My next computer (god forbid) will run openbsd probably.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Sunday, 17 June 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
https://www.wired.com/story/the-best-mac-alternatives/"> https://www.wired.com/story/the-best-mac-alternatives/Seriously considering the Razer Blade laptop.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 17 June 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
Rogue Amoeba OTM.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 18 June 2018 05:31 (five years ago) link
They can channel some money into mac upgrades once that money from the HomePod comes rolling in.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 18 June 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
i tried a top of the line laptop to replace my 2012 macbook pro and despite far superior hardware inside the visuals/screen looked worse, the speakers/audio sounded worse and [not a surprise] the os was an annoying bloated mess in comparison to osx. i'm hoping mac gets their shit together bc i doubt any of those mac alternatives are actual alternatives.
― Mordy, Monday, 18 June 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
yup. that's what's so sad/terrifying about this decline. the alternatives are even worse.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 18 June 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
^
― calstars, Monday, 18 June 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
Hackintosh always sounds the dream solution but no doubt the reality can be a nightmare.
― Alba, Monday, 18 June 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
no idea what i'd buy if my late 2012 macbook pro failed today.
i know someone who does a lot of audio work, and he would have loved to stay on macs if there were some sort of reasonably priced "pro" tower, but he recently gave up and bought a pc.
― circles, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:06 (five years ago) link
^^exactly where I'm at.
― DJI, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:25 (five years ago) link
I'm on a 2011 mbp and jonesing to upgrade but.... to what ?
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:13 (five years ago) link
could just stick an SSD in it I suppose
waiting for apple to fix its shitty keyboards before i upgrade from 2010 mbp (which is largely fine still)
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:14 (five years ago) link
My 2011 MBP felt completely new after an SSD upgrade.
― DJI, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:15 (five years ago) link
^ same experience, don’t think I’ll need an upgrade for another few years
― Clay, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 06:31 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the advantage of being on a moribund platform is that hardware doesn't date very fast.
― Alba, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
My wife’s 2017 mbp is currently in the shop due to the terrible keyboard, I imagine they’ll replace it with exactly the same part so it’ll still be terrible. The guy at the Apple store didn’t want to talk shit but it was obvious that this was a frequent issue
― joygoat, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
this is probably more "i hate microsoft" than "i hate apple" but why does every single iteration of office for mac insist on critical updates every time i open an office application? i've been using office for mac for 10 years on different macs and this has always been the case
― marcos, Thursday, 21 June 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
It's because Microsoft want to reinforce the notion that Office is a little flakey on Macs so eventually you'll come over to Windows and love it. cf cross-platform glitches between Powerpoint embeds, fonts, etc. None of that "oh it's a Mac to PC thing" actually exists outside of Office, and MS do nothing to solve it because they don't want to. Acrobat / PDF demonstrated it was possible 20 years ago. MS even *removed* the ability to reopen the last set of working documents from Office on Macs. Feature worked perfectly on Office 2013(?) for years, then bing, gone, no comment, no replacement. Single biggest bump in my workflow, at least the apps don't crash much now so I can just leave them open.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
I love PDFs
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
Except when I have to edit them, cosign.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 21 June 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
i ran a dual boot for a few years, Windows 7/OSX, so that i could edit video in both Premiere and Final Cut Pro. just finding a working OSX distribution that would install was a pain, then it took forever to find drivers (you need specific video drivers to run FCP). it worked fine after setting it all up but introducing any kind of hardware change and it was like being back to square one.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 June 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, 22 June 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
i finally put an SSD in my 2011 mac mini and holy shit i love my computer again :)
1TB HD in the second bay (already regretting not springing for a 2TB) - everything, everything fucking flies. even backups happen incredibly quickly.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
Plugged in my old iphone that I've carefully kept at ios 10.3 so that it wouldn't get all slow and shitty in order to back it up, and after it finished it immediately got all fucky: Safari bookmarks disappeared, photo thumbnails are all blank. It could not be more obvious that Apple sabotaged my shit to force an ios update.
