Gonna pull the trigger today on a 2.2Ghz 15" Macbook Pro

>>45348677
Just loads of dicks shoved in your face.

>>45348677
Hopefully an improvement on your redundant use of the word "today" hopefully.

Another shitty version of BSD + *nix.

most people do research before buying things

>>45348688
muh bad

>>45348684
Explain please

>>45348691
this is a part of my research

>>45348689
You hate Linux?

i don't understand. why not get an ideapad, hackintosh it, and have a nice day? they're fucking identical in hardware.

>>45348749
Why do you hate aesthetics?
Why do you want to look like a recluse?

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>>45348766
what are you on about? to me, the aesthetics are fine for the ideapad. have you ever heard of preferences? i think macbooks are ok looking, but they aren't the apex design for me, primarily due to its clinical asceticism. at least with the ideapad you can choose different colors. sorry if this makes you so defensive that you have to call me recluse.

osx is gayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!

linux ftw!!!!!! d(-_-)b

>>45348781
Neckbeards tend to have this idea

sucking steve job's grey dick in the afterlife

>>45348787
macfag trying to discredit linux users detected

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>>45348795
you can't even defend that claim so why even bring it up? i've used both, literally side to side. both are OK. if anything i like the ideapad's keyboard more so due to the shape of the keys. OS wise i'm fine with both. couldn't care less. the only gripe i have is that the vent is on the side. other than that, it has a nice solid feel and the hinge is just as good, and the lid closes flawlessly. there's no jitter at all.
>inb4 hurr ur a neckbeard because you aren't perversely adhering to popular opinion.

seriously i just don't dig the macbook pro that much. it's sleek, but not by a huger margin with the ideapad.

>>45348749
>shitty 1366x768 TN display vs a colour accurate 2560x1600 IPS display
>shitty thermals and battery that lasts 2 hours vs one that lasts 10 hours
>same internals
Ok m8

>>45348862
#rekt

>>45348749
>Only hackintosh if you have hours of your life to waste for tinkering.

>>45348862
>2 hours
7-hour battery life
>TN
means nothing if you aren't sitting at a silly angle from your laptop. color accuracy is fine too. again i compared them and i am aware that retina is better. it's just not significantly so unless you have the content to justify it, and on a laptop with integrated graphics i highly doubt it would ever come to that. even 4k consumer content is rare, but the idea of editing 4k would be absurd.

>>45348831

> that squishy-ass touchpad

>>45348889
if it takes you hours to hackintosh maybe you should stick to chromebooks pal.

>>45348896
what? the clickpad is just like the macbook pro's and felt fine. if you're just ripping on both w/e but it's not inferior in anyway whatsoever with regards to the depth it presses in and how sleek it feels.

>>45348891
You don't need 4k content to enjoy a high resolution display. 2560x1600 is great when used in HiDPI mode. Text and icons look sharper.

>>45348897
It's quick installing the hackintosh on your PC. But you spend hours tinkering shit after installing to make sure everything works. Updating it also isn't dependable.

What is the performance of one like?

Will I be able to

- Get root access?
- Customise the UI (to what extent)?
- Install apache or nginx?

>>45348677
>Buying a Computer
>What should I expect?
Ummm A FUCKING COMPUTER?

>>45348891
You will notice color shifting even at a "normal" viewing angle on a TN screen.
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/viewing_angle.php#angleGrey
If you can't see the difference between the picture of that image on a TN vs an IPS screen then you are either blind or bullshitting.

>>45348998
again those are things that don't really make it a bad laptop because it can be calibrated with a fair amount of ease if you know what you're doing. and i'm not bullshitting. the color was not significantly different between the two and they were on next to each other. what more can i say? the only difference was brightness really.

>>45349032
There is no way to "calibrate" a display to make up for a difference in colour shifting. I guess you must just be blind then.

>>45348831
This thing tries so hard to be a Macbook pro but will never because the trackpad is complete garbage on Windows. Enjoy your lenovo though.

>>45348993
This. OP i'm pretty sure it's going to be a computer.

