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Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by andreadallera »

akadien wrote: post #3

Summary: a Linux/Windows use finds quirks when using a different environment (Mac OS X).

I don't think they're just quirks but let's say it's the way you paint it. Given those quirks, why would you choose to use a platform so quirky for 3 times the price? That's what I don't understand.

I've switched from Windows to Linux a while ago. At the beginning it was "quirky" but I could immediately see how much better linux was. On mac, I just feel that the system is working against me.

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by petrilli »

andreadallera wrote: post #5
akadien wrote: post #3

Summary: a Linux/Windows use finds quirks when using a different environment (Mac OS X).

I don't think they're just quirks but let's say it's the way you paint it. Given those quirks, why would you choose to use a platform so quirky for 3 times the price? That's what I don't understand. I've switched from Windows to Linux a while ago. At the beginning it was "quirky" but I could immediately see how much better linux was. On mac, I just feel that the system is working against me.

3 times the price? Seriously?

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by andreadallera »

petrilli wrote: post #6
andreadallera wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think they're just quirks but let's say it's the way you paint it. Given those quirks, why would you choose to use a platform so quirky for 3 times the price? That's what I don't understand. I've switched from Windows to Linux a while ago. At the beginning it was "quirky" but I could immediately see how much better linux was. On mac, I just feel that the system is working against me.

3 times the price? Seriously?

There's links to both a laptop PC and a MacBook with similar specs in the article, the laptop PC is 749€, the macbook 2149€.

EDIT : to reply to the comment below... I don't know about weight but battery time on my crappy current laptop (2 years old) is around 4 hours and a half, I think because I run linux (on windows it was around 2 hours). One of my colleagues recently changed the battery on his MacBook pro because it couldn't keep charge anymore, after one year.

About resolution, the MacBook pro I've selected goes at 1440x900, which is the same resolution my crappy laptop has.

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by ikitat »

andreadallera wrote: post #4
towndrunk wrote: post #2

Learn to use Google and you can solve all those problems. These same type of articles have hashed out over and over.

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&#3... Hm, doesn't look like that.

ctrl-d

Emacs keybindings work just about everywhere on a Mac.

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by seb »

andreadallera wrote: post #4
towndrunk wrote: post #2

Learn to use Google and you can solve all those problems. These same type of articles have hashed out over and over.

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&#3... Hm, doesn't look like that.

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&#3...

Re: What's so special about Apple products?

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Post by andreadallera »

ikitat wrote: post #8
andreadallera wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&#3... Hm, doesn't look like that.

ctrl-d Emacs keybindings work just about everywhere on a Mac.

I could just go for fn + backspace if I didn't care about pressing two keys for that.
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