This is a terrible idea. The iPad Pro is not a computer. It's severely limited to what it's "allowed" to do. It's a consumption device. And Linux as an app? Are you serious? Given Apple's restrictions, I doubt they'd allow an OS in an App. They don't even allow emulators and even if they did, they severely limit access to the file system. Are you referring to this App:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...
Buy the iPad Pro if you want an nice tablet for entertainment, but for Linux, absolutely not. And jailbreaking a device this expensive is just stupid, it really defeats the purpose of why people like Apple's ecosystem -- and of course you're now fighting Apple's updates. You can buy a real computer(notebook, desktop, etc.) that's better speced with none of the limitations for less if you want to run linux. You can buy a gaming level PC for less than an iPad Pro.
The irony, I've also been called an Apple shill, zealot, you name it in my life. And by close friends.:) But if I can get paid for this, I'll take it! Anything to supplement my income.:P
As I said to MightMartian, I was a Mac guy. Apple is no longer in the business of pushing their computer business forward it seems, other than they need something to support iOS development. So now I'm here, a former Mac guy using a Windows PC full-time.
I was a "Mac" guy. This pretty much says why I'm not very positive about this new Apple.
Recently was about 3 years ago and I still use my MBPro 17" to play my music( I hate the newer iTunes, go-figure, but it still does some things right ), comparability testing, and on occasion Logic.
If you want to see why I'm not a fan of Apple now days, just look at what they've done to the Mac. Look at what they've removed from their computers and their OS in recent years. Look at what you get now days when you buy a Mac at a premium( not what you've paid for... ). Look at the professional applications they used to make and what has become of them -- thankfully I did not buy Shake, but I'm the proud owner of FCPro and DVDSPro. The Apple today is not the same company I respected and that I built my entire career on. They no longer make Macintoshes. If they did, I'd still have nothing but praise about them. But I'm no longer their target audience, since they don't really make computers anymore, at least nothing for professionals.
iOS has been wonderful for Apple and its fortunes, and eventually competition, but it has been a determent to the Mac and OS X -- which got buggier and buggier as they started making it more like iOS -- which is what I 'cared' about. So yeah, I do come off as anti-Apple, and that's because I'm bitter about what they've become.:)
If this were a couple of years ago when Windows 8 was new, I would have agreed on many of your points, but not now.
I've been a Mac guy way longer than a Windows guy for my main computing, pretty much all of the nineties up until a couple of years ago. And as of today, I like Windows 10 better than what OS X has become. Both OSs have their idiosyncrasies to get past and both have their strengths, but overall Windows has way more going for it.
Its clean, simple, and fast UI has really grown on me -- it's really quite nice to use. Any initial frustrations I had with Windows 10, were just me getting past my Mac mind-set, and of course migrating the professional programs over to my PC( The only program I have not replaced is Logic ). It was worth it! Now I have no limitations on what hardware I can choose, no more frustration with Apple's yearly refresh showing what only their latest computer is "allowed" to do. No more artificial limitations, as Apple likes to lock out older systems. I have a modern OS that finally does much of what I loved about OS X, but much much more with none of Apple's constraints!
Migrating to Windows is the smartest thing I've done for my workflow( type of work), so thanks to Apple for making it so painfully obvious that they no longer care about professionals. Their latest MacBook "Pro" really drives that home; especially when one of its selling point is how it will make it easier to sign-in and make online-purchases.
if I had stuck with OS X, I would have spent substantially more for a slower-limited-Mac than I did on a Wacom Companion and WAY-more-powerful-X-99-based-workstation( that I can upgraded/expand to my heart's content. ) and been stuck on an OS that has been chipping away at what I used to love about Macs; because going forward OS X is becoming iOS -- despite Apple's claims.
I've used other Cintiqs, my Companion, even the Hybrid( so same form factor as a 13HD ), and your precious iPad Pro. I've been working in digital art since CRT tubes were a thing.
Outside of form factor, it takes a fool to invest in and iPad Pro for any serious art work. Outside of the limitations I've mentioned, its glossy screen alone is a joke. It's an overpriced TOY, that should be half the price at best. It belongs in a preschool. If it wants to be a pro tool, then put OS X on it and a matte screen.
And once you setup a Cintiq, you don't need to move it and of course my Companion and the newer models do not have cables( My old 12wx is way worse off than a 13hd and I had no problems using it.). Even when I'm drawing on paper or painting on canvas, I do so stationary. Your complaints about Photoshop and the cables being a nightmare are really shallow and show your lack of experience.
