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The MacBook Pro introduction in October caused unusually negative reactions among professional users due to the realization that Apple no longer caters equally to casual and professional customers as it had in the past [YouTube video]. Instead, the company appears to be following an iOS-focused, margin-driven strategy that essentially relegates professionals to a fringe group.
This has well-known developers such as Salvatore Sanfilippo (of the Redis project) consider a move back to Linux. Perhaps that's a good moment to look at the current state of Mac hardware support in the kernel. While Macs are x86 systems, they possess various custom chips and undocumented quirks that the community needs to painstakingly reverse-engineer.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @04:23AM
Forgot to add that I would really like to run a BSD on it, but none of the BSDs have an equivalent to the linux broadcom-sta driver which makes that a no-go (because the macbook air has BCM4360 which isn't supported by bwi or bwn).