Apple

Glad you found the right computer for you but just in case someone would like to read the review of someone who went the other way I'll state my experience. I received a new MacBook Pro at work and I had a 2012 model. This new model is easily the best laptop I've ever owned. I don't really use the retina display but you can scale the screen to 1920 x 1200 which is very useful for me because I like to use Eclipse/WebStorm with two editors open. The SSD is the big difference though - the time it takes to boot from sleep and write files has dramatically decreased. But most importantly, for me, it's no longer like having a furnace in your lap. It's very quiet and cool. I believe it's a combination of the SSD and the processor but I can now run Eclipse, WebStorm, Photoshop and VMWare in Unity mode without feeling the computer slowly turning to a halt. In fact, I don't even notice a drop in performance with those and about a dozen other lighter weight apps open.

Anyway, that's my experience...

MB Pro i7 2.7 16GB RAM with 500 GB SSD

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:29 PM, <email@hidden> wrote:

Apple's MacBook strategy has finally done it. I have bought my first non-Apple computer since 1989. I went to the Apple Store to replace my main dev machine, a 2012-ish MacBook Pro, which worked great for me even if it did seem fiendishly heavy. But I could not get myself to buy one of the new models.

Sorry I just do not care so much about the Retina display. I want computation power and disk space. Apparently this is too much to ask of Apple. Smallish hard disks and not really enough RAM and who the heck thinks soldering that RAM to the board is a good idea? Really! And at the store I could get the barely adequate RAM or the maybe-enough disk space, but not both. If I want both, I have to order on-line. Wow. Never mind.

So I got an Asus with twice as much hard disk space and similar CPU speeds for less than half the price. I figured out enough about WIndows 8 to install Ubuntu over it and it is good. I guess if Apple's strategy is to dumb down the general-purpose computer so it can only be a phone or tablet, then they are succeeding.

It was relatively easy to get my MySQL databases moved over and to re-build my eclipse environment. I will have to recheck the Project Wonder install page. There are some details that may need to be fixed, but nothing that stopped me.

I think I am going to miss the two-finger drag on the Mac's trackpad, though. And I seriously need to figure out how to left-click on the trackpad more reliably. And hitting the grow box on the windows is a challenge, to say the least. I see the "grow box" icon and then click and, oops, missed the window again! O well. So far, this seems a small price to pay. And can Apple's DRM mess up my music collection, as it has done twice? Nope. And I am so not going to miss iTunes or the App Store....

Well, it was nice to see that installing and using WO and Wonder on non-Apple hardware is just fairly easy and just works, as it should. Now, back to work.

cheers - ray

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