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I'm still using a late `09 mini with 8GB ram and an SSD drive. It's still working fine for web app dev work. This has been the best Mac I've ever owned. I would

by oblib 8y ago

I'm still using a late `09 mini with 8GB ram and an SSD drive. It's still working fine for web app dev work. This has been the best Mac I've ever owned. I would love to see a new Mac Mini come out and I've been ready to buy one and waiting on them to announce the new models for awhile now. That said, I'm ready to move over to a Linux Desktop now if Apple ditches the product entirely. I don't want to, but I know I'll do fine with it.

MisterOctober 8y ago
I was a Mac user for ever 20 years -- finally ditched it a few weeks ago [for Linux] after getting fed up with their daft shenanigans. The whole App Store / iTunes archipelago, the willful rejection of expandable and [easily] user-serviceable hardware design in favor of a 'form before function' approach, the related planned obsolescence strategy [e.g., older hardware simply will not run recent software; new OS breaks older 3-party software], and the ghastly overpricing were among the factors that drove me off. Mainly, I liked MacOS because I prefer putting work into projects as opposed to maintaining my own system, and MacOS "just works," until it doesn't. These days though, I run an idiotresistant distribution of Linux on my productivity machine, a minimal one on my 'learning' machine, and am generally more content. Also, running Linux, I feel less like I'm directly interfacing with a villain from 'Black Mirror'
- LiNeXT 8y ago
  I get it. I've been using Macs for 25+ years and I recently installed a Linux distro with KDE on my Mac in preparation for the ThinkPad I ordered after much deliberation (in lieu of getting one of those crappy "touch bar" MacBook Pros) on which I planned to run Linux while staying on MacOS on the Mac. I am almost certain now that I'm going to stick with Linux across the board on both machines. KDE suits me quite well. It's been a death by a thousand cuts staying with Apple these past few years. iOS is completely locked down (and shows no signs of relenting) and I only see them moving MacOS in the same direction. Their sub-par, insulting hardware offerings only further cement my view that they no longer give a crap about what the Mac used to be. So, like you, I'm out. It was a fun ride. I've been on-board since System 7.
  - MisterOctober 8y ago
    Total agree. I didn't actually have a computer when System 7 came out, but I used to hang out at the UMO computer lab with my mom and play with Hypercard. Fun, quality stuff. Good call on the Thinkpad -- after I got my T61 in the mail a few weeks ago and realized immediately that its ergonomics were vastly superior to my MBPs' which cost a heck of a lot more, I was like "gee, maybe I should have taken a hard look at this issue sooner..."

by oblib 8y ago

MisterOctober 8y ago

I was a Mac user for ever 20 years -- finally ditched it a few weeks ago [for Linux] after getting fed up with their daft shenanigans. The whole App Store / iTunes archipelago, the willful rejection of expandable and [easily] user-serviceable hardware design in favor of a 'form before function' approach, the related planned obsolescence strategy [e.g., older hardware simply will not run recent software; new OS breaks older 3-party software], and the ghastly overpricing were among the factors that drove me off. Mainly, I liked MacOS because I prefer putting work into projects as opposed to maintaining my own system, and MacOS "just works," until it doesn't. These days though, I run an idiotresistant distribution of Linux on my productivity machine, a minimal one on my 'learning' machine, and am generally more content. Also, running Linux, I feel less like I'm directly interfacing with a villain from 'Black Mirror'

LiNeXT 8y ago
I get it. I've been using Macs for 25+ years and I recently installed a Linux distro with KDE on my Mac in preparation for the ThinkPad I ordered after much deliberation (in lieu of getting one of those crappy "touch bar" MacBook Pros) on which I planned to run Linux while staying on MacOS on the Mac. I am almost certain now that I'm going to stick with Linux across the board on both machines. KDE suits me quite well. It's been a death by a thousand cuts staying with Apple these past few years. iOS is completely locked down (and shows no signs of relenting) and I only see them moving MacOS in the same direction. Their sub-par, insulting hardware offerings only further cement my view that they no longer give a crap about what the Mac used to be. So, like you, I'm out. It was a fun ride. I've been on-board since System 7.
- MisterOctober 8y ago
  Total agree. I didn't actually have a computer when System 7 came out, but I used to hang out at the UMO computer lab with my mom and play with Hypercard. Fun, quality stuff. Good call on the Thinkpad -- after I got my T61 in the mail a few weeks ago and realized immediately that its ergonomics were vastly superior to my MBPs' which cost a heck of a lot more, I was like "gee, maybe I should have taken a hard look at this issue sooner..."