Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

And this.

If Sketch gets ported to Windows, I'd consider a surface book.

Wasnt sketch all about going against the status quo/adobe? When will Apple become the status quo?

Lets make microsoft great again.

Apple already become rhe status quo the moment they're no longer called Macintosh.

Apple has been the status quo for ages now and it's getting stale.

On the flip side, can you imagine turning up to work on site somewhere and whipping out a plastic Acer laptop?
It's not at all unusual to work in places that are 100% Apple either, so turning up with some Windows thing might cause IT headaches.

Just specced out a ThinkPad P50...

£2k gets you a Xeon E3, 32GB ram, NVIDIA Quadro M2000M 4GB etc etc.

Yep, am done. It's quite a pain as I run a company that has, for better or worse, grown up around a mac "ecosystem" (vomit). So we've got a few iMacs, MacBook Pros, iPads and iPhones. They'll all be fine for a year or two before needing to move on but when we do it won't be with Apple.

We are 95% Apple and a few nutjobs like me who are on Lenovo + Linux and were thinking of moving to Apple once the MacBook Pro was announced.

I suspect we will have a lot more Dell XPS 13" 16GB RAM 512GB SSDs in this office in the very near future. They are well loved by a few people that have them here, and everyone is impressed with them. Mac users are all grumbling about the new Pros, it feels like a change is in the air (just as I was finally ready to move to Apple).

That seems to be the sentiment in a lot of places right now...

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/amd-radeon-pro-400-series-specs-macbook-pro/

Yeah, think i'm done. Line crossed at 2.5k.

A Dell XPS 13 with current i7, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD is £1500 at the moment. Can't argue with that.

EDIT: MBP of similar spec is £2k

yeah but its not just sketch .. there is principle, framer, origami etc. These people just need to get out of the apple bubble.

I think I can easily get back to PS with Sketch like workflow (all vector and lean with artboards) and low fidelity prototyping with something like Invision.

I think the line was crossed when they spent all that money on Beats headphones!

To be honest, if it really is similar (or rather, pretty much the same_ spec I would be happy to pay a £500 premium for a better looking machine, but I suspect.. hold on, fact check... nope... similar spec Macbook is 2,399.00. Too much of a premium for me.

Most corp accounts get around a 10% discount on RRP, and anyone with a .ac.uk email is able to get the student discount of around 10-15%.

So that Dell, which btw is actually quite attractive, comes out around the £1,350 mark, and for corps you can then less the VAT.

It's a very good looking and solid bit of power user kit.

Can you hackintosh a Dell laptop?

Yes.

So this thread is now about max PC power to hackintosh?

Adobe stuff runs better on Windows anyway.

Sketch on windows:

https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/how-i-started-using-sketch-app-in-windows-756e7091b0bc#.3w6iqeawm

Can't get that you lot are actually considering a pc laptop. I'm yet to see one that's even close to as nice as a macbook. Happy to be proven wrong though.

Dell XPS 13"

+1 Had mine for 2 years now, and I love it. Only thing that ruins it is not having the option to make that beautiful QHD screen matte. WTF

Also @kboy you should try and see one IRL. Other than the 3K CF its pretty nice. And you stop seeing the CF pretty quickly.

Another thing that impressed me was the customer service, to a point, when I smashed my screen last year. £160 for a replacement, fitted at my office.

I don't think any are quite as nice, but some get close... but when they are twice as fast and half the cost, the trade off is worth it (these are tools of our trade right, how we make our money).

I'll prob end up buying a maxed out 15 inch pro still as I am a sucker for aesthetics...

^ +1

I'm tempted to run a hackintosh and hide it under my desk. Then I start reading up about putting together a pc and I quickly get reminded about why Apple stuff is worth the premium

Building a computer is pretty easy, just got to make sure your mobo has the right slots for the parts you want. I'm tempted to swap a couple of components out on my main pc to dual boot with Mac OS but I'm not sure what to do about the keyboard buttons.