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I think it is the factors in the world today that has drastically reduced quality of all system, including macs, I'll grand to a far less degree, but I use to b

I think it is the factors in the world today that has drastically reduced quality of all system, including macs, I'll grand to a far less degree, but I use to be able to buy apple hardware and I just didn't worry about returns or manufacturing faults. But in the last 3 years, we've seen endless failings, across all brands, Dells and their shit batteries and docks, Lenovo and their cheap build quality, faulty keyboards, screens with ghosting and dead pixels, cases cracking, Apples big issues we've seen is motherboards, and power circuitry. It is just so frustrating to have to go through the read tape, and headaches only to be told that a new unit won't be available for a weeks. I wish, there was a reliable vendor, but like so much else it just seems that quality is the lowest concern. I miss the pre-2016 macs

AtlasBarfed 4y ago
The Wintel alliance is to blame for the bad state of laptops. First, Windows shit the bed with Windows 8 and the material design and tiles and two desktops. It still ... REALLY ... sucks. And they didn't care, why would they? The money STILL came in. Secondly, Intel sat on its laurels, and even worse, accepted a supplicative role to Microsoft in the Wintel "alliace". Intel absolutely should have pushed Linux on the desktop with some of their spare billions, if only to keep Microsoft honest, and to push hardware vendors. Even if it was under the guise of keeping compatibility high, or due diligence. Linux has, for at least two decades, been the opportunity to showcase hardware features in Intel without waiting for Microsoft to scratch its butt and crap out another service pack about two years after the hardware feature was available. But Intel never got it. It's not surprising they don't understand software, because from what I can tell of their management, they don't even understand hardware.
- Meph504 4y ago
  Sorry man, I really don't think this has anything to do with the reduction of the quality of hardware. Until Linux gets a multi billion dollar company backing it as a desktop OS and willing to pay what Microsoft is for their backing, it would make no sense for them to do otherwise.

AtlasBarfed 4y ago

The Wintel alliance is to blame for the bad state of laptops. First, Windows shit the bed with Windows 8 and the material design and tiles and two desktops. It still ... REALLY ... sucks. And they didn't care, why would they? The money STILL came in. Secondly, Intel sat on its laurels, and even worse, accepted a supplicative role to Microsoft in the Wintel "alliace". Intel absolutely should have pushed Linux on the desktop with some of their spare billions, if only to keep Microsoft honest, and to push hardware vendors. Even if it was under the guise of keeping compatibility high, or due diligence. Linux has, for at least two decades, been the opportunity to showcase hardware features in Intel without waiting for Microsoft to scratch its butt and crap out another service pack about two years after the hardware feature was available. But Intel never got it. It's not surprising they don't understand software, because from what I can tell of their management, they don't even understand hardware.

Meph504 4y ago
Sorry man, I really don't think this has anything to do with the reduction of the quality of hardware. Until Linux gets a multi billion dollar company backing it as a desktop OS and willing to pay what Microsoft is for their backing, it would make no sense for them to do otherwise.