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Is Apple BAD? – Leaving normal users behind and changing
Is Apple BAD? – Leaving normal users behind and changing from innovation to luxury
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Whenever I start to be intrigued by a new Apple product, I just remind myself that my laptop is a 2011 Lenovo T420 that I bought refurb for $250 in 2016, upgraded the RAM from 4GB to 16GB, upgraded the 250GB HDD to a 512GB SSD, bought an extra swappable battery, and installed Mint XFCE on it and it runs like new. Hell, I even have an SSD caddy that can replace the disc drive if I wanted to double up on storage. And I can STILL get parts for it now in 2023. Sure it's showing its age with its standard definition screen with terrible viewing angles, but everything works. And there are tons of laptops that you can go out and buy today where you can still do all that. But not if you buy a Mac.
The only reason I have a Mac Studio is because I was able to pile on so many discounts to it that I was able to speed-bump it. So my 32GB M1 unit was around $1600 with trade-in.
It will be the absolute last Mac I buy. I bought it for things I either knew I couldn't do on Linux (federal taxes, run the Applesauce) or things I've had trouble with and had no confidence they'd work in Linux (video editing, though I'll admit I haven't seriously retried it in awhile).
It's really sad. In 2003 when I bought my first Mac (PowerBook G4), it was definitely the best value compared to the Wintel competition (and that thing cost me $1800 with NO discounts!). It became my desktop overnight. Back then, I was using Linux since 1995 with Afterstep and Ubuntu hadn't shown up yet. I was back on Linux desktop by the time Lucid dropped. My Mac minis were way better running Linux as servers. This was the 2000s, before mini PCs were around.
Good thing Apple dropped MacOS X, or I'd still not have a Mac. I went running back to the Apple II when I pressed the interrupt switch on Mom's original Mac and then discovered there was absolutely no documentation on how to work that monitor. (Fair enough; she used it for productivity, but SOMEHOW had a copy of ResEdit and thought I'd broken her computer when she walked in while I had a hex dump of a random resource up ;o)
I work in the A/V world, so while the future is certainly flexible, from the present working pro standpoint a Mac is a must have for me.
That being said; I’ve been daily driving the same Mac’s that I also use for work, and as much as I love these things from the work perspective, my personal preferences have changed.
For the foreseeable future, I’ll always have a Mac for work, but my first project after I move in a few months is to build my own, personal, daily driver which will be a riced Debian build.
tbh linux isnt really a substitute for macos, it just isnt as good at productivity, but who knows, hopefully in 5 years time i can look back and say to myself that this comment aged like milk
I’ve only ever bought two Macs, a base model 12” PowerBook in 2003 and a base model iMac in 2011, costing approximately £2.5K including a few later upgrades. At about £120 a year over 21 years (and counting) that’s really good value for high quality items with longevity. Using Bank of England inflation calculator for today’s prices, I spent about £1750 in 2003 and about £1400 in 2011. Today a base model 14” M3 MacBook Pro costs around the same as the PowerBook and a base model 24” iMac M3 again costs around the same. But, buying only two Macs in 20 years isn’t good business for Apple!
Back in 2003 I soon upgraded the ram, because the base spec wasn’t enough. Today it seems to be Apple’s pricing of upgrades which (understandably) causes so much friction. The high consumption of iPhones combined with a throwaway upgrade culture just tells Apple it can price what it wants and get away with it. Maybe a ‘Steve Jobs return’ moment is necessary to shake up Apple’s commercial and user repair / upgrade strategy to mitigate the damage to and felt by its loyal long term Mac user customer base.
All that said, I shall buy another Mac when the time is right for me. A 15” M2 MacBook Air with 24GB ram and 1T storage is the equivalent of £1,260 back in 2003 and £1,560 in 2011. For an upgraded 15” laptop that could potentially last 10+ years, that doesn’t seem comparatively bad value.
Never wanted a Mac really but can see the appeal to people who know little about tech, or like the niche editing software they excel at. Though a hackintosh can do it at a fraction of the price Mac's are something that on the surface appears to just work. The fact that iPhones are so popular and the way they integrate means you don't have to learn another operating system. However they are pricing themselves out of the market as a status symbol and the fact that upgrades have to come from apple is a joke. I hope that EU will now go after them again on right to repair for iPhone, MacBook and pro models. Still if people like them why not, I'll stick with self built pc that I can upgrade incrementally, I prefer function over form and value really. I think they peaked at iPod. The sad thing is that Samsung are trying to head that way with luxury status symbol phones losing essential features such as user expandable storage and headphone jacks in their high end S phones, and pushing towards cloud storage and ever increasing costs of this. Never give your essential data to someone else to look after, you'll regret it
8 gb on a Mac is like 64 gb on a PC. If you had 32 gb it’s like you have a mainframe computer!
8 GB on the Mac is at least like 16GB on Windows. At least.
Putting 8GB of RAM in the M3 MacBook Pro and pricing it for AUD$2699 is ludicrous. Asking for $300 more to add 8GB is insanity.
there's a rumour that Apple's going to launch a $699 MacBook 12" in March. Hopefully it's true, it would be a nice return to form.
I'll be sticking with Mac laptops because of my profession but I think I'm done with Mac desktops unless there's big changes or youtube suddenly makes me enough money that it makes financial sense to review the desktops.
My M1 Max is stupidly expensive but also…. gonna go out and say it, despite it's stupid lack of upgrades, by far the best laptop experience I've ever had. It's made for getting shit done, it's battery life is top notch, dead silent, ideal keyboard and trackpad, amazing speakers, and small. It's sad as it's great despite Apple's obnoxious choice to make the storage bolted down.
Yes, yes, and yes! Agree with you 100 percent and, I have been telling my co-workers and friends this same story since the year 2012, what happened to the "Fun" with Apple computer systems. The last excellent home desktop computer from Apple that was not an iMac which, I also own in my collection was the 2010, "mac mini" (the last model with a built-in DVD super-drive) and paired with an Apple 27-inch Cinema LED (none thunderbolt) display. Load in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and use "Front Row", Aperture, and with Rosetta 1, you are able to run all OS X Power PC only software titles (i.e. Apple Works and Via Voice). Now, I buy Apple computers just like automobiles used between three (3) to six (6) years old. After the introduction of the M-1 "Mac Studio" desktops, I noticed the prices on their old "trash can" size Mac Pro's started to "drop like a rock". So, a few months later, I picked up a used "trash can" Mac Pro-8 core/D-700/64GB/1TB SSD model for about $1,200. In 2024, I am planning on buying another vintage system a used 27-inch "space gray" Intel iMac Pro. Learned early on with Apple, Inc. that, you either play their game (keep buying new desktop computers and stay broke) or, you make them play your game (only buy several years old used desktop computers and, have still have tons of money in your pockets).
I agree. The last Apple that I had was the performa in 1997. Then I ran Windows until the end of Windows 7. Since 2019 I have gone 100% Ubuntu Studio Linux and I am never going back to either.
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iMac G3 was the original blue bubble 👀