| > Building a computer to play with and learn from is great. But when you have to get work done, it pays to get the best. Right, but "the best" is completely subjective. I've wasted more time trying to get OS X and Macs to do what I want than I've ever spent building my own desktop machines or getting Windows to do what I want. That's the reason why the vast majority of businesses don't run OS X too. It's not the best for them. Not even close. If I had to use OS X daily, it would be death by a thousand cuts for me since it's missing so many features. The things that it's missing are really stupid and simple too, like the ability to just disable a monitor without having to unplug it. I can't spend all day hunting down third party solutions to every problem in OS X. There are too many. Nevermind the fact that the software that many businesses run wouldn't work on a Mac unless you virtualized it. Using Mac hardware without OS X turns that nice hardware into crap, so that's exactly what Mac hardware is worth to me. I need to buy it to test stuff for iOS though, so I always buy refurbished desktop Macs since Apple won't let you upgrade their laptops. IMO all laptops suck anyway. I don't get why people buy them. All my work is done at a nice fat PC desktop with 32 GB of RAM, a fast CPU and multiple SSDs which was thrown together from commodity parts...for cheap...which is easily upgradeable...and which also smokes the refurb Mac Pro (Mid-2012) that I also bought. (When I go to a meeting I bring my Dell XPS or my Surface Pro, both of which are over 5 years old and still working very reliably with no problems - meanwhile my old 2008 MBP will not be able to run macOS sierra next year.) |