Comment by mrweasel
2 years ago
We'll see if those numbers are stable, or on an upward trend. I can see why the numbers would be going up. I've been on macOS for almost 20 years and I'm not sure that my next workstation will be from Apple.
I still think the Mac is great, but as work require more and more Linux specific tools switching starts to make sense. All the tools I don't already run in a terminal or in a VM is also available on Linux, the only Mac only application is Apple Mail and I'm not that attached to it.
Unless you are an iOS dev, it just never made sense to buy one. Worse hardware, worse software options, you are going to be VMing always anyway.
The 'low power' marketing didn't work on me, my 6+ hour battery life on an Asus has never affected my life ever. However having a 3060 has unlocked so many possibilities. It could make me a multimillionaire this year.
Scary to think I might have gotten an iOS dev job, ended up having to run AI on CPU, and never came up with my product.
> Unless you are an iOS dev, it just never made sense to buy one.
Not sure I completely agree, if you're buying a laptop and factor in the fact that you're guaranteed to get a good screen then MacBooks have provide pretty good value, for me at least over the past 15 years.
The screen is what sold you for 15 years?
Gosh I hate corporations. They are disgusting the mind control they have, and they never get in trouble for it.