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Macbook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalis
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The Macbook Retinas are not so much fun to fix - I've swapped parts on older Macbooks, but I'd rather not touch my Retina 13".
Also, holy shit those screens cost a lot.
Thinkpad P50. Better made than the XPS15, 4K 100% AdobeRGB screen, loads of hardware upgradability, and really inexpensive (rebates on rebates on rebates!)
Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade was actually asked to come in and test some prototype Surface stuff, and he says it's amazing - an alternative even to Wacom's best. I'm not sure who at Microsoft decided to re-trace Apple's rise to creative industry success step by step, but it seems to be working.
Sorry I meant a good trackpad.
This. If you draw on a screen, you don't likely need that much power; a Surface Book on a stand with a second display is going to let you draw stuff very effectively at home and abroad.
Someone at MS decided that capturing the creative market was paramount to becoming cool. If this is how they're going about it, more power to 'em...
I'd say "use a USB3 reader," but you're gonna want an adapter...
My issue with Apple is the screen - I don't know if I have a dud, but it has some weird color cast issues that make it unsuitable even for basic photo work without proper hardware calibration.
I'm replacing it with a Thinkpad. The optional dock is $300, but it's still much cheaper, and doesn't require me to replace my used $200 30" ZR30W with a brand new Thunderbolt display.
>this is the ethernet jack / superdrive / floppy disk removal of yesteryear.
The floppy drive was already on its' way out, but they jumped the gun. CD burners eased the sting and USB storage killed it in a few years, but everyone had USB floppies for ages.
The optical drive was already viable - loading things via network was incredibly common, and external optical drives on Apple laptops go back ages.
Ethernet was honestly a bit stupid. Wifi at the time wasn't up to snuff, and losing hardware ports makes a lot of "pro" stuff - configuring networks, for example - a pain. Especially considering the USB adapter was crap. (I had one.)
>I can just walk into an Apple Store and say "fix it"
As I understand, this is being significantly rolled back. Hope you got AppleCare.
Modern SD is *fast*, and it's extremely common - a lot of 4K video is done to 300MB/s SD cards.
The new 300MB/s cards are pretty viable.
>At least your not buying an Office Suite on a subscription basis on a "Pro" device.
You do realize every mac shop in existence pays for MS Office the exact same way?
Photoshop has some ludicrously crazy awesome features if you can figure out how to use them. The GIMP doesn't have a skin blending engine cooked in.
Their core audience always has been hipsters and it never changed. It is you who grew out of it, not Apple
It would have pushed about 3 people to Ubuntu so i guess that is some apple loyalists?
Mike Krahulik from Penny Arcade actually tested a prototype and beta-tested the production version. Apparently, he's been loving his for months.
>Crossover/wine runs photoshop on linux.
Photoshop is already a shit-show on Windows. God forbid you try to do raw video.
>For other things like 3D, drawing and vectors there are great linux tools for that (blender, krita, inkscape)
Blender works pretty well, but Inkscape really isn't in the same league - especially given all the integration.
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The crossover team makes sure to test the programs each release to make sure it all works.
If you believe that, I have a clock in London to sell you.
Fedora says "Yes, my job sucks, but the NASDAQ pays developers really well..."
of course not, but all those data scientists & app back end devs would be wondering why on earth they are paying more for less.
Ubuntu is not a good replacement for OSX in any way shape or form. That's a completely ridiculous headline.
> MATE
Huh. That looks pretty nice.
Didn't Microsoft drop support for Skype on Linux and isn't it basically a dysfunctional piece of shit now?
Jesus Christ $4000 for such a laptop?
Yup. btw: A new (hidden) feature in Sierra is double clicking the edge of a window to maximize in that direction.
I had a migraine getting my mac to triple boot. Once that was done, it was pretty painless to get the rest to work in all three OSes. Backlight in Ubuntu took a bit of effort.
MP3 Players.
Audio recorders.
Electronic music instruments such as the new Korg Electribes.
Ditto, the p50 may be a little hefty, but you get top notch everything, plus you can play around with CUDA *plus* running i3 on it can net you a good 10 hrs of battery (although I code in terminal through ssh which is pretty lightweight)
Heck, you can just download Ubuntu GNOME instead of the standard one.
How do you know, asshole? You don't speak for me.