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Yep Its just a million little details that make it such quality. The awesome UI of the OS. The trackpad is the best trackpad I've ever used. Every other track

Yep Its just a million little details that make it such quality. The awesome UI of the OS. The trackpad is the best trackpad I've ever used. Every other trackpad feels clumsy after using one. The fact that it's a TRUE linux machine not just retrofitted Windows linux. The fact that everything just works. The chance of getting a virus is incredibly small. The time saved in troubleshooting is worth the price. Operating system upgrades are like 30 bucks vs the 1-200 dollars of every new windows release. Also, the build quality is the best. I have a macbook that has lasted 10 years and still works great. Never had a windows machine do that. So the quality, UI, attention to detail, upgrades, and more make it more than worth the upfront price tag in hassle saved down the line.

RussianCow 8y ago
> Operating system upgrades are like 30 bucks vs the 1-200 dollars of every new windows release. When was the last time you upgraded macOS? It's been free for several years. :) Also, to be fair to Microsoft, Windows 10 is supposed to be the last version of Windows, so you should only have to buy it once and never upgrade again.
sehugg 8y ago
The fact that it's a TRUE linux machine To be pedantic, a GNU/Darwin/Mach/BSD machine.
- nickthemagicman 8y ago
  Yessir. A flavor of Linux but Linux nonetheless.
  - parasubvert 8y ago
    A flavour of UNIX. BSD (and OS X) evolved mostly separately from GNU or Linux, with some limited cross-over. Even basic CLI tools have subtle differences. The only Linus Torvalds code in a Mac would be git.
    - nickthemagicman 8y ago
      Sorry. you're right my bad. I was thinking Unix but kept typing Linux for some reason. A more accurate statement is that it's a true posix compliant Unix based system down to the metal.
cozzyd 8y ago
The "retrofitted Windows linux" is more Linuxy than the Mac (and both suck compared to an actual Linux OS).
- nickthemagicman 8y ago
  Try interfacing in depth with your Hardware with the windows Linux.
kibibu 8y ago
> Also, the build quality is the best. I have a macbook that has lasted 10 years and still works great I have a Mid-2010 MBP that is a large and ugly paperweight. Due to shonky quality control, it hard-locks every 5 minutes when using the GPU. This only started when Mountain Lion was released, but good luck rolling back if you want to actually use XCode. Given that it was such a piece of garbage, and that (at the time) workers were jumping to their deaths rather than keep building Apple products, and more recently the crap with sneaky performance reductions on iPhone, I have sworn completely off Apple products.
- nickthemagicman 8y ago
  I was a systems engineer at an Enterprise environment with over a thousand users and about 50/50 Mac/PC split. You can guess which were less headaches from a hardware perspective. And by less headaches I mean virtually non-existent Hardware failures. Turning them into Enterprise friendly machines from a software perspective was a different story.

RussianCow 8y ago

> Operating system upgrades are like 30 bucks vs the 1-200 dollars of every new windows release. When was the last time you upgraded macOS? It's been free for several years. :) Also, to be fair to Microsoft, Windows 10 is supposed to be the last version of Windows, so you should only have to buy it once and never upgrade again.

sehugg 8y ago

The fact that it's a TRUE linux machine To be pedantic, a GNU/Darwin/Mach/BSD machine.

nickthemagicman 8y ago
Yessir. A flavor of Linux but Linux nonetheless.
- parasubvert 8y ago
  A flavour of UNIX. BSD (and OS X) evolved mostly separately from GNU or Linux, with some limited cross-over. Even basic CLI tools have subtle differences. The only Linus Torvalds code in a Mac would be git.
  - nickthemagicman 8y ago
    Sorry. you're right my bad. I was thinking Unix but kept typing Linux for some reason. A more accurate statement is that it's a true posix compliant Unix based system down to the metal.

cozzyd 8y ago

The "retrofitted Windows linux" is more Linuxy than the Mac (and both suck compared to an actual Linux OS).

nickthemagicman 8y ago
Try interfacing in depth with your Hardware with the windows Linux.

kibibu 8y ago

> Also, the build quality is the best. I have a macbook that has lasted 10 years and still works great I have a Mid-2010 MBP that is a large and ugly paperweight. Due to shonky quality control, it hard-locks every 5 minutes when using the GPU. This only started when Mountain Lion was released, but good luck rolling back if you want to actually use XCode. Given that it was such a piece of garbage, and that (at the time) workers were jumping to their deaths rather than keep building Apple products, and more recently the crap with sneaky performance reductions on iPhone, I have sworn completely off Apple products.

nickthemagicman 8y ago
I was a systems engineer at an Enterprise environment with over a thousand users and about 50/50 Mac/PC split. You can guess which were less headaches from a hardware perspective. And by less headaches I mean virtually non-existent Hardware failures. Turning them into Enterprise friendly machines from a software perspective was a different story.