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> Nobody wrote any articles about how, actually, real work on a Mac is possible. Yes they did. Back then Apple also did something called "advertising" to try a

> Nobody wrote any articles about how, actually, real work on a Mac is possible. Yes they did. Back then Apple also did something called "advertising" to try and convince enterprise users that Macs could be used in a business environment. In more recent times they resorted to a very petty form of advertisement that, by way of direct, cherry picked comparison points, they tried to convince everybody that Macs were just as good as Windows PCs. At that time there were tons of articles commissioned to push the same point and even whole websites. It was never really true though and it still isn't. Macs were only any good for certain workloads, just like the iPad, and only if you could look past their wonky UI and hardware design choices.

cosmiccatnap 7y ago
This is what I've found to be the most true. For years people talked about the Mac devices being so much better for development and creativity but after dealing with one for a year all I can say is that it's got a Unix terminal which is better than windows but falls short compared to a Linux system. Android is the same, having tried the iPad and the iPhone because it was faster and had a better interface I soon realized it was just a toy painted to be a device for adults and no real speed improvement was noticed for anything but mobile games which I don't play anyway, I switched back to a note and threw Manjaro on a laptop and I've been more productive with that combo than any I've tried... I can't even imagine what you would or could use an iPad for that a thin laptop like the xps wouldn't run circles around even in terms of portability. It just seems to me like these people bought a very expensive 2 year old computer and need to justify it to themselves and others.