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Those cases still look really ugly. Reminds me of the look I was going for twenty years ago when i was a teenager w all the neon. The Macs at least look elegant and like something I'd want in my house.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article163-page1.html
Lian Li PC-V2000.
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It's quite easy to do now, but the community is incredibly annoying. The software is usually on sourceforge or something even shadier, it's rarely actually OSS-licensed, and configuration/documentation/interfaces are a nightmare of incomprehensible incoherence. There cannot be a software community less professional. I've seen Minecraft plugins by 8 year olds much better in these categories.
Android ROMs are the same way. Maybe something about the semi-illegality of it brings out the old DOS scene culture.
From one side there is huge user base full of people who want to get something working with no effort and usually tend to demand something from developers, but very few can provide even proper bug reports. On other side there is bunch of "experts" some of which tend to leech of others work and even less of actual skilled developers.
So it's just stressful to participate those projects. In the end most of enthusiasts that stick there must have very strong personality or be selfish persons that looking for cheap popularity.
Also there are humble guys who silently work on their own thing, but they usually work alone or in very small groups and don't communicate with outsiders. And of course most of time they don't ever get credit for their work on BSP reverse engineering and fixes.
Apple have made some terrible design decisions since Jobs died. A 'thin iMac' - whose thin-ness was absolutely pointless. The MacBook (2 lbs) and MacBook Pro (3 lbs) were designed to weigh arbitrary weights instead of thinking about features: http://www.apple.com/mac/compare/results/?product1=macbook&p... And the MacPro was possible the worst shape for upgrades. Jobs inspired people to come up with great machines, bu…
> A 'thin iMac' - whose thin-ness was absolutely pointless. For you maybe. Many of us (millions, judging from the sales numbers) appreciate the thin-ness, even if it's for a desktop machine. I had to drag my old non-thin iMac several times to different locations, and it was no joy. Nor do I need a behemoth on my desktop.
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It's quite easy to do now, but the community is incredibly annoying. The software is usually on sourceforge or something even shadier, it's rarely actually OSS-licensed, and configuration/documentation/interfaces are a nightmare of incomprehensible incoherence. There cannot be a software community less professional. I've seen Minecraft plugins by 8 year olds much better in these categories.
There's also turf war nonsense. The site that the OP mentions so much, from what I remember, plagiarises the software it offers.
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> Apple doesn't have anything for power users or developers right now. I'm a power user and a developer and I find the 2016 MBPs to be the best laptops around. My only misgiving was the hefty price. The only "dongle" I needed was a single USB/USB-C adapter but I really don't have to use it most of the time; everything I have — phone, tablet, portable hard disk — works wirelessly. The battery time (I think you mistype…
First, you're defending the laptop, not the desktops. The laptops are still almost okay. Now for some point answers... > The battery time (I think you mistyped "life time") estimation was dumb, never accurate or consistent, and people don't mind the lack of it on billions of other mobile devices anyway. It was accurate as long as you kept doing the same task . For example, I knew how much longer a gaming session or a…
"Problem is, Apple doesn't have anything for power users or developers right now."
You complained about everything from Apple across the board, including blaming them for some other company. [1]
> Independent dev working from home.
Same here.
> Running two VMs simultaneously at times, and also using the same computer for entertainment, namely gaming.
Ditto, but just one VM; Windows, for some games. Everything I want to play, even very recent games like Paragon [2], runs just fine on the 15" 2016 MBP, in Boot Camp if not inside macOS.
> so I actually need CPU power.
Haven't experienced any throttling yet, myself.
> What you read exactly. Please explain how you touch type on the touch screen that replaced the F keys and how it is useful to me when I, like anyone who works a lot with the keyboard, have memorized every shortcut I use.
See [3]. The Touch Bar is always in your vision and I don't have to take my fingers off the keyboard to use it, as opposed to moving my hand to the mouse/trackpad to perform functions that I can now do from the Touch Bar.
"Looking" at it is no different than moving your eyeballs a nanometer to look at a menu bar or any other element on the screen.
Even if looking at something was such an arduous action, having to continuously refer to a secondary resource (be it your memory, in-app help, keybind settings, or online) to know what each F-number does with each modifier in each context of each app, is considerably more backwards.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13902459
As a Hackintosh user, I'd recommend an NCASE M1 v5 or the Shuttle SZ170R8 for a significantly better chassis. With the NCASE, you can get a LGA 2011-v3 mini-ITX board and get as fast of a computer as you want. Though truthfully, I don't think there's much of a point. Likewise, an old NVIDIA card for a Hackintosh? Also not much of a point. The web drivers are so bad. Who knows when Apple will ship another NVIDIA chip…
a GTX 980 Ti is considered old now? Unless you're working with datasets where the 6GB is limiting, it is quite capable for both CUDA programming & gaming. I tried CUDA programming on Win10 and it is an exercise in frustration, and find macOS a more pleasant environment compared to linux in part b/c of software library and it's what I'm personally used to.
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> It's a monitor Apple effectively blessed as their monitor replacement. They sold it. So... yeah. Yeah, I do blame them for their lack of due diligence. Apple don't make the LG Ultrafine Display. Apple offer many other third-party products through their stores, but it's the manufacturer's responsibility to support those. > how am I supposed to rely on Apple to meet my needs if they are perfectly happy dropping produ…
Another one that defends the laptops when the original article is about a Mac Pro replacement :) > Can display at-a-glance status such as time, battery etc. You look at the keyboard when you type? Not my demographic then, i type too much for that. It's probably fine for you. > All of the over-a-dozen developers/tech-oriented people that -I- know prefer the 2016 MBPs to everything else. They've also outsold all other…
I do. I expect your next response will impose qualifiers on "developers" and "compiled software." :)
> my OP - are from people who need a powerful desktop for work.
Your OP said:
> Problem is, Apple doesn't have anything for power users or developers right now.
> I used to say that their laptops are fine
My experience is that their laptops are still more than fine enough for power users and developers.
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> I wish I know what Apple was thinking. It's literally incomprehensible. Just make a really good fast desktop computer. They're one of the largest companies in the world now with essentially unlimited financial resources, and decades of core competency in making high end desktop computers. So like why don't they just fucking do it.
The problem is that they still have a pretty small product design department, and they're committed to not shipping "crap" products. What I really don't understand is why they didn't foresee this, and just updated their cheese grater Macs. After all, it's way easier to simply update a motherboard to fit a faster CPU than it is to rearchitect the Garbage Can design every time there's a new CPU and GPU architecture out…
Those cases still look really ugly. Reminds me of the look I was going for twenty years ago when i was a teenager w all the neon. The Macs at least look elegant and like something I'd want in my house.
That's your only criticism? Maybe choose a different case?