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Some Apple users are so locked in into the Apple ecosystem that they completely ignore how excellent products exist outside of such ecosystem to the degree of j

Some Apple users are so locked in into the Apple ecosystem that they completely ignore how excellent products exist outside of such ecosystem to the degree of justifying every shit the company makes because "there are no decent alternatives". It is by far the most successful lock-in strategy I have ever seen in tech. It goes beyond the technicalities: it has created a religion in itself. (if you only knew how many corrections I had to make to these couple of sentences I have just written to correct the mistakes introduced by my "excellent" MacBook Pro keyboard)

malux85 6y ago
This is not a troll response, I'm really curious to see if there's something better, because I want the best that money can buy - - 16 Inch Screen - 8 Core i9 (16 Threads) - 4TB SSD Storage - Screen resolution is 4096x2560 @ 60Hz I write code that uses all 16 cores and is able to search data at 2.5 Gb /s reading from the SSD, which is as far as I can tell close to the hardware limits. Who's got a laptop that has this much CPU, RAM and fast SSD Storage with the same or greater screen resolution? If it exists, I really wanna know. I had a windows gaming laptop about a year ago which had close to this specs, but I used it for a month and it started slowing down because it was overheating, and then eventually it just started getting insanely hot and then powering off (Its was one of those "Predator" gaming laptops), it couldn't even handle 2 months of heavy coding abuse from me (and it was super heavy physically too), it was very disappointing.
- whatatita 6y ago
  The ThinkPad lineup for some balling entries that match the raw power of a Macbook easily. For less money too. That said, the Macbook screen is brilliant and others don't always compare. the real thing that puts me off leaving the Apple world: MacOS. I've tried to go back to WIndows and the experience was dreadful for software engineering.

malux85 6y ago

This is not a troll response, I'm really curious to see if there's something better, because I want the best that money can buy - - 16 Inch Screen - 8 Core i9 (16 Threads) - 4TB SSD Storage - Screen resolution is 4096x2560 @ 60Hz I write code that uses all 16 cores and is able to search data at 2.5 Gb /s reading from the SSD, which is as far as I can tell close to the hardware limits. Who's got a laptop that has this much CPU, RAM and fast SSD Storage with the same or greater screen resolution? If it exists, I really wanna know. I had a windows gaming laptop about a year ago which had close to this specs, but I used it for a month and it started slowing down because it was overheating, and then eventually it just started getting insanely hot and then powering off (Its was one of those "Predator" gaming laptops), it couldn't even handle 2 months of heavy coding abuse from me (and it was super heavy physically too), it was very disappointing.

whatatita 6y ago
The ThinkPad lineup for some balling entries that match the raw power of a Macbook easily. For less money too. That said, the Macbook screen is brilliant and others don't always compare. the real thing that puts me off leaving the Apple world: MacOS. I've tried to go back to WIndows and the experience was dreadful for software engineering.