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High Sierra seems like a great OS if you want an unstable workstation that doesn't work with tools you've used everyday for well over a decade.
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This. Although I didn't redowngrade to the non touch bar, I literally hate it and stare enviously at my colleagues running Dell and Lenovo Linux laptops with 32GB of RAM, etc. I am still hoping for Apple to get its act together but I am done with the crappy non Pro "Pro" consumer junk laptops.
There will almost certainly be 32GB MBPs this year when Cannon Lake shows up. Assuming it isn’t delayed again, naturally.
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This still happens for me on OS X Sierra sometimes.
Out of curiosity, is this bug related to CPU cache? I don't know really anything about how CPU's work internally, however. It just "feels like" it's applying a bunch of instructions very quickly but ignoring the internal clock if that makes any sense. For example, the CPU percentage counter in Activity Monitor was around 3,000,000. If there was a loop to increment the CPU usage counter, it sounds like it incremented…
My assumption was/is that it refreshes stuff on a timer. On each timeout it puts a refresh event on some kind of queue... and then somehow manages to fuck it up, and ends up having a bunch of these events to deal with all at once, rather than handling each one as it comes in with a sensible gap between each one. Well, sometimes it happens, and don't ask me how I know.
But I have to say that you usually don't release it like that :(
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APFS has been nothing but pain for me. File system changes show up in Finder minutes later! I should have stayed in Sierra.
Unfortunately, it seems Apple has forced us to choose between Meltdown mitigation and a somewhat working OS. The recent Sierra security updates didn’t include the Meltdown patch. https://twitter.com/theregister/status/949358083431546880
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Store the screen layout using serials from the EDIDs. Why it doesn’t do this and “tries” to guess their position somehow is beyond me. I use the OWC TB3 dock with dual Asus PA328qs with the latest firmware. Because of apparently some lame design decisions, in order to run dual external monitors over a single TB3 port, you need the dock, which has one DisplayPort output, then a TB3-> DisplayPort (via USB-C alt mode II…
> For a ~$6k setup, it’s awful. It’d be awful for $1k. About 10 years ago, I had a Dell D830 running Fedora and later, early versions of Gnome shell. The dock powered the laptop and a mouse, keyboard, external drive, and two monitors. It was a single (albeit proprietary) connector, and the dock was fairly expensive (~$200 IIRC). It worked damn great, nearly every time, even with sleep States in Linux on a laptop 10 y…
That I should pay Apple $10k for my next MBP so these features can work?
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An especially unfortunate truth is that many developers have grown so afraid of workflow-breaking bugs that they're willing to risk security flaws just so they can get work done. The things I would do (and pay) for 2010-Apple tier hardware built for CentOS in both laptop and phone form factors...
> The things I would do (and pay) for 2010-Apple tier hardware built for CentOS Isn’t it remarkable this still doesn’t exist? Build quality still does not compare in the PC world. Yet, I’m on a MBA3,2 (late 2010) and it’s great. Still running Yosemite. It’s got 4gb ram but handles running 10 JVMs with modest heaps for development no problem. Stable and runs for months without issue. I’d love more RAM and more cores b…
Razer comes close, though I wouldn't buy them because of the compensating-for-something #branding on the machines. The Alienware 13 I can personally vouch for as being better than my last MacBook Pro for sure. And the keyboard is like an old ThinkPad's but not quite so heavy. Still not a fan of the alien logo, but at least it's tiny.
High Sierra seems like a great OS if you want an unstable workstation that doesn't work with tools you've used everyday for well over a decade.
I came for the incredibly useful touchbar and stayed for the cascade of un-exit-able menus that occur when you try to combine the awesome powers of the fingerprint reader and keychain.app
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I'm not a developer, but I knew developers were previously content with Macbooks usually running OSX or linux. Given so much unhappiness with OSX, and the inability to run linux on the USB-C macbook pros, what are developers generally doing? The Apple hardware is nice, but it generally means you have to use OSX. Windows WSL is pretty convenient, but then you have to use Windows. Linux is, of course, great, but what h…
Well this is purely anecdotal, but at least 70% of the developers, IT workers, and researchers that I know are using prior generation MacBook Pro hardware (the ones without the touch bar or terrible keyboard, and with ports) and are intentionally using the older OSX versions. I know several people who traded in 2016/2017 models for 2015 models because it's literally an upgrade; get an older machine and you suddenly h…
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Unfortunately, it seems Apple has forced us to choose between Meltdown mitigation and a somewhat working OS. The recent Sierra security updates didn’t include the Meltdown patch. https://twitter.com/theregister/status/949358083431546880
Apple has actually backported the fix to Sierra and even El Capitan. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208331