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Of course it makes sense. Other manufacturers don't release new products until their current line-up is thoroughly obsolete. The way they achieve that is by releasing stuff that's already obsolete on day of launch, but you can't argue with the ethics!
I've been living in the future with my Surface Pro for a while now. Apple won't catch up to that until they can lock down the supply chain.
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Agree, most of the time external drives are cases with USB/eSATA adapters and an "internal" hard drive. The only difference with a PC is that it's easier to drop the external drive.
That was correct ten years ago. Nowadays the external drives of course contain 3.5" or 2.5" hard drives. But the inbuilt hard discs come with little or no warrenty, are "eco"-drives that are meant to be used only occasionally (not 24x7) and spin with only 5400 rpm. Internal hard drives for personal/business (desktop, notebook) come with up to 4 or 5 years warrenty and spin with 7200 or 11000 rpm and have a better int…
And that contrary to what you said, tons of personal/business laptops come with 5400 HDs. Not much quality HD on a €400 euro laptop or even some Apple models.
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Yeah, it doesn't seem like Apple really focuses on any development outside of their platforms (iOS, OS X). It has naturally become a popular choice for web design and development because of the strong graphic design user base. Over time, the community has built a lot of great tools for web dev on the mac, though. "Their hardware [being] dedicated to their OSX thingy" is actually a great thing for every day use. Their…
I tried to use OS X as my main OS, but I just couldn't get past what I considered "illogical" and "inconsistent" keyboard acceleration, keyboard navigation and user interactions. For instance, in Windows and Gnome I can hunt through menus with the keyboard by simply press ALT and then the underlined letter of a menu (then use the arrow keys to look around and press ENTER or SPACE to pick one). This is consistent thro…
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I've been living in the future with my Surface Pro for a while now. Apple won't catch up to that until they can lock down the supply chain.
What do you find so amazing about the Surface Pro btw?
In addition to all the Windows software that I run on it, I also have a small Ubuntu Server VM within the included hypervisor. Can't wait until the Surface Pro 4 comes out, that's when I'll probably jump to the Surface Pro 3 to get the larger screen and SSD size.
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I've been living in the future with my Surface Pro for a while now. Apple won't catch up to that until they can lock down the supply chain.
> I've been living in the future with my Surface Pro for a while now. So Philip K Dick was right after all, the future is a dystopia?
I think Apple has brought us closer to dystopia than anyone with their hardware + software lockin monoculture. At least I can move to other hardware vendors if I don't like Microsoft's hardware. If I want to run OSX I have to buy Apple's hardware (and I do when I have to, but I certainly don't enjoy it).