I'd actually like to remove the space wasted by the Samsung apps on my current device. Which Cyanogenmod won't run upon. I might have to hack the ROM myself.
Wait! You of all people, run an Android phone??? why, oh why, would you subject yourself to their terrible security record?
Keep the SD slot and headphone jack, and I'll upgrade from my S7 Edge. Nix the headphone slot, the S7 Edge will be the last Samsung phone I buy until/unless Samsung come to their senses.
If a 3.5 mm Jack us your deal-breaker, enjoy your last smartphone.
You say 'androids' in the same way the old school mac fanatics used to say 'IBM'. It's so ridiculous, because it's obviously the cardboard standup 'competitor' who the marketers at Apple have spun up to compete with.
So sad and cultish.
If Android (as a platform) isn't the competitor to Apple (as the sole purveyor of the other platform), then I'm not sure what you would accept as the definition of "competitor".
And this is why I bought the iPhone SE, because it has a headphone socket.
If I am out of town and forgotten to bring my headphones, a pair of $9 throw aways will suffice for the day. And when I am on planes / trains I have a pair of active noise cancelling bluetooth headphones (that STILL cost less than a pair of EarPods ) and came with a 3 year warranty. Yes I appreciate the wireless, however leaving out the socket is putting form over function, and no its nothing like having a keyboard on the screen vs pull out keyboard.
And NO, I dont want to buy a bloody dongle.
ANY audio device without a headphone socket is like buying a car that has no wheels.
Then enjoy your last Smartphione EVER.
By the time you are ready to replace that SE, there won't be a single decent smartphone, iOS or Android, that will have a 3.5 mm Jack. Not a single one. Sorry.
Oh! and Apple includes the Lightning to 3.5 mm adapter with the iPhone 7, BTW, as well as a Lightning headset. Nothing else to buy.
Nobody SHOULD want to continue to use that phone, but that shouldn't give the company that made it free reign to destroy your paid-for private property at will.
This. Exactly this. Samsung is thinking only of itself; or more precisely, only of its exposure to civil and criminal suit.
Where is all the usual Fandroid "Freedom!" OutRAGE?
Um, the bending issue with the iPhone is a manufacturing defect. They made the phone too thin with no support, therefore it bent easily, leading to touch disease. It is not caused by dropping in any way, which you would know if you looked into the electrical cause of the issue. You would almost think that Apple never had any issues with BGA packages.
But yeah, I am sure that every manufacturer has design defects causing BGA chips to pop off the board because the phone doesn't have sufficient support of the circuitboard.
Despite your snarky response, the bending issue with the iPhone 6 is not a manufacturing defect. If, as you say, they made the phone "too thin with no support", that would be a design defect. And the fact that the "bendgate" meme came and went so fast tells me that it was almost assuredly a "fake news story".
I have looked into the "electrical" cause of the issue, and it can be, and is, caused by repeated drops to a hard surface, which breaks the solder ball connections on large BGA packages.
And yes, Apple (like many others) have had occasional problems with BGA packages in the past, caused by bad solder-balls, warped chip packages, warped PCBs, and all other manner of "co-planarity" issues. If you looked at the insides of pretty much any smartphone, you would not try to pin (no pun) the problem on "insufficient support of the circuitboard". There simply isn't enough free-air-space in a typical smartphone for a board to flex much at all. Not saying it can't happen; but I'd put that particular cause on the "less-probable" end of the spectrum.
Oh, and yes, nearly every OEM at one time or another has had issues with BGAs. Several years ago, NVidia had a couple of YEAR'S worth of BGA problems with their GPUs and Video Cards, that affected nearly every product they were a part of. But don't believe me, do your own damned research.
Sorry. Apple is just held to a higher standard, and so when their stuff breaks, people tend to bitch. Loudly. Then the Haters pick it up, and the Meme begins...
The point of giving a number is so that it is possible to make a direct comparison, like how cars have an MPG number.
But then you say your idea of "a number" is "a comfortable brightness". Which is it? Do you want an Objective number (x nits/lumens/mcd) or a Subjective "number" ("a comfortable brightness").
