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I think Macs "just working" has always been a myth. Ask anyone who gets paid to fix Macs. Sure, I see less of them, but hardly unexpected considering people bu
by Nexxxeh 10y ago
I think Macs "just working" has always been a myth. Ask anyone who gets paid to fix Macs.
Sure, I see less of them, but hardly unexpected considering people buy fewer of them (and they're less targetted by malware).
On the other hand, I hate dealing with them because they can suffer from the same "it should work but doesn't" crap that Windows machines do but without the critical mass of support via Google.
And unless you get your issue escalated, the Apple Geniuses are about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.
- lisper 10y ago> I think Macs "just working" has always been a myth. To a certain extent that is certainly true. But there was a time during the Snow Leopard era when Macs were extraordinarily reliable compared to the then-contemporary competition, and even compared to anything before or since. Things have gone downhill since then because Apple decided to de-emphasize reliability in favor of other things like thinness, and the merging of desktop and mobile environments.
- askvictor 10y agoWe had an (recent) iMac that just kept randomly crashing. Apple replaced most of the parts inside it, and it kept doing it. Eventually they have us new one. Kudos for that; random errors are a pain to diagnose and fix, but they did.