Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?

Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by saurik on Sunday September 02, 2018 @12:28PM (#17897516)

After spending a decade optimizing your workflow to work with Apple's operating system, and after investing tons of money into software and peripherals designed for this ecosystem, it isn't so easy to just give up on it all, even if it is pissing you off and making your life miserable: you essentially just sit around having regrets and building up anger at the idiots who screwed it all up.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by tnegoshi on Sunday September 02, 2018 @04:42PM (#17898540)

https://github.com/wmchris/DellXPS15-9550-OSX

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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by tim333 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @06:39PM (#17899076)

You could always get a second hand one from before the recent 'improvements'. (Typed from a well functioning second hand macbook)

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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by some_account on Sunday September 02, 2018 @04:41PM (#17898536)

No, really, you have to leave.

If you don't switch, are you going to use only Apple products your entire life from now? Seriously?

There are many, many devs right now who is switching from MacBooks to Linux machines because Linux on the desktop is really nice (just not perfect), and you suddenly feel very much alive again when you don't sit and wait for Apple to fix your problems. You fix them yourself, and you no longer care for the next version of IOS or the next MacBook etc.

t's freedom, honestly, truly. You are single again. You have left the bad relationship. You are free and happy. So much choice all of a sudden. It's great!

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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by sieabahlpark on Sunday September 02, 2018 @08:05PM (#17899355)

I don't want to spend the time to fix them myself.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a deve... by nolok on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:59AM (#17909048)

There is very little to fix anymore unless you go for exotic hardware. Granted I went very safe with an XPS and Xubuntu, but I don't think I've had a single "how do I make this work" moment.

Ah yes wait one, I had to activate the keyboard switch for the webcam to be detected, but that would have been the same on another os.

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