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The MBA is probably better. If you want a laptop, thinness is better than grunt. If you want power, just get a desktop. As for issues, you will have them. Stuf

by wisty 15y ago

The MBA is probably better. If you want a laptop, thinness is better than grunt. If you want power, just get a desktop. As for issues, you will have them. Stuff that was easy will be hard (though home brew is a half decent apt get replacement) and things that were hard will now be easy. But the change will feel sucky, for a while. If you feel frustrated, there is always virtual box. Oh, and check out the font rendering. Some people find Apple fonts hard to read. They look better (they are antialiased, not snapped to the nearest pixel) but some people find that less sharp, and hard to read.

alecbenzer 15y ago
> If you want power, just get a desktop. The thing is that I already have a desktop that I intend to fix up and run windows and linux on (which I'm kinda already doing/trying to do), so I'd feel silly getting a MacPro or something like that. Plus I feel like I can actually semi-comfortably customize a desktop I'd own, which gives me another reason not to make it a Mac (the desktop I currently have was actually self-built). > home brew is a half decent apt get replacement lol, I was following #zedshaw for a bit on twitter getting pissed off at homebrew for being retarded. but actually, is there a checkinstall type thing available for macs (or for homebrew I guess)? most of the time I actually prefer installing fresher versions of things from tars or git repos, but I want to have a way of managing the shit I throw into my filesystem (ie - removing it if I don't want it). > If you feel frustrated, there is always virtual box. But I'd kind of feel like an ass if I spent the money for a mbp only to end up running linux on it, and virtually at that. while there is the plus of getting (hopefully) more robust hardware, I want to try and figure out if macs are for me before I buy one > check out the font rendering. my bro has a mbp - I'll check it out

by wisty 15y ago

alecbenzer 15y ago

> If you want power, just get a desktop. The thing is that I already have a desktop that I intend to fix up and run windows and linux on (which I'm kinda already doing/trying to do), so I'd feel silly getting a MacPro or something like that. Plus I feel like I can actually semi-comfortably customize a desktop I'd own, which gives me another reason not to make it a Mac (the desktop I currently have was actually self-built). > home brew is a half decent apt get replacement lol, I was following #zedshaw for a bit on twitter getting pissed off at homebrew for being retarded. but actually, is there a checkinstall type thing available for macs (or for homebrew I guess)? most of the time I actually prefer installing fresher versions of things from tars or git repos, but I want to have a way of managing the shit I throw into my filesystem (ie - removing it if I don't want it). > If you feel frustrated, there is always virtual box. But I'd kind of feel like an ass if I spent the money for a mbp only to end up running linux on it, and virtually at that. while there is the plus of getting (hopefully) more robust hardware, I want to try and figure out if macs are for me before I buy one > check out the font rendering. my bro has a mbp - I'll check it out