And yes, I am the Real Tim Cook. And as proof of my awsome powers, I was able to answer your previous post while simultaneously attending a meeting with the President-Elect. [/sarcasm]
Such as their support of touch disease? Charging people $250 for a fix to a manufacturing defect; such courage!
When it appears that it is the result of product abuse by the customer, yes. And BTW, if the customer is repeatedly dropping their phone and/or turning it into a boomerang-shape, that is NOT a "manufacturing" (or "engineering") defect. It is "abnormal wear and tear", and you can find many examples of this happening with other OEM's phones, too, under similar conditions. It is just more difficult to search for, since nobody gave those examples a catchy, easily-searchable "name". But Samsung, HTC, LG, etc. all have suffered with BGA packages breaking-free of their solder in the field.
Brightness is the best metric. No need to measure it, just set it to your preferred level. That will be the same level regardless of manufacturer, it's just what you need to comfortably read the display.
In what environment? Your perception of "display brightness" will vary along with the ambient, because your own personal "aperture" (iris) opens/closes in an attempt at normalization of the overall level reaching the retina.
So, unless you have the laptops all sitting next to each other, PERCEIVED brightness level is less-than-useless when it comes to measuring battery life.
Apple at least gives you enough information to re-create their test conditions. No one else does this; a fact you conveniently ignored.
Why give vague statements like "12 clicks from the bottom, or 75" when they could easily measure the screen brightness for easy comparison to other laptops? Oh, wait, never mind, answered my own question.
Because brightness specs could not be easily duplicated by most people, and wouldn't be that good for cross-comparison purposes anyway, because there isn't a correlation from one brand to another as far as energy-usage and the absolute brightness of the screen.
And call it "vague" all you want; but Apple's spec. Is FAR better than MS' "auto brightness disabled" with NO other conditions regarding the actual brightness setting (which tells me they simply set the brightness to MINIMUM).
And please show me a laptop that provides the information on battery life the way you are expecting Apple to do, ya know, for easy comparison.
For example, this Dell XPS 15, which I swear I picked simply because it seemed to be roughly equivalent to the 15" MacBook Pro, does even LIST battery life, and when you click the "more info" link on the "battery" section, you're treated to a nice, fat 404 Error. That's great for comparison. Now let's try HP:
The Spectre 15" (again picked simply because it looks roughly equivalent, CPU, storage and RAM-wise to the 15" MacBook Pro, (and because I couldn't make heads or tails of Lenovo's 50-thousand different models)). Under "Battery Life", it simply states "Up to 13 hours for FHD display; Up to 9 hours and 30 minutes for UHD display". That's it. No test-conditions, no footnotes, no asterisks, no NOTHING.
So, there are two non cherry-picked examples for you.
I don't know about you; but by comparison, I'd say Apple damn-near publishes a whitepaper on their battery test conditions, so, I'd suggest you simply STFU.
Most of my Mac owning friends are software developers and/or musicians.
Those who one them "privately" still mainly use them for business. On the other hand plenty of them live in France and historically the localization of Windows was a mess, I doubt they convert soon back to Windows;D
I also forgot my architect-friend/consulting-client, and his entire family, including his best-selling (nonfiction) author-daughter. The whole family has been Apple users for decades. I guess they're all "effluent idiots", too.
10 hour battery life doing what? I have a brand new macbook pro and it is more around 6-7 hours. It is undoubtedly the best battery life of any laptop I've had so far but not 10 hours.
Actually, Apple is pretty specific (e.g. "Brightness set to 12 clicks from the bottom, or 75%" (see below)) (unlike, say, Microsoft for the Surface Book, who only stated "Auto Brightness Disabled" for the biggest current-hog in the system...Right...) on their Product Page.
Here are the "Tech Specs" for the 15" Touch Bar MacBook Pro. Scroll down to the "Battery and Power" section (and don't forget to read Footnote 8).
Light work naturally will show more time left than playing a video game.
Well that's just it, isn't it? The time-remaining figure, even if calculated accurately based on what you're currently doing still likely bears little resemblance to the actual time you have left before your battery runs out.
