Path Finder? Got the current version on an upgrade discount, but even regular price is $36. MarsEdit? $50, but new versions roll out every several years, maximum. $180 per year buys A LOT of apps, including the stuff I really found myself using. But it’s nice to be able to have the extra tool - and that costs me extra.Įven with their revised pricing, it’s $15 per month for their “power user” plan - which is $180 a year. Do I need to manage files on both with Path Finder? I suppose not. I have my “main” Mac, and a “server” Mac. Most apps in SetApp are available at reasonable prices from the devs, and dev-direct licenses typically let you run it on somewhere between 2 and 5 computers. Besides- it is FUN!Īctually, it is not that cheap when you use those apps on several devices. There is conceivably little way that I am not saving. Plus if you factor in the apps you have bought that there are sitting on your devices collecting dust. There are at least that many apps that you would have tried, paid full price but didn’t have to do so. That’s not the sort of people I want to buy from anyway!Īnd what I am paying? about forty cents per day? I can think of just one app that I am aware of that put the app out there and then wound up charging way too much. I’ve thought about adding for additional devices just to support these people. I have it for $10 per month plus one other device for an additional $2.50. I mean, there are hundreds of quality apps available. I certainly don’t preclude the setapp producers from doing anything, especially with so many subscriptions out there (my pet peeve). There is no way you are not going to save in the interim. It is rewarding particularly to the smaller developers who cannot typically market their apps. You can purchase the ones you use daily need be. Where else are you going find such a wonderful bargain? Plus the array is of quality apps.Īnd wired is correct. It allows me to dabble in trying out new apps. Specs don’t tell the whole story, software matters, and both have their merits.It is well-worth the $! I love it. And of course, games are better there too. I find video editing to be easier on my PC, likely because it has twice the RAM and a much more powerful video card. There’s plenty I can do on my PC that isn’t reasonable on my Mac. This 2880 × 1800 display takes a ton of GPU power to drive, and Macs just don’t have it. Sure, there are apps that perform similar functions like the Transmit vs FileZilla issue I mentioned, but when it comes to nice software… it’s hard to beat macOS.īut even with a $700 external Blackmagic video card (which I don’t have) my Mac would still be awful at playing games. I use apps like Coda, Reeder, Textastic/SubEthaEdit, and SnippetsLab that just don’t exist on Windows. If I need to connect to a PG server, Postico is my go-to tool, but on Windows the options are both expensive and unpleasant. On Windows, I have to suffer FileZilla or Cyberduck. Like if I need FTP, on my Mac, Transmit is easily the best. But there’s plenty of smaller programs that don’t have any good counterpart on Windows. I can get GitHub Desktop, Slack, Discord, Atom, Xojo… just about everything I need to get work done on my PC. It’s great that the big players have really embraced both platforms. But even then, the software available for macOS is often sooo much nicer. That means, for cross platform software development, if you can’t have both, have a Mac. Windows is a fine operating system, but I can run Windows on my Mac. They even handle many repairs in-store these days, meaning same-day repairs. For those of us that count on our computers, that kind of turnaround time alone is well worth the extra up front cost. I handed it over to Fedex Tuesday evening, argued with Apple over passwords most of Wednesday, they repaired it Wednesday evening, and I had it back about 10am Thursday morning. Last time I needed repairs on my MacBook Pro, they were replacing the entire upper portion. That screen has a faster refresh rate than any Mac, but what’s the resolution? What is the case made out of? Does it have thunderbolt? How’s the trackpad? And the keyboard? What about tech support? How soon can you have your laptop back if it needs repairs? Well to be fair, specs don’t tell the whole story. Can’t make myself consider paying double for less. Sorry to Mac people, but…those prices! I just bought a Windows laptop last week with similar or better overall specs for under $1200 (including 1TB SSD, 16GB DD4 RAM, 144hz refresh and an NVidia RTX 2060 with 6GB RAM!).
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