Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

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Post by mortenjorck » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 11:40 PM UTC

No, and perhaps that is why I and many others continue to be somewhat disquieted with Apple's stewardship of its Mac platform: It would take much more to make me switch. Apple would have to treat its professional users much worse than they do today.

The corollary to this being, it could get much worse. The best parallel I can draw, if you'll permit a terrible political analogy, might be idealistic Bernie supporters slowly realizing they're going to end up with a choice between Clinton and Trump.

Re: Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

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Post by rankam » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 11:41 PM UTC

Insanity wrote: post #7

I did and I am happy that I have, I prefer the linux machines, though to be honest it does not matter all that much. The terminal is great (on both system) and most of what I do I can do from within my IDE (IntelliJ) which also runs great on both systems. I don't use computers a lot apart from when I am working, and for the leisurely things I do it does not matter which OS I am using, as everything runs in a browser…

I hadn't seen that xkcd yet, but how absolutely true :)

Re: Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

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Post by zbuttram » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 11:41 PM UTC

Thinking about Hackintosh-ing. Can take or leave the hardware for the most part (especially on desktop, but they do still have the best trackpad), but there's nothing better than macOS for what I want in my dev environment.

Re: Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

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Post by geoah » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 11:42 PM UTC

jaytaylor wrote: post #3

As soon as something better comes along, then sure :)

Same here, for now will stick with my 13 inch 2015 mbp -- I was hoping for more ram and an actual GPU but that went south.

Might move to a Razer Blade on windows as hackintosh on the 1060 isn't an option right now. -- I have high hopes for Windows' Linux Subsystem.

Re: Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

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Post by aspectmin » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 11:42 PM UTC

Been a Mac fanatic since the early Fat Mac days. Loved the earlier MBPs, Retina MBP 13, and the Airs.

Sadly though. They've fallen too far behind. It's like Microft and Apple flipped. Win10 is fast, amazingly stable, and I can run all my monitors and tools on super fast machines. Even just picked up a Razor laptop running Mint and. Chromebook running Elemental.

Thought about trying the hackintosh but too much trouble.

I think if you forget to provide great hardware and tools for power developers at the front end of our cycle, you fall behind and fail to innovate / have a good support community in short order.

As much as I like Tim Cook and his values, he really reminds me of the same fit as Ballmer. Not as much of a Dick though :)

Apple really needs another visionary like Jobs, or Satya.

Makes me sad.

Re: Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

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Post by rileytg » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 11:43 PM UTC

not yet. we'll see.

Re: Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

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Post by phyalow » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 11:43 PM UTC

Yes was in the market to buy a refreshed mac pro for my desktop. I'm not paying 2013 prices for 2013 hardware, so just built a sick Linux deep learning rig instead for the same price.

Re: Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

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Post by geoah » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 11:44 PM UTC

btw, tried today elementary on a macbook -- installation and drivers were fine -- visual studio code would not launch so I gave up for now -- will try over the weekend probably.

It seems like a polished OS, some shortcuts need tuning but might work.

Re: Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

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Post by aspectmin » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 11:45 PM UTC

rankam wrote: post #6

blurbleblurble wrote: post #2

Already have ;)

If you don't mind me asking, which linux distro did you go with for the switch?

Linux Mint for the desktop and laptop here. Love it. Ubuntu for servers and Elemental for an older Chromebook.

Re: Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?

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Post by rankam » Thu, Nov 03, 2016, 11:45 PM UTC

zbuttram wrote: post #13

Thinking about Hackintosh-ing. Can take or leave the hardware for the most part (especially on desktop, but they do still have the best trackpad), but there's nothing better than macOS for what I want in my dev environment.

Hackintosh-ing sounds fantastic, but I've read so many horror stories about upgrades that it frightens me