I have the 2.3Ghz and I love it. Battery last me all day programming (not gaming obviously). The screen is pretty good, the "retina" is beautiful, key board is slightly different than previous models, so if your upgrading, expect that, i like it, its a lot more concise, similar to typing on a mechanical(similar, not exactly). overall for a workstation I don't think it gets any better, I find myself only going to my desktop for gaming now, because my laptop can handle everything I throw at it short of the most demanding of games. 10/10 would buy again

>>45348974
1.)Yes, Mac computers are not like iPhones in this way
2.)google flavours
3.)apache yes, not sure about nginx

>>45349041
>must just

>>45349109
Okay cool, thanks m8

>>45348677
You'll get sex, OP.

>overheating
>shitty graphics
>glossy display (muh retina)
I admit it is a solid facebook machine.

>>45348677
>What should I expect?
Expect a mac? Gee I wonder what should I expect when I buy a computer

>>45349093
>similar to typing on a mechanical(similar, not exactly)
Utter bullshit, there is no travel distance, no weight and you have to bottom out to register since the key just depresses all the way when you tap it below half height.

Typing on a Macbook definitely does not feel like typing on a mechanical, nowhere close, it feels like those cheap $20 microsoft keyboards.

>>45348677
Expect a great laptop m8. I have the same one. Works flawlessly for everyday tasks, programming, muh games.

What's there not to like?

>>45348891
Yeah but what was your resolution again, fuckboy?

>>45348749
get a life, m8

>>45349240
good to hear

What are your main pros and cons of the machine?

What type of programming do you do?

What HDD space do you have/use?

>>45349238
how does a scissor switch even kind of feel like a membrane keyboard? have you ever even touched a scissor switch?...

>>45348677
I'm in the same situation, OP. I'm thinking of picking up a Macbook Pro 13 in but unsure about CPU and SSD storage. I keep most of my docs on dropbox so I can access them anywhere. I'd like to spend as much as I need to as opposed to splurging on an i7 or 512 gb of SSD storage.

>>45349292
I have a Macbook Pro Late 2013, a cheap $20 MS keyboard and a mechanical G6v2, I know how different they feel.

>>45349322
What do you currently use?

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>>45349336
I'm currently using an old hp pavilion dv4 laptop. 12 in and 1280x800 res with Ubuntu running on top of it. It's a choice to use and I would love a proper trackpad these days.

>>45349327
I have the exact same laptop and I have to use that shit tier kind of keyboard at work, so i have no idea where your getting your ideas from but you should probably have your macbook looked at if it feels like that..

>>45348696
I would explain but since you didn't get it last time you probably won't get it this time probably.

Comfy but nogaems.

>>45348677
Something that will never be paralled in history. You should be proud for getting an amazing invention at an actually reasonable price compared to other substandard duplicated garbage.

>>45349266
pros:

well functioning touchpad that makes me hate all other touchpads

can do my work outside because display is bright enough.

relatively accurate color, considering the mobile nature of the panel.

OS X jus werks for the most part. Unix like nature means it isn't completely useless like Windows.

battery life is generally pretty good, even with moderate loads.

cons:

LG panel seems to have yellowish tint during the day. At night in a darkish room the panel seems more reddish.

The LG panel has a poor response time and text and picture will look look like a blurry mess when scrolling. However, playing video games like TF2, this inherent slowness isn't all that horrible.

external mouses seem to act funny in OS X. Even with acceleration disabled they don't seem as accurate. X11 seems to be better at this than Quartz.

Proprietary PCIe SSD means you'll get retardedly high iowaits on Linux. It's fucking stupid how long it can take to open things like firefox because of this.

out of room...cont later.

>>45349483
http://openemu.org/

There are plenty of games.

>>45348891
>it's irrelevant to me and my personal usage, therefore it shouldn't be used in any argument comparing the two ever

>>45349506
cons (cont):

broadcom wireless means using it with linux will be a bitch. All nonfree drivers are pretty much shit on linux and broadcom is no exception.

the cost of the machine is ridicoulos. I paid over $1400 for mine.

overall it's a mixed bag. If you like Linux, avoid this thing like the plague. It's too much of a hassle to get decent performance out of the thing and makes you wonder why apple charges $600 for the SSD when it runs like complete shit in Linux.

If you don't care and expect 200+PPI displays with color accuracy, decent performance (note I'm talking about he 13 inch one), battery and don't mind spending the money, then this laptop is great.

