PC architecture is trash, and the overall consumer market for PC hardware is a race-to-the bottom.
That being said, as PC hardware goes, MacBook Pro is at least tolerable.
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?
#52I will continue to jump through hoops in order to get the integrated experience of macOS. There is a huge gap between developing on Windows and Mac.
Yes, there is a huge gap. Windows has way better development tools and the OS is leaps ahead of the Mac OS.
The Surface line is what Macs would be if SJ was still alive
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#53I got mine in 2015 and I love it. I'll have to replace the touchpad cable later today, but I'm pretty sure it'll survive. This 2015 model comes with MagSafe, USB-A, and a physical Escape key: all features you won't find on the newest model. I won't be buying another Mac. But I do love this one. Next laptop will probably be some Dell XPS, Lenovo X1, or Surface Pro. It'll depend on what I'll need at work.
The only thing I miss from my 2015 MBP is the MagSafe charger. Hardware wise, everything else now is better I think, even the touch bar which actually means there’s some utility for me in that space of the keyboard – I never used the Fn-keys and a software Esc key doesn’t bother me one bit.
Now the software though... so, many, bugs!
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#54Because I got tired of the blue screens of death, and despite the MBP being way over priced it does one thing very well... it works 99% of the time. Plus it looks cool, if you care about that sort of thing.
The downvotes for you are puzzling. At work I compile a large project in VS2017 multiple times per day, and my machine will intermittently bluescreen during the compile. Happens to a number of my coworkers as well. W10 has come a long, long way since the unstable foundations of its forebears, but my personal experience with it still includes more crashes than I can write off as flaky hardware/drivers or mere chance.
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#55when the touchbar macs with only usb c ports came out I went to the used market and bought the best used macbook pro I could find that still had hdmi, thunderbolt and USB.
I love my macbook, but mainly I love having a *nix based operating system. Windows is starting to get it and so in the next iteration of hardware I might switch over.
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#56Lenovo X1 Carbon user here. Never touched any Apple product in my entire life.
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#57Because I got tired of the blue screens of death, and despite the MBP being way over priced it does one thing very well... it works 99% of the time. Plus it looks cool, if you care about that sort of thing.
I have a mac mini for my study desktop (use it to shell into machines to develop, watch YouTube tech videos, and listen to music with iTunes from my NAS), but every time I think about buying an MBP I remember the horror stories from watching Louis Rossmann's videos on YouTube and think "Do I really want to drop almost $2,000 on a device that is going to break down because it's more slick than it is well constructed?"
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#58I will continue to jump through hoops in order to get the integrated experience of macOS. There is a huge gap between developing on Windows and Mac.
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).
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or the other way around - Windows under kvm on Linux.
You ever tried to do photo manipulation, graphic design, or video editing in a virtualized OS? It is miserable. There is a reason I said I was dual booting and not running virtualization :)
I use GPU passthrough and run games in Windows under KVM with equal or slightly less (~3-5%) frames. Photo manipulation and graphic design work fine in Photoshop in my setup. Not so sure about video editing.
Re: Ask HN: Why does everyone use a MacBook Pro despite saying they suck?
#60The plural of an anecdote is not data. People who don't have any problem with the MBP don't complainte about it.