![]() However, soldered RAM and SSDs is a major issue and makes a mockery of any environmental claim Apple makes with regard to its products, as does its opposition to "right to repair", both with their hardware designs and lobbying. The end of the butterfly keyboard (which I never had a problem with in my limited usage of it) seems to be a positive sign, perhaps Apple has started listening to its users. Over 12 months on and I still feel that Macs are not as good value for money as they once were. #Cheetah3d review proIn fact the only thing with a 4K 27+ display was MS Surface, which was at least twice the price, and while nice, I felt it was more of a niche product, that said I would go for the iPad Pro for doing art but choice is always health. Just before I brought this iMac I had a look around for all in one (hell even the odd tower) systems and I could not find anything for a similar price with a 5K display. I am not sure there is much difference between self employed artist and self employed developer in the Corona-cene age. I'm just a starving artist in the age of CoronaVirus. after all, what the Hell do I know about programming. #Cheetah3d review windowsat least in the industry it affected most, the graphic arts.īut I understand if Martin doesnt get around to doing a Windows version. So, Im still an Apple guy, even after all its flaws, but its looking more and more as I come to the end of my career that Apple will slowly also have a slow death. #Cheetah3d review windows 10Having said that, the Apple OS is still superior, but just marginally now, with Windows 10 finally getting itself corrected enough to make it a comparable OS in design and function. ![]() So gone is the ease of use, practicality and far reaching tools of productivity. opting to do the following: Design over Function, and Profitability over Innovation. Perhaps that fall off the pedestal has been accelerated with the passing of Jobs, which is, I suppose, what happens when you have a highly praised and successful accountant at the helm in Cook, instead of a forward thinking technically savvy CEO. I have to agree that that is not longer the case, and hasnt been for a few years now. Even to the point of not licensing its operating system in order to control and maintain Apple's core-menu consistency and "Finder" look, in the process changing the whole publishing industry by bringing along with Adobe the rise of "Destop Publishing" as well as completely changing a whole number of other industries.Īnd so it went, 10 years passed, 20 years passed. Apple well understood the need of ultimate design supporting an extremely easy and logical GUI. #Cheetah3d review plusAs a long time Mac user, from its very early beginnings, going as far back as my Mac Plus and Aldus Pagemaker just out of high school, and as a professional Graphic Designer 30 years later, I always have stood by the real and obvious superiority of the Apple Operating System in design and function. (Though I expect to own this iMac for a number of years yet) I would be sad to leave Cheetah behind but I am not sure how much longer I can justify paying over the odds for outdated hardware. As for developing iOS apps for me at least it is painful (mostly because of Xcode which I wouldn't describe as a professional IDE), and I am only on my first one!!! Xcode is mostly awful and like much of the Apple eco systems misses out on stability and useful if uncool features in favour of flashiness, which is a shame because MacOS has some really nice features. The only two apps I have that are Mac only are Cheeth and Xcode. I think the only thing that keeps me a Mac user is I prefer MacOS to windows, and Linux just seems to much effort. A bit of thought and their much vaunted user experience genius and they could have realised ports on the back are not helpful or accessible, and with the thickness of the previous style they could have added slide in bays for hard drives. I was happy with the previous "fat" design, the current one not looking much different form the front. ![]() I sit in front of my computer not off to the side gazing lovely at how thin it looks. That right there was the moment they lost it. I remember the ads for the new(current) iMacs style gushing over how thin they are when viewed from the the side. hell I would settle for eSATA (Thunderbolt again is overpriced). The hardware seems to be at least a year old and the prices are more and more ridiculous, the machines less and less user upgradable, I don't want much, just to be able to swap memory and it would be nice to be able to add new internal hard disks. It used to be easy to justify paying the price for a Mac, but not anymore. ![]()
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