>>45348787
>being 13

>>45349506
>>45349568
sounds fairly reasonable

>>45348677
>2.2 Ghz
>What should I expect?
Uh... 5 year old hardware?
Hence performance issues

>>45351097
>muh ghz

enjoy your shitty overlocked android phone that still lags

>>45351097
>>45351143
This, also

>Haswell

>>45351097
>>45351143
>>45351180
>inb4 backpeddle

so /g/ has come to this...

>>45348677
a Mac is a mac

>>45351302
is it any good these days?

>>45348677

I've got a couple questions myself.

Aside from the screen, what are the advantages of getting a rMBP over a MBA?

How are TextEdit and iPages for writing? Does their spellchecker support multiple languages?

>>45351345
OP here
I'd love to know this as well

>>45348677
The best laptop in production.

>>45351362
Got any anecdotal evidence?

>>45349506
>>45349568
I have a late 2013 model 15 inch rMBP running arch Linux. I agree with you on pretty much all of this stuff except the SSD. For me, its really fast in Linux and slow as shit in OSX. It literally takes vlc or QuickTime like 15 seconds to open a 500ish MB video, but in Linux its instant. Never notice any lag in Firefox either.

The broadcom chip is definitely a bitch though. Broadcom wl-dkms is the only driver I could get to work, which means it breaks and I have to reinstall it every time I get a kernel update.

>>45348677
>What should I expect?
Lots of dicksucking

>>45351405
>This hopeful projection

>>45351405
I wouldn't mind getting my dick sucked

come on faggots, I know there are loads of homos using this who could give me a story or 2

>>45348677
High Temprature mostly, can go up to 90 degrees celcius for doing some basic rendering.

>>45351469
will this not damage shit in the long run?

>>45348797
Lol

>>45351479
I guess it affects the fans a bit.

>>45348677
>What should I expect?
Joy

Expect planned obsolescence and having to buy another 1500$ dollar macbook in two years once you no longer get updates from apple.

You'll also have to enjoy sucking a lot of cock

>What should I expect?

a 2.2Ghz 15" Macbook Pro with a bullet hole in it

>>45351845
>planned obsolescence

Non-removable battery, proprietary everything etc etc

enjoy sucking Tim Cook's cock

>>45349506
>well functioning touchpad that makes me hate all other touchpads
So much this. It's amazing how angry I get trying to use non-Apple touchpads. It's like no other manufacturer ever tried to use their touchpads for actual work.

>>45351845
Eh what? Apple supports their hardware with software updates longer than just about anyone else. Although on iOS the updates can make old hardware unusable, but I've never had that issue with MacBooks (current one is 2011 model and is fully supported).

>>45351845
All this talk about dick sucking is making me hungry

>>45351913
I don't upgrade that shit anyway

>>45352077
So you don't want to change your battery when it dies and prefer paying your local Apple(tm) Store(tm) 1500 dollars to change it for you?

>>45352084
Apple just replaces that shit for free nigger

>>45352093
Uh, no?

>>45348677
what year anon? i just had a late 2011 mbp 15" throw the discreet graphics error. There's a problem in the intel hd graphics 3000 chips and the amd chip apple wont really acknowledge.
google discreet graphics error 2011-2012 mbpro. had to buy a 13" retina and 15" is for sale.
Otherwise, you'll love it.

>>45352129
The mid-2014 model

>>45348677
Expect a fool and his money to part ways.

>>45352129
btw it was 2.2 i7 15"
>>45351913
batt isnt removable but the 2011 line had replacable ram. and u could swap an ssd, or replace cd drive with HD and run os off ssd i place of HD. definitely a formidable machine

Fuck off macfags, you're not welcome here

>>45352137
oh you're fine then w iris graphics (at least i hope ).. i didnt know they had the 2.2 in the newer models.

>>45352158
>Fuck off macfags, you're not welcome here
>muh sekret klub

>>45352137
and these things are fucking amazing with the ssd, screen's ridiculously sharp.

>$1500 facebook machine

sasuga, macfags

>>45352283
>knowing literally nothing about OS X

>>45352302
It does less than windows 8.1 and with less freedom but at 10 times the price. Are you enjoying tim cook's cock in your mouth?

>>45352316
>*nix based kernel
>Less freedom
>Does less, doesn't mention what

Winfag detected

>>45352327
That is like Chromebooks respect your freedom and privacies because they are a linux distro.