― Dan I., Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/12/apple-stops-selling-2015-macbook-pro/lol what a shit sandwicj
― éľś, Thursday, 12 July 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
Just went from a 6700K to an 8700K and build times decreased from 57s to 30s ✨— Adam Bell (@b3ll) July 3, 2018
It is crazy that as an iOS or Mac dev company, if you’re not using Hackintoshes then you’re as much as doubling your build times. Macs just don’t compete, and your life isn’t getting those hours back https://t.co/grzKKw8SEt— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) July 12, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 12 July 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
rip, or whatever
― devops mom (silby), Thursday, 12 July 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
https://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2018/07/ultimate2018macbookpro-800x425.jpg
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Thursday, 12 July 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
…nice
― devops mom (silby), Thursday, 12 July 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
v nice
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Thursday, 12 July 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
tempted to buy one of those 2015 ones on clearance (lol at clearance being over 2k)
enjoy the keyboard, and the fucking touchbar, and the four identical fucking thunderbolt ports
(I love Macs, have forever, but I have one of these MBPs and it's a gritted teeth experience compared to my saintly 2012 Retina MBP)
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 13 July 2018 01:27 (five years ago) link
you guys don’t do your builds on a massively parallel memdisk cluster? amateurs
― mh, Friday, 13 July 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
has anyone tested the "new" keyboard. I read somewhere that the 15" with Touch Bar has a slightly different keyboard.
I'm a totally in the tank for Apple but those MBP keyboards from the past year or whatever are HORRIBLE.
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Friday, 13 July 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
update the rest of your mac product line you dicks
― ||||||||, Friday, 13 July 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
Nothing can be as bad as the Microsoft surface keyboard - my work surface has to be the worst laptop I’ve ever had.
I will be getting one of these. It’s a shame they didn’t update the rest of the product line, the an updated MacBook may have been viable.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 13 July 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
I really wanted to like the Surface but yeah
― calstars, Friday, 13 July 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
FWIW, the keyboard on my 15" 2017 MPB has been a-ok. My partner just ordered a new 13" MBP for herself this morning so we'll see how it goes.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 14 July 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
xxp mine is the newer 15" keyboard - it's reasonable to type on but (a) keys will stick or double-fire if microscopic grit gets near them, and (b) it sounds like dropping scrabble tiles in a coffee can, whereas the old one was near-silent.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 14 July 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link
My wife really loves her surface but that may be because she has windows 10 and can manage it herself whereas mine is stuck on Windows 8 because we haven’t upgraded yet. The lack of space between the keys or any shaping means it is super easy to strike two keys at once and the whole keyboard is basically a sound board that our conference room microphones seem to be perfectly tuned into. It can be deafening if you’re on the other end.
Off to try the MacBook Pro keyboard but it seems inevitable that I will buy one.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 14 July 2018 04:46 (five years ago) link
apparently the new keyboard has a silicon barrier to help against dust?
― éľś, Saturday, 14 July 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
the official line is it makes the keyboard “quiet” because apple doesn’t want to get sued
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 14 July 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
FWIW I went to the store and typed a page on the gen 2 keyboard and thought it was fine. Louder than the Air but way quieter than the surface. Incidentally the surface keyboard has improved a lot. Still very load but at least the keys are separated now.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 14 July 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
I guess the joy of getting a new Mac has been replaced by that of getting a new phoneFuck phones
― calstars, Saturday, 14 July 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
I was going to say, the new Surface keyboards are great — I forgot about the old ones with the keys all closed up together
― stet, Saturday, 14 July 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
wth is a “ SURFACE “
― ||||||||, Sunday, 15 July 2018 06:07 (five years ago) link
Microsoft laptop/tablet thingy
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 15 July 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
if there's one thing I hate more than apple
― ||||||||, Sunday, 15 July 2018 06:42 (five years ago) link
i was in a meeting the other day and somebody had an iPad with a keyboard and i guess I'd been snobby about this combo in the past but suddenly i was like, this is the way to go for about 80% of what i do, maybe more.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 July 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link