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Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by Gracana »

vinay427 wrote: post #474
Gracana wrote: post #465

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I disagree. They used to be heavy duty and well designed, now they just look heavy duty (and well designed if you squint). The best example of the slide downhill is their heavy-duty metal hinge... covers. Inside it's the same hinge everything else has. At my last job we had a recent thinkpad of some sort in the shop, and the media keys rattled around under their wavy bezel, and the bottom of the LCD bezel could be fl…

Perhaps the ThinkPad you're talking about isn't one of the flagship series (X, T, W mostly). There are a variety of other models Lenovo brands as ThinkPads that are build to look similar to these ThinkPads. I can add, though, that the hinge in my T450s is by no means as cheap and flexible as those in a rMBP or any slew of other Windows laptops. I can open it to 180 degrees or anywhere in-between and it stays there ev…

You might be right, and my memory is fuzzy, but I'm pretty certain it was a T-series laptop. It had the five trackpad buttons, trackpoint, square edges and rubberized lid, keyboard light, etc. We also had a T40 that was beat up from shop use, and I remember the difference in quality between the two was painfully obvious. The new machine felt like an imitation.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by notheguyouthink »

aamederen wrote: post #210
lobster_johnson wrote: post #141

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I'm also considering a switch, but Windows drives me up the wall whenever I touch it. macOS has been getting uglier and more awkward to use the last few years, but Windows is still the king of ugly. So I've been considering Linux as my first option. I fired up a few VMs and dipped my toes in various Linux desktop environments: Elementary, Fedora 25, and Ubuntu (Unity) so far. These are all GNOME 3 variants. And... oh…

I am experiencing the same thing, but on the reverse side. At my home, I have a Ubuntu desktop which works perfectly. I use Eclipse, Android Studio and Atom editor. On work, I use MBP and pretty much the same environment. I know it is not a common opinion but no matter what I do, I still like Ubuntu more than macos. I agree that macos looks more polished, engineered and complete but somehow, I prefer Ubuntu's plastic…

I'm just trying to find a high end laptop that will run Linux flawlessly. No trackpad driver issues. Zero. Perfect plug and play.

It's the only thing keeping my mac at this point. Fear of having to debug driver shit when i don't want to deal with any of that.

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by falcolas »

SiVal wrote: post #350
yakult wrote: post #44

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I would go a bit further: I want my state to be inside a seamless hardware agnostic VM, that I can access anywhere through public terminals that I only partially trust. I would have the option of either having my storage with me that I plug in, or in the cloud and I just provide 2fa. My device would have a cpu/gpu/etc befitting a mobile device, and the most barebones / untrusted terminals would just be screen/inputs/…

I'm hoping to one day be able to use my phone as this device.

I love this idea, but I'm not sure that the phone's heat dispersion capabilities (well, the lack thereof) will ever make it feasible.

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Post by nl »

pwython wrote: post #443
deanCommie wrote: post #418

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I used to think every one of my friends with a MBP was a fisher price-loving brainless slave to Steve Jobs. Then I actually had to use one for work. I'll never go back. It's the little things that are not so little: 1) The wake speed 2) The battery life 3) The overall comfort and feel of the keys and the trackpad compared to ANYTHING I've ever used before from Lenovo or Dell. I can live in Mac mode and build almost a…

> And if I need to do anything for Windows, I just use Boot Camp. In my head I imagine 90% of Mac users that use Boot Camp just need it to play PC games. :) Then again, I suppose there's still really specific obscure software out there that is Windows only (or Win/IIS devs that prefer Mac hardware). Which reminds me, I wonder if I'll ever see 3ds Max on MacOS.

The only reasons I've considered using Boot Camp is for MS Project and Visio.

There are reasonable substitutes for Visio now, but damn a MS Project substitute is needed (and no, that thing in LibreOffice doesn't really work).