Say I'm editing my source code in a text editor -- zero CPU / disk / network usage, very light load, and so my time-remaining figure is 9 hours.
Then I decide it's time to do a fresh compile, and my "make clean; make -j4" drives all cores to 100% and exercises the internal drive for several minutes. Now my time-remaining figure is 2 hours.
Then the compile ends, and the time-remaining figure is back to 8 hours.
Which of those figures was correct? Answer: none of them was. The only way to get a correct figure would be to predict how many times I'm going to recompile in the future. So why bother making up a number that clearly is not going to be correct anyway? It only confuses the issue.
We've deployed 60 Surface Pro 4s this year to DRP folks with docks for their desks and VPN capabilities for home. We've seen our helpdesk volume bump up expectedly as a result, but have yet to see that normalize.
Meanwhile, IBM have deployed more than 90,000 Macs to replace PCs (at users' discretion -- 3 out of 4 choose a Mac over a PC) and have seen helpdesk volumes decline dramatically: 3.5% of Mac users call a helpdesk each year, vs 40% of PC users....
I know you don't own a Surface. So just stop it already. The Surface is actually a pretty good piece of hardware - I didn't say it sucked. I just said they haven't sold any.
Well, I have a surface Pro 4... So they sold at least one...
I used it this weekend to draw out plans and write down measurements for putting my TV on the wall in One Note. I love the stylus and One Note. It's easier than pen and paper and I have a copy of it for future reference. I also use it at work for taking notes and when I am traveling as my portable computer. It reduced the weight in my travel backpack by about 2lbs.
The one problem that I do have with it is that while the Stylus is magnetic and sticks to the side, it's not strong enough. Just the movement of carrying it in my work backpack causes it to release and drop to the bottom of my bag.
macs are also becoming not very enterprise friendly.
With the soldered in storage being a big turn off for some usages.
The lack of server hardware / the min being a poor fit for the roll. Also apple does not let run mac os in a VM on non apple hardware. (it can be done but apple's license says no)
Apples lack of OS downgrade rights
Apples tendency to drop ports and more on the fly.
Actually, there is one version of OS X which IS allowed to be virtualized: Snow Leopard Server (10.6.8). In fact, you can STILL order a DVD of it from Apple Support for $20; but you have to know exactly what to ask for.
You can stamp your feet and accuse people of being retarded idiots as much as you want. But that doesn't change the reality of the situation, which is that a large portion of Apple customers feel like they were just slapped in the face. Customer devotion is Apple's primary currency, and that currency just took a dump so hard you'd think Tim Cook deep throated a dozen Taco Bell chalupas.
I love how you're accusing people of being "idiots" and "retarded" when you're the one who sees invisible ports that don't exist.
FireWire 800 - Not there
Gigabit Ethernet - Not there
mini DisplayPort - Where?
SD Card reader - Nada
5 USB 3.1 gen 1 ports? - Nope
So I have to ask... what cracking are you smoking, because there most certainly isn't *anything* other than a bunch of external bus ports that are otherwise useless without having to spend hundreds of dollars on adapters.
And then... and then... Okay, I'm laughing now... you actually point out a $300 port replicator, just to regain the ports that Apple took away? A Three. Hundred. Dollar. Port Replicator. Because dropping $3000 on a grossly under-equipped laptop wasn't enough of an insult?
Apparently *you* don't get it, let this idiot spell it out for you: I don't give a flying fuck if a single I/O port can let me transfer all the data generated by the Large Hadron Collider in under a minute. I DO care that I'm at someone's house, and they give me something on a USB key but I can't access it without pulling out my Sports Billy bag of dongles. I DO care that I can't connect to a presentation TV or projector without pulling out my Sports Billy bag of dongles. Or transfer photos from my camera. Or connect to a LAN via hardwire because wifi is (for whatever reason) unavailable/unusable (because that does actually happen, irregardless of the dream world you seem to live in). And heaven forbid I forget said Sports Billy bag, cause now I'm using a $3000 chromebook.
Almost *every* *single* real-world use-case has suddenly because an unnecessary hassle when before there was no issue. This is the hardware equivalent of when they switched from PowerPC to Intel, but *without* including Rosetta.
