I'll stick to a windows host with Linux rather than feed Apple ridiculous money for dongles that do shit that should be built in. Multiple display port out and a built in ethernet cable or death - I actually need a laptop that's portable.

I just checked and it looks like the latest MacBook Pro has a single hdmi port and three USB-C ports... so I've got my power cable, my mouse, my keyboard, and my ethernet cable dongle... already at negative one ports. Then I've got two monitors on display port to somehow cram into a single hdmi port - and apparently the processor only supports a single external monitor unless you get the MacBook Pro Pro or MacBook Pro Max... that's impressively shit.

All for 4,649 CAD - I can buy so many more ports on PC with a ridiculous amount of power for 4.5 thousand. I don't mind spending my employer's money, but I want to spend it on shit that's useful for me.

[–] firelizzard 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the machines are better value than Macs.

In my personal experience, Apple laptops are far more durable than the crap Dell, Lenovo, etc are selling. Either way though I'm done with Apple and Microsoft. I doubt I'll ever buy another computer that comes preinstalled with an OS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's a fair complaint - I think the manufacturing quality has taken a nose dive across the board. I had a computer for two months that had oddly poor performance underload before I checked and realized there was no thermal paste between the heatsink and the CPU. I think as computers become more commoditized the quality has been falling more and more.

I also can't really speak to comparative quality as I've never worked maintaining a fleet of computers - just personal devices - but I'd believe it that Macs had a lower defect rate... it's more the design choices that I have an issue with.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You do you, boo. I like my Mac and it suits my needs perfectly. The cost difference is a mere drop in the bucket for my org.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You do, you boo is very much not the sentiment of your meme - and if I'm asking my company for a 4k+ CAD laptop I want one with a sufficient number of ports. My complaints are primarily focused on the fact that Macs are simply poorly designed machines these days, in the PC market I can still get a laptop that hooks up to multiple monitors without needing to lug around multiple dongles.

[–] SatouKazuma 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm starting to find a few (very) hostile users here. I'd say I'm disappointed or shocked, but then I'd be lying because that would imply I had expectations. Programmers I've generally found to be a very toxic bunch, speaking as a software engineer myself. I agree with you entirely, though, on basically everything in this comment.

[–] sukhmel 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd say that programmers now are less toxic than like 10 years ago, even those that already were programmers by then

[–] SatouKazuma 2 points 1 month ago

I wasn't in the field ten years ago, so I have no room to comment there.

[–] firelizzard 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You: judgmental meme dissing windows devs

Them: well-reasoned argument for not buying a mac

You: “You do you, boo”

Classy.