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I needed to buy a MacBook Pro 2013 13" retina for live music performances. The 1000$ soundcard has optimized OSX core audio drivers and Win7 drivers. Danger: C

I needed to buy a MacBook Pro 2013 13" retina for live music performances. The 1000$ soundcard has optimized OSX core audio drivers and Win7 drivers. Danger: Cynical, heavy stereotyping and biasing comment following... I can work with OSX, nix and Win boxes, no problem, but OSX' interface isn't optimized for simple tasks like cutting and pasting various folders form one to another, where some of them will be overwritten, as there is no merge option and no CTRL+X short cut. Are they nuts? Yeah, I can write a shell script to do it, or I can install XtraFinder and also have Folders on top of Files in lists. But wtf? Is that system designed for idiots and grandmothers? Oh yeah and I love to pay a shtload of money for kinda outdated hardware components... Still some things are cool on OSX. It's snappy, fast and it has a decent shell. The retina display is even usable, when installing the 5$ pupil.io to natively switch resolutions for non-idiots (Actually seeing the resolution as xxx X xxx value instead of Small, Middle, Large) Enough OS bashing for today. PS.: Windows sux and *nix as well.

underlines 12y ago
And I love the fact that the "upgrade path" of Mac users is kind of "buy it, use it until the next gen comes, throw it away". Thats super cool and totally fits into the common starbucks customer, wearing neon colored running shoes while listening music on beats head phones.
- vten 12y ago
  If one can afford it then why not? It's everywhere, not just gadget industry. People buy new models of premium cars when they come out, people buy a new pair of $600 shoes when new collection arrives. Those people don't quite fit to your description of a common Starbucks customer.
  - underlines 12y ago
    Environment anybody? god damn. Do you want to throw away everything when it's still usable, just because it's cool to have the new thing?
- thatswrong0 12y ago
  Except for the fact that macs maintain their value, so selling your last-gen Mac and upgrading to the new one is pretty cheap, all things considered.
  - peterwiese 12y ago
    that's really the cherry on top of all of it. my 50 cents are, that all the ecosystem hype in the desktop space sides with os x. all the new fancy tools are done for os x and ios and android. i'm sure 99% at google, fb, github, stackoverflow etc. use macs, while the other 1% still believes that thinkpads are still the same thing as they used to be 10 years ago. and the those on thinkpads probably use linux (ubuntu, mint, elementary etc.) because honestly, who can live without a decent shell? why do windows users still bother?
semanticist 12y ago
You're complaining that the Finder doesn't work like Windows. Well done, it doesn't. Design choices made decades ago mean that Macs work differently - I find a lot of the differences really frustrating when I use a Windows machine, because I'm used to Macs, but that doesn't mean that Windows is for 'idiots and grandmothers'. Something not conforming to your personal preferences does not mean that it's only suitable for the hard of thinking.

underlines 12y ago

And I love the fact that the "upgrade path" of Mac users is kind of "buy it, use it until the next gen comes, throw it away". Thats super cool and totally fits into the common starbucks customer, wearing neon colored running shoes while listening music on beats head phones.

vten 12y ago
If one can afford it then why not? It's everywhere, not just gadget industry. People buy new models of premium cars when they come out, people buy a new pair of $600 shoes when new collection arrives. Those people don't quite fit to your description of a common Starbucks customer.
- underlines 12y ago
  Environment anybody? god damn. Do you want to throw away everything when it's still usable, just because it's cool to have the new thing?
thatswrong0 12y ago
Except for the fact that macs maintain their value, so selling your last-gen Mac and upgrading to the new one is pretty cheap, all things considered.
- peterwiese 12y ago
  that's really the cherry on top of all of it. my 50 cents are, that all the ecosystem hype in the desktop space sides with os x. all the new fancy tools are done for os x and ios and android. i'm sure 99% at google, fb, github, stackoverflow etc. use macs, while the other 1% still believes that thinkpads are still the same thing as they used to be 10 years ago. and the those on thinkpads probably use linux (ubuntu, mint, elementary etc.) because honestly, who can live without a decent shell? why do windows users still bother?

semanticist 12y ago

You're complaining that the Finder doesn't work like Windows. Well done, it doesn't. Design choices made decades ago mean that Macs work differently - I find a lot of the differences really frustrating when I use a Windows machine, because I'm used to Macs, but that doesn't mean that Windows is for 'idiots and grandmothers'. Something not conforming to your personal preferences does not mean that it's only suitable for the hard of thinking.