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I personally wont buy into macs walled garden for M1, I think a lot of technically competent people agree with me. In exchange for a superior chip I get an user

I personally wont buy into macs walled garden for M1, I think a lot of technically competent people agree with me. In exchange for a superior chip I get an user-hostile experience and lock-in. Hard pass. Apple has first mover advantage. It won't be long before everyone is running M1-like chips and Apple will be back to making the same consumer nonsense they are now. Thats why I didn't mention. It's a big selling point if you want to buy a $2800 machine. I'm a professional programmer and have never needed more than an Intel mac. Maybe for designers it matters but it's just not that cool to me. I didn't even get around to mentioning the wireless mouse. The fact that I have to charge it flipped over because, as stated, charging in a standard way "ruins the aesthetic" is completely on-brand with Apple's BS. Apple bashes themselves just fine. Nothing I said was BS. By and large Apple produces inferior products to their competition and their name brand and walled garden sell the stuff for them. Apple products look fantastic, have an allure that says "I have money", and lack practical functionality. Apple products are a luxury. Identifying you're a member of a cult is the first part of breaking free of it.

BackBlast 4y ago
It seems disingenuous to me to call MacOS a walled garden. It may be a cultivated garden, but there are no walls. You can go download, build, restore, or otherwise use the software you like. I used a very expensive 2019 Intel Macbook Pro, and then an M1, not even the pro line. There was a big difference, the M1 build times were half and that turned directly into better productivity.
- traceroute66 4y ago
  > It seems disingenuous to me to call MacOS a walled garden. "Disingeneous" is polite, I'd say its BS because you can tell someone is an Apple basher when they start banging on about "walled garden". MacOS at its heart is BSD. If you download Xcode from the App store, then that installs a bunch of CLI tools as well, including make. And thus, having installed make you can .... Yes, that's right, compile your own software. Or just use brew if you don't fancy compiling stuff. You are of course, also welcome to download Go, Rust or anything else and compile stuff in those languages too. Then, whilst you're at it, you can download VMware Fusion or Parallels and run Linux or Windows or any other OS of your choice. Walled Garden ... yeah right !

BackBlast 4y ago

It seems disingenuous to me to call MacOS a walled garden. It may be a cultivated garden, but there are no walls. You can go download, build, restore, or otherwise use the software you like. I used a very expensive 2019 Intel Macbook Pro, and then an M1, not even the pro line. There was a big difference, the M1 build times were half and that turned directly into better productivity.

traceroute66 4y ago
> It seems disingenuous to me to call MacOS a walled garden. "Disingeneous" is polite, I'd say its BS because you can tell someone is an Apple basher when they start banging on about "walled garden". MacOS at its heart is BSD. If you download Xcode from the App store, then that installs a bunch of CLI tools as well, including make. And thus, having installed make you can .... Yes, that's right, compile your own software. Or just use brew if you don't fancy compiling stuff. You are of course, also welcome to download Go, Rust or anything else and compile stuff in those languages too. Then, whilst you're at it, you can download VMware Fusion or Parallels and run Linux or Windows or any other OS of your choice. Walled Garden ... yeah right !