Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I'm moving away from it too, except I use a mac at work and don't know the command line functions for windows.

Pfft I wish I was stuck on a mac for work. Stuck on windows at work under heavy restrictions and poor buying decisions and I hate it. Few people have macs for whatever reason and they look much happier breezing along with their tasks in a lovely environment. (projecting)

I do loads of breezing. If by breezing you mean posting shit on this forum.

#iwanttousewindowscrywank enjoy your plastic boxes lads.

I have a Dell E7470 from work, 16 GB or RAM and a Core i7 CPU 6600U running at 2.6 Ghz.

It does what I need but I hate, in order:

• The keyboard
  
• The trackpad
  
• The physical size and weight of the thing
  

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/d/surface-laptop/90fc23dv6snz/KR02

£2,149!

You're not allowed to complain about price in the Apple thread.

Lenovo Yoga 910 or the thinkpad yoga or the thinkpad 13 or the dell XPS 13

I will never spend my own money on a Dell.

I could become the first leica windows user!

Oxymoron?

Dont do it, there will be a disturbance in the force if you do.

Macbook, i7 and 16 GB, £1,654, 0.92kg
Macbook Pro, 13", i7 and 16 GB, £2,199, 1.37kg

So there's £545 between them in price and a pound in weight (mixing my units, sue me).

The physical size, shoved into a rucksack, is not that much of a difference - but the weight (if running to work) would be perceptible.

However, putting that to one side, is the performance difference between the two machines represented well by the financial difference or is it greater than (or less than) the £545 suggests?

We're now actually well beyond what I wanted to spend, maybe a better comparison would be the non-touch bar 13" MBP with the base core i5, 16 GB of ram and 256 of storage at £1,629.

I may just park this exercise, it's a lot of money to spend to then find out you got the wrong thing.

buy two 15" top spec macbook pros and leave one at home and one at work. easy. #douevenbuyer

Come on, I'm not Amey.

Buy the lesser of the two. Use it for whatever the return period is, take it back. If it meets your needs, win. If you think the grass is greener elsewhere, try the pro. If you want to go back to the MacBook, just return the pro and get a MacBook again. Minor faff, but only you can make this decision really. Amey rinsed the returns policy pretty hard iirc.

I've spent this week lugging my pro (admittedly 15") about. Anything I do next week will be on the 12" because fuck that. Weighs a ton.

^ good point. With time machine the downtime will be minimal

Wait, so I can order a custom-build Macbook with the gruntier processor and 16 GB RAM, then return it in 14 days for a full refund, having used the machine for that period (without marking it)?

The MacBook and MacBook Pro i7s are miles apart. Miles. Miles. Go MacBook Pro i5.

Neil, the first ever MacBook Air weight 1.36kg.

The current MacBook Pro is already as light as that.

I did this for about 4 months

@Amey - OTP or built to order?

There's a world of difference between the different i7s used in them. This is the top of the line i7 in the macbook pro, way more powerful than the macbook one
15"
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-7920HQ+%40+3.10GHz&id=3007

13"
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-7567U+%40+3.50GHz