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Given the CES announcements from Lenovo, Samsung and asus I can only assume 2017 will be even worse for Apple. Laptop with 25 hrs battery? Give me two please!
And yet no one but Apple can seem to make a decent track pad (even for windows). It's a show stopper for me whenever I think of moving back to a PC.
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And yet no one but Apple can seem to make a decent track pad (even for windows). It's a show stopper for me whenever I think of moving back to a PC.
Seems you haven't tried a non Mac mouse pad for some time. I suggest you do so, I believe you will reconsider your comment.
I think you may be talking about two different things.
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And yet no one but Apple can seem to make a decent track pad (even for windows). It's a show stopper for me whenever I think of moving back to a PC.
Seems you haven't tried a non Mac mouse pad for some time. I suggest you do so, I believe you will reconsider your comment.
Makes sense with Apple's current terrible product line setup. Both the retina MacBook and 2016 MacBook Pro are much more niche than their last generation. Also much more confusing as the MacBook Air successor is $500 more than the 13" Air was (The non-touchbar MacBook Pro is the spiritual successor to the air.) The true 13" Pro for 2016 is also $500 more than the last gen. The 12" MacBook is there...but it is a super…
"If you want to write fast software, use a slow computer" - Dominic Tarr The 12" Macbook is the best computer I've ever owned. Switched to it from a 2014 Macbook Pro, and found it very easy to adjust. The only time it struggles a little bit is when I run Windows in VMware, on occasion. The biggest benefit of the Macbook 12" is that if software runs well on your computer, you know it's guaranteed to run extra buttery-…
However this is only productive if you're not working with (a) compiled code, on a (b) project large enough that compile times are non-negligible
In some build environments, the difference in RAM or CPU is measurable in terms of (literally) hours of wasted time per day :(
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MacOS Sierra runs superbly on my 2012 rMBP. It's only a couple months shy of 4 years old.
Mac OS Sierra slowed down my 2014 Mac Mini noticeably. I see a lot more beach volleyballs now when doing everyday tasks which were ran smoothly before the upgrade.
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I just got myself a Dell precision 5510 with Ubuntu out of the box. A lot more capable than the most power full current macbook pro, weighs slightly less then the macbook pro from 2009 I am typing this on (moving files across to the new dell) After 16 years of Mac use I don't regret the switch.
Is this a 15" laptop? I recently realized that a modern 15" can be much more ergonomic yet almost as small and light as a 13" from a couple of years back.
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You can spend about $350 and get a high quality 13" IPS 1080p display Chromebook that weighs under 3 pounds if you're willing to spend 5 minutes putting in an SSD and installing Linux natively on it. I've been using the above set up for half a year now roughly and it's great. I can do all of my development work, writing, browsing, etc. without feeling like I'm giving up much for those sorts of tasks and the price is…
I developed on one of those for a year. It was awesome for basic web development. I did a lot of react and ruby development on that thing. However, my workload eventually evolved to require running several docker containers (micro-services), which really killed overall performance. React-native development was similarly painful. Ultimately, I was forced to upgrade to a thinkpad, but I will always have much love for t…
I've ran some pretty heavy work loads on the one I linked without issues (and this is comparing it to a high powered i5 desktop).
For example in the blog post, I mention running this:
- Google Chrome with 6 tabs open
- Youtube playing back a video (streaming music is important!)
- Docker daemon
- Dockerized Rails app with 28 gems
- Dockerized Sidekiq background work
- Dockerized Action Cable server
- Dockerized Postgres and Redis
- Sublime Text 3 with about 30 plugins
- 2 terminal windows, one with 2 tabs and the other with 3
- 1 PDF open with the native PDF viewer
- A 2nd workspace with another Google Chrome window and 3 more tabs
And it took it like a champ. No severe slow downs or thinking "meh, I should be on my workstation, this sucks!".
The only links provided in the article are to other 9to5mac articles. There are no links provided to the actual Gartner/IDC analysis that they've derived the content from - perhaps due to content restrictions. I managed to find some related links [1] and [2] through some searching. But [1] was unlikely to be a source due to the release date (and the fact that it doesn't include Apple data for some reason), and [2] is…