I for one am very excited about PR articles like this. It is not worth much but it may be that proverbial drop in a full glass to persuade Apple to release new upgrade to MBP much sooner than it otherwise would.
Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before
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Re: Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before
#142No numbers, so no way to evaluate how significant this is.
For the record, just played with the TouchBar in the Apple Store, and think it's super cool. Also love the humongous track pad, and believe USB-C support will explode in the near future.
So I'm curious to see sales numbers for Surface vs. the new MacBook Pros. Might be more "switchers" to Surface, but also a big increase in MacBook Pro sales overall.
Re: Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before
#143I tried to like it. I have my Surface Book sitting here next to me.
Windows 10 is much better than previous versions, and I like the direction MS seems to be moving. That said, I feel like in spite of how nice a machine the Surface Book is, QA is still sorely lacking on Windows 10.
"Sleep of Death" (google it) and working in *nix 99.99% of the time is what killed it for me. Trying to make the workflow work, it's just too painful, compared to working from my MBP.
New MBP touch on order. Should get here next week.
Re: Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is definitely an example of YMMV, if someone claims that macOS is better than Windows because of a prettier UI and smoother font rendering, I simply laugh. For me it is more important to have a file manager that doesn't lock itself creating .DS_Store files in the middle of an I/O operation (ex. copying a folder from an external drive). To be fair, Windows has the same issue with Thumbs.db files, but I can't reme…
Windows hasn't used Thumbs.db files on most drives since it switched to a central cache in Vista.
It still uses them, it was not difficult to find a screenshot from a recent version of Windows.
http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ximg_54e...
Re: Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before
#145I can't believe anyone using macOS for their professional workflow would consider switching to Windows 10 despite all the criticism leveled at Apple's hardware (most of which I think is totally justified). I use Windows professionally (for .NET development) and I think Windows 10 is still light-years behind, with an unstable, jarring OS experience full of bugs and niggles and unloved and underdeveloped touch interfac…
> Fonts and UI rendering look awful on Windows compared to macOS, there is just no comparison. I've heard a number of people say this, and I'm always puzzled because it is exactly the opposite for me. Running on the same hardware (late 2013 MBPR 15"), Windows 10 font rendering is much more pleasing to my eyes. When I boot into OSX, the text looks terrible to me. (I'm still running El Capitan - has text rendering chan…
I am no professional in typography nor have I used any other Mac than the Macbook 12" (2015), but putting it side by side with my Acer Predator Z35 (35" curved screen), I still like macOS' text rendering a lot more.
Maybe it's the fact that it has a huge resolution on a 12" screen. Seems very likely that the higher pixel density makes for a crisp and beautiful text.
Again, I am not a pro in this area. I am a programmer. So just speaking intuitively, macOS still wins in my eyes.
However, probably the best test would be to put Windows 10 and macOS side by side on identical 27" full HD monitors?
Re: Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before
#146I'm one of the people that switched from a MacBook Pro to the new Surface Book. The ENTIRE experience was dreadful for me. The day I went into the Microsoft store to purchase it (Black Friday), their credit card system was down, so I had to wait around for nearly 2 hours until they finally figured things out. That wouldn't typically upset me, but my brother-in-law went through something similar just 2 weeks prior. As…
Though this was just my very limited experience with the apple store , I really did appreciate the lack of upsell. When I bought my macbook air, I walked in, asked for a macbook air, and the only questions were screen size and amount of ram. Same experience when I had to get a replacement power cord after a cat got at it. Only question was "what model?" And wss donr
Re: Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before
#147Uhh it's a new product record rates doesn't really mean anything.
Re: Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before
#148Insecurity: Look at this handful of people moving from my competitor's highly-regarded product to my promising but flawed one! It's more than ever before!
Re: Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before
#149I can't believe anyone using macOS for their professional workflow would consider switching to Windows 10 despite all the criticism leveled at Apple's hardware (most of which I think is totally justified). I use Windows professionally (for .NET development) and I think Windows 10 is still light-years behind, with an unstable, jarring OS experience full of bugs and niggles and unloved and underdeveloped touch interfac…
> Fonts and UI rendering look awful on Windows compared to macOS, there is just no comparison. I've heard a number of people say this, and I'm always puzzled because it is exactly the opposite for me. Running on the same hardware (late 2013 MBPR 15"), Windows 10 font rendering is much more pleasing to my eyes. When I boot into OSX, the text looks terrible to me. (I'm still running El Capitan - has text rendering chan…
It's mainly true on low DPI screens at 1:1 scaling with small point sized fonts. At a certain size, all fonts basically look alike in that case. It does happen on high dpi screens at 1:1 scaling too, but you need a magnifying glass to see the issues.
There's an app called MacType which makes the rendering more like Mac on low DPI screens, but I don't think it gets updated very often.
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#150My Mac just went belly up - a software corruption in my encrypted partition has rendered Mac OSX unusable. I took it to Apple, they spent over an hour throwing every piece of software they had at it. Their own diagnostic tools were freezing up from this issue. The tests that did run indicated no problem with the physical hardware, and indeed Windows runs flawlessly.
So their totally shit software destroyed itself and they don't have the tools to fix it. Now they're recommending forensic recovery and of course they won't pay the $500-1000 for that.
I think I'll be sticking with Windows from now on.