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Apple pwned them, though.
by jhatemyjob 6y ago
Apple pwned them, though.
- rbanffy 6y agoI don't think Apple competes in the $200 laptop segment right now.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoFew developers are in the $200 laptop segment
- pjmlp 6y agoDepends pretty much on which country we are talking about.
- rbanffy 6y agoAnd which stack. Unless I am doing something very wrong (and sometimes I do), most of my Python development flows fit very comfortably on a 4GB Celeron laptop (that's currently with my 8yo daughter). If they can't perform decently on this, I need to fix it.
- worik 6y ago4GB is a lot of memory. A lot.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoThe ones that matter. United States, Canada, UK, Sweden, Japan, Australia, etc.
- rbanffy 6y agoI live in Ireland and I really enjoy that small Celeron I mentioned in the other message - the one my daughter is using. It's small, the battery lasts for at least 5 hours, completely silent, and, while it certainly isn't as fast as my Mac or the Dell (or the Xeon under my desk), it's fast enough for my tests to run while I think about the next steps. And it did cost me about $200. It's an expendable computer. I assume a Pinebook Pro is a much nicer experience.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoBy your own admission, you own 3 high-end laptops and one low-end one (which you don't even use). Enough said.
- pjmlp 6y agoThey won't matter for long if they only target internal markets.
- rbanffy 6y agoWhich is kind of a shame - most of what I do on my corporate 8-core MBP could be comfortably done on a much lighter specced machine. The only time I see the fans spinning up is when running Zoom. And updating IntelliJ.
- donw 6y agoI don’t think Apple competes much in the $200 anything segment.
- WizardAustralis 6y agoAirpods... end of list.
- rbanffy 6y agoSome of the chargers, probably.
- jaimex2 6y agoNot really. Pine64 runs software without crashing every minute. Apple's target market is its iSheep, non of which would overlap with Pine64's
- pridkett 6y agoI don’t think this adds much to the discussion with name calling and over generalization. There are many people who gladly participate in both ecosystems.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoWhat did he say?
- worik 6y agoYes. Sort of. I exist in both ecosystems. Gladly? I am happy I get paid money to develop in Swift ona Apple... Happy to develop (in Python, reluctantly, nothing is perfect!) on my Raspberry PI. We are a grumpy opinionated lot - developers. Very hard to make us glad I totally agree with you, but would add that some of us find dealing with Apple extremely frustrating. The most valuable company in the world, and a money grubbing pack of unethical rotters... There I go, I am name calling now!
- chrysoprace 6y agoConsidering Apple doesn't sell any devices running Linux, I don't see how they could've possibly beaten PINE64 in building a sustainable ARM Linux company.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoThe new Macbooks can run arm64 Linux.
- FullyFunctional 6y agoIn theory yes, in practice, only under virtualization (though I'm one of https://www.patreon.com/marcan https://www.patreon.com/marcan sponsors so maybe one day this will change). However this is a moot point as Apple doesn't sell what Pine does - Linux device. Apple sell Apple devices. If they incidentally runs Linux is irrelevant to Apple.
- Tepix 6y agoThey can't boot Linux. For a while. In fact, Apple is making it extra hard by not supplying the documentation to make it easier.
- kdtsh 6y agoYes and my toaster can run NetBSD - but who knows if it'll actually cook my bread. Who knows if the new Macbooks will even support WiFi with Linux.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoThey will.