On 2014-10-02, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, October 2, 2014 10:48 am, Keith Keller wrote: >> >> I know this is probably a bit sacrilegious, but recently I have been >> tending to get a Mac laptop, and run any linux distributions I need >> inside a VM. OS X is (just barely) tolerable enough to be usable for >> most of my desktop purposes. (It's not really cost-effective compared >> to non-Apple laptops, unfortunately.) > > Somebody said: having mac is like driving Ferrari. Subaru or Ford will get > you there as well, so you just pay extra for chic. I agree to a point. To extend the analogy further (perhaps too far), I pay a lot for my Ferrari, but I don't have to spend days researching whether I should get Subaru, or Ford, or Toyota, and then I don't have to spend days or weeks fighting to get my Toyota working (and, likely, regretting that I didn't get a Ford) because I really really refuse to use the default Toyota engine. If getting OS X to do what I want were any more difficult, I would abandon it. So really I'm paying extra for laziness. (FWIW, and not really on-topic, in my home environment my family has apps that only run on OS X, so that locks me in there. And at work, much of my group is on OS X, so I get benefit from being on the same platform as my colleagues.) --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us