Personal computing discussed
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derFunkenstein wrote:Who is this guy and why do I give a **** what he thinks.
End User wrote:You are very generous with you scores. I give Apple an F overall.
End User wrote:Apple made a Desktop Publishing app?
derFunkenstein wrote:It's far from that specific. What made the Mac important and popular was its graphical representations. Stuff we take for granted today, like previewing what a page would look like. You didn't see that sort of thing on other platforms. But let's be honest, if that's all that Apple ever did in its existence, it really did democratize computer-assisted creativity in all of its forms, and the company should be commended for that. Now I can get that same basic experience from a host of graphical front ends from freebie Linux to paid-plus-microtransactions Windows to hardware-dongle-enabled macOS.
I wouldn't be nearly as invested in the second fall of Apple if my livelihood didn't depend on the company finding a way to stave it off.
whm1974 wrote:Unfortunately sooner or later if Apple continues its free fall, you may be forced to change your livelihood.
Concupiscence wrote:Overall: I am really glad I sold my 2013 MacBook Air, took the money, and built a Windows-running Skylake i5 desktop.
Thresher wrote:I just ordered a fairly maxed out MacBook Pro 15.
whm1974 wrote:Unfortunately sooner or later if Apple continues its free fall
derFunkenstein wrote:A quick Google shows that I've heard of stuff made by Marco Arment (Tumblr, Instapaper) but the guy? No.
derFunkenstein wrote:if somehow Microsoft came roaring back from the dead in the mobile space
End User wrote:Mac notebook hardware: A
just brew it! wrote:the keyboard sucks
just brew it! wrote:And if you put anything beyond a light CPU load on the thing, the fan spools up to a volume level and pitch that I find rather intrusive
just brew it! wrote:Just browsing the frikkin' web will make the fans spool up sometimes.
just brew it! wrote:And the lack of >16GB RAM option (still!) is a near-dealbreaker for a software dev who needs to run VMs. So probably a B- or C?
just brew it! wrote:Just browsing the frikkin' web will make the fans spool up sometimes.