Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
I personally hate close fences with no rooms for customization, and many computer scientists are on the same wavelength.<p>Windows is an awful choice for software development, a job that usually requires a lot of interaction with Unix servers. Microsoft&#x27;s recent crush for Linux and open source can&#x27;t fix many years of closed standards, closed protocols, and Embrace-Extend-Exterminate evil culture.<p>And MacOS, even though it&#x27;s still loosely based on a Unix *BSD flavor, still falls into the &quot;closed fence&quot; category - brew is nice but can&#x27;t be compared with the maturity of the package managers on any Linux distro, you can&#x27;t just recompile or update the kernel on the fly to get support for a new device, and OS internals are purposely obscure to developers. Paying all that money for such a closed box, if you&#x27;re anything more than an average users, is simply a waste of money.<p>Linux distros are by far the best environment for a computer scientists - made by developers, for developers - but there&#x27;s no major vendor that sells machines with Linux pre-installed and supported, and getting Linux installed on the newest Surface or Dell toy is often a challenge that gets many frustrated.<p>There&#x27;s definitely a huge gap in the market, and as a computer scientist I feel that none of the major vendors cares to provide me with a solid machine to do my work.