point. I haven’t really kept up with benchmarks since the prior versions weren’t really game-oriented, but if Apple keeps walking into the game market and they do it successfully, then they might actually get my money despite being overpriced. Why? Not Microsoft and (I assume) will have decent drivers for graphics.

(Inb4 “Linux has great drivers!” Yeah, for Radeon. Not so much for Nvidia. Guess which kind of GPU I have. And yes, I kinda need an Nvidia GPU because the majority of gpu-accelerated computing is still leashed to Nvidia)