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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
lol
You had one experience with a platform and all of the sudden you are on expert on it?
If your entire team had the same experience I can guarantee it was due to some device management corporate installed.
I've been in SW development 30+ years. I use all 3 OS's regularly and always have. I have owned literally every model of Mac made, desktops and laptops. I have never seen or heard of a situation like your team experienced. I think you are either being dramatic or as I said before, your corporate IT had no idea how to deal with Macs and sent you guys compromised boxes. Or you are FOS and just trolling.
Macs are for the computer illiterate? That is seriously the most uninformed thing I've ever heard and makes me question your legitimacy as a "power user". It's really a laughable position.
Don't blame the platform because you don't know how to use it which by your own admission, given your short lived experience, would be an accurate assumption.
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Seriously? Thats the most uninformed thing you've ever read?
The new macbooks did look sweet. Keyboard action was awful. They run hot and are laggy, the rendering tears on the external screen. Need to buy special mac compatible keyboards and mice because of some usb latency issues on macbook. Yeah sure its not mac's fault that standard pc peripherals don't work well on it. Mac is a victim and its the user's fault.
The unix isn't linux and didn't support the stuff I needed to run locally. Running stuff locally required a bunch of half-ass mac specific hacks, and then no actual cuda. What exactly is there to love? Why would I go out on a limb to use this hot slow box?
Oh, its the bad corp bloatware that is ruining everything? Poor mac its a victim again because no one cares to do a good job on it? I'm seeing a trend.
Buy a pc laptop with a proper gpu and run actual linux on it. Boom. Everything just works. Or dual boot windows.
I will say: I got to play on an m1 recently and had no latency issues, response was screaming fast and its tiny. But arm based, inaccessible gpu, etc, its a giant time sink to port tools to it. Not something that helps me do my job but at least it didn't suck to run emacs and a web browser.
Other than its gorgeous aluminum case I seriously can't understand why anyone would defend the device I had (2019 macbook 16 with 5500 gpu). You say you owned one and it didn't suck?