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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 neve

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 anything targeted to a *nix platform natively. And if I need to do anything for Windows, I just use Boot Camp.

marcoperaza 10y ago
The trackpads on Macs are amazing (though I hear good things about the Surface Book and some newer Dells). But I've fallen in love with the trackpoint (red nub) on the Thinkpad.
- Declanomous 10y ago
  I used a really old laptop that had a mini-trackball. I personally think that was the best human interface device I ever used on a laptop.
pwython 10y ago
> 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.
- justin66 10y ago
  Given the high quality and low cost of VMWare Fusion, I tend to assume the same thing.
- mulletbum 10y ago
  I know for me the big take away for having bootcamp is PowerShell. I work in Office 365, so the modules aren't built to work with it yet, even though there is a working version of PowerShell. Other than that, a couple interactions with Active Directory always cause me problems, so it is easier to just have a Windows Installation hanging out.
- Raphmedia 10y ago
  You wouldn't game on a laptop anyway and you should build your own tower PC for anything serious (which limits you from using OSX).
- nl 10y ago
  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).
  - willyt 10y ago
    MSProject -> Omniplan ?
- rietta 10y ago
  My reason to have Bootcamp is literally to get Elgato Game capture, used to capture the presenter's screen real time, support in OBS so that I can livestream a Bsides conference once a year. I use an old Canopus firewire SD video to live transcode the camcorder in that setup. I tried to do this in Parallels, but it just didn't work. Turns out live video composition and broadcasting needs the bare metal.
- hashhar 10y ago
  Any serious CAD or simulation software is not easily available on MacOS.
dkonofalski 10y ago
This was me too and it's so funny to see people saying the same things as I did - "You can get the same specs for so much cheaper!", "You're wasting your money!", "You can't game on a Mac". Now I have the best of both worlds. My Mac gets used for everything and my PC is my gaming machine when I can't game on the Mac. It's not the same specs unless specs only include the processor, RAM, and HDD and the experience is light years better to me. I'm glad people have a choice. I just don't understand why I get crucified every time I state my preference.

marcoperaza 10y ago

The trackpads on Macs are amazing (though I hear good things about the Surface Book and some newer Dells). But I've fallen in love with the trackpoint (red nub) on the Thinkpad.

Declanomous 10y ago
I used a really old laptop that had a mini-trackball. I personally think that was the best human interface device I ever used on a laptop.

pwython 10y ago

> 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.

justin66 10y ago
Given the high quality and low cost of VMWare Fusion, I tend to assume the same thing.
mulletbum 10y ago
I know for me the big take away for having bootcamp is PowerShell. I work in Office 365, so the modules aren't built to work with it yet, even though there is a working version of PowerShell. Other than that, a couple interactions with Active Directory always cause me problems, so it is easier to just have a Windows Installation hanging out.
Raphmedia 10y ago
You wouldn't game on a laptop anyway and you should build your own tower PC for anything serious (which limits you from using OSX).
nl 10y ago
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).
- willyt 10y ago
  MSProject -> Omniplan ?
rietta 10y ago
My reason to have Bootcamp is literally to get Elgato Game capture, used to capture the presenter's screen real time, support in OBS so that I can livestream a Bsides conference once a year. I use an old Canopus firewire SD video to live transcode the camcorder in that setup. I tried to do this in Parallels, but it just didn't work. Turns out live video composition and broadcasting needs the bare metal.
hashhar 10y ago
Any serious CAD or simulation software is not easily available on MacOS.

dkonofalski 10y ago

This was me too and it's so funny to see people saying the same things as I did - "You can get the same specs for so much cheaper!", "You're wasting your money!", "You can't game on a Mac". Now I have the best of both worlds. My Mac gets used for everything and my PC is my gaming machine when I can't game on the Mac. It's not the same specs unless specs only include the processor, RAM, and HDD and the experience is light years better to me. I'm glad people have a choice. I just don't understand why I get crucified every time I state my preference.