The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[Jake]

All of you who grump about how hard and difficult Apple products are to use, but are in the technology world, really mystify me. If you're a professional, shouldn't you be adept at both OS's and be able to use either without complaint? I'm just as fast/keyboard-shortcut-y on a Mac as I am on a Windows box. Neither is hard to use at this point.

None of our developers, data scientists or data analysts to my knowledge use Apple computers.  The only people I see using them are our media / graphic designers and a handful of sales and other random roles where they've been indoctrinated to the point with their own tech devices that they don't want to use anything else.  

The big gripe with Apple products is that they don't play nice with a lot of enterprise software.  These same people I always hear griping about how certain programs aren't working right (like Powerpoint) on their computers.

Interesting. All of our devs (at a 6,000 person company) are Apple-based. It makes some development work easier because Mac OS has Unix at its core. Or at least, that's what I'm told. I had the choice when I started and picked a Mac, mostly because Windows hardware is by-and-large garbage and unlike your personal computer, it's a crapshoot what the company will provide you. Office 365 for Mac does everything the Windows version does, from what I have seen so far. Older versions didn't play as nice - I distinctly remember older Mac versions of Excel just not having critical features for some reason (which is laughable, given Excel was initially developed for Macs way way back when).

Anyway, lest y'all think I'm a blind fanboi, I have a Lenovo laptop at home on Windows 10 and it's mostly fine and Win10 improves a lot of things I didn't like about 8. None of the racecar data/video/tuning type programs run on Mac so there was no reason to spend double the money for a Facebook/porn/AIM Solo rig.