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Ok honest question and I hope you don't take this the wrong way: Preface: Today two of my co-workers were lamenting over a similar phenomenon that you describe
by rozap 14y ago
Ok honest question and I hope you don't take this the wrong way:
Preface: Today two of my co-workers were lamenting over a similar phenomenon that you described, in addition to describing their MBP hardware troubles (dead motherboards, in this instance). Their solution was to buy another macintosh.
Why is this the solution? I don't buy the argument that other PC makers are worse. If my laptop died after 2 years, especially if I paid Apple prices for it, I'd be so pissed off that I would buy just about anything but another Apple device.
Have you tried using a quality PC with a modern distribution of Mint or something installed? I think you might rethink your position about "everyone else being worse". Take this with a grain of salt, I've had the same dell laptop for 5 years with Xubuntu and 0 problems. If I didn't have that experience my outlook would likely be different.
- tolmasky 14y agoSo, I have a couple of answers. The first being that you are probably right. I've been a Mac user my whole life so a big part of it is just comfort, coupled with some remaining hope that things will return to the way things were. It was not that long ago that OS X updates were genuinely solid. Everything up to Tiger was great in my opinion. Secondly, I plan on making myself a PC in the near future just to handle graphics stuff and for gaming. The latest 10.8.3 update has negatively affected my framerates and the lack of support for the latest graphics cards is making it harder and harder to do some tasks. Lastly, there is the fact that I do iOS development so I need a Mac for that regardless. If I was still doing web dev my options might be different.
- bitcartel 14y agoI wonder how much this has to do with the departure of Bertrand Sertlet. “I’ve worked with Steve for 22 years and have had an incredible time developing products at both NeXT and Apple, but at this point, I want to focus less on products and more on science.” http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/23Bertrand-Serlet-to-Leave-Apple.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/23Bertrand-Serlet-to...