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MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

manfrommars wrote: post #236
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #107

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This is just rich to me. Yes, enjoy your Visual Studio and broken command line, I'll be using lightweight tools and an actual POSIX command line. *edit: Wow, -10? Sorry, I was just sharing my experience of being mocked by people who proudly brag about their Windows 7 machine and are barely proficient at .NET programming who give me a hard time because "Macs are lame and Windows is for geeks". Didn't know there were s…

Powershell is hardly broken.

Right, and it's still PowerShell.

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Post by amatix »

_b8r0 wrote: post #180
ageektrapped wrote: post #24

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Speaking as a Windows user who uses a Mac for dev on iOS: you will be frustrated by Mac OS, at least initially. I've been using Mac OS daily for over a year and I still find Windows superior in many ways. This is my opinion, of course. Not trying to change minds or trolling. That retina display is dead sexy though.

As someone using the 2011 Macbook (bought about a month ago) I have to say some things really annoy me in OSX, some things less so. I'm slowly getting used to the Mac way of doing things, but still occasionally cmd-L to lock my screen only to find I have to go to a hot corner instead.

Try Ctrl+Shift+Eject as a shortcut key to lock your screen without needing extra software.

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Post by listic »

xiaoma wrote: post #139
natural219 wrote: post #8

I have been a Windows user my whole life. As a hacker who has recently moved to San Francisco, I've continuously battled Apple fanboys and Linux fanatics alike on why I love Windows and absolutely do not understand why people want to switch platforms. Then I watched this keynote. I'm buying a Macbook Pro.

I too was windows/nix only until joining a start-up in Beijing that was doing iOS work. It amazes me how quickly I adjusted to Mac OS and after only a year I find it frustrating every time I have to go back to windows. Having just moved to San Francisco myself, I find it nice suddenly being in the majority. Edit: Oh, and as soon as I have a job, I'm getting one! I've been drooling over Ivy Bridge specs for months.

What's so great about Ivy bridge specs? I'm underwhelmed because electrical economy failed to materialize.

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Post by trimbo »

fjorder wrote: post #226
fjorder wrote: post #213

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I've spent a reasonable amount of time using Windows, Linux, and OSX. All of them suck. All of them are also awesome, at different things. If you want an living room PC for entertainment, Windows is king. Neither Linux or OSX support Bluray properly and Windows still has a huge edge in gaming. Windows also supports the most hardware. That's become unimportant to most people, but if you work in a research lab with var…

One further note on hardware quality: Perceived hardware quality is something Apple is fantastic at. Their laptops look and feel great. They feel like they'll last decades. This is misleading since they're actually built to be disposable. e.g. If you spill coffee on your Macbook Air, it's dead. You can't fix it because you can't remove the battery in a timely fashion and don't have the tools to open it. Apple won't f…

> Someone at Samsung is really dropping the ball and I hope they're shown the door soon

Amen brother. It's astonishing to me that so much of what Apple creates is actually made by Samsung, and yet they constantly seem so far behind.

Have you seen their new 15" Ultrabooks though? They are awesome. 15" screen and weighs more than a pound less than the new MBP (obviously, with tradeoffs)

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP900X4B-A02US

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Post by jarek »

pbrumm wrote: post #118
notatoad wrote: post #89

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USB 3 accessories are pretty far and few between too, aren't they? What do you actually want to plug in to that port?

cheap extra hard drive dock would be first http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-ST0022U-Plastic-Docking-St... all the thunderbolt ones are very expensive.

Not sure I'd use a Thermaltake product with mixed reviews as an example here...

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Post by kitsune_ »

tibbon wrote: post #74

Perhaps I'm the only one, but I'm really waiting and praying for a new Mac Pro system and 30" Retina displays. Its been since 2010 for an update on the Mac Pro. Currently, I can't fathom why anyone would purchase them given the price. But the laptops have never felt capable enough for fulltime use for HD video editing (or 2K or 4K...) Unless there's a "just one more thing" with these, it seems that the Mac Pro appear…

The Mac Pro is dead. Many audio and video guys I know have already switched to PC or built / bought a Hackintosh.

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Post by _stephan »

cpr wrote: post #220
mtgx wrote: post #63

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No, but if you want you can get 11" or 13" ultrabook from Asus with a 1080p resolution.

Except that Windows doesn't have the HiDPI concept, which makes all your UI truly tiny and useless.

You can change the DPI in Windows. Not all apps properly support high DPI settings, but that probably won't be different on OSX, at least in the beginning. What you can't do in Windows is have different DPI settings for different displays, and I wonder how a retina MacBook will work with a non-retina external display.

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Post by sandipc »

ditoa wrote: post #160

Very nice. Every year I am getting more and more tempted to make the switch from Windows to OS X. I like my iPhone but have always preferred Windows to OS X however I am not very excited with the way Microsoft are taking things with Windows 8. Also I love the hardware and design. They only company who comes close to Apple's design is Asus in my opinion and even then they are still not quite there. Does anyone know if…

custom. looks like the RAM is custom too, just like on the Air.

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Post by mattgreenrocks »

jurre wrote: post #97
calinet6 wrote: post #78

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IMHO Apple fanboyism is not a problem in the hacker community. It's a well-built solid metal portable development workstation. With BSD UNIX. And a pretty layer on top. Among programmers, I never need to explain why we would buy these things. It's outside the programming groups that the conversation gets hostile. I find most programmers avoid this completely, knowing that they're simply using the best tool available…

I study computer science and the amount of banter I get from fellow students for using a macbook air is unbelievable. Other people usually seem quite ok with it, although self proclaimed power users usually seem to have an opinion about it.

"Power users" are probably the single worst demographic of all of them. Overly demanding, opinionated, and sometimes ill-informed.
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