Overpriced, and macOS is not hackable, no touch screen, not much apps as windows.
ChromeOS with Linux apps support + Android for mobile / desktop (like samsung dex dock) will kill them all !!!
Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
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Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, there is a huge gap. Windows has way better development tools and the OS is leaps ahead of the Mac OS.
That depends on your tools and platforms of choice. For most open source stuff, Windows has less support than Linux and macOS because it usually requires tweaks (build tools, libs, etc).
> For most open source stuff, Windows has less support...because it usually requires tweaks.
That's not true at all. The Macintosh OS easily requires more tweaks than Windows to do things like Python, Go, Node.js and Rust.
Everything is better on Windows.
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll never understand the "stability" argument for macs. I have a gaming desktop at home that I also use for personal projects. In a decade, I have had zero bluescreens, despite AMD drivers not being the happiest all the time, and doing sketchy things with homemade code that I possibly shouldn't. Meanwhile, my OSX work laptop needs to be restarted multiple times a week, or the wifi gets temperamental and programs som…
> despite AMD drivers not being the happiest all the time This is something you will not have to even think about on a healthy mac, as long as the hardware is not damaged in some way. > Meanwhile, my OSX work laptop needs to be restarted multiple times a week, or the wifi gets temperamental and programs somehow start to accumulate and eat all the available CPU and RAM, it restarts itself periodically with zero warnin…
I had lots of inexplicable failures and kernel panics, and ran the diagnostic (hold D during startup), got an error code, brought it in, and got a new motherboard.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257
Runs mostly ok now, though still a pretty crap machine in my view (keyboard, 4 hours battery life (less if you do any actual work), terrible WiFi (2.4 GHz) when any dongle is plugged in (and with 2 ports, one of which is for charging, you need dongles), etc.).
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#114An additional reason: When they came out, the latest updates on the (other) existing machines had been looooong ago.
I had been very happy with a succession of MacBook Airs, and when my machine died end of 2016, I wanted to get a new laptop running macOS, and they were basically all years old - except the shiny new MBP, which I got (despite saying they suck, for the price at any rate).
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#115Moreanecdata:spacekeydoesn'twork.IlovethenewMBP
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just recently started using Surface Book. The trackpad is as good as my old MBP.
Is it better on the Surface Book than a regular Surface with a touch cover? Because I have the latter, and it is not even in the same ballpark. I just plug a mouse in when I use my Surface.
Yeah, I agree with zeusk. If you are talking about this: https://goo.gl/hw22Hr , then Surface Book trackpad is much, much better.