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Another item added to the list of why I'm not buying one of these.
by qz2 6y ago
Another item added to the list of why I'm not buying one of these.
- foldr 6y agoIt doesn't make a huge amount of sense to buy a Mac if you're not going to use Mac OS as your daily driver. A lot of the benefits (e.g. battery life, touchpad quality) are dependent on software as well as hardware, and are greatly diminished on Windows or Linux.
- abainbridge 6y agoI've never been that impressed with the Mac Mini's battery life or touchpad :-)
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- qz2 6y agoActually I had a Mac mini with the touchpad and the damn thing disconnected three times a day. All my input devices have wires now and the stick out of the right places.
- foldr 6y agoTouché. But seriously, most people who want to run Linux on Mac want to do it because they like Apple's laptop hardware. If you want a compact Linux desktop then a NUC should probably serve you just as well. Or at least, this was the case while Apple was still using Intel chips. If Apple Silicon lives up to expectations then I suppose there could finally be a compelling reason for running Linux on a Mac desktop. To be clear, I'm not saying that there couldn't possibly be any good reason for wanting to run Linux on a Mac desktop. But desktops are already a niche product for Apple, and people who want to run Linux on Mac desktops are arguably a tiny niche within a niche.
- tonyhb 6y agolibinput's touchpad support is pretty great recently. working on an xps 17, and the touchpad is - no joke - just like the touchpad on my previous MBP.
- postalrat 6y agoYou can speculate but we will never know for certain.
- JAlexoid 6y agoMac Mini doesn't raise those issues.
- tachyonbeam 6y agoI feel kind of grossed out, as a developer (and tinkerer) by how locked down Mac products are. It's not really your computer, you're just renting. Apple has decided that they know what you want and need better than you.
- jb1991 6y agoJust because it is locked down, why is that the same as "renting"? Those are two very different concepts.
- AsyncAwait 6y agoBecause you are not the ultimate decider of what to do with the machine. If you owned it, you could do anything outside of harm.
- coldtea 6y agoThe whole concept of the machine is to be bought and optimized for running macOS.
- AsyncAwait 6y agoRight, the point is that it didn't use to be that way exclusively and now it is, so the new machines are more restrictive than previous Macs, which also ran macOS. In fact macOS itself is more restrictive nowdays than it used to be.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoI guess, but the "whole concept of the machine" that I'm typing this on was to run Windows... 7 (I think?); that's a completely artificial limitation, as shown by running Ubuntu on it years after the hardware went out of support.
- sixstringtheory 6y agoI'm not sure what the problem is, then. You have a device that does what you (or the GP) want, which is to install any operating system, tinker, etc. Is the worry that Apple and its practices will dominate the industry to the point that you literally will not be able to turn on your current machine and use it?
- ramraj07 6y agoHopefully it's not just secret apple sauce that makes these powerhouses, and other chip makers make arm based processors soon enough giving us the choice we deseeve. (given gravitons similar performance bump this is likely the case)