• Ben Matthews
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    2718 hours ago

    Hmm. I’m still using a 2014 iMac, as its 27" 5k screen still very good for coding (with added memory). Sometimes develops a bunch of thin vertical lines, which come and go maybe dependent on temperature, but hasn’t changed for for ten years and i can live with those. Just wish they’d continue providing security updates for it.

    • Flying Squid
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      14 hours ago

      27" 2015 iMac here. No problems whatsoever. I’m going to use this thing until it dies.

      Edit: Gotta love the downvotes for literally just owning a Mac. Good luck breaking into the industry as a video editor without one, guys.

      • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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        19 hours ago

        Good luck breaking into the industry as a video editor without one, guys.

        A PC will run circles around a Mac for half the price, what are you talking about? They require you to use a Mac for some reason?

        • Flying Squid
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          68 hours ago

          It’s called an industry standard. You have heard of those before, I presume.

          • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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            18 hours ago

            Of course I have. But standards are not necessarily mandatory. Would you care to elaborate on this “standard” you speak of?

            • Flying Squid
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              48 hours ago

              No, I don’t care to hold your hand and explain to you the whole idea of an industry preferring you have a specific piece of technology over others and how finding out you have that piece of technology helps you get work. You’ll have to figure that one out for yourself.

              • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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                18 hours ago

                Seems highly unlikely that an employer cares terribly about what kind of hardware you use. All they care about is the end result.

                • @SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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                  37 hours ago

                  Let me introduce you to a little thing called media production workflow, where there are over 500 different file formats in active use, and getting it right forms the basis of most links in a chain hundreds of links long.

                  You start sending me botched files with the wrong codecs and see if I don’t find another subcontractor immediately.

                  • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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                    16 hours ago

                    You start sending me botched files with the wrong codecs and see if I don’t find another subcontractor immediately.

                    So you’re getting botched files and that is the fault of the operating system? 🤔

                • Flying Squid
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                  48 hours ago

                  Well you clearly know my industry better than I do, so I’ll defer to your expert knowledge.

      • @DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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        410 hours ago

        I keep pondering grabbing one of those on the cheap and getting one of those kits that turns it into a really nice 27” monitor.

      • @ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        512 hours ago

        Wow thanks, never heard of this before. I was getting all set to buy a new Macbook so I could install the latest versions of Xcode and keep developing iOS apps. Looks like I can keep on abusing my 12yo Macbook instead.

        • @IllNess@infosec.pub
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          49 hours ago

          I have a 2014 MacBook Pro which I love more than any computer I’ve ever had. This is in my list of things to do. Before I was just going to install Linux on it but this seems like a better solution to keep all the apps I was using.