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As I got older, I started gaming less (or not at all anymore), and after alot of Mac bashing (14 years ago), and tired of installing Windows 93 every few months
by 5_minutes 8y ago
As I got older, I started gaming less (or not at all anymore), and after alot of Mac bashing (14 years ago), and tired of installing Windows 93 every few months for every family member, a huge Apple adaptor: just because I want to get things done, work, get paid for that, and spend my free time not messing around with Window’s flaws. That’s biased, I know, things probably improved by now, but every time I picked up a MS tablet or was given one, I still felt it was wacky.
That said, I now have all Apple stuff, even though I’m not a Apple fanboy: I just want my stuff to work and spent my free time with my wife and kids.
This sums up that I have a Macbook Pro, Ipad Pro, and an iPhone. The Macbook Pro is imho, one of the worst products they ever made. Poor battery time, crappy keyboard, no escape key, the only nice thing about it is the screen.
My iPad Pro, on the other hand... is a work of art. An incredibly good battery time (btw, battery time is also not just living on the battery, but also: working on it without a electricity socket).
So it’s safe to assume that the Ipad’s are wayyy more energy friendly then the MBP’s.
What I don’t understand about Apple is that even though the iPad’s are great machines: we need people to build software for them. So, traditional PCs (where we can connect 2-3 monitors to, etc) are still essential. I think Cooke forgot about that. Jobs, nomatter what - still kept developers in mind.
I love my iPad, and am for regular browsing not using my overpriced MBP anymore. But to replace it? To get real work done? To have a “norton commander” like interface? I think it’s still along road to go to replace the traditional desktops. And btw, the Apple iMac’s are objectively good products, that’ll last a long time for a reasonable price.
It’s painful to see Lenovo releasing these frequent up-to-date great hardware laptops, and Apple, with all their billions in the bank, doing a minimalistic effort on even upgrading the Mac Mini, Mac Pro, etc.
Is it arrogance? Focus? Steve more awknoledging the coders, even in his own way?
Either way, with many Chinese developers introducing new hard and software features (foldable phones, wireless charging) and Apple always being late to the game (but then executing it well). I wonder what their strategy is there for the moment. I know no-one of my family is going to put +1000$ for a new phone.
To me, the biggest key Apple has is MacOS which is superior to any OS out there, in consistency and user-friendlyness for any end-user. Oh: and everything looks pretty and intuitive too. Even for my mom.
I hope they step up their game and make things more dev friendly, otherwise it’ll be a open game, and really soon.
- busterarm 8y agoI had a similar journey but I went back to the Windows PC for my occasional gaming and my developer/operations experience as a Mac user became more and more broken over the years. I'm back to Linux and OpenBSD workstations and phasing Macs out again. My iPad Pro 12" is a busted, glitchy POS and so have my last 3 iPhones. So have my last two MBPs. Never again. I'll remain on iOS phones until there is a viable (secure) alternative.
- city41 8y agoIMO a solid dev machine simply does not exist right now. For about the past three years I’ve moved between Windows, MacOS, ChromeOS with crouton and Ubuntu. They all suck quite badly in their own ways. I’ve chosen Ubuntu as the least bad of the bunch and stuck with it. But I’m hopeful crostini will be my savior.
- shimms 8y agoI’ve just switched to new MacBook Air (after feeling the same way for the past few years). Use case is typical Rails dev work, react front end, databases, docker etc. I was worried going from a 12 core Mac Pro, to the dual core MBA, but so far I haven’t noticed any difference except for those things that are faster now. The keyboard isn’t as good as the 2015 MBP, but is far better than the previous butterfly. I don’t mind typing on it at all. Great battery life too. I think the new MBA might actually be the first decent apple laptop for devs in a few years.
- jmkni 8y agoI thought the new MacBook Air had the older butterfly keyboard?
- robin_reala 8y agoNope, it’s got the latest 3rd gen one, same as the Pro. You’re thinking of the MacBook which is stuck on gen1.
- zozbot123 8y ago