TFA says: Macs are general purpose computers.<p>No, they aren't, and they are getting less general all the time. Go to apple.com, and click on the page for any of their MacOS systems. The only use of the word "computer" that you will find is in the literally fine print at the end of a page. Running console applications with recent MacOS versions is getting extremely frustrating, due to security enhancements. It's supposed to be a Unix system, and yet running Python requires more security tweaks. And I had to install Python3, only Python2 was included in the OS. I was unpleasantly surprised to discover that the included version of rsync was ancient. And then there was that whole application signing thing.<p>No, MacOS is rapidly becoming a closed box, as has occurred with Mac hardware.