If Apple had left the HDMI port and just one lousy USB 3.1 port, there wouldn't be this uproar. If they had thrown some dongles into the box so people could hit the ground running with their existing stuff, people would eyeroll but there wouldn't be this uproar. But no, they had to take away ALL previous ports with no alternative, forcing people to jump through hoops and spend even more money to regain the shortfall. And now a supposed "portable" computer requires you to carry around a small bundle of adapters, like a new mother carrying a backpack of sundries for her baby. I was more than a little pissed off when they removed
I mean, when they released the iPhone 7, they were at least considerate enough to throw in a lightning to headphone adapter.
Let me ask you: when you carry a laptop, do you carry an AC adapter? Of course you do. So you're already carrying at least ONE adapter. And if you have a laptop that has MiniDP (like most do now, including ALL of the Surface line that are the subject of this article), do you carry one or more adapters (VGA, DVI and/or HDMI) to hook up to external displays, projectors, etc? Of course you do. And if you want to hook up to terrestrial Ethernet with most newer laptops (including ALL of the Surface Line that are the subject of this article), in most cases you're in SERIOUS Dongle-World, so you'll be carrying adapters for that, too. So that leaves what? USB-A. So, all this uproar is because you can't be bothered to purchase a $7 USB-C to USB-A adapter, or a $15 32 GB USB-C/USB-A memory stick?!? Riiiight.
Oh, but wait! Since your beloved Surface Pro 4 only has ON
I have a good friend (who is a EE) who just purchased a Touch Bar 15" MBP, and he is VERY pleased with his purchase. You can call it Confirmation Bias but he says the thing runs circles around even his Hackintoshes...
Since you brought up Hackintosh, I'll add an additional anecdote. I needed a Mac for school. After looking at what was available (and for how much), I opted to hackintosh a Surface Pro 1. My current daily driver is a hackintosh Surface Pro 3, and I've just paid $865 for a Surface Book to–you guessed it–make into a hackintosh.
The Surface Pro 1 ran circles around every single one of the MacBook Pros the other students were using.
In my opinion, Apple is headed in the wrong direction by removing ports and adding gimmicks to their hardware. Why buy a Mac when you can have something that is equally (or more) powerful for a third the cost?
Equally powerful if you don't breathe on it funny lest it all collapse in a pile of. Barely compatible drivers and kexts, and if you don't mind constantly having a DONGLE (correct use of the term) for WiFi, and cheaper only if your time setting it up and scouring the Internet every time an OS update breaks something else, is free.
If you just skim through the various comments, you will see countless pissed off people who are either sticking with what they have, or are preferentially buying previous gen hardware when they have to. I have colleagues who have been utter die-hard apple fans for years, and they are saying the same thing I am.
And all those people were also aghast when Apple had the temerity to release an iMac in 1997 with ONLY USB-A Ports.
Yes, Virginia; sometimes it really is Courage.
I have a good friend (who is a EE) who just purchased a Touch Bar 15" MBP, and he is VERY pleased with his purchase. You can call it Confirmation Bias, blah, blah; but he says the thing runs circles around even his Hackintoshes, which were built to be balls-out, performance-wise. He also says the Touch Bar is QUITE useful.
So, anecdotes v. anecdotes and horses for courses; but I submit that, by and large, the people who are bitching online have never layed their hands on the machine, and are just exercising that internet "right" of bitching just to bitch.
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Because of an ongoing non-compete pact between Samsung and Google...
How is that not collusion and an anti-competitive trade practice?
Because Samsung is perfectly free to write their own OS from scratch, like Apple does with their phones, and load THAT onto their phones.
But since they are too lazy/cheap to do that, Google is free to impose any conditions it wants in the LICENSE AGREEMENT for THEIR OS.
I'd actually like to remove the space wasted by the Samsung apps on my current device. Which Cyanogenmod won't run upon. I might have to hack the ROM myself.
Wait! You of all people, run an Android phone??? why, oh why, would you subject yourself to their terrible security record?
Keep the SD slot and headphone jack, and I'll upgrade from my S7 Edge. Nix the headphone slot, the S7 Edge will be the last Samsung phone I buy until/unless Samsung come to their senses.
