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As far as price, I was looking into getting a 5K iMac in a year specifically because of the price. It doesn’t seem like anyone sells a 5K monitor anymore except for LG and those go for $1300. $2300 for a decently equipped iMac 5K (16GB of RAM, 256GB SSD) is not bad.
I've been on a linux desktop for several years now. I use a VM for any windows dev I have to do. I should have made the switch sooner. Consider that instead of windows.
I switched from Windows to Linux after a certain update was happy to lock me out of my account. Only thing I miss really is the battery life.
Workloads aren't massive - on both platforms i've probably 50% Firefox, 30% VSCode, 20% SSH.
I rarely need to boot into Windows bar 2 apps. However the update process is so unbearable I make sure to login once a week just to make sure major updates are done as i've been stuck before trying to login but WU spends 15 minutes finalising some update. Can't believe they made update management worse under W10, it's easiest the best bit about Linux when I show newbies.
I've done it since this summer, going from a 2012 rMBP to a near-maxed out Thinkpad 480s (1 TB SSD, 24GB RAM for USD 2300? hell yeah..). Let me tell you though that as a mac user going to windows 10 you give up much more than a bit of polish - it's really cutting into your productivity. Just one tiny (but anger inducing) example: You can have either Windows Defender or a hangup-free Windows Explorer, but not both (an…
Every time you switch working environments, you'll incur a large loss of productivity to not knowing the UI tricks, shortcuts, and the edge cases. If you use the products similarly, though, you should build muscle-memory and productivity enhancements over the many month time-frame. I've used 3 different OS and this is how it's worked for me each time I transitioned.
I've done it since this summer, going from a 2012 rMBP to a near-maxed out Thinkpad 480s (1 TB SSD, 24GB RAM for USD 2300? hell yeah..). Let me tell you though that as a mac user going to windows 10 you give up much more than a bit of polish - it's really cutting into your productivity. Just one tiny (but anger inducing) example: You can have either Windows Defender or a hangup-free Windows Explorer, but not both (an…
If you're willing to put up with inconsistency and a time-wasting learning curve, value responsiveness, and have no attachment to Windows software (which seems likely if you're coming from a Mac) - why not Linux?
(a) tell me that everything went smooth but on further inquiries admit that there were actually a number of issues, some of them unresolved
(b) admit (and complain about) issues outright
(c) actually have had everything going smooth
For laptops I've yet to talk to someone in category (c).
Just another run off the mill "I'm not getting another mac" complaint article. 1) Introduce myself by explaining how emotionally attached I was to the first Macs I bought 2) Complain about price 3) Complain about price some more 4) Did I mention price? 5) Windows has caught up to MacOS (which assumes Mac was ever ahead of Windows to begin with) 6) I'm an "x", and I do "y". I can do "y" just as well on Windows 7) Sinc…
Yep, complaining about Apple is so trendy these days.
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It would be nice if these articles were written after a long time OSX user had actually used Windows 10 for a month or two.
I'm a long time OS X user. Macbook Pro as my work laptop and Windows 10 at home as a gaming/browsing desktop. Had Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/2000 as my home desktops prior to that, I actually dig building them. I don't get the drama. Yes, for vast majority of the users Windows 10 is pretty fungible for OS X. What do the majority of people do? That's right, launch the browser, maybe open Outlook. Would I use one for work gi…
Windows 10 has WSL, which replaces cygwin. It's a wonderful compromise which lets me can execute unmodified ELF binaries on Windows 10. Realistically, this means I can install almost anything via apt, do bulk file management using scripts, use native linux rsync binaries for backups, etc.
As far as price, I was looking into getting a 5K iMac in a year specifically because of the price. It doesn’t seem like anyone sells a 5K monitor anymore except for LG and those go for $1300. $2300 for a decently equipped iMac 5K (16GB of RAM, 256GB SSD) is not bad.
Note that you can pick up a pretty well equipped pc for $1K and can upgrade/cannibalize that total (PC/display) investment for many years.
Computers just aren’t becoming obsolete as fast as they use to. I should be able to get at least 5 years out of it as a primary computer and even longer as a secondary computer.
These are the specs of a late 2012 iMac.
https://support.apple.com/kb/sp667?locale=en_US
This would be a perfectly usable development machine.
Just another run off the mill "I'm not getting another mac" complaint article. 1) Introduce myself by explaining how emotionally attached I was to the first Macs I bought 2) Complain about price 3) Complain about price some more 4) Did I mention price? 5) Windows has caught up to MacOS (which assumes Mac was ever ahead of Windows to begin with) 6) I'm an "x", and I do "y". I can do "y" just as well on Windows 7) Sinc…
Does the presence of the pattern mean anything? To be fair, albeit admittedly whataboutist, the anti-Windows blog posts are fairly formulaic as well. I'm not sure the pattern is worth pointing out, unless you're saying there isn't much to refute that hasn't been done before, to which I agree but the frequency of angst alone may have value.
I only bought a Mac because I like the experience and unix utilities for programming. I still use Windows when I want to game on PC. Presumably this is the case for a lot of developers?
- Windows for the office: Mail, documents
- OS X for a good, imperfect, compromise between the two.
Can’t see this changing any time soon. Windows bash etc are an add-on.
Linux sure as hell is better than a Mac for geek stuff, but for simple things like email it completely sucks.
I’ve spent months recently using a Linux machine for non-work dev. I have tried every email client I could find. I am buying a MacBook Air as soon as apple announce.
I’ve been helping someone who works on Windows with tech issues. Not going near it.