It's not a meme right? they just work and everything... right? a decade long worth of service... right?
>>108667573Everyone I know who has owned one has regretted it. It costs a lot of money and isn't very spectacular I think Mac is popular because of really good marketing and they have some software that designers use so if you are not stupid enough to fall for marketing and you are not a designer you shouldn't buy a Mac.
>>108667573Well, the ARM macbooks are only out for 6 years now.Intel macbook were shit due to intel being intel.
>>108667639I use inkscape, GIMP and Krita and they work fine for my design purposes.Blender for anything 3D related.WSL for everything UNIX/Linux and Oracle Virtual box if I want a desktop with Linux.Currently I'm on HP but honestly it is just as unreliable. my laptop is 3 months old and the charger isn't working properly. I'm just looking for a set it and forget it laptop. at this point I don't care too much which OS as long as it works reliably for years on end.
>>108667772If you're not earning money from your paintings, skip the MacBook.If you have to overthink $2k laptop you use for 5+ years, don't buy it either since you are too poor for it.But if you are making money, go for the cheapest 16-inch M5 Pro (it has the best cooling and the biggest battery, m5 max gets thermally throttled and it's only useful if you are editing 4k-8k videos).
It isn't even controversial. Every single person that I know who got a macbook in college over a decade ago still uses it. And it's like an afterthought for them, they never have any computer issues. My gf has an old banged up one that's still kicking.
I got a m1 16/512gb about 5 years ago. It has it’s quirks but what most impressed me was the battery life. Its getting a bit annoying lately. Refuses to shut down. Battery is not as good anymore Programs (non apple ones) hang quite often. Stuff like that. Even the apple stuff isn’t that great. Icloud and safari suck. Its still more than enough for my usecase though, so unless it breaks I cant justify buying a new one. My old windows laptops have been repurposed as tv or linux machines, but you can’t really do that with a mac. It’s one of the reasons I will not buy one again. And I still can’t get used to macOS, and I don’t understand why people think it’s sooo much better than windows.
>>108667573I'm using a 2015 MacBook Pro right now as my daily driver. Upgrading to a PCIe drive with a mod and a battery replacement in 2020 as part of a recall has made it work quite well in 2026 to the point I've returned M4/M5 models. I have been a bit lucky on the hardware front with this particular model though. When a MacBook fails, they fail hard. Hardware unreliability is at valid criticism of MacBook. I will say though that the M1 series model I got my parents continues to work great.MacBooks are ideal if you have a good set of eyes and ears. Their screens and speakers are excellent. They shine as content creation machines, especially audio, because of macOS exclusive software. Doubly so if you have an iPhone; you can remote into the iPhone from your MacBook, take phone calls and send texts directly off macOS.MacBook is an exceptional auxillary device. It's like a specialized air tool that can do a small subset of things better than anything else on the market. You use it as a complement to other stuff you have. That's why the Neo is so compelling.>pic unrelated
>>108667845Did you limit your battery charge to 80% with third party app? If not makes sense your battery got raped, apple only added the charge limit in tahoe 26.4.
>>108667860No but I also made sure to never leave in on a charger. Battery health is something like 85% so not too bad. I notice that some apps drain it way faster nowadays. My biggest problems come from the hangups and crashes I get with non-Apple apps that become more apparent with each new os release. It’s not the power, I think, but probably all the internal vetting and permissions the apps have to go through with each start up. Something the apple stuff doesn’t have to do. But idk. I find the OS “arrogant”, decides all these things for me that I don’t necessarily had any say in. Feel like windows or linux let you peek more behind the curtain and let you edit more how the machine is run.
>>108667573i have mine since nov2022.i haven't spent more than 6h in 4y to make everything work. I think the OS is worse since moving to tahoe. Sonoma was very good.
Geniunely thinking about making the switch cant bear "windows" 11 and dont like linux, though maybe i could bear with ubuntu.
>>108667860>>108667898Funnily enough, macbooks have been able to detect if they're on AC power for long periods of time and go into a kind of desktop mode where it keeps battery at 80%. Been there since at least MacOS 14 or 15 when I got my M3 pro
>>108667898>No but I also made sure to never leave in on a charger.Regardless of whether you left it on the charger, overcharging your battery past 80% has caused damage, which is the reason that feature exists in the Tahoe. I will not respond to the rest of your comments, it sounds like low IQ retard-babble with no real criticism, you can do everything through terminal on macOS.