You're honestly defending using an iPad as a Cintiq replacement... The added latency alone makes that stupid as hell,
If you think I feel stupid and I'm talking out of my ass, then you must be peeping through the wrong window you sicko.
That's a really a poor option, and rather lame to be honest. A Cintiq 13" is infinitely better for the workflow you're describing and costs less( Unless you go by the paid-for-shill-youtuber opinions that were pro iPad Pro weeks before it was released ).
And I personally prefer Painter, but to say Photoshop kind of sucks as drawing tool comes off as naive, especially given the improvements Adobe has made to its paint and drawing tools in recent years. If I want to just doodle and I'm unfamiliar with Photoshop, OK, but other than that, I can not agree. There's NOTHING on iOS that remotely touches Photoshop, let alone any desktop level graphic programs. An app is an app, so incredibly limited.
And the iPad Pro is not at all worth its cost! It's not a real computer, but cost more than one, and it's not even remotely a professional product.. If it ran OS X, or if it were half the price and included its pencil, I'd have absolute praise for it.
And the Apple Pencil while good, is by no means excellent( going by your parent comment ), not when compared to what Wacom has been making for a long time now. Its tilt-support is pathetic( it's just ON or OFF ), no barrel-rotation, no side-buttons, no eraser, no support for multi-ID support( I use 3 styluses on my Wacom Companion, which is why I prefer Painter***), it's inferior technically all around, and it needs a "battery"! Some people like its pencil form factor, I don't, it's a throw back to the Artz stylus.
***I currently use a Wacom Companion( i7 model ) and love it for all of my 2D work. It replaced my MacBook Pro 17". It's the only tablet I bring with me now when I need to go remote. It's a real computer; which of course has some trade offs, but its benefits absolutely outweigh an option like a computer + iPad. I used to lug a Cintiq 12wx around with my MacBook Pro( my backpack felt like it weighed 50 pounds. ).
And here's a newer solution for what you're getting at.:) It's the Wacom 16 Mobile Studio Pro( i7 model with a Quadro GPU ):
http://www.wacom.com/en-us/pro...
It's my next portable and the first portable in a long time, not since the first Wacom Companion and Titanium Power Books, that has me drooling. It has the power of my last desktop-workstation, so I'll be able to use it for 3D modeling and moderate 3D painting work when not near my current desktop.
They brought back the SD-card slot with the 7 line of their phones. I will not buy a phone without one and I'm also with you on the removable battery -- which I've never had to change, but I always want that option.
Unlocked phones cost less in the long run than financing a device, you really own it, and it gives you a better selection of devices to choose from IMO.
What's with your comment on T-Mobile? If it's about the network, when I don't have coverage -- which is rare -- I'm on AT&Ts towers and that's included in the plan. I was on AT&T and moved over to T-Mobile and I couldn't be happier. I'm paying less for the "same" coverage.
And now I'm considering Ting, since they now use all of T-Mobile and AT&T's towers, but my phone bill will go down to less than 25 bucks a month for two phones. I have friends and family on Ting and I've seen their bills and they've never not had any coverage issues... And since my phone is unlocked, I just have to buy their SIM. Unlocked phones cost less and you're not locked to any one carrier. There are several GSM option in the US and of course it's pretty much the rest of the world.
So they were able to patent an on-drag event, but because it was with a touch-screen it's some how special? That really makes me sick. This is no more innovative than any of the projects I've built over the years that relied on a mouse for similar functionality.
That's kind of beside the initial point, but it's still interesting none the less, and that video is classic. I didn't even know PCs had USB ports before 98, not until I picked up this old Compaq Presario. I do recall Intel's comment about Apple though, about USB becoming successful on the Mac.
BTW, I switched to using Macs full time during most of the Win95 days and after, so I rarely experienced BSOD. When I finally switched back to PCs to compliment my Macs it was with XP64 ( when it finally supported Wacom drivers, etc...). The Compaq I bought is running Win95, so maybe I'll see it, but it has yet to crash; it has an Intel mobo with a cool predator on it.
"...and then those crazy ports started showing up on PCs."
For the record, PCs had USB ports in "1996," 2 years before the iMac. An update to Windows 95 added USB support.
https://support.microsoft.com/...
