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Re:How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists by SomeStupidPoint on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:03AM (#13221004)
I switched from a MBP to a Surface, and eventually to a $500 generic "hybrid" laptop (with decent Linux support).

Turns out moving to the cloud for developer work and not playing videogames on my laptop really cuts down on my computer needs. (Also, saving that much money justifies more cell data to tether with, so it's actually more convenient at times.)

YMMV though, because I worked in ML, and so had to make the cloud move because no laptop was going to be a 4GPU, 32core machine, much less a cluster of them. Once that's your workflow anyway, the switch in hardware is pretty seamless.

Re:How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists by JW_00000 on Saturday December 24, 2016 @04:11PM (#13251639)
Which cloud host do you use? Isn't in expensive to get the kind of specs you want?
Re:How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists by blackguardx on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:33AM (#13221331)
What brand/model is your generic hybrid?
Re:How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists by SomeStupidPoint on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:49AM (#13221503)
Dell Inspiron 13, 5000 Series 2-in-1.

It's not fabulous, and most of the criticisms are correct, but it was $500-600 when I was looking to buy, and has done reasonably well.

Mostly, it was just a choice to save $1-2k on a laptop (every 1-2 years) and spend the money on cellphone data and lattes.