If a 3.5 mm Jack us your deal-breaker, enjoy your last smartphone.
I wish Samsung could figure out how to include such marvels like a removable battery and a microSD slot.
100% this. It boggles my mind. Why would anyone buy a $500-1000 device that is guaranteed to fail after a few short years?
There is literally no excuse here.
Although I don't really use it anymore, my iPhone 4s just received its final OS update a month or so ago, and still works perfectly.
And, if every Android phone OEM kept their damn software up to date, like Apple does with iOS, Android would be perfect.
FTFY.
You say 'androids' in the same way the old school mac fanatics used to say 'IBM'. It's so ridiculous, because it's obviously the cardboard standup 'competitor' who the marketers at Apple have spun up to compete with.
So sad and cultish.
If Android (as a platform) isn't the competitor to Apple (as the sole purveyor of the other platform), then I'm not sure what you would accept as the definition of "competitor".
If I lose a pen, I don't expect Bic to give me a new one for free.
They won't give you one for free, but Bic won't charge you 50 bucks either.
Bic won't. But Cross will.
And this is why I bought the iPhone SE, because it has a headphone socket. If I am out of town and forgotten to bring my headphones, a pair of $9 throw aways will suffice for the day. And when I am on planes / trains I have a pair of active noise cancelling bluetooth headphones (that STILL cost less than a pair of EarPods ) and came with a 3 year warranty. Yes I appreciate the wireless, however leaving out the socket is putting form over function, and no its nothing like having a keyboard on the screen vs pull out keyboard. And NO, I dont want to buy a bloody dongle. ANY audio device without a headphone socket is like buying a car that has no wheels.
Then enjoy your last Smartphione EVER.
By the time you are ready to replace that SE, there won't be a single decent smartphone, iOS or Android, that will have a 3.5 mm Jack. Not a single one. Sorry.
Oh! and Apple includes the Lightning to 3.5 mm adapter with the iPhone 7, BTW, as well as a Lightning headset. Nothing else to buy.
People that spend too much on Apple products are similar to folks that spend lots of money on expensive purses.
Not one of the several people I know who own Apple products chose them because of a fashion statement. Not one,
Nobody SHOULD want to continue to use that phone, but that shouldn't give the company that made it free reign to destroy your paid-for private property at will.
This. Exactly this. Samsung is thinking only of itself; or more precisely, only of its exposure to civil and criminal suit.
Where is all the usual Fandroid "Freedom!" OutRAGE?
Um, the bending issue with the iPhone is a manufacturing defect. They made the phone too thin with no support, therefore it bent easily, leading to touch disease. It is not caused by dropping in any way, which you would know if you looked into the electrical cause of the issue. You would almost think that Apple never had any issues with BGA packages.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
But yeah, I am sure that every manufacturer has design defects causing BGA chips to pop off the board because the phone doesn't have sufficient support of the circuitboard.
Despite your snarky response, the bending issue with the iPhone 6 is not a manufacturing defect. If, as you say, they made the phone "too thin with no support", that would be a design defect. And the fact that the "bendgate" meme came and went so fast tells me that it was almost assuredly a "fake news story".
I have looked into the "electrical" cause of the issue, and it can be, and is, caused by repeated drops to a hard surface, which breaks the solder ball connections on large BGA packages.
And yes, Apple (like many others) have had occasional problems with BGA packages in the past, caused by bad solder-balls, warped chip packages, warped PCBs, and all other manner of "co-planarity" issues. If you looked at the insides of pretty much any smartphone, you would not try to pin (no pun) the problem on "insufficient support of the circuitboard". There simply isn't enough free-air-space in a typical smartphone for a board to flex much at all. Not saying it can't happen; but I'd put that particular cause on the "less-probable" end of the spectrum.
Oh, and yes, nearly every OEM at one time or another has had issues with BGAs. Several years ago, NVidia had a couple of YEAR'S worth of BGA problems with their GPUs and Video Cards, that affected nearly every product they were a part of. But don't believe me, do your own damned research.
