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> And none of them work reliably. That is absurd. Last year I built a PC with off the shelf components that I spent about 30 minutes picking out, and all I had
by pault 6y ago
> And none of them work reliably.
That is absurd. Last year I built a PC with off the shelf components that I spent about 30 minutes picking out, and all I had to do was stick the windows installer into the USB port to get everything set up perfectly out of the box. I have never had any reliability issues and I only reboot about once per month for updates. I used Apple products exclusively for a decade, but a contract role last year required me to use a Windows dev environment. I was holding my nose going in, but using WSL has been a joy and my MacBook is now collecting dust in the closet. In my experience most Mac purists that turn their nose up at commodity PCs haven't used one since MacBooks became the standard hip startup dev machine. Things have changed a lot in the last ten years.
And let's not pretend that Mac hardware has been perfectly reliable lately. In fact, of my hand rolled desktop PC and my 2017 MacBook Pro, the PC has had far fewer hardware reliability issues. Apple's declining hardware quality and increasingly unjustifiable retail prices have pretty much chased me off the platform after 10+ years of fanatical loyalty.
- pram 6y agoYour statement is ridiculous. The last 10 years? When was the last time you used a windows laptop provisioned by a company with a big enterprise style IT department? You know, the ones bogged down with tons of endpoint security crap, Citrix daemons, compliance daemons etc. Its still a shitshow that you have to use Linux or MacOS to escape in many places.
- topranks 6y agoIt’s a bit much to throw all that at the PC/Windows side. Sure companies fill them with shit, that’s not really a flaw in the underlying hardware/OS though. Those same people have less scope for that on OSX/Linux sure, but again that doesn’t mean the software/hardware is better.
- ben_w 6y agoSounds like the issue is the big enterprise style IT departments rather than the hardware or the OS.
- mschuster91 6y agoOh the "security" crapware also infests corporate macOS machines these days.
- adpcm 6y agoUnfortunately that is no longer reserved for Windows. JamF policies lockdown, DigitalGuardian, CyberReason Activeprobe, and various forced Firefox/Chome extensions are now causing slowdowns and crashes on “enterprise IT managed” Mac too.
- eric-hu 6y agoI use a MacBook Pro 16” for work and have to have Sophos and Jamf installed. I’m operating at 60-80% of the performance I had before those became policy. Don’t underestimate what corporate IT can do to any machine.
- pault 6y agoYou said that no non-apple PCs are reliable, so you're shifting the goal posts now.