I have similar experience, but Windows 10 seems to have cleaned that. The current PC I use have been installed about 1 year ago with an insider preview and had 0 problem since. I have been using it for gaming only until early 2017 when I switched my workstation on it (with no reinstal).
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Itâs not even that there is way less malware that targets OS X vs Windows. A top tier AV will reliably identify about 95-97% of known win. malware. Now given that there are literally millions of known windows malware/viruses you are looking at more than 100,000 that even top AV will not identify and here we are talking only about known malware. Working at top tier security company Iâd say itâs 20:1 ratio of mac vs pc at work including Macs being used by some of the world top malware reversers.
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First rule to not get malware, especially as a power user :
Do Not Install An AV
At best they are attack vector that are badly protected, at worse they are going to screw up the rest of the security on your computer.
The Chrome security team spend a lot of their time dealing with vulnerabilities in their sandbox and security mechanisms due to AV. If you are on Windows, stay with the default Windows Defender. It is top notch and it does not impact the rest of your security stuff.
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FWIW, typing this on my 2011 MBP which isnât that much slower than my work 2015 MBP because I could upgrade it. Given that thatâs not an option anymore, Iâve been recreating my work and hobby development environments on my 2013 17" AlienWare which I can totally upgrade to last me 3-4 more years (even to 32GB) using Win10 and âGNU/Windowsâ (the âLinux Subsystem for Windowsâ). Ubuntu Xenial just works, I have my Spacemacs full screen (yeah, that does make life easier), VcXsrv can run the X apps I need, like IntelliJ, and frankly - MacOS X as an operating system feels shittier to me than Win10. Tons of crap going on you cannot influence, outdated versions of stuff in /usr/bin you cannot even delete, no package manager, and so on.
Iâve made up my mind - if my MBP dies (it should soon, it has the crappy AMD GPU which you cannot update), Iâm switching to Win10 + Ubuntu. So far, a perfect combination that runs my games, my Adobe software, and my development environments without dual boot and/or badly supported hardware drivers in the Linux kernel.
I donât have a need for one at the moment but I hate the romancizing of brands (like apple), CEOâs like Jobs, editors (like vim, spacemacs and whatever).
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Brand is secondary having an OS with decent GUI plus decent tools like dtrace and a good chunk of commercial software from outlook to all the Adobe thingys availible is a big bonus.
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The new Macs still say to me that Apple has lost their inventive edge since Steve Jobs died, it is âjust another iterationâ.
I was never an Apple user because I really REALLY hate walled jails (the term âwalled gardenâ is such an oxymoron in this contextâŠ). I personally run machines that Iâve built myself from parts Iâve bought based on research about what works best for a given thing, while running various linuxâs for over two decades now (exclusively linux at home since 2006) and FreeBSD before that (with Windows sprinkled in up until the Vista screw-over, Balmar(sp?) sucksâŠ).
A side effect of buying my own parts and researching what is actually good is that my desktopâs parts are averaging 7 years old now, the most recent part is an SSD to boot faster (2 seconds now whoo!) that was 3-4 years ago. The system just does not die, and I hate upgrading unless Iâm replacing a dead part, so my system is a bit old now⊠^.^;
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I will be buying computer for programming (linux OS comaptible) â little small fanless beast 
My setup:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits/nuc/kits/nuc7i5bnh.html
Akasa nuc fanless case Plato X7
RAM 2 x 16 GB HyperX Impact DDR4 SODIMM
SSD m.2 samsung evo 960 512GB
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Looks really interesting how much is the case going for ?
about
99,90 âŹ
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Having switched from Windows to Macs 2.5 years ago, I canât find a single thing where it isnât better than Windows other than video games. Different strokes I guess.
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Handling windows. Systems options. Wifi setup. Printers options and work. etc etc
I just âupgradedâ from a 3 year old rMBP 15 to a Dell XPS15 with 4k display, 32GB RAM, and 1TB PCIe SSD - oh and Nvidia 1050 GPU. I made this choice because the latest rMBP was stuck at 16GB RAM, and even with only 512GB SSD, it was $1000 more expensive.
PROS
- I can play games now
- screen is lovely and sharp
CONS (too many to list, so here are the most significant ones)
- Adobe Illustrator is slower, despite the much better GPU on this Dell
- Bash is slow, both in terminal responsiveness and in some computational activities (some compiles are way slower)
- Mixing Windows progs with WSL/bash files is messy
- My new machine with proper drivers has already crashed or locked up several times in the first week of use
In summary, it sucks royally. I wish Apple would stop behaving like their only audience is the users for whom life is just snapchat and facebook.
I donât doubt that with enough time, research, and effort, I can hack this PC into a working dev machine. But itâs beyond documenting the process to get to that point, so the inevitable wipe/reinstall is going to undo all my work. When that day comes, Iâll probably just try to get Ubuntu working on bare metal and say goodbye to Windows. I do appreciate the efforts they have made over the last few years, but it just cannot compare to a solid UI+*nix.
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Install a Linux on it. Honestly. I highly advise Fedora for ease but other works.
For Illustrator : update your GPU drivers.
maybe do a thread where each alchemist can show off their dev rigs, specs, cost and all 
⊠including most importantly their reason for that option they had chosen, and possibly what they would be going for next, and what would influence their next rig purchase.
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Feel free to start one 
Weâve got a few threads covering specifics such as:
Thereâs also:
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