What Elon Musk is doing, with seeming total air cover from Trump. Is a constitutional crisis, if not an all-out coup. They are gutting the FBI and DOJ and operating with impunity.
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@nixCraft I knew it would be a problem with MSFT bouth GitHub, which instantly means Atom was doomed.
VScodium for the win, though
@seachanger May they find much attention, and no peace
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It is becoming, or already is, irrelevant. If they can gut the FBI with impunity, who are you going to report this to, who can and will do anything about it.
@aronow I think what they mean is an intense year of people leaving because they instantly rolled over for the administration, and opened the flood gates for the trolls again.
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Sure, it depends on what you need the gear to _do_. Specific CPU, big RAM, GPU, any upgrade whatsoever - macs aren't it. But, practically every user-facing component/HID on the MBPs is ranked as best or one of the best out there, all one one platform.
My personal deal killer is the touchpad. I will never go back to physical clicking, half-working gestures or little red nipples, and the available haptics on wintels just aren't there yet. Hopefully Sensel will change that.
Ones like the Asus Zephyrus look like strong competitors to me - but check out those pricetags.
I am honestly curious what old gear you saw though.
@bipartisan @Chiquidrakula @mkj @jt_rebelo
That's honestly interesting. I don't deal with directly managing endpoint fleets any more, but the place I'm at is probably 70/30 thinkpad/mac, and I'm close enough to see that the failure rate is still way way worse on the wintels.
By no means does this mean Apple didn't put out some stinkers. The touchbar generation almost drove me away.
@bipartisan @Chiquidrakula @mkj @jt_rebelo
Oh case in point, I don't see much use for Apple desktop gear, at least not running macos. Minis are pretty badass with linux/bsd on them, but so are NUCs...
Oh, and Gnome looks amazing on a Retina screen, I have an ubu MBP sitting right here - if you can get audio, camera, wifi and power management working decently, it would be a killer setup. But you probably can't :\
@bipartisan @Chiquidrakula @mkj @jt_rebelo
To each their own, I guess, but I've done comparisons and calculations on this many, many times. In one fleet (> 200) I ran, i had almost exactly 50% mac and 50% thinkpad, and the TPs had a near perfect 10x failure and repair rate compared to the macs.
MBP base price is usually a bit more expensive, but when one loads out a TP with actually similar specs, the price gets extremely close to the same. So yes, you can get TPs cheaper but there's always a tradeoff. They're not selling identical gear for less money - nobody is.
Add to that, the screen, keyboard, touchpad, camera, mic and speakers on TPs are awful in comparison.
But... MBPs don't run linux for squat, which sucks.
There is an Apple cult out there, but I'm not in it. The MBPs are just a better product.