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You're right, we should never question a business's decisions because they have more data than us and cannot possibly be wrong
Given that the iMac is the best selling consumer desktop computer ever, I think it’s safe to assume Apple has put some thought into the matter.
I own and love my 27inch iMac. It exemplifies the quote from Apple's senior vice president: “iMac continues to be the example that proves how beautiful, fast and fun a desktop computer can be,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. " But as someone that doesn't like to mess with hardware too often, I am very disappointed at how difficult it is to change a simple hard drive on thi…
Who still upgrades their own machine? I like to tinker with hardware a little, which is why every 3 years or so I put my own home server together even though I could probably buy a cheaper ready-made solution. In the days of my old Apple Powerbook I've pretty much replaced everything from memory, harddisk to optical drive, even though the latter definitely wasn't made to be upgraded by end-uses. But in the last 10 ye…
Hardware enthusiasts? PC gamers? Really, what a silly question on a tech oriented website. That's like asking who works on their car over at Jalopnik.
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What? Why would you suppose that? Developers don't like hassle any more than non-developers do. We're still people with work to get done.
That's why I quoted "configuration hassle"
And you didn't say why you suppose more developers use Linux than OS X. My experience is the exact opposite.
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Interesting how you call OS X UNIX, as opposed to Linux.
If by "interesting", you mean "accurate"
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You're right, we should never question a business's decisions because they have more data than us and cannot possibly be wrong
Given that the iMac is the best selling consumer desktop computer ever, I think it’s safe to assume Apple has put some thought into the matter.
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If you're not tied to Apple, with my Air I use a Dell U2713HM -- an excellent display of the same size and without the annoying glass screen. Also plugs into the Thunderbolt port.
Just one anecdote -- I went through 5 of these before giving up and going down to the 24" model. Horrible image burn-in -- literally 5 minutes of screen appearance would leave a residual image sharp enough to read text off of for 30+ minutes. (These were bought through 3 different Amazon sellers [well, Amazon and 2 different marketplace sellers], so the likelihood of a bad batch was reduced.)
[1] http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/campaigns/dell-premium-pa...
I'm mostly disappointed in how poor the Win32-based hardware vendors are at following Apple's lead. Apple is narrowing the cost gap in their hardware, and their quality is still leaps and bounds ahead of the competitors. If I want to buy a solid all-in-one device with a minimally usable on-board videocard so I could fire up the occasional game (not a hardcore gaming rig but keeping lighter fare an option) then the co…
The Chromebook Pixel has better hardware features than the MacBook line. (The touchscreen and LTE are both fantastic options.) But, pricewise, it's not far off from Apple's either.
If they offered the same memory and storage options, it would be a lot more attractive.
Also, trackpad still sucks compared to Apple's.
And the price really should be lower given that you get less value out of the box.
I own and love my 27inch iMac. It exemplifies the quote from Apple's senior vice president: “iMac continues to be the example that proves how beautiful, fast and fun a desktop computer can be,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. " But as someone that doesn't like to mess with hardware too often, I am very disappointed at how difficult it is to change a simple hard drive on thi…
I really like how easy it is to upgrade the RAM. They should make updating harddrives just as easy.
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It has a really poor harddrive (32GB) - I realize it's not meant to be used offline, but the world is not yet fully online. Also, what system is it running? For me, one of the main advantages of owning a mac is the OS - nice, slick, fast, *NIX (hence good for developers), without all the configuration hassle of Linux.
Many developers (most? I suppose there are more developers on Linux than OSX) would find that "configuration hassle" a feature.
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I just looked at Lenovo's site. I see plastic cases with mechanical latches. This is not "comparable build quality".
Yeah, I'm inclined to think that Lenovo is surfing on Thinkpad's stellar reputation that predates the jump in quality Apple gave the industry. Thinkpad used to be the best laptops on the market, and in many ways they're still kinda like the old thinkpads. But Apple raised the bar and Lenovo didn't bother following the bar up. I've actually found that some of the higher-end Dell devices are the best at being "apple fo…