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£3,700 is just a monumental amount of money. You'd be much better off buying a cheaper laptop (even a MacBook, or MBP without TouchBar) and a more powerful des

£3,700 is just a monumental amount of money. You'd be much better off buying a cheaper laptop (even a MacBook, or MBP without TouchBar) and a more powerful desktop (Hackintosh if you will)

wil421 10y ago
Planning on doing the same. Just refreshed my desktop and plan to get a refurb MBP or wait another year. Hell its almost worth it to do a hackintosh laptop and desktop but I don't want to have to deal with supporting it. I like at least one of my machines to "just work" and Apple hardware is nice. Regardless I'm not buying new until the price goes back down!
- pks2006 10y ago
  I have built a Hackitosh on i5 SandyBridge CPU and a cheap $35 GPU to support a 2K monitor. I integrated this with the Korean 2K monitor (YAMAKASI) and added a Ducky Mechanical KB and Logitech MX anywhere mouse. Its a solid machine, occationally crashes due to some GPU drivers but otherwise a very dependable machine. On other hand, tried to convert a Dell laptop to Hackintosh. The first thing that felt very weird is the trackpad. What makes MacBook a great laptop is the awesome integration of the trackpad with the MacOs. None of the other OS or HW have come close to this quality of integration. So not much of an option out there that offers a stable, portable yet powerful and a awesome trackpad. Dell XPS series is serious contender in this area but I am not sure how well it plays with having Linux natively installed. I hope it is as good as the rave it gets on the Windows 10.
bluedino 10y ago
My PowerBook G3 cost that much in 1999 dollars...
- Theodores 10y ago
  ...and it was a crazy price to pay then, and now!
  - jp555 10y ago
    It's about what my Toshiba PC laptop cost in 2000. With its 1.5 hours of battery life... :P
ProblemFactory 10y ago
In terms of performance or value for money, certainly. But it's a huge hassle keeping application settings, development environments, large datasets or VM images, etc in sync on two computers. With a single laptop I can just unplug the monitors and keyboard, and go to a client meeting or a hackathon without checking that everything is set up on the laptop.
charlesism 10y ago
> You'd be much better off buying a cheaper laptop ...or five cheaper laptops. You could do that and still have money to spare. Then you could make a big laptop dispenser, shaped like a gigantic Kleenex box, and just discard your computer whenever the screen gets a bit dirty.
smnscu 10y ago
You could buy a used Mazda MX-5 and a Chromebook. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201701111221654 http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/20170111122165... https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Chromebook-C201PA-FD0009-Processor-Integrated/dp/B0107N7X5E https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Chromebook-C201PA-FD0009-Proce...
- kowdermeister 10y ago
  Or stay here for 2 days :) https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/9693510?checkin=06%2F01%2F2017&checkout=06%2F02%2F2017&guests=2&adults=2&children=0&infants=0&s=MPSwsslR https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/9693510?checkin=06%2F01%2F2017&... Perspectives. I wouldn't throw that much money on a laptop BTW.

£3,700 is just a monumental amount of money. You'd be much better off buying a cheaper laptop (even a MacBook, or MBP without TouchBar) and a more powerful desktop (Hackintosh if you will)

wil421 10y ago

Planning on doing the same. Just refreshed my desktop and plan to get a refurb MBP or wait another year. Hell its almost worth it to do a hackintosh laptop and desktop but I don't want to have to deal with supporting it. I like at least one of my machines to "just work" and Apple hardware is nice. Regardless I'm not buying new until the price goes back down!

pks2006 10y ago
I have built a Hackitosh on i5 SandyBridge CPU and a cheap $35 GPU to support a 2K monitor. I integrated this with the Korean 2K monitor (YAMAKASI) and added a Ducky Mechanical KB and Logitech MX anywhere mouse. Its a solid machine, occationally crashes due to some GPU drivers but otherwise a very dependable machine. On other hand, tried to convert a Dell laptop to Hackintosh. The first thing that felt very weird is the trackpad. What makes MacBook a great laptop is the awesome integration of the trackpad with the MacOs. None of the other OS or HW have come close to this quality of integration. So not much of an option out there that offers a stable, portable yet powerful and a awesome trackpad. Dell XPS series is serious contender in this area but I am not sure how well it plays with having Linux natively installed. I hope it is as good as the rave it gets on the Windows 10.

bluedino 10y ago

My PowerBook G3 cost that much in 1999 dollars...

Theodores 10y ago
...and it was a crazy price to pay then, and now!
- jp555 10y ago
  It's about what my Toshiba PC laptop cost in 2000. With its 1.5 hours of battery life... :P

ProblemFactory 10y ago

In terms of performance or value for money, certainly. But it's a huge hassle keeping application settings, development environments, large datasets or VM images, etc in sync on two computers. With a single laptop I can just unplug the monitors and keyboard, and go to a client meeting or a hackathon without checking that everything is set up on the laptop.

charlesism 10y ago

> You'd be much better off buying a cheaper laptop ...or five cheaper laptops. You could do that and still have money to spare. Then you could make a big laptop dispenser, shaped like a gigantic Kleenex box, and just discard your computer whenever the screen gets a bit dirty.

smnscu 10y ago

You could buy a used Mazda MX-5 and a Chromebook. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201701111221654 http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/20170111122165... https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Chromebook-C201PA-FD0009-Processor-Integrated/dp/B0107N7X5E https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Chromebook-C201PA-FD0009-Proce...

kowdermeister 10y ago
Or stay here for 2 days :) https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/9693510?checkin=06%2F01%2F2017&checkout=06%2F02%2F2017&guests=2&adults=2&children=0&infants=0&s=MPSwsslR https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/9693510?checkin=06%2F01%2F2017&... Perspectives. I wouldn't throw that much money on a laptop BTW.