But it did take Apple's iMac to make USB popular. I owned a Mac G3 333 in 98 that did not have USB ports. Pro Macs didn't get USB ports until 1999. And for reference, the Compaq I just bought at an estate sale, which is from 1996( I collect old PCs ), has 2 USB ports.
And back to the topic. I own external USB DACs. My PC, Macs, and Android devices, all support USB audio. But unlike adding USB and getting rid of something obsolete like a Floppy-Drive( which could be added via an accessory of course ) this is really not the same as getting rid of a headphone jack IMO.
My MacBook Pro 17", which is similar to that 2009 iMac, is not supported to run "macOS" and neither are better Mac Pros. Why is this?
And I've upgraded two desktops -- one of which is from 2010, a Wacom Companion, and two notebooks( both from about 2010) to Windows 10 and it was an improvement in all cases. Outside of a USB-wifi adapter not having official support early on, something I fixed by simply installing the drivers for its chipset which are included with Windows, I've not had any other driver issues with Windows 10; and for the record, I really have not had driver issues at all since the XP days.
And even though Apple only supports Bootcamp for "2" years after a Mac is purchased -- so my MBPro is stuck at Window 7 if I go through Apple -- I was able to upgrade mine to Windows 10 with the help of the community and it's been a nice improvement.
I know it's not popular to say on this site( because some mods don't like reading contrary opinions. ), but Windows 10 is a solid OS and one of my favorites. It's given me the least issues of any OS, that includes OS X( but all around Mac OS in general has given me the least problems. ), and that's actually a massive achievement since this OS supports so many different configurations. Apple only supports a handful of hardware in comparison, and even then they drop support when it makes absolutley no sense. Considering how capable computers are from 2009( I had a quad core back then with gigs of RAM ), it should be no surprise that these computers can run modern OSs -- at least the OS that doesn't arbitrarily ignore specific configurations.
And in relation to this thread, I no longer support Safari, I focus mainly on Chrome and Firefox.
Unless you don't need/care about iCloud and only use iTunes to import your CDs, and don't rely on your labels of choice. I don't log into my iTunes account on my Mac and my music collection is a mix of iTunes, mostly CDs, and some MP3s I bought from Google Play and Amazon. When I can buy gigs of storage for pretty much nothing these days, relying on any Cloud-service is absolutely stupid IMO.
And you can say hardware isn't everything, but I imagine that if your latest MacBook were the fastest all around, you wouldn't be shy to brag about it. And for most tasks, because computers have been fast enough for a long time, it's easier to excuse away better specs... But for people like me, hardware is absolutely essential, since some of my programs require as many threads and as much RAM as I can afford, so speak for yourself.
I agree to a point about the OS, but hardware is still essential for some of us. I was a Mac guy going back to the early Nineties. Macs had been my primary workstations up until last year. OS X was my favorite OS as it had so many things going for it -- like its awesome shortcut-keys. It used to be a better OS all around than Windows IMO for anything but games and 3D, but not now, not since Apple has pushed more iOS-ness into it while removing preferences/features.
My current workstation is a PC running WIndows 10. Instead of buying a newer MacBook Pro to replace my older one, I bought a Wacom Companion which also runs Windows 10. The OS does count and WIndows 10 is a better OS than OS X now days IMO. ( It only takes a quick search on the internet to disable any of its privavcy-BS if that's a concern and I don't let MS update anything without my permission. ) The OS is rock solid and much faster than OS X -- even on the same hardware. The Windows-key is actually useful now, as MS added a ton of shortcuts for it. I prefer its UI over OS X now -- they both have their strengths, but it's tipped in WIndows' favor with this latest version. Not in a million years did I ever think I'd prefer Windows over OS X -- especially when Windows 8 was absolutely horrid -- but now I have no care to work on my Mac -- and only do so when I need to use Logic Pro.
If we were still talking about Windows 8/7, I'd agree with your Yugo analogy, but not with Windows 10. When I look at Macs these days, I see gold-plated Yugos with no spare-tire, no room for groceries, no back seat, only two-gears( low-lower to prevent it from overheating ), a steering-wheel that isn't very nimble, a radio that has one channel and has been welded into the dash unless you pay way more up from for the two-channel-option, and no way for it to be serviced from anyone buy Apple.
