Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
sudo in Windows.Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
This is because of the cold. Apple Laptops dominate because they are (were at the time, anyway), the only screens that would survive those temperatures.
Reference: I designed and led the build of the system used by the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium for managing equipment and rentals for scientists in the arctic back in the 2Ks.
Wouldn’t you want something purpose built for it? Like a Panasonic Toughbook or an Intel 10850k?
You'd think, but the macs held up great, and were easier to replace as they were often rented so needed to be sourced regularly.
One of the things I loved about Reddit was the super niche experts dropping into the comment section. I'm so glad Lemmy has this too.
Woa.. I have become those whom I cherish. Haha
You'd think with all those penguins...
The one place where MacBooks having terrible cooling is a feature.
Macbooks would not survive the antarctic outdoors...
Me either
Must be a design flaw, maybe you should try a refund.
I keep messaging the devs but no response.
Username Checks Out
Apple products have really great temp resistance
Strange because that's where penguins live.
I read the title and was like that can't be right. I know that the South Pole base runs a data center so I've always just assumed that ran Linux. Then I looked at the graph and realized it's desktop usage and it makes sense now.
Maybe it's not about the scientists but about the tourists. What kind of people go on vacations in Antarctica?
Tourism visitor numbers in Antarctica have risen to over 100,000 a year
With all those tourists... let me guess: Antarctica is facing problems with trash scattered all around?
You mean apple products?
Well, they are half-eaten on the back, so checks out.
Wise Mac users move to Antarctica to prolong the life of the badly cooled devices.
what those penguins doin n osx
