What's your favourite part of the MBP?

[0989383]

So what PC are you intending to buy? Honestly, there's a lot of alternatives maybe you'd be better finding a Lenovo Forum or a Dell Forum and you'd find less people like me (Fans of the Mac) and more people who agree?

 

[spacebro]

So what PC are you intending to buy? Honestly, there's a lot of alternatives maybe you'd be better finding a Lenovo Forum or a Dell Forum and you'd find less people like me (Fans of the Mac) and more people who agree?

I was all in with mac and I hope they turn it around before you see me carrying a fricken dell! I am actually impressed with the linux desktop I put together as a stopgap. I still use my maxed 2015 15" like to take notes in meetings or read pdfs on airplanes. Really loved mac and all apple products on the day it arrived. My MacBook will suffice for a long time now that I do all my serious work on linux. I just want apple to turn it around and give me something to do serious work on.

 

[0989383]

I was all in with mac and I hope they turn it around before you see me carrying a fricken dell! I am actually impressed with the linux desktop I put together as a stopgap. I still use my maxed 2015 15" like to take notes in meetings or read pdfs on airplanes. Really loved mac and all apple products on the day it arrived. My MacBook will suffice for a long time now that I do all my serious work on linux. I just want apple to turn it around and give me something to do serious work on.

Linux is pretty good. From what I know (not much) and I hear about it from users. Wouldn't Linux on Mac hardware be a decent solution for you?

 

[spacebro]

Linux is pretty good. From what I know (not much) and I hear about it from users. Wouldn't Linux on Mac hardware be a decent solution for you?

Its easy to say linux is nice when you have a MacBook with parallels ready for stuff like Skype and the occasional windows-only tool. Using 2 computers like this I don't need either one to be super beefy. A 4 cores 16gb linux machine is powerful enough for most anything if you don't have to run any VMs on it. To go MacBook-only though, needs some beefing up to run 2 VMs, probably want 6 cores 32gb ram these days or 64gb ram since the mac won't upgrade.

 

[Mac-key]

I was all in with mac and I hope they turn it around before you see me carrying a fricken dell! I am actually impressed with the linux desktop I put together as a stopgap. I still use my maxed 2015 15" like to take notes in meetings or read pdfs on airplanes. Really loved mac and all apple products on the day it arrived. My MacBook will suffice for a long time now that I do all my serious work on linux. I just want apple to turn it around and give me something to do serious work on.

I'm not sure what "serious" work you are NOT getting done on your MBP. I got a ton of "serious" work done on my 2011 15" MBP - work like thousands of $$ worth of video editing projects on Adobe Premiere, or professional photography work using Lightroom and Photoshop.

I also did some "serious" work using a virtual machine and running windows...

I did all this on my 2011 and am still doing so these days on my new/refurbed 2015 machine.