Macbook Pro (2016) Disappointment Pushes Some Apple Loyalis

Even the thought of giving up the trackpad is too much. I might just give my 2012 Air a clean install.

CF cards.Compact Flash, high speed low storage cards.

People still have digital cameras?

Why would I want an adapter when I can just use a USB cable?

You're the only one raging here. I'm just laughing at your incompetence thinking that anything that apple has on the market is revolutionary after the 90's.

Oh? I remember they came out with the debian edition. Have they completely switched switched over to that now and cut canonical out of the picture now, I guess being the point?None the less you should still get along with it just as well as Ubuntu still which you'll find plenty of info on if you're not familiar making it great beginner distro.

Its not sold

Unless there is a firmware default mode that simply sends the corresponding function keys it will be a while before someone reverse engineers the driver so that it works on Linux.

What intended use did you have in mind? As a graphic designer, Studio should be just fine for what I need to do. This isn't meant to be used by editors or 3D artists who may need more GPU power, but I don't think Studio is marketing itself towards that demographic.

As you guys have said, it's FREE. It doesn't have the funding that Photoshop has. Of course Photoshop is better.

The crossover team makes sure to test the programs each release to make sure it all works.

Distributed software architecture by consensus done by a bunch of mid-level devs. I can see that working *swimmingly*.

Didn't Microsoft drop support for Skype on Linux and isn't it basically a dysfunctional piece of shit now?

I used Fedora 17-24 full-time at work. I'll probably switch back to Fedora on a Dell XPS, but its not as easy as that sounds.1. The Skype RPMs pull in a bunch of outdated 32-bit dependencies. I once literally couldn't remove it because it somehow tried to bring systemd along with it.2. Screensharing is awful and very low quality, text is unreadable.3. The DBUS support is wonky. Sometimes it would show notifications properly and let me control it through tools like the Gnome Shell Extension, for the most part it would simply crash at random intervals while keeping the tray icon, and I'd miss important messages.4. During a distro/fedup upgrade I'd always end up with a broken Skype or a broken os, thanks to Skype. Package management on Linux is still awful, but hopefully Flatpak fixes these issues in the future.Honestly the only way you can use Linux in a business environment is to keep a Windows VM running. There are too many stupid issues.

That's not always true on Linux, depends on distro and the like.And what Linux users and a 60-year old woman (for example) for whom computers are a mystery considers hard differs quite a bit.Installing a distro and using what's there is easy enough. Adding new stuff can sometimes be a massive pain in the ass.Not that Windows is great either, mind you.

On Windows, I think there is another thing I can't explain: the fake .exe which does nothing but downloads the real .exe, so yeah, in order to get a fully-functional installation package you really have to hunt a bit sometimes.

> You're missing his point badly.On the contrary, I think you are. I was addressing to him the same old tired excuses I've heard for years used by the proprietary usage fanboys. Maybe he should have used a more rational argument like yours instead of resorting to that tired old nonsense.>The kinds of people who buy $3000 MBP notebooks are the type of people who use Photoshop, or Pro Tools, or Premiere, or some other software that doesn't have a good Linux counterpart.The article doesn't mention any of that. For people into doing those sorts of things, they would stick with an Apple machine anyway, and I doubt any of those people will jump into buying a System76 machine without checking out what it's capabilities are, beforehand. I assume they're smart enough to do so. Hmm?No, the article seems to focus more on users that would be one step below that, those in the $2,000 - $2,400 price range and below. And if you bothered to read it, it also said:>*"Obviously we aren't comparing apples to apples (pun intended). If you absolutely need macOS for certain software or licenses, an Ubuntu machine will not meet your needs. Also, the System76 machine does not have Apple's revolutionary Touch Bar."*~>Also, widespread Linux is already here. It's on a majority of smart phones.And this article has nothing to do with phones so once again, it is **you** who've absolutely missed the point badly.Come back when you've read the article.

How many machines, thereabouts?A few hundred? A couple of thousand?

I'm sorely tempted to build a Hackintosh for my next desktop - I really do like the operating system.The @#$@! hardware, not so much.

Mac repairs are easier than they're billed as. I've completely disassembled my MBA and it wasn't hard at all. If you can change a water pump on a chevy nova you can swap a keyboard/MoBo on a Mac.

Fair enough, but I would like to point out, based on the checklist above, your opinions are stuck half a decade in the past.BTW, I switch between OSX and Windows daily because of my line of work. The same work that has me constantly playing with new devices. I'm not bias, I like both, but your ideas of Windows machines are dated.

Edit a file and open it in Windows. Corrupts the files on my system

If you aren't picky about your display or add your own RAM, you can get a $1500 P50 with 64GB.The future is here, and it doesn't have a lot of hard disk paging.

Thinkpads kinda went downhill for a while, but some of the newer ones are back to the old standards - heavy metal frames under the plastic, big cooling systems, and removable batteries.Yeah, it has the weight of a 10-year-old laptop, but it has all the advantages, too...

>> The beauty of the MacBook Pro line used to be that you could get real work done while out in the field. The Wifi connectivity to your camera is pretty much useless unless you're in your studio. All of the needs you've described would be served by a nice desktop sitting in your studio.> Not at all, the 70D can act as a ad-hoc network and I can pull images that way. However I actually will have a great little mobile breakout box in my bag anyway, just in case. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FWT7MEA/)If you're using your 70D as an ad-hoc Wifi router, it's going to be far slower than plugging an SD card into the fucking slot that has been standard on MacBook Pros for over a decade. And again, you're citing a piece of equipment that professionals shouldn't have to keep up with for plugging their SD card into a "Pro" laptop.> I also want the ability to upgrade my laptop's RAM and hard drive.
>>I don't think a Mac is for you then. Nothing wrong with having your needs.Oh, fuck you. I've been really happy with Mac laptops for over 10 years. Apple used to make really high quality laptops in the MacBook Pro line that were really easy to upgrade. Everything is soldered to the motherboard now for the sake of making the laptop thinner at the expense of the ability to ever upgrade the laptop.> I do. I need the power of the MacBook Pro but every pound saved is great.>>My ~15 year old PowerBook G4 is as thin as a "pro" laptop should be. Fuck, if someone could make a thinner laptop but then use a larger battery to keep the laptop around 3/4 of an inch thick while retaining the ability to upgrade the hard drive and RAM, I'd be really happy.I don't think your weight savings on a thinner MBP matter at all when you have to carry an adapter to plug your phone into your laptop and an adapter to plug an SD card into your "Pro" laptop. Saving a pound or two on the weight of a laptop is massively outweighed by having to carry extra adapters for any professional that travels constantly...

No definitely not, might be time for a few changes haha.

The new CEO who took over in 2014, Satya Nadella, after Ballmer left has been absolutely on point. He's the one to credit for most of Microsoft's directional pivots.

From his blog post on the Studio>Tycho asked me to compare it to my Cintiq, and I told him that drawing on the Cintiq now felt like drawing on a piece of dirty plexiglass hovering over a CRT monitor from 1997.https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2016/10/26/the-surface-studio

This. If you draw on a screen, you don't likely need that much power; a Surface Book on a stand with a second display is going to let you draw stuff very effectively at home and abroad.Someone at MS decided that capturing the creative market was paramount to becoming cool. If this is how they're going about it, more power to 'em...

The stylus on the surface pro kind of sucks for art though. Compare it to an Apple Pencil or Wacom.Now if the stylus was better I would agree.