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Meh. I’m seriously considering dumping MacOS and MacBooks in general. I can get a Lenovo X1 Extreme w/ 64GB of memory and a great display. People have Linux

Meh. I’m seriously considering dumping MacOS and MacBooks in general. I can get a Lenovo X1 Extreme w/ 64GB of memory and a great display. People have Linux working on it. You can work on it yourself. I’m not sure that Apple maintains as much of a lead over their competition as they think they do. They’ve made some serious missteps recently.

kerng 8y ago
I recently got a Surface Laptop 2. It's a well designed device and I like the larger screen and slick feel. I like it better compared to the new MacBook Pro at work. Overall,I have gotten quite fond of the Surface Laptop over the last 3 months.
- webmobdev 8y ago
  Can you install Linux or FreeBSD on it?
  - kerng 8y ago
    Haven't tried, but I assume it's possible. I'm running Ubuntu in VMs.
    - webmobdev 8y ago
      From what I have read, to install Linux / BSD you have to first disable SecureBoot. And even then, many features still don't work. So that makes a Surface a dud for any OS other than Windows.
ElCapitanMarkla 8y ago
I've had a 2013 MacBook Air as my main dev machine since new and I just can't bring myself to replace it with a new Mac. Cost wise they are horrendous and those keyboards... ugh. I built a Ryzen PC last year and moved all my dev work to a VM that I SSH into on there. When this trusty laptop finally gives up I'm totally going that X1 route, my friend here has one and they are so nice.
toomuchtodo 8y ago
Can you run it as a Hackintosh? Asking for when my 2012 MacBook Air gives up the ghost. Edit: You can. https://github.com/tylernguyen/x1c6-hackintosh https://github.com/tylernguyen/x1c6-hackintosh