{"id":342,"date":"2012-10-23T11:51:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/?p=342"},"modified":"2012-10-23T11:51:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:51:20","slug":"mac-switchover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Mac switchover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this generation I&#8217;m mostly running Mac stuff while my laptop ages; I&#8217;ll be waiting for next year to pick up PC stuff so I can run PSO2.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve unintentionally ended up being a total convert partly due to work supporting iOS devices exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>Some impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Macbook<\/strong>: \u00a0Engineering is phenomenal. \u00a0Keyboard is great. \u00a0OS works well and I&#8217;m very happy that XCode runs like a charm, plus a ton of dev stuff is available out of the box due to its BSD underpinnings. \u00a0Beyond that I&#8217;m not exactly blown away; I managed to kernel panic the machine twice in the first day. \u00a0Office is slow as shit on this machine. \u00a0Apple&#8217;s iWork suite is nice, esp. Keynote, but I&#8217;m not exactly shitting my pants in excitement here. \u00a0I could buy two good Windows laptops for the price of one MBP. \u00a0This is not insignificant.<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPad 2<\/strong>: \u00a0Apple has the tablet market under wraps. \u00a0This much I am convinced of. \u00a0Keynote on a projector is the best fucking thing ever. \u00a0Add a bluetooth keyboard and I don&#8217;t even usually bring a laptop around with me anymore. \u00a0Apple is just too far ahead in the app market department, and they know it. \u00a0Also, as you may be aware I play a fuckton of Miku Flick and the various Cave games, and they&#8217;re even better on a full-size tablet than they were on the iPod.<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPhone 4S<\/strong>: \u00a0Apple does\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong> have the phone market conquered, as far as I&#8217;m concerned. \u00a0Android and Win7 are shaping up to be great competitors in this class of device, and as much as I like iOS, I like Swype even better. \u00a0I&#8217;ve found that the primary differentiator between my iOS and Android phone is that I play a lot more games and listen to more music on the iOS device. \u00a0Being able to load Keynote slides and give presentations off the phone is also amazing, but at the end of the day, I rarely do this since I&#8217;m usually carrying the iPad around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess what I&#8217;m concluding is basically this: the iPhone isn&#8217;t as impressive as I was hoping it would be, nor the macbook, for the price; the iPad is still where it&#8217;s at and I expect Apple will be dominating the tablet market for some time. \u00a0I&#8217;m actually thinking about switching over to a next-gen Nexus phone when my contract is up, but I doubt my workplace will support it, sadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this generation I&#8217;m mostly running Mac stuff while my laptop ages; I&#8217;ll be waiting for next year to pick up PC stuff so I can run PSO2. I&#8217;ve unintentionally ended up being a total convert partly due to work supporting iOS devices exclusively. Some impressions: Macbook: \u00a0Engineering is phenomenal. \u00a0Keyboard is great. \u00a0OS works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/?p=342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mac switchover<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oQjh-5w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pent.semilunar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}