Extremely buggy? That sucks. I don't know what's going on with your comp(s), but I've installed Windows 10 on 3 PCs here and upgraded a friend's dual-core AMD(APU) based notebook recently. Every single PC runs better now. Windows 10 has been a rock solid OS.
The notebook( 4 gigs of Ram ) under Widows 7 was always low on resources and had high CPU usage. Now with Win 10, it 's completely usable.
None of your CDs? Really? I have about 100 CDs, many from the eighties and the ones I didn't scratch up to death in a crappy CD player still work -- and some of those scratched discs are reparable. My wife has over 600 CDs -- many going back further than mine -- and she dumped the bulk of them on her Mac the other year with minor issues.
Are you some kind of subscription shill spreading hyperbole? How do you benefit from trying to discourage others from owning content?
I grew up using rotary phones when with my grandparents, maybe it's just having a comfortable headset to ones ear and a mic that's actually near the mouth that makes any difference?
You'll need to show me where you're getting your info about the 6100 being 50% faster than a 920, because even at the base clock of 2.66 Ghz for the i7, the i3 isn't showing that kind of gain.
The 920 slightly overclocked to the same range as a 950 ( so just over 3 Ghz ) is faster and more powerful than the i3 6100 from what I'm gathering, with all of the many advantages of being an i7. But power-wise it's certainly a pig compared to an i3.
The PC I moved to the front room has a 920 running at 4Ghz. I replaced it with an i7 5820k which is slightly overclocked to 4 Ghz -- I needed more cores for rendering and greater memory support.
The AMOLED on my Nexus One still works perfectly and it's over 6 years old**, still boots up and still functions.
**If not for cell tower incompatibility I'd still be using it; a phone is a phone. My newer phone works fine all around and has an IPS LCD screen that looks great from most angles, but I miss the true blacks and absolute viewing angle of my AMOLED -- which has a lower brightness setting and looks better in low-light than any of my LCD displays.
My GTX 970 cost $330 with tax and that was last year, so they're cheaper now. The i5 4590 is $198 and a supporting motherboard with USB 3.0 is only $65. These are the price available on Amazon right now. I live in the states.
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This is a terrible idea. The iPad Pro is not a computer. It's severely limited to what it's "allowed" to do. It's a consumption device. And Linux as an app? Are you serious? Given Apple's restrictions, I doubt they'd allow an OS in an App. They don't even allow emulators and even if they did, they severely limit access to the file system. Are you referring to this App:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...
Buy the iPad Pro if you want an nice tablet for entertainment, but for Linux, absolutely not. And jailbreaking a device this expensive is just stupid, it really defeats the purpose of why people like Apple's ecosystem -- and of course you're now fighting Apple's updates. You can buy a real computer(notebook, desktop, etc.) that's better speced with none of the limitations for less if you want to run linux. You can buy a gaming level PC for less than an iPad Pro.
Well said!
In the voice of Darth Vader.
The irony, I've also been called an Apple shill, zealot, you name it in my life. And by close friends. :) But if I can get paid for this, I'll take it! Anything to supplement my income. :P
As I said to MightMartian, I was a Mac guy. Apple is no longer in the business of pushing their computer business forward it seems, other than they need something to support iOS development. So now I'm here, a former Mac guy using a Windows PC full-time.
I was a "Mac" guy. This pretty much says why I'm not very positive about this new Apple.
:)
Recently was about 3 years ago and I still use my MBPro 17" to play my music( I hate the newer iTunes, go-figure, but it still does some things right ), comparability testing, and on occasion Logic.
If you want to see why I'm not a fan of Apple now days, just look at what they've done to the Mac. Look at what they've removed from their computers and their OS in recent years. Look at what you get now days when you buy a Mac at a premium( not what you've paid for... ). Look at the professional applications they used to make and what has become of them -- thankfully I did not buy Shake, but I'm the proud owner of FCPro and DVDSPro. The Apple today is not the same company I respected and that I built my entire career on. They no longer make Macintoshes. If they did, I'd still have nothing but praise about them. But I'm no longer their target audience, since they don't really make computers anymore, at least nothing for professionals.
iOS has been wonderful for Apple and its fortunes, and eventually competition, but it has been a determent to the Mac and OS X -- which got buggier and buggier as they started making it more like iOS -- which is what I 'cared' about. So yeah, I do come off as anti-Apple, and that's because I'm bitter about what they've become.
If this were a couple of years ago when Windows 8 was new, I would have agreed on many of your points, but not now.
