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> despite AMD drivers not being the happiest all the time This is something you will not have to even think about on a healthy mac, as long as the hardware is
by umanwizard 9y ago
> despite AMD drivers not being the happiest all the time
This is something you will not have to even think about on a healthy mac, as long as the hardware is not damaged in some way.
> Meanwhile, my OSX work laptop needs to be restarted multiple times a week, or the wifi gets temperamental and programs somehow start to accumulate and eat all the available CPU and RAM, it restarts itself periodically with zero warning (...) , and has had several kernel panics just this year, which are caused by OSX itself according to the dump.
Your mac has hardware problems -- ask for a new one, if possible.
- FabHK 9y agoI had lots of inexplicable failures and kernel panics, and ran the diagnostic (hold D during startup), got an error code, brought it in, and got a new motherboard. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201257 Runs mostly ok now, though still a pretty crap machine in my view (keyboard, 4 hours battery life (less if you do any actual work), terrible WiFi (2.4 GHz) when any dongle is plugged in (and with 2 ports, one of which is for charging, you need dongles), etc.).
- seba_dos1 9y agoReally? OpenGL drivers on macOS are absolutely shitty and I've seen plenty of strange behavior from them that definitely wasn't a hardware issue. It's also not hard to get suspend-resume issues on macOS with perfectly healthy hardware, especially if you keep upgrading instead of installing the new OS fresh. Plus there are plenty of small issues across various utilities here and there. It really isn't the most stable piece of software out there.