And here I was thinking that at least Apple wasn't evil
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Chris Maunder wrote:
and no, you can't really buy the equivalent for half the money once you start comparing apples with apples. I thought I could too, but was surprised at the price parity
Really? Well I don't know about the laptops so I'll take your word for it. But in the desktop area last I checked that 'pc is half the price of an apple' was pretty accurate (k might not be exactly half the price but...) Disclamer: last I checked was 8 years ago so much may have changed :) Either way I think I'll stick with putting my own pc's together. It has served me well, last pc lasted 9 years (without having to re-install or any issues at all) and the only thing that broke at the end was the ssd (but I figured I'd replace the whole thing at once ;P )
Tom
You can get cheap laptops, and even cheaper PCs, but when you star asking for 256GB SSDs, i7s, really long batter life and lightweight, the costs quickly converge to "lots", no matter which brand.
cheers Chris Maunder
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I'm setting up a Macbook with Bootcamp and I hit a roadblock:
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Bootcamp only supports Windows 8 or later
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
cheers Chris Maunder
That's why I use Parallels[^]. Still got my Windows 7 and holding out for 10!
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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I'm setting up a Macbook with Bootcamp and I hit a roadblock:
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Bootcamp only supports Windows 8 or later
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
cheers Chris Maunder
What??? Are you kidding me? Apple is the most evil of them all. They fail to get the phone right, so they expect you to buy a new one every six months. :omg: They tell you their phone is better than the rest. But it only has one button and the others have 3 buttons at the bottom. So clearly the others are 3 times better. They take a Nano, strap it to your wrist and tell you its a smart watch and charge you 5 times the amount. X| They sell you a laptop, call it a MacBook and charge 5X the price of a laptop. And then the people who buy these install a Windows VM. Why not run Windows in the first place??? I digress. I've seen Satan's car. Or at least it was a red Volkswagon beetle that had "Satan" vanity plates, and yes you guessed it... an Apple logo sticker on the back. :mad: And remember, what got Adam and Eve thrown out of the garden. Oh yes... an Apple. So yes. Apple is evil.
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I'm setting up a Macbook with Bootcamp and I hit a roadblock:
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Bootcamp only supports Windows 8 or later
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
cheers Chris Maunder
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Honestly, I don't understand the North American conviction that 'Apple' is a synonym for easy, or quality, or 'the best'. It takes people who want a no-brainer option and gives it to them. With a hefty price hike and a locked in ecosystem. Obviously the gear is nice, but utterly inflexible and enormously expensive. If only closed-source drivers kept up with Linux a little more or opened the source code, we would have a universally good and cheap alternative without lock-in. :)
To quote a friend: It's a prison. It's a really, really, really NICE Prison. Love the padded walls. But it is still a prison...
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Honestly, I don't understand the North American conviction that 'Apple' is a synonym for easy, or quality, or 'the best'. It takes people who want a no-brainer option and gives it to them. With a hefty price hike and a locked in ecosystem. Obviously the gear is nice, but utterly inflexible and enormously expensive. If only closed-source drivers kept up with Linux a little more or opened the source code, we would have a universally good and cheap alternative without lock-in. :)
I don't understand why you have this conviction that 'Apple' is inflexible or enormously expensive. If you want a quad core i7 laptop with a 600+MB/s SSD and high res (UHD or ~3K) screen with 7+ hours of battery life, Apple's products are priced at the low end. If you're wanting the cheapest laptop you can buy, well, then you should look elsewhere. The same goes for their other products. Yes, you can buy cheaper, but are you going to compare a Yugo to a Bentley or even a Ford Focus (the model you'd actually drive, not the base base base model)? They're different products intended for different markets. As for inflexible, how so, other than their phones, and even those can be jailbroken and you can do what you want.
