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I'm not sure how you think that they cost $3k but one of the nice thing about Apples is that they don't depreciate nearly as sharply as a whitebox/big name machine. I pay for my model refreshes by waiting until they come out as refurbs, keeping them in good shape, and then making my money back when selling on Craigslist. I get a new machine every year and I literally pay nothing or if I end up spending money out of my pocket it's less than $150.Even so, I simply cannot justify to myself spending $3,000+ on a computer when I can get one with equal specs for less than half that amount especially when I consider how rapidly technology evolves and they depreciate.
I get a new machine every year and I literally pay nothing or if I end up spending money out of my pocket it's less than $150.
ASUS Zenbook UX31E-DH52 - sexa~!
It literally looks like a Chinese knockoff of a Macbook Air right down to the same backplate and lettering style as an Apple machine. Dear fuck.
Incoming fanboy accusations begin... now.
(ignore the fucking red arrows)
So in other words there really isn't any real reason other than maybe a "hey look at me I spent a ton of money on a laptop" sign. Sounds like a good idea.
I'm not sure how you think that they cost $3k but one of the nice thing about Apples is that they don't depreciate nearly as sharply as a whitebox/big name machine. I pay for my model refreshes by waiting until they come out as refurbs, keeping them in good shape, and then making my money back when selling on Craigslist. I get a new machine every year and I literally pay nothing or if I end up spending money out of my pocket it's less than $150.
It literally looks like a Chinese knockoff of a Macbook Air right down to the same backplate and lettering style as an Apple machine. Dear fuck.
Incoming fanboy accusations begin... now.
(ignore the fucking red arrows)
So in other words there really isn't any real reason other than maybe a "hey look at me I spent a ton of money on a laptop" sign. Sounds like a good idea.
And resell value. You get your money back on resell of a Mac. People at work ask me all the time how I can afford to upgrade every year and I show them the math. You can't sell an 18-month old PC for 2/3 what you paid. I can with a Mac.
Thanks for the info. I might eventually get a MBP or MBA to try however for my job Windows serves me well. It's never a bad idea to try different things though.
Anyone seeing companies or entire departments of non-technical users migrating to Macs?
Anyone seeing companies or entire departments of non-technical users migrating to Macs?
In healthcare.
This is how I started using them. My linux workstation was replaced by an older G4 Macbook ages ago when I was a supercomputing admin - built in SSH, Expose, good battery life, and a really small form factor? Win. And I could program natively on it, and just have to make minor tweaks to get it to run on our clustered SUSE or AIX machines. Now, I can't go back.
I was actually thinking of getting a Mac as a replacement for Linux.
As someone who is works at a datacenter and manages multiple Windows, Linux, and Unix machines, routers, switches, and vSphere, my MBA has become invaluable. I have a Dell Latitude at my desk, but I bring the MBA in every day and do most of my work on it.
Laziness not arrogance lol. I thought in a thread about Macs and in the same sentence as Dell Latitude that the abbreviation would be clear.Apple arrogance right there! MBA = Masters of Business Administration. When you try to redefine this famous TLA that is a sign of extreme arrogance. I bow before you!
So in other words there really isn't any real reason other than maybe a "hey look at me I spent a ton of money on a laptop" sign. Sounds like a good idea.
Good find, I was using the driver from here: http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=31What kind of serial to USB adapter do you have? I had to download a driver for mine.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osx-pl2303/
'What terminal app you guys using with those? I still boot a VM for Hyperterminal.