I've been a Mac guy way longer than a Windows guy for my main computing, pretty much all of the nineties up until a couple of years ago. And as of today, I like Windows 10 better than what OS X has become. Both OSs have their idiosyncrasies to get past and both have their strengths, but overall Windows has way more going for it.
Its clean, simple, and fast UI has really grown on me -- it's really quite nice to use. Any initial frustrations I had with Windows 10, were just me getting past my Mac mind-set, and of course migrating the professional programs over to my PC( The only program I have not replaced is Logic ). It was worth it! Now I have no limitations on what hardware I can choose, no more frustration with Apple's yearly refresh showing what only their latest computer is "allowed" to do. No more artificial limitations, as Apple likes to lock out older systems. I have a modern OS that finally does much of what I loved about OS X, but much much more with none of Apple's constraints!
Migrating to Windows is the smartest thing I've done for my workflow( type of work), so thanks to Apple for making it so painfully obvious that they no longer care about professionals. Their latest MacBook "Pro" really drives that home; especially when one of its selling point is how it will make it easier to sign-in and make online-purchases.
if I had stuck with OS X, I would have spent substantially more for a slower-limited-Mac than I did on a Wacom Companion and WAY-more-powerful-X-99-based-workstation( that I can upgraded/expand to my heart's content. ) and been stuck on an OS that has been chipping away at what I used to love about Macs; because going forward OS X is becoming iOS -- despite Apple's claims.
Probably not, but if you want to get rid of it, I'll take it. :D
I've used other Cintiqs, my Companion, even the Hybrid( so same form factor as a 13HD ), and your precious iPad Pro. I've been working in digital art since CRT tubes were a thing.
Outside of form factor, it takes a fool to invest in and iPad Pro for any serious art work. Outside of the limitations I've mentioned, its glossy screen alone is a joke. It's an overpriced TOY, that should be half the price at best. It belongs in a preschool. If it wants to be a pro tool, then put OS X on it and a matte screen.
And once you setup a Cintiq, you don't need to move it and of course my Companion and the newer models do not have cables( My old 12wx is way worse off than a 13hd and I had no problems using it.). Even when I'm drawing on paper or painting on canvas, I do so stationary. Your complaints about Photoshop and the cables being a nightmare are really shallow and show your lack of experience.
You're honestly defending using an iPad as a Cintiq replacement... The added latency alone makes that stupid as hell,
If you think I feel stupid and I'm talking out of my ass, then you must be peeping through the wrong window you sicko.
That's a really a poor option, and rather lame to be honest. A Cintiq 13" is infinitely better for the workflow you're describing and costs less( Unless you go by the paid-for-shill-youtuber opinions that were pro iPad Pro weeks before it was released ).
:) It's the Wacom 16 Mobile Studio Pro( i7 model with a Quadro GPU ):
http://www.wacom.com/en-us/pro...
And I personally prefer Painter, but to say Photoshop kind of sucks as drawing tool comes off as naive, especially given the improvements Adobe has made to its paint and drawing tools in recent years. If I want to just doodle and I'm unfamiliar with Photoshop, OK, but other than that, I can not agree. There's NOTHING on iOS that remotely touches Photoshop, let alone any desktop level graphic programs. An app is an app, so incredibly limited.
And the iPad Pro is not at all worth its cost! It's not a real computer, but cost more than one, and it's not even remotely a professional product.. If it ran OS X, or if it were half the price and included its pencil, I'd have absolute praise for it.
And the Apple Pencil while good, is by no means excellent( going by your parent comment ), not when compared to what Wacom has been making for a long time now. Its tilt-support is pathetic( it's just ON or OFF ), no barrel-rotation, no side-buttons, no eraser, no support for multi-ID support( I use 3 styluses on my Wacom Companion, which is why I prefer Painter***), it's inferior technically all around, and it needs a "battery"! Some people like its pencil form factor, I don't, it's a throw back to the Artz stylus.
***I currently use a Wacom Companion( i7 model ) and love it for all of my 2D work. It replaced my MacBook Pro 17". It's the only tablet I bring with me now when I need to go remote. It's a real computer; which of course has some trade offs, but its benefits absolutely outweigh an option like a computer + iPad. I used to lug a Cintiq 12wx around with my MacBook Pro( my backpack felt like it weighed 50 pounds. ).
And here's a newer solution for what you're getting at.
