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posted by janrinok on Wednesday December 14 2016, @02:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the performance-versus-hype dept.

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: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday December 14 2016, @10:49AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday December 14 2016, @10:49AM (#441228)

    I put my money where my mouth was and bought a System76 laptop. Extremely nice machine with zero problems, and doesn't throw money to Microsoft or Apple. A little pricier than a Dell, but less than Apple.

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