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No. The PC is a modular standardised architecture. There are no COTS components that would fit in such a case. This is by design. Apple forked their own design.

Pro Tools. I've used Logic Pro: it's horridly unreliable. I no longer have a DAW in favour of a Triton as it's all I need personally but my experience with Logic was awful. Adobe A…

Do it. I still use a T400 every day and have a T61 as a fallback. There's nothing like them out there.

Long post. This should cover it. Family of 5 history of Apple and Lenovo/IBM kit: 2010 MacBook Pro (DEAD 2011 - caught fire after water spillage next to it - WTF). 2006 MacBook Pro…

The shipped BIOS is a little rough as well. The T61 which is where my main experience lies has hardware whitelists for WiFi cards and restricts the internal SATA port to basic SATA…

This. I worked for a company that had lots (3000+) T60's and they were all Core2 units.

The X60 that they advertise does not. However, you can disconnect the hardware pretty easy. I've done this on my T400. Took about 5 mins with a Swiss army knife screwdriver (all yo…

I'm not sure it should be allowable. WiFi firmware can in theory allow passive monitoring and forwarding of data. This is because the WiFi card is a small self-contained embedded s…

T60p was far superior build to any MacBook ever made. My old T61 which is virtually identical had the living crap beaten out of it 10 hours a day for 5 years solid and it still wor…

The OS really doesn't matter is the point. Big apps: after effects, mathematica etc - that sort of workstation stuff doesn't make a difference. Virtualization is fine for non deskt…

Until you have to compile something major... Then both OSX and Windows are awful.

All computers are trade offs but when you start trading sensible things for appearance then it's just idiocy. It's the Ugg boot of computers. Looks pretty and keeps your feet warm …

This. See my comments for another bad XServe experience.

That's fine until you take your Pro back to apple and they don't have your configuration available and you have to wait 3 weeks for a replacement (this does happen a lot with non s…

Or you can buy an HP Z820. OSX is pretty much moot for workstation grade machines. The software is all cross platform. And wires dangling everywhere? To get anything other than com…

Upgradeable, replaceable parts, redundancy, better storage options, cheaper, doesn't accidentally get trash put in the top. And that's just the case. I have nothing but contempt fo…

No we have better ones. You know which we can replace bits of.

Neither are my favourite language :) And it was turning a procedural mess into an OO mess.

I wouldn't have had a job between 2003-2004 which was untangling Perl and rewriting it in C# :)

I love Reddit Secret Santa for the comedy value. So far I've seen this year people have been given: 1. A pig foetus preserved in alcohol. 2. A selection of root vegetables, petrole…

The 6502 is still used widely in industrial stuff. Back in 2001 when I was still doing electrical engineering bits, as part of a project I received some brand new custom radio rig …

Neat solution - really like that. Great work.

That's what the debugger is for (if you inherited it). However, a lot of desktop applications are written that way. If you've ever dealt with Win32, you'll see nested switch statem…

No dictionaries are O(1). Even if they were they are pitifully slow compared to a switch. Consider chaining and the fact that you have to compute hashes. switch is O(1) and fast as…

Exactly the same way the die connects to the pins on the package (usually fine wire). Then they cap it all.