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What pisses me off about Apple is that, if their marketing is to be believed, I should be directly in their target market. I'm a techie with a lot of discretio
by brokenmachine 7y ago
What pisses me off about Apple is that, if their marketing is to be believed, I should be directly in their target market.
I'm a techie with a lot of discretionary income who has creative ambitions. Also I'm still on way-out-of-date Windows 7 because I won't accept the spying that goes on in the newer versions. I love Linux but I'm unhappily tied to Windows at the moment only because one of my hobbies is playing music in Ableton, which is literally the only program keeping me on Windows.
So MacOS which I imagine to be a more polished Linux that supports Ableton could be great.
But then they release stuff like this and I realize that even though I'd dearly like to jump ship on Microsoft, I won't ever let myself be gouged like this and to be trapped in the kind of ecosystem where a product like this, at this price point, might be my only option. Call me a cheapskate but I do know how much the hardware costs, and won't pay that much of a premium for a shiny box that will be unsupported in a few short years when they're trying to shovel the latest hotness.
Instead I'm likely to investigate options of running Ableton in Virtual machines with GPU passthrough, a bunch of hassle and clutter with extra devices and audio mixers, etc, and spend the few thousand dollars I've saved on other stuff.
They clearly don't know how to satisfy a customer like me.
- draw_down 7y agoSounds like, neither does anyone else.
- judge2020 7y ago> won't accept the spying that goes on in the newer versions Sorry to disappoint, but Windows 10's telemetry is backported to Windows 7[0]. I guess you could have done something to remove these updates, though. 0: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/213183-once-more-with-tracking-microsoft-backports-privacy-invading-windows-10-features-to-windows-7-8 https://www.extremetech.com/computing/213183-once-more-with-...
- brokenmachine 7y agoI did. But who knows what shenanigans they're up to. Like I said, I'm dying to leave Windows and exploring other options.
- npunt 7y ago> So MacOS which I imagine to be a more polished Linux That is... an understatement.
- brokenmachine 7y agoWell that's a double-edged sword. With the polish comes a lack of customization, which is my favorite thing about Linux. So that's probably my biggest reservation about a potential move to MacOS. But at least audio would work properly. :-)
- rimliu 7y agoBut: with the polish also comes less need for customisation. Unless you love customisation for the customisation sake :)
- brokenmachine 7y agoOnly if you're happy with the defaults, that is... I couldn't handle having 15% of my monitor space taken up by that taskbar. I'd rather a tiling window manager. Is it possible to use a different window manager on MacOS?
- orbifold 7y agoWell you are clearly not in the target audience. Are you using any of the software they are mentioning in their announcement presentation? This thing is meant for people that don’t pay for their Computer out of their own pocket. We have way more expensive servers installed for running EDA tools. Hell a single FPGA card by Xilinx can be more expensive than the base price. Same goes for the display, people spent 20k+ on such displays without flinching.
- brokenmachine 7y agoNo, I'm not using those apps. I'm just lamenting the lack of Apple options for the enthusiast segment - with more power/expandability than the imac/mac mini.