![]() ![]() I use apps like Coda, Reeder, Textastic/SubEthaEdit, and SnippetsLab that just don’t exist on Windows. If I need to connect to a PG server, Postico is my go-to tool, but on Windows the options are both expensive and unpleasant. ![]() On Windows, I have to suffer FileZilla or Cyberduck. Like if I need FTP, on my Mac, Transmit is easily the best. But there’s plenty of smaller programs that don’t have any good counterpart on Windows. I can get GitHub Desktop, Slack, Discord, Atom, Xojo… just about everything I need to get work done on my PC. It’s great that the big players have really embraced both platforms. But even then, the software available for macOS is often sooo much nicer. That means, for cross platform software development, if you can’t have both, have a Mac. Windows is a fine operating system, but I can run Windows on my Mac. They even handle many repairs in-store these days, meaning same-day repairs. For those of us that count on our computers, that kind of turnaround time alone is well worth the extra up front cost. I handed it over to Fedex Tuesday evening, argued with Apple over passwords most of Wednesday, they repaired it Wednesday evening, and I had it back about 10am Thursday morning. Last time I needed repairs on my MacBook Pro, they were replacing the entire upper portion. That screen has a faster refresh rate than any Mac, but what’s the resolution? What is the case made out of? Does it have thunderbolt? How’s the trackpad? And the keyboard? What about tech support? How soon can you have your laptop back if it needs repairs? Well to be fair, specs don’t tell the whole story. Can’t make myself consider paying double for less. Sorry to Mac people, but…those prices! I just bought a Windows laptop last week with similar or better overall specs for under $1200 (including 1TB SSD, 16GB DD4 RAM, 144hz refresh and an NVidia RTX 2060 with 6GB RAM!).
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