Macbook pro 2018 vs macbook pro 2019

[SaiyanGoku]

True but chances of being a satisfied mac user is much more than chances of being a satisfied windows user judging by online comments & some real life experience.

Tried using MacOS on VirtualBox. Didn't expect it to run like a slideshow. Gave it plenty of resources and it still lagged.

 

[whitestar_999]

Tried using MacOS on VirtualBox. Didn't expect it to run like a slideshow. Gave it plenty of resources and it still lagged.

No wonder,running mac os smoothly on any virtual environment is very tricky. You will have to modify virtual environment & even then chances of linux host systems are more than windows systems for doing this.
Anyone run MacOS in a VM as a pseudo-hackintosh? - Ars Technica OpenForum

 

[pkkumarcool]

Tried using MacOS on VirtualBox. Didn't expect it to run like a slideshow. Gave it plenty of resources and it still lagged.

Trying macos using virtual box is not a good idea i tried too and it lagged horribly. To experience mac os fully you should try a macbook or imac apple harware and macos is best.i know macbook keyboard are bad but apple os optimisation is pretty good.

 

[Zangetsu]

Tried using MacOS on VirtualBox. Didn't expect it to run like a slideshow. Gave it plenty of resources and it still lagged.

VM cannot match the MacOS with the real MacOS hardware. (it will always be slow). I agree the experience in macOS laptop is splendid. One of my company lead had macOS laptop and he was running Parallels with Windows 10 in it and Visual Studio Installed. To my surprise it was running butter smooth in MacOS hardware.

 

[SaiyanGoku]

VM cannot match the MacOS with the real MacOS hardware. (it will always be slow). I agree the experience in macOS laptop is splendid. One of my company lead had macOS laptop and he was running Parallels with Windows 10 in it and Visual Studio Installed. To my surprise it was running butter smooth in MacOS hardware.

My VM had 4 threads and 8GB ram on an NVME SSD (which is much better than any low end 2019 macbook) but it still refused to run smoothly. I might need to try on VM Ware with accelerated 3D graphics again (not soon though).

 

[whitestar_999]

My VM had 4 threads and 8GB ram on an NVME SSD (which is much better than any low end 2019 macbook) but it still refused to run smoothly. I might need to try on VM Ware with accelerated 3D graphics again (not soon though).

Disk speed doesn't matter,it is very difficult to achieve the same level of compatibility between mac os drivers & the virtual hardware created by a software. I am not even sure you can run accelerated 3d graphics on vmware(running on windows system as host) for mac os without doing some things first(see the above thread for some ideas).

 

[Nerevarine]

My VM had 4 threads and 8GB ram on an NVME SSD (which is much better than any low end 2019 macbook) but it still refused to run smoothly. I might need to try on VM Ware with accelerated 3D graphics again (not soon though).

A VM doesnt work like that, you cannot have good hardware and expect VM to run perfectly fine. VMs have to be optimized to run on the specific hypervisor you are running on. And besides you need graphics pass through (not just enable 3D graphics, which obviously was the reason for slowdown).

One of the reasons why linux runs so well in VMs is because they are optimized from the start to run on VMs. MacOS isnt.

Apart from that, no touchpad comes close to the feel and usability of the macbook ones. Macbook hardware is expensive af, but if your usability is only for work purposes, then they are great devices.