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I don't know any technical people who use Macs with OSX still installed. They all gave up on that trainwreck of an OS, and either their final Mac died and they
by DiabloD3 3y ago
I don't know any technical people who use Macs with OSX still installed.
They all gave up on that trainwreck of an OS, and either their final Mac died and they replaced it with an even better laptop by a different vendor (Framework, et al), or they still own a Mac but it now runs Windows or Linux (and when that one dies, it will be their last, and they will become post-Mac, too). I know exceptionally few tech people with M1, and they bought it knowing they had to suffer the rough edges of Asahi; I do not know a single tech person who bought an M1 and left OSX on it.
The number of Macs in existence only goes down, not up; doubly so in the tech world.
I don't get why theres a few people on HN that persist in the FUD+FOMO combo that OSX is gonna make a comeback and win because "its a Unix!" and "Apple takes security seriously!" and "Safari is world's best browser!" and "Swift is a great language to code in, even if it doesn't work on other OSes!" and "I use XCode unironically!"
Just stop already, we've all heard it. Repeating it doesn't make it true.
- whalesalad 3y agoWhat the heck are you on about? This is patently false. I've been using Mac hardware professionally since 05 in a ton of different environments. We very rarely had issues. Apple makes the best laptops in the world, nothing else comes remotely close.
- CacheRules 3y agowell that's just like your opinion man
- whalesalad 3y agoaluminum chassis master race.
- NBJack 3y agoWhich to me makes very little sense in a "laptop". It's pretty good at helping the device stay cool, but you will regret wearing shorts should your processor or GPU really need to get work done, should you actually have it on your lap.
- politelemon 3y agoHaven't found this to be true at all, what I do see is osx users not realizing they have problems or simply pretending it never happened.
- whalesalad 3y agoExamples? I've been CTO at multiple companies (+ managing IT rollout) including a defense contractor who relies heavily on MS infrastructure. At the end of the day Apple has always been the most pain free shit periodt. It literally just works. I've gone so far as to deploy M1 Mini's in factory environments to run production processes for very large scale printing operations (think Amazon, Walgreens, tons of orders daily) and guess what I haven't been called in over a year because it is all rock solid.
- gumballindie 3y agoBattery aside apple laptops are rather lame.
- evilduck 3y agoBattery's a pretty big fucking deal on a laptop tho.
- DiabloD3 3y agoGood news, the laptops with the longest battery life aren't Macs. Better news, installing Windows on Intel Macs improves battery life under common use cases. Best news, Linux on that same Mac is even longer. Hilariously, as much as Chromebooks suck, there are many Chromebooks that have half the Wh of M1/M2 99Wh Macbooks, cost half as much, and meet or exceed battery life under common tasks (implying they're both twice as efficient per watt, and twice as efficient per dollar). These Chromebooks can run Linux, and aren't stuck with ChromeOS.... so if you're really into ultra-thin laptops with excessive battery life, well, they're an option. I also semi-recently saw a review for the LG Gram 17, an Intel laptop that has 3/4th the Wh of Macbooks, yet has the same battery life in common tasks, and a 17 inch (!) screen; costs about the same as a Macbook. So, even with the Intel CPU holding it back, its keeping up with those Macs. So yeah, Apple hasn't kept up with the battery life game at all, another myth cranked out by the FUD+FOMO Apple PR machine.
- tibbydudeza 3y agoI always notice it during conferences since Keynote is great at making slides :)
- tibbydudeza 3y agoOS X is a just a fancy bootloader for Aqua.
- failuser 3y agoAre all those technical people Linux kernel hackers? Maybe even just hackers, running a some BSD OS. You should realize “I don’t know people who do X” is a very weak argument.