Originally posted by Phantasmagoria
It doesn't "go up to 4ghz" unless a program is built for that specific function and even then it'll only last a brief moment then go back down to cool off
the base clock speed is far more important than what it can be throttled to
also touchscreens are stupid and folding is completely pointless
Wut? No. The dynamic clock speed is determined by scheduling info. It's not like multi-core parallelism where you have to program to divide work between core. The processor has all the info it needs. I mean it's not a perfect solution, you can only run a processor at its max clock speed for a while before it needs to back off for thermal dissipation and it burns through your battery, but then macs use processors that do the exact same thing so I'm not even really sure what's being argued about here.
Originally posted by DietYellow
The thing about macs that really grinds me gears besides the gross overpricing and being behind techwise more than a couple years, is the gay ass minimalist style of macOS. It appeals mainly to millenials, children and old people because "It just works".
Yeah, it's a pretty good product, but as long as you know how to operate windows 10 (Oh my god its soooo haaaard!!!) it doesn't make sense to buy the lackluster product that;s generally more restricted at a premium price.
These are kinda vague statements that don't line up with my experience with the respective products. What's minimalist about OSX? In terms of DE UI design just about everyone takes almost exactly the same approach. The only OS I can think of that's an exception is maybe Haiku or someone of the obscure tiling window managers you can find for linux. Architecturally, from the OS to userland perspective, I'd argue both OSX and linux are both more maximalist in terms of mediating and auditing interaction with the OS (there's more of a "depend on the OS service" mentality than window's "ship every damn thing you need with your code").
In terms of restriction, you get sudo on admin accounts under OSX. What more do you want than that? What else is there? What is "restrictive" about OSX's design decisions? For "power users" applescript and automator are _much_ better options than something like AHK. For developers OSX is an infinitely more pleasant dev experience than windows. Compare setting up mingw or cygwin (I've probably done this 10 times in my life, it's never worked right the first time, it's never been anything short of an atrocious experience to work with once set up) to OSX's "clang is installed and ready to go out of box".
I don't know, I just feel like when people say "windows is more customizable" or whatever they've A. never actually used OSX seriously, and B. have never been through the hell of configuring a highly customizable linux DE like anything other than Unity
