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Originally Posted by zakthor
I've enjoyed iphones for a while but hadn't used a mac computer for years. I assumed they must be pretty nice because so many pretty people had them at the coffee shops.
My job sent me a fancy thin macbook as my 'main computer', for logging in to corp stuff. It was a huge pos. Keyboard got so hot I literally couldn't type on it, fan running constantly. Wasn't linux, wasn't windows, stuff would sort of work until it ran into some low level incompatibility. The keyboard suxxord an thought the touch thing was a disaster. Device was pretty until you turned it on. Strange because they pretend to be about pragmatic usability, instead I saw principled design at the cost of the user.
I'm not a normal user but I thought it was bad even for just web and email. Now that I've had time with one I just can't understand mac lovers.
Edit: Listening to a mac lover is like hearing from a gambler about why gambling is fun.
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Well your experience sounds like you were running some piece of garbage software that had run away processes or you got a lemon which happens.
Or corporate put some junk device management on it because they don't trust their users.
Not Linux? I'm assuming you never fired up a terminal session or you would have known right away it's a .nix
Every SW engineer I onboard is given the choice of a Mac or Windows box. 9/10 pick the Mac. The ones who don't have never used a Mac.