What about people who transitioned to OS X before any iOS devices? Are they sadists? That's empty rhetoric. You're just projecting your ideas. OSX is way more pleasant to use than any linux distro. The design-by-committee that happens on most distros doesn't give the best results.
There are plenty of TWMs for OSX if you want it: divvy, sizeup, tyler wm, etc.
> Browsing the web on a retina display is rather jarring
It's exactly the same as browsing on a non-retina display. As in physically exactly.
> What about people who transitioned to OS X before any iOS devices? Are they sadists? That's empty rhetoric. You're just projecting your ideas.
Next time, take a second to restrain yourself from hastily typing out a polemic and hitting reply, so that you can reread the post you're replying to. I also mentioned the iPod, which has been around since 2001 and has also played a significant role in the increase in popularity of Macs.
> OSX is way more pleasant to use than any linux distro. The design-by-committee that happens on most distros doesn't give the best results.
From this, it sounds like you're the one projecting your ideas, actually.
> There are plenty of TWMs for OSX if you want it: divvy, sizeup, tyler wm, etc.
Most tiling window managers for OS X don't give you the level of control necessary to make them actually worth it. Sure, some keyboard shortcuts are nice, but that's not the real point.
> It's exactly the same as browsing on a non-retina display. As in physically exactly.
Uh, if it were "physically exactly" the same, then what would be the point of getting a retina display?
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon has a trackpad of quality equivalent to the MacBooks, just look at reviews online. Plus you get the TrackPoint, which is much more efficient once you get past the learning curve.
and then comes the amusing lack of proper configuration on the OS side. I am not an Apple person, but I have yet to see a trackpad- configuration that works even remotely as well as the MBP ones. The speed and acceleration multipliers in there have always been off.
EDIT: +1 on the NavPoint. I disable the trackpad on all my thinkpads and just use the NavPoint whenever I can.
I meant moving to OSX before owning any iOS device. Every developer I can remember right now that uses a Mac bought it because of the nice hardware and software, not because it's cool (they cost 3x+ as much as a PC over here, so it has to be worth it).
On retina: you were saying that a lot of software and websites don't support it; in that case, the image on the screen is exactly the same as a non-retina display, four pixels make one 'standard' pixel.
There are plenty of TWMs for OSX if you want it: divvy, sizeup, tyler wm, etc.
> Browsing the web on a retina display is rather jarring
It's exactly the same as browsing on a non-retina display. As in physically exactly.