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

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Post by hypercluster »

threesixandnine wrote: post #80
hypercluster wrote: post #79

Actually I did the opposite. Just bought my first Macbook ever. And not even the Pro but a Macbook Air! I know, bad screen and all. But I wanted to get into iOS development and I couldn't justify spending even more. But apart from the screen I don't think it's a bad machine. The XPS base model with 4GB -at leaste in my country- is more expensive.

What is wrong with the screen? I hear this all the time but to me screen on Air is perfectly fine.

It only gets apparent if you directly compare it with a Retina screen. If you just use it then well, it's a screen, perfectly capable of displaying pixels. What you might notice are the viewing angles.

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

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Post by TYPE_FASTER »

No, my next laptop will be a MBP. My brand new Thinkpad at work has poor power management and wakes up from a sleep sometimes, I thought Windows 10 was pretty good but it has random issues that make me wish I was using OS X, and I don't have time to spend messing with Linux config these days.

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

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Post by allwein »

gotofritz wrote: post #76
jonpaine wrote: post #41

Personally, I'm kind of amused by the appalled and horrified tech bloggers I see posting about the sky falling. I keep reading about "life long" Apple users threatening to switch ecosystems because of an SD card slot. Or function keys. I mean, people must step through A LOT OF CODE to have that impact this kind of decision. My perspective is biased by my moving in the opposite direction. I'm just in the process of co…

It's not that simple. First of all you ignore the whole dongle / headphones / incompatibility with iPhone side of things. I have been thinking of switching over for a while because I can't stand Apple, the company, I hate having to pay €100 for a new charger if something happens to the old one, or having to buy dongles. I detest iTunes and Preview, I don't like having Xcode dictate what goes in my machine, I don't wa…

iTunes I understand, but what don't you like about Preview? I think it's actually one of the best parts of the mac. I'm also confused at what you mean by blurry monitors and Xcode dictating what goes in your machine?

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

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Post by endemic »

I actually am switching jobs in a week; I was offered the choice of a 13" or 15" MBP. I do web development, so Windows isn't really an option. Unfortunately, I can't choose Linux, since it doesn't run whatever management tool the org uses. But if I could have an XPS or ThinkPad with some flavor of Linux, I would probably do it, just to be contrary.

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

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Post by soylentcola »

zbuttram wrote: post #29
rankam wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Same here. I've done it a few times as a dual-boot with my desktop and had issues that caused me to uninstall after a month or two. I think the trick is going to be buying hardware that's 100% compatible from one of the lists people have put together. I've had the same problem with every Linux distro I've tried, but I dumped them due to UX jank, not compatibility problems.

This is also why I've messed with hackintosh in dual boot or old machines but never for too long. To get one that's stable, you need to build a machine with 100% compatible parts. That's not terribly difficult but I don't usually build machines just for running something like a hackintosh.

When I go to build a new desktop workstation every 5 years or so, I want to pick the components based off bang for the buck, not just compatibility with hackintosh installations. And if I really need MacOS to run something work-related, I'm not gonna count on a hobbyist project like that to do it. I'm gonna get work to pay for Apple hardware or take it out of whatever freelance budget I have.

I guess if I had both the budget to build a second workstation for MacOS stuff and a strong desire to run non-employment-related MacOS-only software, I might just build a 100% compatible hackintosh but as it stands, there's nothing I really absolutely need that only runs on MacOS so instead I just use my Windows desktop workstation for just about everything, my Asus notebook for mobile DJ/VJ gigs, and the ancient MBP I got for free a while back for the rare occasion that I want to screw around with something that only runs on MacOS.

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

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Post by WayneBro »

endemic wrote: post #84

I actually am switching jobs in a week; I was offered the choice of a 13" or 15" MBP. I do web development, so Windows isn't really an option. Unfortunately, I can't choose Linux, since it doesn't run whatever management tool the org uses. But if I could have an XPS or ThinkPad with some flavor of Linux, I would probably do it, just to be contrary.

> I do web development, so Windows isn't really an option.

LOL. That's hilarious. But, yes...it really is an option.

I've been doing web development on Windows since forever. For the last 5 years I've focused almost exclusively on Node.js. I also use Python 2 and 3, Django, Ruby, PHP, Postgres and MYSQL.

Furthermore, I run many projects with tech that Linux and the Mac OS don't have such as IIS, SQL Server (the two pieces of tech that 90% of every small/medium and large businesses are using in-house to build or run custom software for themselves.)

You sir are uninformed. Roughly 30% of all public websites are running IIS on Windows (~10% of active sites) and you can rest assured that percentage goes way up for internal/intranet sites - https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/02/22/february-2016-...

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

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Post by NetStrikeForce »

endemic wrote: post #84

I actually am switching jobs in a week; I was offered the choice of a 13" or 15" MBP. I do web development, so Windows isn't really an option. Unfortunately, I can't choose Linux, since it doesn't run whatever management tool the org uses. But if I could have an XPS or ThinkPad with some flavor of Linux, I would probably do it, just to be contrary.

> I do web development, so Windows isn't really an option.

What.

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

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Post by lowmagnet »

aspectmin wrote: post #78
rankam wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It makes me curious - do we (mac users) like our hardware, do we like our UI, do we like a combo of both or is it something else? Regardless, cool to hear you got elementary running on a mac!

I like that in the past, it's been rock solid stable and I have had to perform very little IT support to keep it so. Not so stable these days, which is where a lot of my issues come from. Here's my primary reasons for using OSX / Mac's all these years: -- A unix variant shell underneath - so I can do all my work fast, relatively compatible with my linux servers in the cloud, and run things like MySQL, Mongo, Node, et…

Regarding heavy nVidia iron: https://bizon-tech.com/us/bizonbox3-egpu.html/

I think that'll get you one slot, so make it count. I'd also like to see if anaconda can work with an external adaptor for compute.

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