Any time I would listen to a tech podcast, they'd discuss Apple/its products for a majority of the time, despite OSX having less than 20% market share (and iOS having like half of Android's as well). But obviously since their products are the priciest as well as the most """prestigious""" they deserve an inordinate amount of attention and hype.

  • s0ciety [he/him]
    2·
    4 years ago

    Fucking hate my work MacBook. Apparently if it gets the tiniest amount of wet on it, the touchbar dies and the computer is bricked when you try to update (even if the rest is fine, literally worked fine for months without the touchbar). I'd rather run Win10 with WSL at this point. At least Windows can make a half decent window manager for their OS; with OSX, you have to use 3rd party software to have that.

    When they refreshed the Air line recently, they also made those fucking awful. You can't do anything on them without them throttling the CPU because it's overheating.

    Don't even get me started on the butterfly switches on the MacBooks. It's like tapping your fingers on the goddamn table and they're defeated by the tiniest amount of dust.

    Expensive, fucking garbage.

    • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
      2·
      4 years ago

      bUt ThEy'Re So UsEr FrIeNdLy

      When someone who's pretty tech savvy needs to look up numerous tutorials to figure out how to manage windows or take a fucking screenshot, I think that's a sign it's not very user friendly, just minimalist and simplified

      • Randomdog [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        bUt ThEy BeSt FoR cReAtIvE pRoS

        >Removes SD card slot

        • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
          ·
          4 years ago

          lol removes every port besides lightning - which sure, is a great replacement for usb - but damn now I have to plug in the dongle to use my hdmi monitor & headset and that means it takes up the usb spot on the dongle so I can't use my wireless mouse and now I'm screaming into the void because someone just told me "lol buy a usb to lightning adapter for the cord"

      • s0ciety [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        All it is for me, is an expensive laptop to run iterm2, web browser, and email/slack because the devs and managers at my company are all mobile devs and all they know is iOS and Macs.

    • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      When they refreshed the Air line recently, they also made those fucking awful. You can’t do anything on them without them throttling the CPU because it’s overheating.

      lol yeah for some reason the company i work for decided that 2018 macbook airs were the best tools to use for, among other things, having 500 tabs of Salesforce open at a time and I weep whenever I hear the fans kick up as soon as I open Firefox.

      amazingly, I've had this thing for almost two years and its now to the point where if I take it off its charger the battery only lasts like 2 hours due to the fans constantly running at max speed due to the shitty heat management lol.

    • frompeaches [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      windows management sends me, I was so hyped when I got a macbook for work and I was like now I find out how great these are, finally and ... I just couldn't split screens lol. I installed fedora in parallels on the mac