I was actually very interested in their product when I first read about it...until I got a 14" M1 Macbook Pro.
Now, every single thing I do on this computer is instantaneous. It doesn't matter if I have 5 or 500 browser tabs open, it just keeps running as fast as anything I've ever used.
but i don't know if everyone will have that same ability.
It almost feels like a 'home gym' vs a 'gym membership' scenario. Upfront cost for a home gym is quite expensive, whereas the gym membership is spent over time.
All-in you may spend a lot more on the gym membership, but because you eat it over time, it feels better to a certain population of people
I think just "get more RAM" is a good blanket suggestion. A lot of cheap laptops come with 4 or 8 gigs of memory, which can pretty easily suffocate the average user's Chrome session. Even the 8 gig M1 Macbook Pro could get saturated pretty easily, swap enabled or not.
To some extent, yes. I got the 32gb ram model in mine, so it's got a lot of headroom. Also, architecturally, this thing can pass around data so much faster than other machines because of nicely vertically integrated it all is.
Swap speed isn't particularly germane when you're loading 50mb websites, but generally yes. However, swap only gets you so far, and memory pressure eventually gets you. I have a friend using the 64gb iMac Pro who routinely complains about OOM warnings when browsing and programming. It really does depend on the workload and configuration of the device, but thankfully most people have figured that out by now.
Assuming I don't drop this computer and smash it to bits, I'll be able to keep it as long as my last MBP (a 2015 I bought new). So conservatively, let's say 5 years.
At $30/month, Mighty would be $30 * 12 * 5 = $1800 over that time period.
I paid ~$2500 for this computer, and use it for:
1) Browsing
2) Coding
3) Video and photo editing
4) Graphic design
So all things considered, while yes it's literally cheaper in terms of direct dollar and cents comparison, in terms of functional ROI, given that this computer runs a browser instance with zero lag or latency at all, it's a no brainer to just invest in the good laptop vs going with Mighty.
> Assuming I don't drop this computer and smash it to bits, I'll be able to keep it as long as my last MBP (a 2015 I bought new). So conservatively, let's say 5 years.
The benchmark is not whether your existing computer breaks to pieces, but whether it can do that "1) Browsing 2) Coding 3) Video and photo editing 4) Graphic design" smoothly for the coming 5 years in the newest versions of popular applications, as they inevitably get more demanding for older hardware.
That being said, I don't think the SaaS-part of the value proposition is particularly convincing, and there barely is anything else.
Honestly, given I kept my last machine 7 years, and given the ridiculous power of this one, I think the reason I upgrade next is simply going to be new-tech-envy, not because this machine can't keep anymore. This thing will probably last a decade.
I would guess that I need a computer that has graphics acceleration to run the mighty client at a reasonable speed. I need at least enough memory locally to run the mighty client + the base OS it runs on.
My experience of using Zoom, Youtube, etc has been that video streaming is much more intensive than rendering text webpages, like hacker news, in a local browser instance. Maybe they're sending down local draw commands instead of actual video, which maybe helps some?
I wouldn't be surprised if the system requirements for Mighty are almost identical to the system requirements for Chrome with <150 tabs and an adblocker installed.
In reality, the $30/mo for mighty is on top of a computer, not instead of one, since you still need a computer _anyway_ to use Mighty.
I don't see system requirements listed on their website to compare chrome vs the mighty client, which honestly seems like a bit of an omission for something that talks so much about performance.
Only in the sense that renting an apartment for a single year is technically cheaper than purchasing a permanent home.
It's actually insanely expensive because most of us are going to still going to buy a computer and that $30/month ($327/year with discount) would have much more value for maxing out an M1 laptop.
Now, every single thing I do on this computer is instantaneous. It doesn't matter if I have 5 or 500 browser tabs open, it just keeps running as fast as anything I've ever used.
This computer fixed Chrome for me.