Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by bjoli on Monday April 02, 2018 @05:21PM (#16739450)

I have long said that Mac os X is only useful as a way to start Emacs, but since 10.10 I am not even sure about that.

Of course it is a matter of taste. I get that. I still have to bite my tongue to not yell profanities whenever I hear anything about productivity and Mac OS.

Most of the time I keep my mouth shut. Now I just wanted to tell you that you are not alone. I have to use Mac OS at work. To avoid frustration I have started to let my soul and will leave my body before logging in and let my lobotomized shell I left behind just go with the flow. At least until Emacs is running full screen.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by rootusrootus on Monday April 02, 2018 @06:44PM (#16740152)

I don't suppose it's any consolation, but I feel the same way if I have to use Linux or Windows as a workstation. Different strokes for different folks.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by Entalpi on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:43AM (#16742620)

I guess it depends on what work you do.

As for writing software macOS is nice since it is quite close to Linux and does contain a lot of the UNIX-thinking.

Windows is, IMHO, a user experience mess. Mac is more gentle and aimed to be simple and useful for everyday people. Windows feels like it was designed by a lot of different groups that in the end glued their pieces together in order to ship it.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by jcoffland on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:49AM (#16742903)

> As for writing software macOS is nice since it is quite close to Linux and does contain a lot of the UNIX-thinking.

You know what's even closer to Linux?

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by evilduck on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:03AM (#16745278)

OpenBSD?

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by ekun on Monday April 02, 2018 @08:03PM (#16740630)

Nice thing on windows is I can open the command line type >bash and I've got vim, ssh, sftp, bash whatever immediately. I still don't use that because other telnet, x-window setups are better for me. I never found out how to be productive in OSX vs what I can do in Windows.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by heartbreak on Monday April 02, 2018 @08:58PM (#16740983)

> Nice thing on windows is I can open the command line type >bash and I've got vim, ssh, sftp, bash whatever immediately.

Yes, macOS has a terminal emulator as well.

> I never found out how to be productive in OSX vs what I can do in Windows.

Open Spotlight, type in "Terminal" and hit return.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by philliphaydon on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:31AM (#16742146)

Unsure how that magically makes OS X productive. Stuff is just easier and faster on windows or linux. And I’m tired of OS X randomly crashing or freezing. It’s like windows 98 now.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by iaml on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:55AM (#16742930)

>Stuff is just [...] faster on windows

Windows is the slowest of OSes, see http://www.bitsnbites.eu/benchmarking-os-primitives/

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by danappelxx on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:43AM (#16742193)

Then how does opening the command line in windows magically make it productive? They're just citing a counterpoint.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by bb88 on Monday April 02, 2018 @07:20PM (#16740372)

It's a trendy way to start Emacs. I used one just to use vim.

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