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Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Specifically: * HiDPI support in all apps, whethere they are aware of it or not. * Built-in PDF editing and creation from all printable content. * POSIX scripting and CLI. * Very clean and consistent configuration system (defaults). Reset an app to factory? Delete one plist file and potentially an app support folder. Got a new Mac? You could even boot it up from the old harddisk. Good luck doing that with windows reg…

>* POSIX scripting and CLI. Windows has WSL which gets better in the new Creator's update. >* Touchpad support. I don't use laptops, but I've heard good things about the touchpad in the Surface line, and Dell XPS. >* Superb discoverability of power user features with in-app help system and hotkeys displayed in the menu. Windows has had hotkeys in menus as long as I can remember. I know they where there in 3.1. If you…

> help system

alt key in windows does nowhere near what the help on macs does. you're looking for a command or forgot where it was in the menu or want some documentation -> open up help, type a query in the unified search and you're presented with docs as well as commands. Highlighting a command shows you the full path in the menu by opening it up and now you can even sed the hotkey. That's what I mean with discoverability. Every provrammer who uses GUIs should have a look at how that works, I consider that mandatory homework.

> screenshots

Obviously windows has screenshots, but you overlooked the word powerful. MacOS has all the features of the snipping tool right there on system wide hotkeys, no need to open up an app first - including delayed shots and area selections. It's not a big deal, but it saves enough time that it's a total no brainer for me to provide screenshots fo whatever question someone has (even when it's just a distraction from my actual task) while on Windows it takes a crucial 10-15 secs longer to do the same per shot and would disrupt my workflow.

> WSL / Terminal

I do acknowledge that things are getting better there and this is a great development - if/when it gets there I'll consider windows among my primary PC choices again.

Btw. it's telling that Windows-only users always overlook my point about the registry in these discussions. I use all three desktops and I can tell you, not having a central registry in an OS is a huge productivity win. With windows I spend days every 2 years getting a fresh state again while on Mac I can just copy over the file system (using automated tools that support thunderbolt cables, copy half a TB in 30min and are again built in) and start working after a coffee break. Yes there's imaging in Windows, but then you have to regularly keep those up to date and in the end you spend even more time if you only manage a handful of PCs.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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This is idiocy. Solitaire and Freecell are originally not video games, and nobody is making money off selling them. Candy Crush Saga, on the other hand...well, I don't think I need to explain to you who benefits from having it preinstalled on Windows.

This is idiocy. Freecell was originally sold as part of a games pack for Windows, and Candy Crush Saga is a highly-rated game that's otherwise available from the Windows Store. Thousands of people have downloaded it. The Good Times video in Windows 95 also sold Edie a lot of CDs, but it would be equally stupid to criticize that. In both cases, Microsoft is providing something entertaining that demonstrates some benef…

No, I think King is paying Microsoft a hefty price to advertise to you directly in your start menu.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Am I the only one that sees OS X as the biggest reason to switch to Mac? I mean Windows is good, but nowhere good as OS X. And please, don't tell me Ubuntu or other linux flavors. They look good (and are good if you are programming on them) but the UX is still lacking a lot. (Never mind the confusion of the different flavors, packaging systems, and configurations). Also god forbid you have a problem (especially a har…

>32/64GB RAM I'm genuinely curious - why do you need 64 GB of RAM on a laptop? Are there industries where this is a necessity? At that point, wouldn't you be better off having remote machines?

> I'm genuinely curious - why do you need 64 GB of RAM on a laptop?

How about this? For when you want to run VMs that are non-trivial.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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No one ask the question, why is an 2017 Mac Pro still with 22nm CPU, 28nm GPU, no USB 3.1.

None of these has anything to do with Thermals.

I am betting Apple will switch to AMD's Ryzen CPU in their next iMac.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Windows key, type "developer mode", hit enter, click "developer mode" (or 3x tabs, space, enter). PowerShell, send "lxrun /install /y" Done. Pro-tip. Pin PowerShell to your taskbar and drag all the way left. Now you can open it with win+1. Edit: now with no mouse required!

You've missed a step. After enabling Developer Mode, you need to enable support for WSL in Programs and Features, then restart Windows.

When I tested it on my laptop out of the box that was not the case. Maybe Dell does that on the xps line...?

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Windows key, type "developer mode", hit enter, click "developer mode" (or 3x tabs, space, enter). PowerShell, send "lxrun /install /y" Done. Pro-tip. Pin PowerShell to your taskbar and drag all the way left. Now you can open it with win+1. Edit: now with no mouse required!

After going to the Windows store and upgrading to Windows Pro. That's another advantage of OS X- no need to target various OS revisions- the baseline OS IS the OS.

I just sort of assume if you're a developer that you buy the developer version of your software :)

Edit: for reference, home also doesn't come with bitlocker (!?), Domain join, Group Policy, client hyper-v, and others. Don't buy home to do work.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/compare

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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> why do you need 64 GB of RAM I see this question often, and I totally don't get it. I do use 64GB for work, and in light of this news that no new Mac Pro will arrive any time soon, I'm considering bumping that to 128GB[1]. But I don't do high-frequency corporate hegemony work, or video editing, or any of that — I'm just a programmer . Moreover, you could delete IDEA and Xcode and my 5 browsers and 7 text editors an…

Don't browsers generally use more RAM when more is available? I only have 12 GB on my laptop and I've never really noticed anything. It's not like I'm using all 50 tabs and 20 applications at once, and the split second that it takes to reload the app state/data into RAM if it got bumped doesn't bother me.

I would phrase it this way. No matter how much RAM you have, the gosh darn internet browser will easily gobble it all up.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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Wow, what a torrent of negativity on this thread, I didn't see a single positive comment reading through the top level. This is excellent news, I'm chugging along on a 2010 Mac Pro and was very disappointed when the Apple Displays were cancelled last year. They are a staple of the lineup and always look gorgeous compared to what's on the market. I will definitely be buying the new Mac Pro and 2 displays to go with it…

Hmmh. If you are getting along now with a 2010 Mac Pro you would probably do just fine with a 2017 Macbook Pro.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

#689
I've given up on OSX except as an iOS dev platform.

I'm using chromebook hardware (high end, but $200-500) for daily use most of the time, for reasons which will be clear in a while. (I still use iOS for mobile, though.)

For high-end computing, I just got an Acer Predator 17X "gaming" laptop (it was a toss up between that and a Dell PWS 7720). $2850, 32GB/512GB SSD/1TB, 17" 4K screen, GTX 1080, great keyboard, external mouse, 1-3h of battery life under hard use. Add 2 more NVMe SSDs and 32GB RAM (64GB total), with Linux/Win10 dualboot. It's pretty amazing. The alternative Dell PWS was about $4500 for a similar config and a tiny bit better in some ways.

Re: The Mac Pro Lives

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I use Spectacle for this, simplest thing I've found so far: https://www.spectacleapp.com

Spectacle is great, but am I the only one who has to restart it periodically when it stops responding to keyboard shortcuts?

Obviously YMMV but I've been using Spectacle for years and have never had to do this.
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