Remember too back in the day when you're looking at a Mac with 1/4 the power of a PC, and it's 4x the price. I think we're starting to see those ratios reversed completely. And at the same time, the power, heat, etc.. is just sitting at the floor.
Yeah, this rings true. I'm not an Apple customer, but I certainly remember the days when Mac users had to justify the much worse bang-for-the-buck of Apple hardware (then) with it being the only ticket to their preferred software experience.
These days it appears more that the hardware is fantastic, especially in the laptop form factor and thermal envelope, and perhaps the downside is a languishing macOS.
I use macOS daily for dev and office work, and to me it doesn’t feel languishing at all. Add Homebrew and Docker or Podman, and we’re off.
The only places I can see there could be features missing are:
- IT management type stuff where it looks like Apple are happy just delegating to Microsoft (eg. my workstation is managed with InTune and runs Microsoft Defender pushed by IT),
- CUDA support if you’re into AI on NVIDIA
- Gaming I hear, but I don’t have time for that anyway :)
Of course this is biased, because I also generally just _like_ the look and feel of macOS
sho_hn|1 year ago
These days it appears more that the hardware is fantastic, especially in the laptop form factor and thermal envelope, and perhaps the downside is a languishing macOS.
bogeholm|1 year ago
The only places I can see there could be features missing are:
- IT management type stuff where it looks like Apple are happy just delegating to Microsoft (eg. my workstation is managed with InTune and runs Microsoft Defender pushed by IT),
- CUDA support if you’re into AI on NVIDIA
- Gaming I hear, but I don’t have time for that anyway :)
Of course this is biased, because I also generally just _like_ the look and feel of macOS
3dtopo|1 year ago