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I wouldn’t say that. Apple's hardware neglect is not a privilege only developers experience.

I'm disappointed that it took this long for an article on a Homebrew vulnerability to turn into Apple bashing.

For what it's worth, I didn't mean my comment that started this thread to be Apple bashing at all. I think it's pretty reasonable for Apple to ignore this market; it's quite niche. It's just also a bummer because their laptops were the pinnacle of what I want in a computer for a long time.

A 2014 Macbook Pro with third party 2TB SSD is still pretty dope, unless you need heavy video rendering or something like that.

Totally, but it's increasingly hard to find the older ones, and they wear out eventually.

I don't think the 2018 MacBook Pro leaves much to be desired unless you want features that would turn it into a ThinkBook-like brick. For $50 you get a charging USB-C hub that allows you even to leave your power brick home. The iMac Pro is pretty great.

Power Mac is a different story.....don't know how and when they're going to fix this. That's a real shame.

> unless you want features that would turn it into a ThinkBook-like brick.

Yeah literally all many of us want is a standard keyboard with function keys instead of the touchbar. A couple regular USB ports would be nice as well so we can plug in a mouse and keyboard without needing dongles. Neither of those things would turn their "pro" laptop into a brick.

MacBook 2015: power brick (with broken irreplaceable cord) + Ethernet dongle

MacBook 2018: USB-C dock with replaceable cord

So in my use case I actually got rid of one dongle at a price lower than a replacement MagSafe 2 adapter. I really liked MagSafe though.

Never used the F-keys really. ESC is not that hard for me to live without but that's all personal. But the difference in performance is quite noticeable.

>I really liked MagSafe though.

The Surface line by Microsoft has a very similar magnetic power+docking connector. The only issue I have with it is that the LED doesn't change color when the device is fully charged.

The line includes:

- Laptop,

- Pro (tablet + typecover)

- Book (tablet + keyboard + GPU + battery)

I think if an x1 Carbon ran OS X, you'd see a massive number of people migrating from Macbooks over to it.

The latest-gen XPS 13 comes preloaded with ubuntu and works really well.

I have the previous xps 13 running linux now. I'd like to support them, but unfortunately, CostCo sold me the Windows version with mostly equivalent specs for like $400 cheaper than Dell had the Developer Edition at the time. I replaced the Broadcom WiFi chip for $30 and was good to go. I think I saw where the current model no longer has replaceable WiFi modules though.

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