Hello. I'm a yuropoor and in my country at least, Apple is not very popular (except for iPhone - those are very popular).
Macs are perceived as expensive toys for less technical people. One thing I never understood about this whole Mac thing is, though, why do some people who are highly technical, almost geniuses (like the people working at the most advanced artificial intelligence company, DeepMind) - insist on using Macs?
Do you think such people keep macOS or install something else on it?
Seriously I have seen so many pictures of genius scientists, innovators, AI researchers with PhDs in math and compSci always using Macs. What gives?
They use macs for their power points and the hard work is done on real computers
Bentley Morgan
they likely ssh into a linux server to do work
Evan Bennett
This and do web development on macs. I don't like the istore backdoors in osx. I prefer linux and windows enterprise.
Nicholas Stewart
a UNIX operating system with software support is very good for productivity
Eli Jackson
>>Macs are perceived as expensive toys for less technical people Pretty much everything you use daily was made on a Mac. Yes, including Sup Forums.
Ryan Garcia
>freetards in damage control mode lmao
John Carter
I had a Macbook Pro. It's a luxury device. You pay more for less that computing power. It's the closest thing to bringing the terminal to normies so there's that.
Thomas Brown
This. Unix certified OS with paid developers working on it is a dream for development. It's like the best parts of Linux and windows put together.
Joshua James
Sup Forums runs on mac minis brah
Jeremiah Morgan
>It's like the best parts of Linux and windows put together. you just made my dick hard I want a Mac now :(
Eli Martinez
Fuck off, shills
Dominic Moore
>Fuck off, shills pajeet detected 10 rupees have been deposited to your Microsoft Linux account
Isaac White
Real work is made in Linux servers, mostly research makes jobs read or write paper or code some example code.
Just buy mac won't give it, high education and hundreds books read research.
Robert Anderson
>Microsoft Linux account Did you hit your head or something?
Henry Rodriguez
Very thinly veiled pro-Mac thread. Not even a good one.
>Implying being able to download a "Not an Emulator" emulator for linux somehow equates to a "Microsoft Linux Account"
Evan Baker
100 rupee credits have been deposited to your Microsoft Store account
Landon Bennett
Because it's Unix with a much better desktop, commercial software and hardware support, good font rendering and 99.9% of the open source software they need for work runs on it flawlessly.
On top of that, nobody runs big computing jobs on a single laptop or a desktop anymore anyways. If you have a job that does a substantial amount of processing you develop it on the laptop with a small amount of test data and then run it on a cluster.
Tyler Williams
>Macs are perceived as expensive toys for less technical people that's just you who took the bait. the world is bigger than Sup Forums, where people normally form their own opinions.
Why do these "computerphiles" say "neither" to the question of "PC or Mac"? Like, "neither. Linux" --- WTF? So PC=Windows ? Linux is not PC? what the actual fuck
Joseph Evans
Macs have premium parts, like the screen, construction and good battery life. But for that price, you can get better shit than an i5 and AYMD GPU
Gavin Gray
>when the creepiest guy on the office says linux Not so far from reality
Evan Cox
We have this thread almost every day, made by the same literal paid shills. The same exact answer is given every single time: because those people develop for all 3 major OS's and since macOS is locked down to macbooks, they need one for development. This answer gets ignored every single time.
Brayden Hall
Shit keyboard, horrible package management, no one gives a shit about muh UNIX certificate, desktop is definitely not superior to Gnome, font rendering is just above average.
Bentley Torres
There's literally not a single better defaul font rendering on any OS and Gnome doesn't offer anything superior on its desktop experience
Caleb Thompson
There are people at tech field who still use Windows
Logan Smith
Where's the prompt for each individual conflict when merging 2 folders in macOS?
Isaac Cooper
Google developers almost unanimously use OS X these days and 95% of them don't develop anything for Windows. They choose it because it's objectively superior to Linux on the desktop.
Dylan Jenkins
>and here is my proof:
And no, it's not objectively superior, you just like it more.
Charles Gonzalez
>hard work
like gaming and coding ?
Jordan Lopez
The modern Linux desktop is such a disaster that OS X is easily objectively superior.
Benjamin Fisher
>and here is my proof:
Justin Peterson
>The modern Linux desktop is such a disaster that OS X is easily objectively superior. you mean that OSX is prettier or more functional?
John Morales
both
Cooper Jenkins
Gr8 b8 m8, a few loonix losers fell for it. I'm a Windows user, mac is pretty and shit, but is a shitbag compared to linux, you just have to be smart enough to tinker the shit out of it and make it work like you want
Wyatt Scott
and the immature outcasts say windows because muh graphic cards muh video games muh normie culture with all that video gamey hoodies. i'm glad i'm better than all of you
Grayson Jones
>i'm glad i'm better than all of you >lurks Sup Forums
Andrew Turner
>One of the quotes says they prefer windows >freetard Please refrain from low tier shitposting, thank you.
