Well, I'm thinking of beginning a new company which will have over 40 employees. We will be creating a Cell Phone/tablet PC app which will need to run on Android, IOs, Windows, plus a piece of hardware to be designed in house which we are already married to Altium. Now, I know we need at least 1 Mac to compile the IOs project.
In house, we will be creating a 100% specialized audio music editor which my software developer has given me the choice of making Win, or MacOS, or, even Linux based.
At least 30 of the employees will be the editors running this software and they will need matched headphone audio setups which cannot change, and will need replacing as failures are expected over at least 10 year life of the company.
Now, do I trust I can go with Mac PC and for the next 10 years, always get the same replacement MACs with identical audio outputs, or, do I stick with generic PCs.
So far, I'm getting the feeling that serious computing MacOS may not be the way to go. I feel as time goes on over the 10 years, to keep my in house 'reference' audio lab functioning as hardware bits will need replacing, placing my business in the hands of Apple would be a move like a gamble.
30 machines, 10 years , constantly processing Large Video files, never turned of from the day they get installed....... you might have to let me know when that will happen lolThose certainly are not laptops which I was meaning. Video processing on 10y old hardware sound stupid regarding performance.
In house, we will be creating a 100% specialized audio music editor which my software developer has given me the choice of making Win, or MacOS, or, even Linux based. At least 30 of the employees will be the editors running this software and they will need matched headphone audio setups which cannot change, and will need replacing as failures are expected over at least 10 year life of the company. Now, do I trust I can go with Mac PC and for the next 10 years, always get the same replacement MACs with identical audio outputs, or, do I stick with generic PCs.
In house, we will be creating a 100% specialized audio music editor which my software developer has given me the choice of making Win, or MacOS, or, even Linux based.
You have a genius developer! I would assume we are talking about some kind of cross-platform framework (aka Qt etc), right?
Can your dev complete work 25% faster on macOS rather than Win/Linux? Very unlikely...
In house, we will be creating a 100% specialized audio music editor which my software developer has given me the choice of making Win, or MacOS, or, even Linux based. At least 30 of the employees will be the editors running this software and they will need matched headphone audio setups which cannot change, and will need replacing as failures are expected over at least 10 year life of the company. Now, do I trust I can go with Mac PC and for the next 10 years, always get the same replacement MACs with identical audio outputs, or, do I stick with generic PCs.Expecting 10 years is way too optimistic. Besides that I'd have the software written cross platform so you can always change to a different platform later on. In a professional setup you'll also want headphone connectors which are able to deal with people forgetting to unplug them so any consumer hardware is out already.
Similar story with one of our surfaces though, a throw away job also. The thing delaminated and the audio stopped working and MSFT wouldn’t do a warranty swap out or repair.
That’s pretty shit!
Similar story with one of our surfaces though, a throw away job also. The thing delaminated and the audio stopped working and MSFT wouldn’t do a warranty swap out or repair. User got a Yoga instead and we cancelled the PO for more surface machines. Fuck em.
Our office machines are all HP Z series workstations. Those are rock solid but same problem. Can’t get parts even from HPE. Whole industry is a nightmare.
At this point I’m almost certain your best bet is buy a clone/DIY PC and take on the integration risk if you want a higher performance machine.
Tempted to get my old desktop PC out and chuck Debian on it now.
Don't take this as unanimous support for the NT kernel. ACTUAL issues include an absolutely bloated kernel and operating system, terrible spying and bloatware practices (Apple isn't innocent of this either, nor is pretty much anybody these days,
Also don't forget you still have your competition in the Unix/Linux world that are as stable, if not more so, with options like OpenBSD being a respected veteran in being tough and secure as balls.
And for some of us who work on Unix systems, Windows annoyances can get really offensive.
This is actually the thing that kills me. There's never a wall in front of a task.
This is actually the thing that kills me. There's never a wall in front of a task.What do you mean exactly?
This is actually the thing that kills me. There's never a wall in front of a task.What do you mean exactly?
Apple is a modern company, and they keep and likely sell analytical data they gather from you using their services.
https://www.apple.com/uk/privacy/
They are the only vendor which explicitly says it doesn't. This is also incidentally why they are the only mobile devices allowed in some parts of the financial sector here in the UK at this point.
https://www.apple.com/uk/privacy/
They are the only vendor which explicitly says it doesn't. This is also incidentally why they are the only mobile devices allowed in some parts of the financial sector here in the UK at this point.Like how Zuckerberg says it's your data and Facebook won't ever sell it?
I'd trust a rooted android everything. An iPhone? Drop it once and you basically have to throw it away. Nope. My HTC 10 survived many cruel falls until the screen gave up because something had fallen onto it. Try that with a generc iPhone.
I'll quote a colleague of mine. Microsoft is like owning a pet rabbit; most of the time it's cute and fluffy, but the rest of the time it's biting you and fucking your leg and leaving shit everywhere.