| I use an oldish (maybe last years or the one before?) retina mbp to drive the two screens in my home office which I run FreeBSD on (still 10.x, not had time to upgrade it) -- and I run the audio via one of the monitors no prob: $ cat /dev/sndstat | grep default
pcm2: <NVIDIA (0x0042) (HDMI/DP 8ch)> (play) default I almost never turn it off as I have to do some weird kind of dance to close the lid and type startx blind so that I don't end up with three screens in X, but I don't really care enough to fix it when I only have to do it every few weeks/months... I use a thunderbolt Ethernet dongle thingy which does 1gbit since it doesn't ever leave the desk I've not really tried the wifi.. I use a USB DAC when I've got the cans on though because they sound much better (also works, an audioquest thing)... I won't buy another macbook tho, XPS+Linux is going to replace my luggable very soon. Mac/OSX stayed out of my way for a few years and was my justification for using it; who's got time to have to deal with the usual linux desktop problems when you just need a machine to do email ssh and a browser, right? I'm not sure really when, but Mac+OSX stopped being the best solution some while ago (for me at least). It's just a constant source of annoyance now (honestly, let an email password expire and see how many times it grabs focus from your editor, I get at least two full on kernel panics a week, distnoted randomly eats a core all day, I have an alias called something like "fsckoff" which does a kill on coreaudiod for when airplay stops working, I'm increasingly nervous about running prop stuff, yadda yadda). The macbook is a pretty cute little machine though, super skinny. As for BSD? I don't think I'd bother using a BSD on a lappy that you are actually planning on lugging around, makes a nice workhorse in the home office though if you don't want to have to mess with it too much! |