It's my next portable and the first portable in a long time, not since the first Wacom Companion and Titanium Power Books, that has me drooling. It has the power of my last desktop-workstation, so I'll be able to use it for 3D modeling and moderate 3D painting work when not near my current desktop.
They brought back the SD-card slot with the 7 line of their phones. I will not buy a phone without one and I'm also with you on the removable battery -- which I've never had to change, but I always want that option.
Unlocked phones cost less in the long run than financing a device, you really own it, and it gives you a better selection of devices to choose from IMO.
What's with your comment on T-Mobile? If it's about the network, when I don't have coverage -- which is rare -- I'm on AT&Ts towers and that's included in the plan. I was on AT&T and moved over to T-Mobile and I couldn't be happier. I'm paying less for the "same" coverage.
And now I'm considering Ting, since they now use all of T-Mobile and AT&T's towers, but my phone bill will go down to less than 25 bucks a month for two phones. I have friends and family on Ting and I've seen their bills and they've never not had any coverage issues... And since my phone is unlocked, I just have to buy their SIM. Unlocked phones cost less and you're not locked to any one carrier. There are several GSM option in the US and of course it's pretty much the rest of the world.
iPhone 7 exploded in transit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple...
iPhone 6 exploded in user's pocket:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
So they were able to patent an on-drag event, but because it was with a touch-screen it's some how special? That really makes me sick. This is no more innovative than any of the projects I've built over the years that relied on a mouse for similar functionality.
That's kind of beside the initial point, but it's still interesting none the less, and that video is classic. I didn't even know PCs had USB ports before 98, not until I picked up this old Compaq Presario. I do recall Intel's comment about Apple though, about USB becoming successful on the Mac.
BTW, I switched to using Macs full time during most of the Win95 days and after, so I rarely experienced BSOD. When I finally switched back to PCs to compliment my Macs it was with XP64 ( when it finally supported Wacom drivers, etc...). The Compaq I bought is running Win95, so maybe I'll see it, but it has yet to crash; it has an Intel mobo with a cool predator on it.
"...and then those crazy ports started showing up on PCs."
For the record, PCs had USB ports in "1996," 2 years before the iMac. An update to Windows 95 added USB support.
https://support.microsoft.com/...
But it did take Apple's iMac to make USB popular. I owned a Mac G3 333 in 98 that did not have USB ports. Pro Macs didn't get USB ports until 1999. And for reference, the Compaq I just bought at an estate sale, which is from 1996( I collect old PCs ), has 2 USB ports.
And back to the topic. I own external USB DACs. My PC, Macs, and Android devices, all support USB audio. But unlike adding USB and getting rid of something obsolete like a Floppy-Drive( which could be added via an accessory of course ) this is really not the same as getting rid of a headphone jack IMO.
My MacBook Pro 17", which is similar to that 2009 iMac, is not supported to run "macOS" and neither are better Mac Pros. Why is this?
And I've upgraded two desktops -- one of which is from 2010, a Wacom Companion, and two notebooks( both from about 2010) to Windows 10 and it was an improvement in all cases. Outside of a USB-wifi adapter not having official support early on, something I fixed by simply installing the drivers for its chipset which are included with Windows, I've not had any other driver issues with Windows 10; and for the record, I really have not had driver issues at all since the XP days.
And even though Apple only supports Bootcamp for "2" years after a Mac is purchased -- so my MBPro is stuck at Window 7 if I go through Apple -- I was able to upgrade mine to Windows 10 with the help of the community and it's been a nice improvement.
I know it's not popular to say on this site( because some mods don't like reading contrary opinions. ), but Windows 10 is a solid OS and one of my favorites. It's given me the least issues of any OS, that includes OS X( but all around Mac OS in general has given me the least problems. ), and that's actually a massive achievement since this OS supports so many different configurations. Apple only supports a handful of hardware in comparison, and even then they drop support when it makes absolutley no sense. Considering how capable computers are from 2009( I had a quad core back then with gigs of RAM ), it should be no surprise that these computers can run modern OSs -- at least the OS that doesn't arbitrarily ignore specific configurations.
And in relation to this thread, I no longer support Safari, I focus mainly on Chrome and Firefox.
