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> As much as I don’t want to buy another Mac in the future, I have a feeling that I probably will. If my laptop has 13 repairs over the first 2 years of use (a

> As much as I don’t want to buy another Mac in the future, I have a feeling that I probably will. If my laptop has 13 repairs over the first 2 years of use (and under "very well treatment"), I would consider the laptop a scam and never buy from that manufacturer. But since the machine got an Apple logo on it, somehow all the problems become material for praising their repair services. If this is not symptom of Stockholm (wink to author) syndrome, I don't know what is. I still have my 2010 ThinkPad from Lenovo, which, besides of a broken audio jack and completely drained battery, is completely fine. Everything else works as 10 years ago. Of course this is anecdotal, but wouldn't any of you prefer a laptop without issue to worry about than one with tons of issues but getting free and fast repairs? Good repair service shouldn't be excuse to shitty quality of the hardware and software.

pqvst 5y ago
The only thing keeping me on a Mac is some of my work which is iOS/macOS development. Unfortunately I haven't found a good workaround for this.
- danuker 5y ago
  Simple: work in Android/PC development instead.
AnonHP 5y ago
I think hardware quality is overall good with Apple, but sometimes there are rough patches over years where widespread problems are neither acknowledged nor solved. One such patch, which I fortunately managed to avoid, was from 2016 or so till now. It remains to be seen how good the Apple Silicon Macs work over the next several years.
danuker 5y ago
I have a 7-year old Asus laptop, the lowest price/performance I could find in 2014. Same experience. It has one faulty USB port, and the battery is getting weak. Over its lifetime I did watch the temperature, and clean it about once every two years. Other than that, it is only due to software slowing down that I bought a beefier desktop for work. No returns or repairs needed. I also think Apple hardware is a joke. Check out Louis Rossmann on YouTube. I am linking one of his videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8

pqvst 5y ago

The only thing keeping me on a Mac is some of my work which is iOS/macOS development. Unfortunately I haven't found a good workaround for this.

danuker 5y ago
Simple: work in Android/PC development instead.

AnonHP 5y ago

I think hardware quality is overall good with Apple, but sometimes there are rough patches over years where widespread problems are neither acknowledged nor solved. One such patch, which I fortunately managed to avoid, was from 2016 or so till now. It remains to be seen how good the Apple Silicon Macs work over the next several years.

danuker 5y ago

I have a 7-year old Asus laptop, the lowest price/performance I could find in 2014. Same experience. It has one faulty USB port, and the battery is getting weak. Over its lifetime I did watch the temperature, and clean it about once every two years. Other than that, it is only due to software slowing down that I bought a beefier desktop for work. No returns or repairs needed. I also think Apple hardware is a joke. Check out Louis Rossmann on YouTube. I am linking one of his videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8