Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface...
by FireBeyond on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:21PM
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I considered all these issues and just ordered the new XPS 13 Dev Edition. I'm a bit nervous about making the change (and the rest of my ecosystem is macOS/iOS), but kinda excited.
Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface...
by lucisferre on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:10PM
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Wow, we have a bunch on order at our office. If we have even half these problems they are all going back and we're getting Dell's or Lenovo's. Which is a really sad and disappointing outcome for me to consider.
Re:Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface...
by tuddman on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:25PM
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I was a solid proponent of OSX for all development. I've only had to go through 2 macbooks in the better part of a decade, upgrading the OSX versions along the way ... and so, when it was time recently to buy macbook #3, I was actually a little sad that Apple's slipped so much recently and I had to go with an Asus zenbook (of course gutting windows 10 and running Ubuntu :-) Its running great, with none of the issues I was having with Mavericks.
yes, I would've liked to stick with Apple & OSX. no, I don't feel I could and still be as productive as I need to be.
I've had the following problems:
1) They wrote a driver that blew out my speaker and I had to wait 5 weeks for a replacement. http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/11/30/apple-updates-boot... 2) There is graphical tearing and glitching everywhere. http://www.macrumors.com/2016/12/02/new-macbook-pro-graphics... 3) The OS restarts itself randomly. 4) You cannot plug in an external monitor and use a bluetooth mouse simultaneously.
I love macOS. I make software for macOS. The decline is real and people should start considering alternatives.