This piece also captures the angst. The openly hostile acts of soldering ram, and glueing batteries is something that kind of made me angry. Ok, I told myself,

This piece also captures the angst. The openly hostile acts of soldering ram, and glueing batteries is something that kind of made me angry. Ok, I told myself, maybe the device and OS will compensate for the fact that it is not user serviceable anymore. Nope, for the last 3 to 5 years OSX and now macOS software has been beta (at best) on release day. They finally issued recalls for some older graphics problems the "Pro" models had. All in all they have just iOS-ified everything. Very gimmicky updates... nothing that really got me fired up. This has all come to a head with the latest release of hardware. I don't need a hands on to know 16gb isn't enough RAM. I don't need a hands on to know that the touchbar isn't going to work for ME. I don't need a hands on to know that dongle hell is coming. I really love the trackpad on the mac (one thing that no windows pc can touch), but it looks like the STUPIDLY large trackpad is going to have issues as well.... I do know that I can't stand the "apple" tax any longer. I am sick of not being able to do "everything" on my computer because there isn't enough power/ram/etc. I should have just run Linux VM's for development while keeping Windows, I don't know... I haven't "gamed" in a long time, because it just sucks on a mac (maybe that is a good thing for productivity?).