Sorry. Apple is just held to a higher standard, and so when their stuff breaks, people tend to bitch. Loudly. Then the Haters pick it up, and the Meme begins...
The point of giving a number is so that it is possible to make a direct comparison, like how cars have an MPG number.
But then you say your idea of "a number" is "a comfortable brightness". Which is it? Do you want an Objective number (x nits/lumens/mcd) or a Subjective "number" ("a comfortable brightness").
And yes, I am the Real Tim Cook. And as proof of my awsome powers, I was able to answer your previous post while simultaneously attending a meeting with the President-Elect. [/sarcasm]
Such as their support of touch disease? Charging people $250 for a fix to a manufacturing defect; such courage!
When it appears that it is the result of product abuse by the customer, yes. And BTW, if the customer is repeatedly dropping their phone and/or turning it into a boomerang-shape, that is NOT a "manufacturing" (or "engineering") defect. It is "abnormal wear and tear", and you can find many examples of this happening with other OEM's phones, too, under similar conditions. It is just more difficult to search for, since nobody gave those examples a catchy, easily-searchable "name". But Samsung, HTC, LG, etc. all have suffered with BGA packages breaking-free of their solder in the field.
Brightness is the best metric. No need to measure it, just set it to your preferred level. That will be the same level regardless of manufacturer, it's just what you need to comfortably read the display.
In what environment? Your perception of "display brightness" will vary along with the ambient, because your own personal "aperture" (iris) opens/closes in an attempt at normalization of the overall level reaching the retina.
So, unless you have the laptops all sitting next to each other, PERCEIVED brightness level is less-than-useless when it comes to measuring battery life.
Apple at least gives you enough information to re-create their test conditions. No one else does this; a fact you conveniently ignored.
Why give vague statements like "12 clicks from the bottom, or 75" when they could easily measure the screen brightness for easy comparison to other laptops? Oh, wait, never mind, answered my own question.
Because brightness specs could not be easily duplicated by most people, and wouldn't be that good for cross-comparison purposes anyway, because there isn't a correlation from one brand to another as far as energy-usage and the absolute brightness of the screen.
And call it "vague" all you want; but Apple's spec. Is FAR better than MS' "auto brightness disabled" with NO other conditions regarding the actual brightness setting (which tells me they simply set the brightness to MINIMUM).
And please show me a laptop that provides the information on battery life the way you are expecting Apple to do, ya know, for easy comparison.
For example, this Dell XPS 15, which I swear I picked simply because it seemed to be roughly equivalent to the 15" MacBook Pro, does even LIST battery life, and when you click the "more info" link on the "battery" section, you're treated to a nice, fat 404 Error. That's great for comparison. Now let's try HP:
The Spectre 15" (again picked simply because it looks roughly equivalent, CPU, storage and RAM-wise to the 15" MacBook Pro, (and because I couldn't make heads or tails of Lenovo's 50-thousand different models)). Under "Battery Life", it simply states "Up to 13 hours for FHD display; Up to 9 hours and 30 minutes for UHD display". That's it. No test-conditions, no footnotes, no asterisks, no NOTHING.
So, there are two non cherry-picked examples for you.
I don't know about you; but by comparison, I'd say Apple damn-near publishes a whitepaper on their battery test conditions, so, I'd suggest you simply STFU.
Can only second that.
Most of my Mac owning friends are software developers and/or musicians.
Those who one them "privately" still mainly use them for business. On the other hand plenty of them live in France and historically the localization of Windows was a mess, I doubt they convert soon back to Windows ;D
I also forgot my architect-friend/consulting-client, and his entire family, including his best-selling (nonfiction) author-daughter. The whole family has been Apple users for decades. I guess they're all "effluent idiots", too.
10 hour battery life doing what? I have a brand new macbook pro and it is more around 6-7 hours. It is undoubtedly the best battery life of any laptop I've had so far but not 10 hours.
Actually, Apple is pretty specific (e.g. "Brightness set to 12 clicks from the bottom, or 75%" (see below)) (unlike, say, Microsoft for the Surface Book, who only stated "Auto Brightness Disabled" for the biggest current-hog in the system...Right...) on their Product Page.
