I can think of at least one scenario where it makes sense. Say you're building the next Curiosity, you've done all the right things, dealt with exceptions, quality assurance, code reviews etc.. Wouldn't it be better if an exceptional divided by zero exception wouldn't brick your rover by default? All the bashing, I think it comes down to priority.
Why run a mac at all if your goal is to use Linux? PCs are a ton cheaper and in most cases just as good.
I have been a Linux desktop user for over 10 years, love it, even back in the days when a lot of things, especially internationalization required tweaks.
Been using OSX for a year, the touch pad plus safari experience is spectacular, but there a ton of things I don't like: File browsing - Finder abstracts too much away from power users Package uninstall - pieces everywhere, no free reliable way to track files down, which is unfortunate since it should be one of the basic features var/folders - I think it's a brainfuck decision to design your cache like this Safari itself -...... the list goes on, it comes down to how customizable the OS is, which Linux is much better.
So why buy a Macbook? You have to consider overall user experience when you're talking about pricing. Their hardware is superb, till this day I'm still loving the aluminium design, it makes you feel good when you're using it. The charger, the connector of the charger, the form factor, the battery life, everything is just perfect. There's also the prestiage when you pull out a Macbook. (although I mainly just it at home, and it's something I used to despite. Sadly it is valid thing, hello taste/artistic sense? ) You get all these things and markup isn't really that much. I consider it one my best gadget purchases in my life.
If it weren't for the non-existence webcam driver for my late 2013 version, I would be running Linux on it most of the time. Latest development I could find. So IMO buying a Macbook to Linux isn't that stupid.
Everyone could see phones and PDAs were going to converge (and those who couldn't should've gotten a wake-up call from the Blackberry), but Microsoft made no real effort to add phone capabilities to Windows Mobile. So in the end PDA features ended up being added to phones, instead of phone capability being added to PDAs. And when PDAs went away, so did Windows Mobile.
Not true, they were definitely the leader in PDA + Phone space. Granted the experience was pretty crappy (e.g. before people came up with multi-touch, swipe scrolling etc and you had to hack yourself through if you want any form of customization), they were the best PDA phone offering in the market in early 2000s. IIRC trying to hack these babies and run Linux (HarET bootloader) on them etc was what got xda-developers started.
Everyone could see phones and PDAs were going to converge (and those who couldn't should've gotten a wake-up call from the Blackberry), but Microsoft made no real effort to add phone capabilities to Windows Mobile. So in the end PDA features ended up being added to phones, instead of phone capability being added to PDAs. And when PDAs went away, so did Windows Mobile.
Not true, they were definitely the leader in PDA + Phone space. Granted the experience was pretty crappy (e.g. before people came up with multi-touch, swipe scrolling etc and you had to hack yourself through if you want any form of customization), they were the best PDA phone offering in the market in early 2000s. IIRC trying to hack these babies and run Linux (HarET bootloader) on them etc was what got xda-developers started.
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I can think of at least one scenario where it makes sense. Say you're building the next Curiosity, you've done all the right things, dealt with exceptions, quality assurance, code reviews etc.. Wouldn't it be better if an exceptional divided by zero exception wouldn't brick your rover by default? All the bashing, I think it comes down to priority.
Why run a mac at all if your goal is to use Linux? PCs are a ton cheaper and in most cases just as good.
I have been a Linux desktop user for over 10 years, love it, even back in the days when a lot of things, especially internationalization required tweaks.
Been using OSX for a year, the touch pad plus safari experience is spectacular, but there a ton of things I don't like: ... ... the list goes on, it comes down to how customizable the OS is, which Linux is much better.
File browsing - Finder abstracts too much away from power users
Package uninstall - pieces everywhere, no free reliable way to track files down, which is unfortunate since it should be one of the basic features
var/folders - I think it's a brainfuck decision to design your cache like this
Safari itself -
So why buy a Macbook?
You have to consider overall user experience when you're talking about pricing. Their hardware is superb, till this day I'm still loving the aluminium design, it makes you feel good when you're using it. The charger, the connector of the charger, the form factor, the battery life, everything is just perfect. There's also the prestiage when you pull out a Macbook. (although I mainly just it at home, and it's something I used to despite. Sadly it is valid thing, hello taste/artistic sense? ) You get all these things and markup isn't really that much. I consider it one my best gadget purchases in my life.
If it weren't for the non-existence webcam driver for my late 2013 version, I would be running Linux on it most of the time.
Latest development I could find.
So IMO buying a Macbook to Linux isn't that stupid.
That's why the phone is great, just a swipe with your finger on the fingerprint sensor. I've no idea why they get rid of this idea.
Not true, they were definitely the leader in PDA + Phone space. Granted the experience was pretty crappy (e.g. before people came up with multi-touch, swipe scrolling etc and you had to hack yourself through if you want any form of customization), they were the best PDA phone offering in the market in early 2000s. IIRC trying to hack these babies and run Linux (HarET bootloader) on them etc was what got xda-developers started.