Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Yeah do that. Sounds about as needed.

I walked away fro mac after my motherboard shit itself for the second time and apple refused to replace. It was a known issue of a bad product. And wouldn't when offer a solid percentage of a new one.

Whilst I was at University in 2007, with student Apple Care, I dropped my laptop and smashed the screen.

Took it in to get repaired and didn't even bring up Apple Care as it was so obviously user damage so not covered. A couple of days later I got a call telling me that since I'd had the screen replaced a month before for another fault, then it was under warranty and would be replaced for free.

I guess that good service would never scale with popularity, but it was one of the most compelling reasons to recommend a Mac at the time.

I've since had a Samsung Ultrabook (imo much nicer than the equivalent Air) and a Dell XPS which was doing 13" screens in a 12" body long before apple did. Both have been reliable and I don't think I could ever go back to paying Apple Tax.

Edit: and this is from someone who'd had a Mac since OS 8 (#CSB)

The fragility of the upgrade process has always annoyed me. Boggling that they own the hardware and the OS and still fuck that up for a significant percentage of users.

So I try to upgrade the last macbook I bought to the latest version of macOS. Fails hard. I'm told I need to create a special USB boot key to get the upgrade to work. OK, I try that. Turns out it can only be done from a computer already running the latest macOS.

You fucking what? I need the disk, but only somebody who doesn't can create it? There's zero good technical reasons I can't create the disk image from an older macOS version, so it's either a stupid technical decision or a stupid process decision. Kindly line up all the stupid people so I can shoot them in the head.

Even Windows is better than that, while the various alternatives (Linux/BSDs/BeOS etc) can upgrade you from pretty much any conceivable combination of circumstances you might have arrived at in the last two decades - on a huge range of hardware. But Apple frequently can't manage the upgrade of a recent vanilla version of their own OS on their own hardware.

But Apple frequently can't manage the upgrade of a recent vanilla version of their own OS on their own hardware.

I'm holding off on yet another version of Mac OS right now because it bricked my friend's Macbook Pro.

I suspect that ironically installing it on my hackintosh will be smoother but by all accounts there don't seem to be many reasons to install it:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/11/macos_catalina_fail/

Aye, that's a very accurate and hard hitting rant. The network/cloud stuff in particular.

When I bought an Android tablet, despite it being from a completely different manufacturer than my phone, as soon as the tablet knew my Google account it said "I see your phone is on the local wifi. Would you like me to update from that rather than drag everything down from the Net?". Smooth as anything.

When I bought my gf an iPad, not only did it fail to sync from the Net properly but something about the mere attempt caused her iPhone to refuse to do any more backups. She refused to touch either device until she could get to a Genius bar, for fear of lost iTunes data etc.

Again, your first thought might be "owning everything should make them better at this". But I think a competitive ecosystem based on open standards with many players in it can force good integration. In contrast, Apple's discipline has slipped and they rely too much on user patience and the Genius Bar to resolve unexpected scenarios. Which is not so good now that they've downgraded the Genius Bar.

When I bought an Android tablet, despite it being from a completely different manufacturer than my phone, as soon as the tablet knew my Google account it said "I see your phone is on the local wifi. Would you like me to update from that rather than drag everything down from the Net?". Smooth as anything.

It just works.

Plastic. Fucking. Laptops.

Get a grip.

The look and feel of MacBooks (and other Apple products for that matter) is indeed top notch,
yet gotta say all that sexy unibody shinyness is moot when their motherboards or graphic cards die or the fucking keyboards do not work properly.

It's like dating somebody with a great body and a fresh haircut and nice clothes,
yet inside it's an asshole.

And you pay for the fucking dinner.

And?

Mac vs pc >>>>>>

Advice please. Currently running a 2014 MBP 13" + NVIDIA eGPU, mostly for coding work but also some basic data work using Tableau and TensorFlow. I MUST have High Sierra to use the eGPU for Tensorflow as NVIDIA drivers are not available for subsequent OSes.

I've got an offer to get a new laptop from work. As far as I understand, nothing with a T2 chip will run HS. So I can either get a 2017 13" / 15" MBP with the shitty keyboard and run HS, or a 2019 13"/15" MBP and buy (out of my own pocket) something like a 2014 Mac Mini to run HS on my desktop as a separate machine for data stuff. Alternatively I could wait for the 16" MBP, probably next year.

Budget is not an issue and I'm not desperately interested in the productivity benefits of the latest operating system. However there have been significant hardware specification improvements since 2017 I guess.

WWYD?

Any iMac experts

Late 2013 iMac 17
8gb ram
1tb HD

It's perfect condition but painfully slow, like so painful. It beachballs doing any things, even opening new tabs in finder.. ssd and ram see m obvious but upgrading them (because of having to open iMac) is more expensive than it's probably worth

Have you tried switching it off and on again?

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No need to open it up! I ran one of those off an external ssd for four years at my last job without issue.

Step 1: buy a usb 3 enclosure with UASP support (important for external boot drives because reasons)

Step 2: buy an ssd

Step 3: clone existing drive to ssd or just do a fresh install.

Profit.

My Chromebook Pixel is not plastic. In fact, it's less plasticky than a Macbook!

Tried seeing if there’s a process that’s consuming all the resources?

Nothing running that looks intensive, I think @Well_is_it might be right, HD is 80% full and well... a HD.

Will look into an SSD boot drive

looks like i can install memory on this one without opening too, dream,will have a weekend of upgrades

How does this work? USB or something?

it has a little opening at the back, just for the memory

seems legit

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