John King
post your outfit. who's your favourite designer ? what's your favourite album ?
Charles Davis
Why open the same thread all the time? Well, most likely because you are a shill, but I'll still ask.
Landon Rogers
>post your outfit. who's your favourite designer ? what's your favourite album ? I'm a designer and I think that having a favorite designer is for faggots
Xavier Martin
no, i mean fashion designer
Lucas Morales
wow man. i am the guy that started making apple thread recently. didn't think that it would awaken more apple movement like this.
apple sees computing differently compared to other companies. that's all, i guess
Nolan Campbell
That's the actual answer. They don't get banned because they rephrase the question, but it's definitely shilling. A lot of their posts have identical word-per-word stories about how they switched from Linux/Windows to Mac and how it's so much better for a list of cherry picked reasons.
Cameron Butler
>spending too much money on clothes I buy my shit on retails, aliexpress and use clothes
Nicholas Nguyen
inferior
David Williams
Well, its also the very same image this fag uses again, well whatever. Just another thing which makes this board more and more unbrowsable.
Bentley Gray
Apple has the highest build quality computers. And subjectively a good looking operating system.
Carter Jackson
>highest build quality >battery held down by glue Sure thing.
Luke Walker
it's the most competitively priced laptop on the market, they aren't all exclusively running mac osx on them
Lincoln Hughes
What does "most competitively priced laptop on the market" mean?
Leo Long
one of the best laptop displays and hardware specs for the price its sold at
Landon Turner
Battery is locked away along with the rest of the computers components in a one piece aluminium chassis.
Cooper Carter
Seek mental help mactoddler.
Justin King
So we went from "the most competitive" to "one of the best".
Other computers have aluninum chassis without holding components with glue. You're just conveniently ignoring any flaws that don't suit your opinion.
Jackson Carter
>>So we went from "the most competitive" to "one of the best".
those two aren't mutually exclusive, competitive means it can fight with others so it's one of the best, not the very best, otherwise it wouldn't be competitive it would be definitively (pronounced DEFFF-INN-IHH-TIV-LEE) the best
take a few more ESL lessons at your cram school before trying to play semantics on words you dont understand, pajeet
Logan Thompson
Seek a job and money Jellyjeet.
Angel Adams
So can you provide some evidence on how it's the most competitive simply because it's one of the best in that area?
Christian Nguyen
>competitive means it can fight with others so it's one of the best You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.
Bentley Jones
>can't even beat a used $500 generic throwaway in performance >high quality
Macshit is LITERALLY for braindead gullible retards and those that believe everything their TV tells them to believe.
Oliver Anderson
(2) Not at all. On the hardware side I don't like the new keyboard they smacked on there Macbook and Mackbook Pro. Plus I think the ekstra display on the Pro is a bad gimmick. And on the software side I really don't like OSX at all. I prefer Linux or Windows by far. None of this changes my previous points tho. Macs still have by far the best build quality of any laptops. I wish it was different cause' I really hate their new keyboard. I'm very much looking forward to the day the Zenbooks raise their production quality to the point of Macs.
Carson Baker
You still haven't showed how they have the best build quality, and I've shown at least one point where they're definitely below average. Repeating a claim doesn't make it true.
Wyatt Ortiz
That Dell is literally just made of plastic? And it has an awful display? The mac easily beats it in build quality. Not sure why you're highlighting CPU clock speeds and price? Did you reply to the correct user?
Aaron Butler
>build quality >throttles quad core cpu down the last gen budget dual core performance
Colton Evans
because youre delusional if you believe in the 'mactoddler' meme most of software available on *nix is also available for macOS combined with superior GUI, it's a pretty good OS
Dylan Morales
False on both claims.
Nolan Thomas
Build quality is hard to argue in text format. I'd say - Go to a store or just watch a review so you get the "feel" of it. If you haven't used a lot of different systems it's obviously not easy to see. If you feel the hinge and the seamless design it's pretty obvious tho.
Dominic Smith
>I ask for proof >replies with muh feels Macfags are a joy to read.
Chase Morgan
Final Cut Pro and other meme programs. Only good thing about Macs.
Thomas Anderson
Yeah you feel build quality of products with your hands? Are you dense? And no I don't need to be using a system to be able to see the quality of said system. Tried a Zenbook too for example, they have acceptable build quality as well. But I guess you must be extremely invested in to your specific system since you refuse to see why others chose differently from us. Try to be more open minded user.
Xavier Fisher
>Yeah you feel build quality of products with your hands? Actual quote from actual macfag.
Aaron Thomas
People just use what they like best. Online battles about what is ""objectively best"" is the remit of autistic teenagers who don't do much work and for whom the brand/software preference is a replacement for personality.
Jaxon Perry
>macshit >superior anything
Asher Smith
>Final Cut Not even applel uses that trash.
Chase Robinson
>2017 >mactoddlers unironically talk about build quality