my 2c.
Apple hardware is preferable because of three simple reasons:
1. Excellent hardware and driver support, a.k.a., it just works.
2. Macs are a status symbol. They're shiny and sexy machines, and everybody wants one.
3. When you consider price/performance/quality the only real choice is Apple hardware. The other OEMs are seriously struggling to release hardware of equivalent quality.
So, if you buy a Mac you know that it'll work as prescribed. There is absolutely no need to worry about bugs, missing features, compatibility problems, or anything like that.
There are downsides to having Apple hardware as well. macports/homebrew/fink/appstore/etc. are second rate at best when compared to what we have in Linux. Homebrew is for children. Macports downloads the source files and proceeds with compilation, although, if it's your day you might find that the package has prebuilt binaries. fink is badly supported and misses a lot of software. Other times you need to download software by yourself from somewhere on the net and handle the updates yourself (Windows anyone?). Then it's the app store, where even the most stupid app can cost a fortune.
You might have other problems if you need to run a lot of software that works on x.org, in which case you're totally fucked, if you have one of those new retina macbooks. Some of my colleagues run such software and what they get is just shit. Eye watering total garbage.
Finally, if you don't like the default apps then you're out of luck. Or if you have non-Apple phone or tablet (this might not be as bad as it was during the reign of Jobs). Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention the rudimentary windows manager that doesn't even have "Always on top" option. If you want that sexy aerosnap from Windows you need to buy an app that costs only 10 Euros. People also complain that Linux has bad multimonitor support, but OSX isn't really better in that respect. It also suffers from the same craps as Linux.
However, all of these problems are never encountered by most of the people buying and using Macs, and if you're a developer then Apple doesn't really care about you. If you want "Always on top" I'm sure you can dig up something in an obscure configuration file somewhere and do it yourself. Apple will never support that because it confuses most of its userbase.
Apple hardware is preferable because of three simple reasons:
1. Excellent hardware and driver support, a.k.a., it just works.
2. Macs are a status symbol. They're shiny and sexy machines, and everybody wants one.
3. When you consider price/performance/quality the only real choice is Apple hardware. The other OEMs are seriously struggling to release hardware of equivalent quality.
So, if you buy a Mac you know that it'll work as prescribed. There is absolutely no need to worry about bugs, missing features, compatibility problems, or anything like that.
There are downsides to having Apple hardware as well. macports/homebrew/fink/appstore/etc. are second rate at best when compared to what we have in Linux. Homebrew is for children. Macports downloads the source files and proceeds with compilation, although, if it's your day you might find that the package has prebuilt binaries. fink is badly supported and misses a lot of software. Other times you need to download software by yourself from somewhere on the net and handle the updates yourself (Windows anyone?). Then it's the app store, where even the most stupid app can cost a fortune.
You might have other problems if you need to run a lot of software that works on x.org, in which case you're totally fucked, if you have one of those new retina macbooks. Some of my colleagues run such software and what they get is just shit. Eye watering total garbage.
Finally, if you don't like the default apps then you're out of luck. Or if you have non-Apple phone or tablet (this might not be as bad as it was during the reign of Jobs). Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention the rudimentary windows manager that doesn't even have "Always on top" option. If you want that sexy aerosnap from Windows you need to buy an app that costs only 10 Euros. People also complain that Linux has bad multimonitor support, but OSX isn't really better in that respect. It also suffers from the same craps as Linux.
However, all of these problems are never encountered by most of the people buying and using Macs, and if you're a developer then Apple doesn't really care about you. If you want "Always on top" I'm sure you can dig up something in an obscure configuration file somewhere and do it yourself. Apple will never support that because it confuses most of its userbase.
Comment