Fuck Windows AND MacOS honestly
I hated apple way before I hated windows. But basically just fuck corporations entirely. All of them.
Honestly my M2 MacBook Pro feels like it’s built to last. I paid a lot, but I feel like I’ve gotten great value out of it and genuinely enjoy using it. And it’s still going strong.
But we have to talk about Apple’s hostility towards developers. It’s like they want to make devs miserable. That’s the part that’s unforgivable imo.
Honestly my M2 MacBook Pro feels like it’s built to last. I paid a lot, but I feel like I’ve gotten great value out of it and genuinely enjoy using it. And it’s still going strong.
yeah until you want to upgrade or repair something, then it’s fuck you buy another one. I get the apple premium, what I don’t get is the scorn they show for people who have purchased their overpriced hardware when they want to upgrade it. that’s just insulting - you gotta buy it with everything maxed out on APPLE ram, ssds etc.,
Apple making a proprietary pinout for NVME is what will keep me from ever giving them money.
https://assistenciaapplebrasilia.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Apple-Propietary-SSD.png
It’s not like Apple uses a different controller, or that they invented a different communication standard. They just put the same communication pins from the same controller on a different physical connector, and charge you 10x for the replacement part. It’s why boards like this can work at all:
https://bartechtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/nvme2016macbookPRO-1-678x381.jpg
If Apple wasn’t using standard NVMe controller communication protocols and controllers, these adapter boards wouldn’t work at all.
yup. disgusting.
I used to be an apple certified repair technician. Fuck apple and everything they do.
Their hardware is purposely designed to be as unrepairable and difficult to get into as possible. They literally spent millions developing their own new screw types for the inside of their phones. Diabolical evil shit.
Their software is also ass, but I haven’t ever daily used any apple products in my life so I am less annoyed by that. I only had to know how to fix em for years. Every time I have to trouble shoot a user issue on Mac it takes me like twice as long to fix because again they design it to be hard to fix things.
Stupid company. Shitty products. Microsoft and windows are right behind them though. Good lord has windows just continued to get worse and worse over the course of my life.
When my 2018 MBP touch bar glitched and a replacement was the whole-ass “upper case” including the battery, I knew we were cooked. Meanwhile, in my old 2012 MacBook pro I’m swapping parts like a madman to enjoy it, like you should.
You can replace just the touch bar, I’ve done it, but it’s a nightmare. Much cheaper and less waste though
That thing is seriously glued on. Like people complain about the battery adhesive but it’s not really that bad, some solvent takes it out pretty quick on most models (though it’s still not necessary and would be much better if it was just screwed into place). That touch bar though, that glue is crazy and any solvent or heat you use has to be super carefully managed because you’ll melt the keys very easily. Some tutorials have you basically just smash the shit out of it and scrape away the resulting shards but that seemed like a bad idea.
For the record I did heat from the rear and light application of acetone. Took a bit but I was able to pry it up although I did break the first couple. Doesn’t matter really but it can make it harder to prep the space for the new one.
Also fun times: on some models if the touch bar glitches out it shorts the motherboard and causes random reboots
Yeah ~2014-2015 I think is when they started really soldering everything together and adding adhesive or their new special screws to everything.
Edit: fat fingered wrong year
This was kind of justified for the RAM.
Packaging LPDDR smartphone-style like Apple does makes the traces much shorter, which lets the RAM be faster and lower power. DDR5-5600 DIMMs in “regular” laptops are literally electrically maxed out, and power hogs because they run at crazy voltages for the speed. I would think that much voltage would degrade the CPU too.
Fortunately LPCAMMS solve this!
And Apple is totally going to use them since they have no technical excuse anymore… right?
RIGHT!?
There’s also CUDIMM which one manufacturer is tauting that they’ll be releasing a 10000 MT/s soon after having dropped a 9000 model a couple months ago
I’ve owned computers since the 286 was a big deal.
I’ve NEVER had an SSD ”die”
Still better than Windows, though.
The only thing that makes Apple marginally better is that the company spying on you tries to pretend like they’re not in it for your sweet data.
They might not be selling it right now, but only because they keep making money hand over fist from the non-repairable proprietary bullshit they produce. Once that faucet starts to slow down, you better believe they’ll be the next Google.
They’re both about the same in terms of privacy so that’s quite an irrelevant thing to bring up. Windows sucks infinitely more from an usability perspective, though.
Edit: Oh, one more thing, you don’t have to do some bs hacks to use macOS without an Apple account.
They’re both about the same in terms of privacy so that’s quite an irrelevant thing to bring up. Windows sucks infinitely more from an usability perspective, though.
As someone who has used Linux as their primary desktop OS for about 7 years now, you don’t have to tell me that Windows sucks.
Edit: Oh, one more thing, you don’t have to do some bs hacks to use macOS without an Apple account.
I don’t use any accounts for my OS at all.
you don’t have to tell me that Windows sucks.
Then I don’t see why you have a problem with me saying macOS is better than Windows.
I don’t use any accounts for my OS at all.
You mean Linux? I don’t either but that’s irrelevant, isn’t it?
Seriously? This old-ass fight is still alive? Grow he fuck up, dudes.
I don’t get it either but think it’s a meme that people grabbed on to. We’re one step away from this appearing on Stephen Colbert. Sort of like talking about Taco Bell affecting people poorly.
