> I'd be really curious to hear what specific buggy hardware or annoying features of OS X are an issue for you. Okay, here's the biggest of them all: audio app

> I'd be really curious to hear what specific buggy hardware or annoying features of OS X are an issue for you. Okay, here's the biggest of them all: audio applications no longer work reliably on new Apple hardware. Anything using a Haswell (or later) CPU has this issue. Dropouts, stuttering audio, crashes for no reason in Ableton Live and other apps. It's a common complaint, and it's the reason I actually downgraded my Macbook Pro from a late-2013 Haswell to an early-2013 non-Haswell model. The dropouts ceased. I can now record 24 bit audio without issue. I tried all manner of audio interfaces, thinking it must be a driver or third-party hardware issue. But it wasn't. Not only that, but the USB stack has deteriorated to the point where the keyboard and trackpad of my Haswell Retina MBP routinely stop working. The Wifi chip -- also connected via USB -- drops about 15-20% of all packets sent over it. Even the Thunderbolt port was flaky, oftentimes I'd lose every externally-connected device as well as the trackpad and keyboard. Powering off was the only way to fix it. It was even worse when I bought it, but a couple of firmware updates made it work just well enough that I didn't return it for a refund. I don't know whether it's a problem with Apple's drivers, Intel's chipset, or some awful combination of the two. All I know is, I'm not the only one who's had these issues. The Ableton forums are rife with people with these exact issues on any relatively new hardware. People swear up and down that their older Macs perform much better than their newer ones, even with things like AppNap (a pox upon it) disabled. I want Apple to succeed and I want to keep using their hardware, because I vastly prefer(red) OS X to Windows, but they seem to be working against me here in a big way. I gave it my best try, I really did. They've let me down recently. It's sad. I hope they can recover eventually.