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You're just kicking the can down the road with respect to switching from a Mac to a Windows/Linux setup though. That's the the parent was saying. They are are a
by pyre 10y ago
You're just kicking the can down the road with respect to switching from a Mac to a Windows/Linux setup though. That's the the parent was saying. They are are a point where it could make sense to make the switch. Why buy a laptop that will just push this cost a few years down the road?
- eropple 10y agoExactly. This is a good time, in my personal and professional life, to move back to Linux/Windows (which was my primary mode of doing stuff before I started buying Macs in 2010). I'm growing more aggravated with OS X (sorry, macOS (how about make it better instead of just renaming things, Apple?)), I don't really like what they're doing to their hardware, and the new MBP is not a good value for the money. I can invest some money and time in switching now without interrupting or messing with important stuff.
- freehunter 10y agoIsn't everything just pushing costs further down the road? Eventually you'll have to get a new machine anyway. If the current one works for you, it's kind of crazy to reject it just because you'll have to buy something else in a few years. I fully expect that some day Toyota will stop making my car. But I'm perfectly happy driving it anyway, because it's still being made today, and it was made when I bought it. Does that make sense? Because saying "The Corolla will stop being made some day in the future, so I'm going to buy a Camaro now" doesn't make any sense at all to me.
- eropple 10y agoThe choice isn't "this machine or that machine." It's "stay on the same platform or incur greater switching costs later." It is a question of ecosystems, and one only gets more enmeshed with more use. There's nothing crazy about deciding whether to rip off the band-aid now rather than create more of a sunk cost to deal with later.