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I have both the latest Dell XPS 13 and the Dell XPS 15, either of which would meet your requirements.
Possibly... Do you have Fedora running on the 15? ...not required, just curious.
It's not a macOS release with out the Ars Technica review: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/09/macos-10-12-sierra-the-... They also have an article to create a bootable USB install drive for clean installs: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/how-to-make-your-own-...
The Ars Techinca review is missing the most important section though -- the conclusion. Usually I would just skip to that and do whatever they said, and then go back and read the rest while it downloaded.
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The Ars Techinca review is missing the most important section though -- the conclusion. Usually I would just skip to that and do whatever they said, and then go back and read the rest while it downloaded.
The last section, titled, "Improved software that runs on coasting hardware," is the conclusion.
I wonder why they didn't just call it "conclusion" like every other time.
Heads up for anyone using Karabiner to remap their keyboard-- it's not updated for Sierra yet. I figure that's a more popular app among HN crowd than most places, and losing it is really painful.
What can Karabiner do better than Ukelele? http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...
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I'd love a new Mac as much as anyone else, but really for what they do, they do most everything well right now. Until prices favor a major upgrade or Apple favors a major change to macOS, I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to do an iterative update of the non-mobile line. A new iPhone moves products. A new Mac, not as much. The desktop/laptop realm enjoys a great amount of freedom in that most everything works well…
I get your points, but Apple's inattention poses a few issues for certain users: a) There are machines with better spec'd hardware from other vendors while Apple sits around doing nothing or close to nothing for a few years. PLUS b) At any point in time, there are people with older Macs who'd like to upgrade to the current state-of-the-art...or more importantly, to get the best bang for their buck. PLUS c) Apple cont…
I would think though that in most cases, the persons considering a Mac are rarely looking at the specs to make the decision - Apple hasn't tried to compete with specs for a long time, and instead relied on word of mouth and OS X to carry them. Maybe a refresh would help make that a bit better, but I also feel they're stuck in a bad loop where because of how long it has been since a refresh for some devices, they need to really release something crazy good for the price to avoid the ire of purchasers.
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Maybe it upset you but apparently keep using Snow Leopard would not let me use any of the recent third party apps and it is totally useless to do so now. - Notifications : Had Growl, nothing new. - Air drop : Perhaps but personally in no need. - Native fullscreen : This is crazy. I turn iTunes fullscreen on secondary display and somehow it blacks out the primary screen for no good reason. Never using this feature. -…
> Maybe it upset you I only said that because I didn't want my comment to come off as goading you into upgrading for the sake of it. I know a bunch of people using older versions of software and are very happy doing so. I was just pointing out a few things off the top of my head I've liked in newer versions in case you weren't familiar with them. Many of them were better integrations with things like iPhone and Apple…
At least in El capitan, I can no longer even touch any of system files even with root privilege. And then I could put shortcuts of the only apps I use in a separate folder but they add arrow badge at the bottom corner for each icons which is visually annoying, and I try to find out how to remove it, searching reveals I could rename the image file for that arrow but turns out I can't touch system files. No, I don't want to turn off that security feature just for this.
Next iOS feature that needs merged into macOS is, hide first party apps.
> "Copy a quote, image, or video from an app on one device and paste it into an app on another device." Oh my I'm looking forward to this. How many silly workarounds (pastebins, email drafts, iMessages to self, Safari bookmarks) have we used to approximate this?
Having I iCloud access to your clipboard is scary ( unless it is encrypted E2E). Now your data, that was otherwise not meant to go to cloud, will endup being there.
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While they're at it, can we make paste and match style the default? I can never remember the four key chord to do this and as a result send emails that look like ransom notes because of mismatched formatting.
You can do the "paste into address bar and re-copy" dance. I'm getting pretty fast! CMD-C CMD-T CMD-V CMD-A CMD-C CMD-W CMD-V
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> ..And IDEs being better is your opinion Yes, but IDEs being more integrated with certain languages (e.g. IntelliJ and Java, VS and C#) instead of ad-hoc collection of scripts for a language that Emacs offers (except perhaps for Lisps) is a fact.
Emacs has some pretty good support for many languages. For languages like Javascript, LaTeX, Python, C/C++, and the Lisps, it's absolutely a solid environment, with good integration with the tooling. You can at least expect basic syntax highlighting for every language under the sun, and ectags means you get code navigation for most of them as well. Java support is meh at best, true but Java isn't my main language, an…
Only most of the work we do while programming is not text editing -- we're not courtroom clerks or secretaries -- it's reading code, with a modicum of writing (less than 300-500 lines per day).
For this, a "great text editing mode" is almost of no use, compared to great language-related facilities for code navigation, AST-based autocomplete, intelligent refactoring, integrated debugger and build system, etc etc.
>Besides, does your IDE read email, come with an integrated tetris package
Thankfully, no.
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Emacs has some pretty good support for many languages. For languages like Javascript, LaTeX, Python, C/C++, and the Lisps, it's absolutely a solid environment, with good integration with the tooling. You can at least expect basic syntax highlighting for every language under the sun, and ectags means you get code navigation for most of them as well. Java support is meh at best, true but Java isn't my main language, an…
> Java support is meh at best, true but Java isn't my main language, and I'd rather not learn another new, inferior text editing environment every time I learn a new language Only most of the work we do while programming is not text editing -- we're not courtroom clerks or secretaries -- it's reading code, with a modicum of writing (less than 300-500 lines per day). For this, a "great text editing mode" is almost of…
>great language-related facilities for code navigation
ectags, Semantic, and various other extensions for various languages
>AST-based autocomplete
Various autocompleters, including Autocomplete (not AST-based, AFAICT), company mode (which is, I think).
>intelligent refactoring
CEDET, Semantic Refactor, and various modes for various languages, provide a good bit of this (although it's not up to Java IDE standards).
>integrated debugger and build system
Check, check, and check. We've got GDB integration, as well as GUD, which can run DBX, SDB, XDB, the perl debugger, PDB, and JDB. integration with make, or any other command-line build tool you want with M-x compile.
So yeah, refactoring aside, we're actually pretty well off.
And you still don't have org-mode.