[kwlug-disc] Jason's new book

[Stuart Seeley]

You're not alone Doug...   their entire line of laptops are a solid do not
buy at the moment as far as I'm concerned due to the keyboards.

For a while there Apple really was making the best laptops/desktops... I
bought a cheese grater when they went intel, sold it for $1000 after 8
silent and solid years.
Also agree on the apple trackpads... no one else has it dialed in/figured
out quite as well when it comes to palm rejection or tracking accuracy.

I did buy a Dell XPS13 a few years back and ended up returning it due to
track pad jitters...
Currently using HP laptops... not retail-store ish or cheap, but available
on hpshopping.com
(Disclaimer: Employee in the family;Feel free to delete this email now.)

ZBook Studio G3 (closest thing they make to a macbook pro I guess)
ZBook 15 G2 (big/heavy,4k dislpay)
Zbook 14 (older, but I really like this one)
(I would avoid their entire consumer line personally...)

The Studio G3 has this thunderbolt dock which has been a complete driver
nightmare for about a year since launch... but it's well sorted out now.
The only one I have linux on at the moment is the 14.. but if I'm not
mistaken you can put the newer ones in legacy mode/non-secure boot or
whatever it is to install.

All the best.

Stuart


On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 3:07 PM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> I've been using a Macintosh since 1984. My current Mac is a 2010 MacBook
> Air. At the time I bought it, it was the best laptop on the market. The
> build quality was much better than any PC laptop that I could find in
> retail stores, and it was also much lighter. I'm really pleased with how
> long it has lasted. I still use it daily as my only laptop.
>
> Unfortunately, Apple doesn't currently sell any hardware that I would
> consider buying, and I doubt they will sell hardware I want ever again. The
> current MacBooks have a bad keyboard with unacceptably low key travel, and
> they are unreliable, with an outrageous repair cost. The ribbon cable that
> runs power to the backlight is thinner and more prone to breaking than in
> laptop models from the past, with a really high repair cost. The boot rom
> is designed to make it impossible to boot Linux. Good trackpad, though, and
> nice display. The fastest Mac desktop you can currently buy is a
> reconditioned Mac Pro "cheese grater" edition, built in 2006 (from a third
> party) with upgraded CPU, RAM, GPU and SSD. Nothing Apple currently sells
> can compete, and new Mac desktops are mostly not upgradeable. And I have
> never considered buying an iOS device, due to the walled garden, and the
> impossibility of running my own software on it, and also because of the
> surveillance and spyware.
>
> So I view Mac as a dying ecosystem. At some point, my MacBook will die,
> and I will need to buy a Linux laptop to replace it. The Dell XPS 13 looks
> like a nice replacement.
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, at 9:01 AM, Chamunks wrote:
>
> The big reason I like apple is I just throw an ever increasing fist full
> of cash at them every 4-8 years and I get a toaster with a lever I pull and
> when I pull that lever I get my toast.  If I can get a PC that behaves
> exactly as I expect with no superfluous bullshit like Windows and other
> crapware along with a colossal ecosystem full of spare parts online than
> I'll switch.  But until PC becomes ubiquitous with at least some of the
> aforementioned game breakers then I'm sticking where I am for my
> workstations.
>
> If nothing else I would consider switching my laptop for a Chromebook if I
> could get a Chromebook without the Google in it.
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 5:20 PM Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
> This is priceless! Quote:
>
> """
>
> Keeping older Apple products prevents you from living your life to the
> fullest, as those products do not  contain the latest innovations. {#63:
> Plus, you won‟t look cool in Starbucks.}
>
> """
> On 2019-01-21 3:19 p.m., CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>
> Frequent KWLUG speaker Jason Eckert just finished a short (70 pages) book
> on "Escaping the Cult of Mac"; and it's a hilarious read.  I recommend that
> you check it out.
>
> You can download it from his Github page:
> https://github.com/jasoneckert/CultOfMac
>
>
>
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