Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

I think the magsafe was at the bottom of the list of "bad choice of proprietary ports by Apple"

Given it's intended to be a permanent fixture in the side of your laptop, at the size of a (keyboard) key I'd say it's pretty big, yes.

Add that to the one-and-a-half key-sized optionally permanent part (unless you're going to buy one for each cable, it's fixed until you need the safety feature) and it's a huge thing sticking out of the side!

To be honest, I question the usefulness anyway - I've pulled my Macbook Air off a table (accidentally) by it's MagSafe power cable before, and trying it deliberately now it only works with vertical movement. Side-to-side or directly 'out' it just moves my laptop, even as short & and sharp as I can.

If I stepped directly on the cable it would be such a directly-out movement; if I tripped, a side-to-side one. Unless my laptop was positioned perfectly such that the MagSafe hung over the edge of the table, and I trod directly down, I can't imagine how it would have its intended effect.

I use it all the time for un/plugging deliberately, but I can live without that, and as above with this Kickstarter product without buying several I'd have to leave the whole dongle plugged in anyway, so any deliberate dis/connection would be a normal un/plug motion.

This. Still stuck on OS X Yosemite as the one I'm least displeased with. Actually tried to put Windows 10 on a second laptop, but Lenovo's terrible drivers for just about everything - from broken trackpad acceleration to Intel HD making my screen blink every damn second, I ended up using Fedora on that - and getting annoyed by missing Photoshop and Office.

>I'm a professional developer, I don't want a new toy language.

First, there's nothing "toy: about Swift. It's a full featured language on par with Rust, Go, etc.

Second, whether some random web dev or embedded C dev or Java dev wants Swift or not is irrelevant to its intended audience and utility. It's not for "professional developers" in general, it's for Mac/iOS application developers, and thus, for Mac/iOS users (that benefit as a side-effect from developers having a modern/better language to implement stuff).

>I'm buying a powerful laptop, I don't want cloud storage.

So? Millions of users do want it, judging from the huge popularity of Dropbox, Google Drive, MS implementation of the same, etc.

>I want the possibility to dual boot or share drives with other operating systems, I don't need a new proprietary filesystem.

Again, irrelevant. Lots of Mac users, and tons of pundits HAVE asked for a "new proprietary filesystem" to replace HFS+ and Apple obliged.

And whether you can "dual boot" or "share drives" is orthogonal to whatever OS X has a new native filesystem. You can still format the rest of the hard disk on another fs to dual boot, and you can still share drives with other systems in NTFS, xFAT, etc.

>I don't want compressed memory, I want 32GB of RAM.

And I want a pony unicorn. But until Intel delivers boards that accept 32GB low-power RAM of the kind that goes into Apple laptops, we're not gonna get it. And Intel gives late 2017 / early 2018 as the date for those. (Existing PC laptops with 32 GB ram merely sacrifice battery life using regular high power drawing RAM -- and even those are far and few between).

(And of course compressed memory helps whether you have 16 or eventually 32GB of ram)

>In short, Apple is spending a lot of effort making features that I, as a professional developer and 20 year Mac user, don't want.

Well, as a 15 year Mac user and 20 years professional developer, I do want those things.

I don't particularly care for the touch strip though -- I'd prefer it to be OLED physical buttons giving both tactile feel AND changeable inscriptions.

I am currently on a Mac but I have been switching between Mac, Windows, UNIX, and BeOS since 1991. I generally find things to like in all of them.

But what Microsoft has done with mandatory updates and forced telemetry is unacceptable to me. And because of that, Windows 10 is the first version of Windows that I have not installed since the release of version 3.0.