[gotofritz]

It's not that simple. First of all you ignore the whole dongle / headphones / incompatibility with iPhone side of things.

I have been thinking of switching over for a while because I can't stand Apple, the company, I hate having to pay €100 for a new charger if something happens to the old one, or having to buy dongles. I detest iTunes and Preview, I don't like having Xcode dictate what goes in my machine, I don't want to be forced to buy an expensive Apple monitor because any other one looks blurry, and a few other things. But most of all - I'm feed up with paying double for quality I don't really need. Yes, the trackpad is great - but I don't care, I connect a mouse to the laptop. I can buy two Windows machines for the price of a Mac. The latest MBP announcement only adds fuel to the fire, but the fire has been burning for a while.

What the latest MBP announcement DOES show is that Apple doesn't give a monkey about devs anymore. We are not their target audience. We were like the artists who move in a rundown area, make it appealing to middle class people, and then are priced out and forced to move away. It's simply time to separate a work machine with a generic home machine. I may still get myself an iPad for connecting to my TV, music, generic web surfing, but I am going to start migrating to a Linux for dev work.

[allwein]

iTunes I understand, but what don't you like about Preview? I think it's actually one of the best parts of the mac. I'm also confused at what you mean by blurry monitors and Xcode dictating what goes in your machine?

[gotofritz]

Preview's "modern" file model which forces you to duplicate files to work on them and then automatically creates files on the filesystem with a name you don't want and you then have to go and clean up.... annoying. A lot of non Mac monitors (I have two HPs at the moment) are not very sharp used with a Mac. Apparently only Apple monitors work well with MBP - this could be balooney by anti-mac it people, but the fact that the monitor is not sharp is a fact. With XCode the fact that you have to download the whole XCode when you just want Make for example, and it comes with its own version of Ruby, etc, and it causes havoc if you have installed your own version of Ruby. brew is good, but luckily certain core unix tools only seem to come with XCode

[rnovak]

What?

Citations for any of these? I have 'make' installed on my mbp without XCode (along with clang, etc), and I use my mbp with 2 24" monitors all the time (in clamshell mode), and it's no less sharp than it is with a desktop.

[gotofritz]

I never said that monitors work better with desktop computers as opposed to laptops. I said that only Apple monitors are sharp when connected to laptops, as opposed to non Apple monitors. Wasn't that clear?

[rnovak]

Again, citation? What monitors are you comparing? I honestly hope you're not truly complaining that a 1080p monitor looks less sharp than a 4k or 5k display.

Also, where's your citation/article/anything that you can't get Make without installing XCode?

[ksherlock]

Apple no longer sells monitors.