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by [deleted] »

vinay427 wrote: post #474
Gracana wrote: post #465

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree. They used to be heavy duty and well designed, now they just look heavy duty (and well designed if you squint). The best example of the slide downhill is their heavy-duty metal hinge... covers. Inside it's the same hinge everything else has. At my last job we had a recent thinkpad of some sort in the shop, and the media keys rattled around under their wavy bezel, and the bottom of the LCD bezel could be fl…

Perhaps the ThinkPad you're talking about isn't one of the flagship series (X, T, W mostly). There are a variety of other models Lenovo brands as ThinkPads that are build to look similar to these ThinkPads. I can add, though, that the hinge in my T450s is by no means as cheap and flexible as those in a rMBP or any slew of other Windows laptops. I can open it to 180 degrees or anywhere in-between and it stays there ev…

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Post by pka »

adamlett wrote: post #371
d3ckard wrote: post #333

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I do not agree. It is not about magic, it's about neglecting the user group that made them rich in the first place. Apple actually stopped making pro hardware. They're unpredictable when it comes to upgrades(15 Retina ethernal Haswell, 2013 Mac Pro, even iMacs), they do not seem to have an idea how the platform should evolve and they're obsessed with thinness, while in the pro market performance and battery life are…

It was not the pro users who made Apple rich. It was the consumers buying iPods, and later iPhones. Pro users are at the same time extremely demanding and extremely conservative. Apple has never done much to cater to that market, and the fact that they have so many pro users these days is a happy accident which has more to do with how awful these people used to be treated when they were Windows users, and not a lot t…

I've heard that argument dozens of times, but I really can't understand it.

The App Store has millions of apps. Who created those apps, if not pro users? Without the App Store, who would buy iPhones, iPads and iPods?

If Apple shit on the pro users they shit on themselves.

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Post by lisper »

com2kid wrote: post #211
lisper wrote: post #200

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Not quite what I'm after because (AFAICT) it can't sleep while unplugged. But this still looks like a pretty awesome little machine. I may just have to get me one :-)

It can hibernate. With an SSD, restoring back from hibernate is just a few seconds.

Cool. So... is there enough room in the enclosure for an SSD or does it have to be external?

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Post by willismichael »

hguant wrote: post #439
charlesism wrote: post #429

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My metaphor is leaking! My point is that I would be quite happy to buy a $3000 machine if it were stelar quality, and I could rely on it for the next five years. Some people will always pay top dollar for pro gear. If you use and rely on a piece of equipment enough, it's worth it.

> My point is that I would be quite happy to buy a $3000 machine if it were stelar quality, and I could rely on it for the next five years. Well if that's what you're into... http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-pro One downside is that the battery life is crap (5 hours or so)...and the base price is $3600.

Wow, at seven and a half pounds that thing is a monster, but I suppose the specs and build quality justify it.

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Post by willyt »

nl wrote: post #484
pwython wrote: post #443

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> And if I need to do anything for Windows, I just use Boot Camp. In my head I imagine 90% of Mac users that use Boot Camp just need it to play PC games. :) Then again, I suppose there's still really specific obscure software out there that is Windows only (or Win/IIS devs that prefer Mac hardware). Which reminds me, I wonder if I'll ever see 3ds Max on MacOS.

The only reasons I've considered using Boot Camp is for MS Project and Visio. There are reasonable substitutes for Visio now, but damn a MS Project substitute is needed (and no, that thing in LibreOffice doesn't really work).

MSProject -> Omniplan ?

Re: Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the Mac

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Post by slantyyz »

d3ckard wrote: post #333
m12k wrote: post #316

It's actually kind of amazing to see the discourse shift against Apple and the new MacBook Pro to the point where it seems almost self-reinforcing. Like someone turned the reality distortion field on backwards or something. I've been wanting a mac laptop the size and weight of a MacBook Air 13" but with a retina display for years, and the ability to connect usb, power and external display with just a single cable is…

I do not agree. It is not about magic, it's about neglecting the user group that made them rich in the first place. Apple actually stopped making pro hardware. They're unpredictable when it comes to upgrades(15 Retina ethernal Haswell, 2013 Mac Pro, even iMacs), they do not seem to have an idea how the platform should evolve and they're obsessed with thinness, while in the pro market performance and battery life are…

>> it's about neglecting the user group that made them rich in the first place.

Well, times have changed. Apple is servicing the user group that is making them ultra rich now.

I'm not a big fan of the direction they've taken, but I also don't blame them for it.

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