Here are the "Tech Specs" for the 15" Touch Bar MacBook Pro. Scroll down to the "Battery and Power" section (and don't forget to read Footnote 8).
Light work naturally will show more time left than playing a video game.
Well that's just it, isn't it? The time-remaining figure, even if calculated accurately based on what you're currently doing still likely bears little resemblance to the actual time you have left before your battery runs out.
Say I'm editing my source code in a text editor -- zero CPU / disk / network usage, very light load, and so my time-remaining figure is 9 hours.
Then I decide it's time to do a fresh compile, and my "make clean; make -j4" drives all cores to 100% and exercises the internal drive for several minutes. Now my time-remaining figure is 2 hours.
Then the compile ends, and the time-remaining figure is back to 8 hours.
Which of those figures was correct? Answer: none of them was. The only way to get a correct figure would be to predict how many times I'm going to recompile in the future. So why bother making up a number that clearly is not going to be correct anyway? It only confuses the issue.
This. Exactly This.
We've deployed 60 Surface Pro 4s this year to DRP folks with docks for their desks and VPN capabilities for home. We've seen our helpdesk volume bump up expectedly as a result, but have yet to see that normalize.
Meanwhile, IBM have deployed more than 90,000 Macs to replace PCs (at users' discretion -- 3 out of 4 choose a Mac over a PC) and have seen helpdesk volumes decline dramatically: 3.5% of Mac users call a helpdesk each year, vs 40% of PC users....
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
Exactly. But you know IBM are such Mac Fanboys...
I know you don't own a Surface. So just stop it already. The Surface is actually a pretty good piece of hardware - I didn't say it sucked. I just said they haven't sold any.
Well, I have a surface Pro 4... So they sold at least one...
I used it this weekend to draw out plans and write down measurements for putting my TV on the wall in One Note. I love the stylus and One Note. It's easier than pen and paper and I have a copy of it for future reference. I also use it at work for taking notes and when I am traveling as my portable computer. It reduced the weight in my travel backpack by about 2lbs.
The one problem that I do have with it is that while the Stylus is magnetic and sticks to the side, it's not strong enough. Just the movement of carrying it in my work backpack causes it to release and drop to the bottom of my bag.
You needed blueprints to screw in a VESA mount?!?
macs are also becoming not very enterprise friendly.
With the soldered in storage being a big turn off for some usages.
The lack of server hardware / the min being a poor fit for the roll. Also apple does not let run mac os in a VM on non apple hardware. (it can be done but apple's license says no)
Apples lack of OS downgrade rights
Apples tendency to drop ports and more on the fly.
Actually, there is one version of OS X which IS allowed to be virtualized: Snow Leopard Server (10.6.8). In fact, you can STILL order a DVD of it from Apple Support for $20; but you have to know exactly what to ask for.
You can stamp your feet and accuse people of being retarded idiots as much as you want. But that doesn't change the reality of the situation, which is that a large portion of Apple customers feel like they were just slapped in the face. Customer devotion is Apple's primary currency, and that currency just took a dump so hard you'd think Tim Cook deep throated a dozen Taco Bell chalupas.
I love how you're accusing people of being "idiots" and "retarded" when you're the one who sees invisible ports that don't exist.
FireWire 800 - Not there Gigabit Ethernet - Not there mini DisplayPort - Where? SD Card reader - Nada 5 USB 3.1 gen 1 ports? - Nope
So I have to ask... what cracking are you smoking, because there most certainly isn't *anything* other than a bunch of external bus ports that are otherwise useless without having to spend hundreds of dollars on adapters.
And then... and then... Okay, I'm laughing now... you actually point out a $300 port replicator, just to regain the ports that Apple took away? A Three. Hundred. Dollar. Port Replicator. Because dropping $3000 on a grossly under-equipped laptop wasn't enough of an insult?
