Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground

Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by aconz2 on Friday January 27, 2017 @04:32PM (#13502863)

"If you want to write yesterday's software, use a laptop" - me / paraphrase of Alan Kay I think?

I get why people are still blacksmiths making door handles and I think that's great. But I'd rather be in a giant machine shop making aircraft carriers.

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Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by brianwawok on Friday January 27, 2017 @04:35PM (#13502892)

I have no idea where this analogy is going.

I'd rather be on a mountain making sleds?

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Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by Chos89 on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:11PM (#13503175)

Don't be a douche, it was a good analogy.

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Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by untog on Friday January 27, 2017 @05:50PM (#13503469)

Of course it wasn't. People on laptops and people on desktops are making the same thing, just desktop users are doing so with more horsepower.

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Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by aconz2 on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:35PM (#13503756)

Sure we're all making software which is just bits in memory, but I think that's an extreme simplification. Maybe you're thinking of how we're all just editing text to make programs? But then that doesn't account for what you do with the program you just wrote.

I think you're thinking of using more horsepower for strong scaling, which is a good use, but I'm more referring to weak scaling. You can work on bigger problems with more horsepower, not just solve the smaller ones faster.

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Re:Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell a... by vacri on Friday January 27, 2017 @07:31PM (#13504031)

And then when you try to deploy that carrier, find out that it's too big for the slipway?

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