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I have. Let's just say that our experiences couldn't be further apart... It was the worst programming experience I ever had after Crystal Reports and DevForce :laugh: Well, to tell you the truth I worked on someone else's machine and none of us had really taken the time to learn the tools :) But no matter how awesome you think Apple is they still aren't exactly famous for being able to run all software out there. I think this rage comic explains it better[^] :laugh:
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
You are largely incorrect, it runs more than windows, since windows last I checked won't run OSX, but OSX will run Windows, and Apple hardware will run MS Windows, so exactly what was your issue? It sounds like you were trying to dev for windows on OSX, or doing a side project on OSX itself, otherwise your tools would have been the same.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I have a 21" iMac, quad core, and my SSD equipped Air runs rings around it due to the HDD instead of SSD in the iMac.
Do what I did. Grab a Seagate Portable Thunderbolt Adapter (was AUD$114 when I bought it - exchange rate hike has made it more expensive from here!)[^] Grab an SSD - whichever takes your fancy Grab some bluetack Grab a thunderbolt cable Use a blob of bluetack under the drive to keep it level on the adapter (which is designed for Seagate's enclosed drive) and stick it behind your Mac Now either migrate your HD to SSD or (what I did) install Yosemite on the SSD and re-install just the stuff you want - while leaving the internal drive for less frequently accessed stuff. makes it feel like a new machine for a couple of hundred bucks! I can't believe I didn't do it earlier - Thunderbolt external SSD can be actually (slightly!) faster than an internal one! (I read it on the interwebs, so it must be true!)
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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You are largely incorrect, it runs more than windows, since windows last I checked won't run OSX, but OSX will run Windows, and Apple hardware will run MS Windows, so exactly what was your issue? It sounds like you were trying to dev for windows on OSX, or doing a side project on OSX itself, otherwise your tools would have been the same.
I was trying to make an application using PhoneGap on OSX using XCode (horrible editor!). It was quite different than on Windows and not for the better. Back in the days, when I was still playing games, Apple wasn't even a choice, it just didn't run games. And I'm not going to get an Apple to run everything on Windows inside Apple :) I'm sure Apple has good points too, I guess I just haven't found them yet (or I'm not open to find them) ;)
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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You are largely incorrect, it runs more than windows, since windows last I checked won't run OSX, but OSX will run Windows, and Apple hardware will run MS Windows, so exactly what was your issue? It sounds like you were trying to dev for windows on OSX, or doing a side project on OSX itself, otherwise your tools would have been the same.
Windows can run OSX, not that it's allowed (nor the best idea), but it can be done.
CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...
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You can replace the drive, yes - if you don't mind risking damaging the screen, which has to come right off, then de-soldering components (depending on the exact model) and fixing he fan controller so it works with an SSD, then putting it all back together and hoping to hell it all works! I'd rather just plug a cable in and get better performance!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Nice - from a neatness POV - but slow as all hell compared to a Thunderbolt SSD (95MB/s vs around 450 MB/s) Does it work OK in an iMac? The page is v specific about working on the laptops, but no mention of iMacs that I could see.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Nice - from a neatness POV - but slow as all hell compared to a Thunderbolt SSD (95MB/s vs around 450 MB/s) Does it work OK in an iMac? The page is v specific about working on the laptops, but no mention of iMacs that I could see.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
I just popped it out of my MAcbook and into my iMac and yep, works fine. (and yeah - a little slower :) However, I need it for space, not speed)
cheers Chris Maunder
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I just popped it out of my MAcbook and into my iMac and yep, works fine. (and yeah - a little slower :) However, I need it for space, not speed)
cheers Chris Maunder
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I don't understand why you have this conviction that 'Apple' is inflexible or enormously expensive. If you want a quad core i7 laptop with a 600+MB/s SSD and high res (UHD or ~3K) screen with 7+ hours of battery life, Apple's products are priced at the low end. If you're wanting the cheapest laptop you can buy, well, then you should look elsewhere. The same goes for their other products. Yes, you can buy cheaper, but are you going to compare a Yugo to a Bentley or even a Ford Focus (the model you'd actually drive, not the base base base model)? They're different products intended for different markets. As for inflexible, how so, other than their phones, and even those can be jailbroken and you can do what you want.
Ah. Of course. Stockholm Syndrome. :^)
