Re:Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts
by PearlRiver on Sunday March 01, 2026 @02:34PM
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I am at that age were I do not want anything new. Windows is still basically what it was when I was young- with the caveat that you have to spend a few hours tweaking it. Which is not a huge deal for something you do once every 5 years.
> it's the hardware that makes Macs such an appealing dev machine. Large glass trackpads with incredible touch controls, aluminum bodies, long lasting batteries, cool and quiet
Probably so, but I've seen more than a few Macbook Pro keyboards dome up due to heat so bad that you couldn't close the lid.
Apple tries something weird every now and then and then a year later we get something different. But I'd wager macOS is not what really attracts devs to Apple - it's the hardware that makes Macs such an appealing dev machine. Large glass trackpads with near perfect touch controls, aluminum bodies, incredibly long lasting batteries, cool and quiet, great screens, and years of support.
Snapdragon is only just now finally taking off in the Windows/Linux space, so the landscape could finally change here soon, but for now anyone who's gone ARM is not looking to ever go back to x64 hardware - at least for development (gaming is another convo).