Sorry you feel that way Ray! I am typing this on my late 2013 MBP and I love it!
500GB of solid state disk is enough for me - and the performance is awesome. I felt the same way about the retina display, but I’ve come to really appreciate it, if only when I’m traveling and not in front of my 27”. Take care, Ken On Feb 4, 2014, at 4:29 PM, [email protected] 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/kenlists%40anderhome.com > > This email sent to [email protected]
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