How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists

Post by wool_gather » Fri, Dec 23, 2016, 1:32 AM UTC

makecheck wrote: post #144

delegate wrote: post #57

Hardware is not the only problem Apple has right now vis-a-vis developers. Apple's flagship IDE, XCode, is also lagging behind, at least when talking about C++ development, but even Swift doesn't get too much love it seems. Having used it since at least version 5, XCode 8 has been a frustrating experience for me starting from day one, when it defaulted to Swift version 3.0 and so broke all of the existing Swift proje…

I generally agree about Xcode, I have since demoted it to essentially a build engine and use external editors, etc. to actually do work. Although, regarding Swift: you cannot blame them for Swift 3 breaking things because they have always been clear what was going to happen! It evolved a lot, and that was kind of the point; it’s one of the reasons there is no stable ABI yet.

Post by slededit » Fri, Dec 23, 2016, 2:57 AM UTC

sqeaky wrote: post #556

slededit wrote: post #467

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If you look at a detailed graph of CPU usage you should see a pumping action as the CPU goes full bore and then stalls out waiting for data. Filling in those stalls is what gives you the extra performance.

What is your preferred tool for gathering this kind of detailed data?

Post by pas » Fri, Dec 23, 2016, 11:20 AM UTC

slantyyz wrote: post #268

pas wrote: post #240

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Huh? I'm using a Dell Latitude E7440, it's about 3 years old, and I carry it everywhere. It has a few dents here and there. I've gone to the pub with it a few times and only God (and Google location services) know how I got back, luckily with the notebook still in my backpack, and the backpack somehow inside my place. The RAM never dislodged. http://17c4dcd7f91259d8cc66-f5932f6db0039e8c02f89a70c334ff0e... But of cour…

>> But of course, soldering them in is not surprising. It cuts costs. Unfortunately these cost savings don't get passed to the customer. RAM bumps in Apple BTOs cost notably more than socketed RAM of equivalent quality. And because the RAM is pre-soldered, you can't chalk the price premium to the cost of some guy popping RAM into sockets.

Post by JW_00000 » Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 9:11 PM UTC

SomeStupidPoint wrote: post #33

beat wrote: post #16

My main computer is a five year old 17" MBP. I've upgraded it to the max and done repairs to maintain it. I need the computational power - I use it for programming, photo editing at scale, and recording/mixing music. It would cost me $3000 to replace it with a computer that is not significantly more powerful, has a smaller screen and less I/O functionality, and would be incompatible with my audio interface unless I d…

I switched from a MBP to a Surface, and eventually to a $500 generic "hybrid" laptop (with decent Linux support). Turns out moving to the cloud for developer work and not playing videogames on my laptop really cuts down on my computer needs. (Also, saving that much money justifies more cell data to tether with, so it's actually more convenient at times.) YMMV though, because I worked in ML, and so had to make the clo…