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MacBook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalists To Ubuntu Linux (betanews.com)
Linux distributions have emerged as one of the beneficiaries in the aftermath of the MacBook Pros launch. Many people aren't pleased with the offering and prices of Apple's three new laptops and some of them are resorting to Linux-powered laptops. From a report on BetaNews: Immediately after the Apple Keynote, famed Ubuntu laptop and desktop seller, System76, saw a huge jump in traffic from people looking to buy its machines. The traffic was so intense, that it needed to upgrade servers to keep up, it said. "We experienced much more traffic than we had prepared for, the website didn't go hard down but experienced slowness. We had to scale up to return to normal. It was a pretty big surge, I don't have the details in front of me at the moment but I've not really heard of anything like this before. People being so underwhelmed by a product that immediately following a new product release they actively seek out competitor's products," says Ryan Sipes, Community Manager, System76. I decided to compare specifications and pricing on my own, so I headed to both Apple.com and System76.com to compare. Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Pro starts at $2,400. This machine has a Quad-core Sklyake i7, maxes out at 16GB of RAM, has an NVMe 256GB SSD, and a Radeon Pro 450 with a paltry 2GB memory. Alternatively, I headed to System76 and configured its 15-inch Oryx Pro. I closely matched the MacBook Pro specs, with a Quad-core Sklyake i7 and NVMe 256GB SSD. Instead of 16GB of RAM as found on the Apple, I configured with 32GB (you can go up to 64GB if needed). By default, it comes with a 6GB Nvidia GTX 1060. The price? Less than $2,000! In other words, the System76 machine with much better specs is less expensive than Apple's.
Linux is fine and all but it is *still* missing a number of high end professional level programs in a number of fields. Until that changes (and it hasn't in how many years now?), Linux on the Laptop will be a fairly niche product. If it meets your requirements that's great. You get lots of options including MacBooks in their limited incantations.
But no Adobe, Autodesk, Maya etc.
Life's a bitch. Then you vote.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Trouble is, none of these run on Linux. DaVinci Resolve does have a linux version, but not the FREE version....
I do my artsy stuff on the mac...I'm still refusing to rent my software, so for all the Adobe stuff, I have OS X versions of CS6 suite....so, I was hoping for a nice mac to upgrade to.
I was actually hoping against hope that they'd have an upgraded 5K iMac ready for market that had a boosted GPU and more graphics RAM available....or even an upgraded Mac Pro.
I'm still able to work with what I have, and can hang on a bit longer...but at some point.....well.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
This is nothing more than an infomercial for system 76 hardware. There's not a single mention of a Mac user considering trying Linux instead of OS X.
Depending on which side of the religious divide you occupy, people buy Apple because:
You've always been able to get more performance for less money, and yet they still sell. So what's the news here?
An imperfect plan executed violently is far superior to a perfect plan. -- George Patton
I agree with your first sentence but respectfully disagree with the rest; these things are exactly what makes a laptop a premium one and I think it's fair enough. If I had lots of disposable income I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
You haven't ever looked at (eg.) Thinkpads then? Much better built and specced than anything Apple makes.
Not every non-Apple laptop is a $300 throwaway piece of plastic junk...
No sig today...
...Inkscape is very good for vector graphics, much better than illustrator.
Better, unless you are planning to take your work to a printing company. Inkscape does not appear support knockouts or overprints which means you would have to rely on auto-trapping software if the printer even has that. Inkscape was clearly not built for color separations. Better if don't need a gradient mesh.
Because it's been years, I looked at the Inkscape web site. They still promote bezier curves as a bullet point. That's like an auto manufacturer touting a steering wheel. Simpler than Adobe Illustrator? Almost certainly. Better than Illustrator? Yeah...no.
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
We have two MacBooks in our family and both are old, slow, out of date. I was waiting for the "refresh"... however, it's just underwhelming.
I bought a Chromebook a few months ago because my 2010 Macbook was getting to the point where it was unusable. Very happy with the Chromebook at a fraction of the price of the Macbook. It's much more responsive than the Macbook. I've also set up Crouton so I have native Ubuntu with just a tab key screen shift when I need it. This Chromebook also has a touch screen which I like. I'll replace the other Macbook with a Chromebook also.
Sorry Apple.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
The UI in pretty much every Adobe product isn't any better. The learning curve for new users is atrociously steep.
Interesting example of how words and phrases, through usage, can come to mean the opposite of their original meanings. From Wikipedia: "A learning curve is a graphical representation of the increase of learning (vertical axis) with experience (horizontal axis)." and "The familiar expression "a steep learning curve" is intended to mean that the activity is difficult to learn, although a learning curve with a steep start actually represents rapid progress."