Unless you don't need/care about iCloud and only use iTunes to import your CDs, and don't rely on your labels of choice. I don't log into my iTunes account on my Mac and my music collection is a mix of iTunes, mostly CDs, and some MP3s I bought from Google Play and Amazon. When I can buy gigs of storage for pretty much nothing these days, relying on any Cloud-service is absolutely stupid IMO.
And you can say hardware isn't everything, but I imagine that if your latest MacBook were the fastest all around, you wouldn't be shy to brag about it. And for most tasks, because computers have been fast enough for a long time, it's easier to excuse away better specs... But for people like me, hardware is absolutely essential, since some of my programs require as many threads and as much RAM as I can afford, so speak for yourself.
I agree to a point about the OS, but hardware is still essential for some of us. I was a Mac guy going back to the early Nineties. Macs had been my primary workstations up until last year. OS X was my favorite OS as it had so many things going for it -- like its awesome shortcut-keys. It used to be a better OS all around than Windows IMO for anything but games and 3D, but not now, not since Apple has pushed more iOS-ness into it while removing preferences/features.
My current workstation is a PC running WIndows 10. Instead of buying a newer MacBook Pro to replace my older one, I bought a Wacom Companion which also runs Windows 10. The OS does count and WIndows 10 is a better OS than OS X now days IMO. ( It only takes a quick search on the internet to disable any of its privavcy-BS if that's a concern and I don't let MS update anything without my permission. ) The OS is rock solid and much faster than OS X -- even on the same hardware. The Windows-key is actually useful now, as MS added a ton of shortcuts for it. I prefer its UI over OS X now -- they both have their strengths, but it's tipped in WIndows' favor with this latest version. Not in a million years did I ever think I'd prefer Windows over OS X -- especially when Windows 8 was absolutely horrid -- but now I have no care to work on my Mac -- and only do so when I need to use Logic Pro.
If we were still talking about Windows 8/7, I'd agree with your Yugo analogy, but not with Windows 10. When I look at Macs these days, I see gold-plated Yugos with no spare-tire, no room for groceries, no back seat, only two-gears( low-lower to prevent it from overheating ), a steering-wheel that isn't very nimble, a radio that has one channel and has been welded into the dash unless you pay way more up from for the two-channel-option, and no way for it to be serviced from anyone buy Apple.
Extremely buggy? That sucks. I don't know what's going on with your comp(s), but I've installed Windows 10 on 3 PCs here and upgraded a friend's dual-core AMD(APU) based notebook recently. Every single PC runs better now. Windows 10 has been a rock solid OS.
The notebook( 4 gigs of Ram ) under Widows 7 was always low on resources and had high CPU usage. Now with Win 10, it 's completely usable.
None of your CDs? Really? I have about 100 CDs, many from the eighties and the ones I didn't scratch up to death in a crappy CD player still work -- and some of those scratched discs are reparable. My wife has over 600 CDs -- many going back further than mine -- and she dumped the bulk of them on her Mac the other year with minor issues.
Are you some kind of subscription shill spreading hyperbole? How do you benefit from trying to discourage others from owning content?
8-Bit guy compared a rotary to an iPhone 5 and didn't really come to the same conclusion as you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I grew up using rotary phones when with my grandparents, maybe it's just having a comfortable headset to ones ear and a mic that's actually near the mouth that makes any difference?
You'll need to show me where you're getting your info about the 6100 being 50% faster than a 920, because even at the base clock of 2.66 Ghz for the i7, the i3 isn't showing that kind of gain.
The 920 slightly overclocked to the same range as a 950 ( so just over 3 Ghz ) is faster and more powerful than the i3 6100 from what I'm gathering, with all of the many advantages of being an i7. But power-wise it's certainly a pig compared to an i3.
The PC I moved to the front room has a 920 running at 4Ghz. I replaced it with an i7 5820k which is slightly overclocked to 4 Ghz -- I needed more cores for rendering and greater memory support.
The AMOLED on my Nexus One still works perfectly and it's over 6 years old**, still boots up and still functions.
**If not for cell tower incompatibility I'd still be using it; a phone is a phone. My newer phone works fine all around and has an IPS LCD screen that looks great from most angles, but I miss the true blacks and absolute viewing angle of my AMOLED -- which has a lower brightness setting and looks better in low-light than any of my LCD displays.
My GTX 970 cost $330 with tax and that was last year, so they're cheaper now. The i5 4590 is $198 and a supporting motherboard with USB 3.0 is only $65. These are the price available on Amazon right now. I live in the states.