Apparently *you* don't get it, let this idiot spell it out for you: I don't give a flying fuck if a single I/O port can let me transfer all the data generated by the Large Hadron Collider in under a minute. I DO care that I'm at someone's house, and they give me something on a USB key but I can't access it without pulling out my Sports Billy bag of dongles. I DO care that I can't connect to a presentation TV or projector without pulling out my Sports Billy bag of dongles. Or transfer photos from my camera. Or connect to a LAN via hardwire because wifi is (for whatever reason) unavailable/unusable (because that does actually happen, irregardless of the dream world you seem to live in). And heaven forbid I forget said Sports Billy bag, cause now I'm using a $3000 chromebook.
Almost *every* *single* real-world use-case has suddenly because an unnecessary hassle when before there was no issue. This is the hardware equivalent of when they switched from PowerPC to Intel, but *without* including Rosetta.
If Apple had left the HDMI port and just one lousy USB 3.1 port, there wouldn't be this uproar. If they had thrown some dongles into the box so people could hit the ground running with their existing stuff, people would eyeroll but there wouldn't be this uproar. But no, they had to take away ALL previous ports with no alternative, forcing people to jump through hoops and spend even more money to regain the shortfall. And now a supposed "portable" computer requires you to carry around a small bundle of adapters, like a new mother carrying a backpack of sundries for her baby. I was more than a little pissed off when they removed
I mean, when they released the iPhone 7, they were at least considerate enough to throw in a lightning to headphone adapter.
Let me ask you: when you carry a laptop, do you carry an AC adapter? Of course you do. So you're already carrying at least ONE adapter. And if you have a laptop that has MiniDP (like most do now, including ALL of the Surface line that are the subject of this article), do you carry one or more adapters (VGA, DVI and/or HDMI) to hook up to external displays, projectors, etc? Of course you do. And if you want to hook up to terrestrial Ethernet with most newer laptops (including ALL of the Surface Line that are the subject of this article), in most cases you're in SERIOUS Dongle-World, so you'll be carrying adapters for that, too. So that leaves what? USB-A. So, all this uproar is because you can't be bothered to purchase a $7 USB-C to USB-A adapter, or a $15 32 GB USB-C/USB-A memory stick?!? Riiiight.
Oh, but wait! Since your beloved Surface Pro 4 only has ON
I have a good friend (who is a EE) who just purchased a Touch Bar 15" MBP, and he is VERY pleased with his purchase. You can call it Confirmation Bias but he says the thing runs circles around even his Hackintoshes...
Since you brought up Hackintosh, I'll add an additional anecdote. I needed a Mac for school. After looking at what was available (and for how much), I opted to hackintosh a Surface Pro 1. My current daily driver is a hackintosh Surface Pro 3, and I've just paid $865 for a Surface Book to–you guessed it–make into a hackintosh.
The Surface Pro 1 ran circles around every single one of the MacBook Pros the other students were using.
In my opinion, Apple is headed in the wrong direction by removing ports and adding gimmicks to their hardware. Why buy a Mac when you can have something that is equally (or more) powerful for a third the cost?
Equally powerful if you don't breathe on it funny lest it all collapse in a pile of. Barely compatible drivers and kexts, and if you don't mind constantly having a DONGLE (correct use of the term) for WiFi, and cheaper only if your time setting it up and scouring the Internet every time an OS update breaks something else, is free.
Wotta deal!
Bullshit.
What's bullshit? That is actually a true story. Sorry if it doesn't comport to your worldview.
If you just skim through the various comments, you will see countless pissed off people who are either sticking with what they have, or are preferentially buying previous gen hardware when they have to. I have colleagues who have been utter die-hard apple fans for years, and they are saying the same thing I am.
And all those people were also aghast when Apple had the temerity to release an iMac in 1997 with ONLY USB-A Ports.
Yes, Virginia; sometimes it really is Courage.
I have a good friend (who is a EE) who just purchased a Touch Bar 15" MBP, and he is VERY pleased with his purchase. You can call it Confirmation Bias, blah, blah; but he says the thing runs circles around even his Hackintoshes, which were built to be balls-out, performance-wise. He also says the Touch Bar is QUITE useful.
So, anecdotes v. anecdotes and horses for courses; but I submit that, by and large, the people who are bitching online have never layed their hands on the machine, and are just exercising that internet "right" of bitching just to bitch.