Nothing is perfect (I mean, it's still more or less typical commodity hardware and who knows better than us that there's no such thing as bug free?) but... no, this dude is totally crazy. I've never looked back. Further, I've switched most of my family and friends, they aren't looking back either.
they still get very hot. they still don't have dedicated pgup/pgdn keys, the resolution is too high (1280x800 for me), the antialiasing is very blurry!, so expensive, so cold in the winter (the aluminium you ken)
a kick-ass t400 can go for 50% less for a comparable configuration. wait around in the lenovo site for a 20% off deal. they're running them non-stop now. i have t40/t61/z60t and t400. love them all to pieces. one powerbook (my great blunder) sold on ebay :)
oh, i dropped the z60t on its side from a considerable height. (~ 4m) a bit of the plastic on the side flew off, the monitor became unhinged. i just popped everything back together, kept working. wouldn't try this with a delicate powerbook.
The article is NOT accurate. I am a happy owner of Dell laptop with Vista - and the guy insulted those two things :)
Seriously, I think its a matter of personal preferences.I am using my dell/vista 10-14 hours a day, restart maybe once a week/fortnight and have problems once in a while,
But hey, I am a developer myself, I know the process of software development too well to complain about anything sofware/hardware related. It's just the way it is.
And I think it's a bit lame to expect something that guarantees you flowless experience whatever you do. A computer is a bit more complex than a calculator. It gives you more power and more freedom and eventually more ways to break things.
Yes, lol, yes. by all means.. if you are a linux guy, just buy a linux laptop (pick your flavor). You can get 2 or 3 for the price of one mac, and it will probably last longer (physical hardware)
i believe that's because they get to run their -nix apps and rich apps (OS X/Cocoa) - mix in some Parallels and they got their windows apps too. that said, i have no interest in owning an apple machine because [1] i can run -nix apps on my servers and virtual machines, [2] i have no interest in OS X native apps, and [3] for value i get / costs, apple always loses out to machines i build for myself or laptops from dell
My brother is a big fan of his MacBook Pro he uses for work and it's mainly because of his Unix admin background. When I look over his shoulder its all log files and terminal windows. Personally I've had too many issues to warrant a change of OS/Hardware for something that looks snazzy and has a pretty interface.
Is this article accurate? Seems like many, possibly most, computer science people use Macs and have much love for them.