I would be more than happy to pay Apple for thier OS, but have ZERO interest in buying their obsolete Mac hardware. I also have no problem with LL moving this to the suggestions section as am well aware of where they are on the process to get Windows 3.x out.
Hmm.15” i9, 32Gb, vega20, fastest SSD in a notebook runs rings around all but the most expensive, bulky, ugly, heavy Win gaming laptops and a lower TCO to boot. Sorry but nothing obsolete about that. Found anyone else who offers an 18 core, all-in one with built in 5K monitor? Obsolete, my arse to paraphrase someone… The old Obsolete or Expensive Apple bleats have been disproven many times over. I say this as a mixed Apple/Win user with top spec gear on both platforms.
As for licence, It’s not a matter of whether you want to pay Apple for their OS or not, licence is very specific - Apple hardware only. On anything else it’s …
Hows the Face Biometric unlock, touch screen and tilt sensitive stylus support on that?
Bigger stats don’t make for current technology, just batter burn, its about fitness and adaptability.
I prefer light, solid keyboard and adaptability.
Oh and the CLOSED system approach just adds to it. I started with Apple in the beginning. They left me.
I have paid Mac software that I use sometimes, like scrivner… Like I said its a fine OS, but lagging HP, DELL, and Even Acer in the capability of the machines. Pretty much ignored for iOS platform.
Touch ID is instant and secure as opposed to 2d face used on other PC’s that can be defeated by a picture, a secure, fast file system, don’t need touch, or stylus, so 100% fitness and adaptability. Outrun all the brands you mention in capability and lower total cost of ownership/higher quality - just ask IBM. Mac OS is no more closed system than Win, other than You aren’t supposed to run it on dodgy 3rd party equipment. With Mac/iPad Apple are largest. Computer manufacturer (i know idg and the other MS paid mobs count Win tablets in PC sales estimates that are always wrong but not iPad to make the stats come out the way they want). Mac OS must be pretty good if you’re happy to pirate it.
Would you guys take your off topic discussion to PM please. Thank you.
A valid discussion and rebuttal of Expensive etc Apple fake claims. You’re not forced to read.
Nevertheless, you have derailed the topic. I came in hoping to read about potential progress on touchscreen support only to find two people arguing about whether Mac or Windows is better. In most internet forums it is considered impolite if not outright rude to go off topic. Can we please get back on subject?
in some other forum, not in the Beta Testing (Windows) forum.
Oh for FS.
Out of here.
Moderator Note: off-topic platform flame war split from original thread.
And there I was hoping for a discussion about tea in China … having spent 13 years in South Fujian, where Tieguanyin comes from!
Mark
All glory to oolong!
I never did quite have the budget for that one, though. :mrgreen:
A friend of mine from Seattle opened up a tea shop. It would be nice to try really good tea sometime–I’m told much of what is sold in the US as tea is crap.
Drop me a PM with the name – my wife is a huge tea fancier and we will go check it out.
A couple of years ago, I met someone and in the course of conversation it turned out not only that he loved tea including Tieguanyin, but that his wife worked for a specialist tea importer. So I gave him a portion pack—these days, good quality Chinese teas are often packed in individual, sealed, 20gm foil packs to help keep them fresh—of the Tieguanyin we were drinking at the time.
The next time I saw him, a few weeks later, he said, “What was that tea you gave me? It was delicious, but our cups were full of whole tea leaves!” I said, “Tieguanyin; it is a whole-leaf tea”.
In this country, “whole-leaf tea” is taken to mean “not in tea bags”! I can only presume that the tea his wife’s company imports is the broken bits, traditionally “floor-sweepings”.
When I was there, if I ever bought any—I was given so much by Chinese friends that I never had to buy any for myself—to bring home as presents, I usually spent the equivalent of £40 or so for a pound. I did on one occasion, buy a single 20 gm portion-pack of my local tea-shop’s best Tieguanyin of that year … it cost me £20! The friend back here I shared it with was utterly convinced it was a flower tea, like jasmine tea. I had to point out that tea is camellia sinensis before she could accept that a tea leaf could be so fragrant.
So, if you want good Chinese teas, you’re going to have to pay for it!
Mark
I lied. They’re in Burien: phoenixteashop.com/ Anyway, the people who run it are cool. They helped me move, even.
Burien is Seattle the same way my small town is Seattle, just in the opposite direction. We’ll probably swing by the next time we make a run down that way to Ikea. Thanks!
Yeah, it’s a schlep. I thought her shop was in like Federal Way/Tacoma. (I lived in Seattle for a good 10 years. )