Comment by intricatedetail
4 years ago
It's hard to say who is now Apple's target audience. It seems like their products are ideal for people who don't know much about IT and just want to watch a video or edit their holiday photos and maybe create a CV and will probably never go beyond that. Other people still enjoy Macs from 2012, but things are moving on when you look at desktop PC and what you can do. Apple looks more and more dumbed down.
It's like being trapped in a beautiful plastic cage. I used a MacBook Air (2012) for years as my primary development machine and really loved a lot about it, and it had some fantastic apps in the environment like QuickSilver, especially since it just worked compared to some of the Linux distros I had before that. But I'm glad I jumped ship when mine went obsolete.
>> It's like being trapped in a beautiful plastic cage.
To be fair, it's like being trapped in a silver gray aluminum cage with uniform body and irreplaceable bars. I wish more companies would make a PC laptop that doesn't suck aesthetically. Even when they use aluminum, most PC manufacturers don't spend much time on designing a good keyboard (arrow keys not having the same shape comes to mind.)
The feel of the keyboard is far, far more important to me than the look. Lenovo Thinkpads (business class, not the consumer ones chasing after the foolish "thin" trend) are the only ones that have are the only ones that have a reasonable shape and response. This includes Apple, which tends to be one of the worst offenders in the feel of a keyboard. I want to have some amount of vertical movement to the keys, not to jam my fingers into a hard surface repeatedly.
I understand people doing live music with it. Think about what would happen if Windows forces you to update during your performance^^
Graphic designers because the nice display...
Otherwise i don't get it. I think for most other people it's a status symbol ;)
I especially don't understand why IT affine people buy it. Just buy DELL, HP, Lenovo, Alienware and install linux. Gives you more bang for the buck...
Very small audiance, but people with bad vision do enjoy the good displays on their machines and the GREAT built in zoom in OSX. Zoom in Windows is a joke.
Unfortunatly Linux isn't really an option just yet for a lot of us.