Re:Ask HN: Are you reconsidering your upcoming Mac purchase?
by daviddever23box on Saturday August 14, 2021 @08:11AM
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Waiting on a large-display iMac, only because my eyes could use the larger canvas.
M1 MacBook Air is class-leading, and there is no Wintel equivalent of the 24” iMac.
There are plenty of imperfect elements within the Apple ecosystem, but hardware is not one of them.
iCloud (excluding third-party storage backend) is a complete ecosystem; a sufficient parity replacement would take a decade to commercialize.
If you want a sufficiently-decent Linux or FreeBSD hardware ecosystem, call the Qualcomms of the world to task for continuing to make self-service wireless drivers a PitA. Ubuntu remains the most widely-supported option.
As for desktop development, Linux is an embarrassment; Flutter is your only hope. Look and feel should never be second-class; shave your neck-beard and start taking the native presentation layer seriously.
M1 MacBook Air is class-leading, and there is no Wintel equivalent of the 24” iMac.
There are plenty of imperfect elements within the Apple ecosystem, but hardware is not one of them.
iCloud (excluding third-party storage backend) is a complete ecosystem; a sufficient parity replacement would take a decade to commercialize.
If you want a sufficiently-decent Linux or FreeBSD hardware ecosystem, call the Qualcomms of the world to task for continuing to make self-service wireless drivers a PitA. Ubuntu remains the most widely-supported option.
As for desktop development, Linux is an embarrassment; Flutter is your only hope. Look and feel should never be second-class; shave your neck-beard and start taking the native presentation layer seriously.