>>108667573Bought a M1 Pro 14” for like $600 on eBay after running thinkpads at work since the ibm days. The best laptop I’ve ever used and it isn’t even close
>>108667573I was watching a raid array rebuild and zening out and it hit me, normies like you, apple marketing shill spammers, you will never be able to have an offline LANYou are too stupid and lazy. It's simply beyond you.The reasons why you would need one are incomprehensibe to someone who thinks brands are status symbols. The fact that LAN cables don't have a brand that signifies status to fools means you can't even understand why LAN cables exist or who would want one. I mean you know you are lying and selling awful underpowered overpriced 8gb uninspired thrash that traps consumers into an awful corporate walled garden cloud portal devices hell but you are so lacking ability, characater, morals, technical ability you are willing to spam this junk for low wages. That's your life. You probably spend most of it on food and rent and then use the free apple homosexual mating call product you get to sit in starbucks trying to hit on other men, hoping some elderly faggot will adopt you and you can live with them as a carer/prositute in exchange for some near geriatric ejaculating in your anus. Even if you won a lottery you would spend it all on overpriced, poor value brandslop logos and subscriptions, the little brain you have was completely overpowered by modern marketing, so much so you ended up a minion of it.You're the perfect example of the future digital slave, you will have to subscribe to get access to remote storage, cloud games, music, movies and computing resources accessed via terrible tiny screened, overpriced devices with awful specs deliberately designed to be useless for anything other that cloud access portals. Yet you will proudly display your slave brand logo as if telling the world you are a good slave before you go and let some geriatric ejaculate in your anus for food and then spend any time you have left spamming apple marketing idiocy in desperation to get another free sample because it means everything to you to own gank brandslop
Macbooks get that one update that fucks you up for good. Then you roll back and cope. Software stops working due to outdated OS. You give in and buy the next Macbook. It's about 3-5 years from the date of purchase until the update. It is the goyslop of technology. If you are a paypig you'll love it.
Big Sur fucked up the 2017 MBP (3 years). Tahoe is currently fucking up M2 Macbooks, maybe even M3. That's again 3 years of service, maybe 2 for some unlucky fuckers. These Macbooks and iPhones are a ticking timebomb. Releasing a product this shit and evil would have been out of the question just 10 years ago.
>>108668076How do you go to work, and can only afford $600 laptop of ebay, what do you do like??? Clean feces in Brazil/India for $200 per month? I am not even trying to be rude, just perplexed anon. M5 air is like $400 more and it smokes the m1.
>>108667573idk i have an m1 pro since release and it's good won't upgrade unless it goes up in flames
>>108668115I use a laptop at home a few times a year during travel, no reason to spend a grand on that and having a 120hz screen and a hdmi/sd card port is cool
>>108668137Right, if you barely use it makes sense. My bad anon, I apologize.
>/g/ - "Technology"more like /g/ - Apple Shills and Appletards
>>108667639crazy cope by a poorfag
>>108667573A lot of people using macbooks use old shit. The only people you see buying a macbook every fucking year are youtubers marketing Apple products.In short, they're generally reliable. But you'll find a lot of information on this model overheating, that model having a cable break on it, that model doing this and that.You're more likely to find problems with its software. Some things about macOS got considerably worse over time. You will find some bugs here and there. It's not the polished experience everyone wants to sell you. However it's still nowhere, nowhere near as awful as Windows in that aspect. Even latest macOS feels dead stable in comparison.Your biggest problem when switching to these machines if the amount of shit you have to commit to, unless you're willing to pay extra. Let go of any windows applications or ways of working with the system or you'll be paying for stupid shit like taskbars or worse, you might even end up paying for Parallels, which is probably the biggest scam related to Apple I've seen (yes, even a bigger scam than some of their hardware upgrade configurations). Let go or you will pay and pay and keep fucking paying for shit, trust me. Don't go and buy a fucking NTFS driver for the love of god.
>>108668067>overchargingmakes you wonder why manufacturers set 100% at a point where its over where its supposed to be
Since there's like 7 applefag threads already I'll ask here instead of making a new oneIs it worth installing macOS on an external SSD?I'm using pic related with an actual SSD (SN770) that's about 30% faster than the internal one. I also could not give two fucks about Apple Intelligence, I don't want to have Siri inspecting my dick. I'm sure there are better ways.
>>108668090the windows 11 thread is that way anon
>>108668424Pic related sorry I was too busy sucking on a barrel of dicks
>>108668424the external onemight be faster over TB but the internal one has better endurance and latency.
>>108668435What do you mean endurance? This shit has like 1200 TBW. The internal SSD has about a tenth of that shit.
>>108667573fuck are you talking abouthow is this not easy to google
>>108668455i don't know the external capacity since you didn't mention and also the internal capacity which you also didn't mention, cunt.for equal capacities, the internal one will last longer because it's basically just dumb nand and the controller is on the mobo.
macs have:>soldered SSD/RAM/WLANdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>when pajeetOS runs out of RAM it swapfile rapes the SSD to death within 3 yearsdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>when the SSD dies it bricks your entire currybook because the EFI is stored on the soldered SSD to save $0.05 on a dedicated chipdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>components serial numbered and tied to the motherboard to prevent repair and replacement (including battery)doesnt exist on 99% of PCs>riveted keyboard that requires total destruction of the chassis to replacedoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>flexgate cables that are so brittle they crack from opening your screen past 90 degrees more than 2 dozen timesdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>screens so fucking shit they have over 90ms response times (essentially 10Hz)doesnt exist on 99% of PCs>screen made from pajeet trash glass that cracks from temperature change in seasons or tape over the iBotnet webcamdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>so fire and explosion prone the FAA have banned them from all flightsdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>uses phone CPU that's so shit it gets destroyed by decade old i3s from 2017 and can only "compete" by cheating at benchmarks in extreme edge cases with hardware acceleratorsdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>curryniggers at apploo get so full of sniffing their own currynigger silicon shit they ship currybooks with no fans and they run so hot they melt the keyboard keysdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>keyboards with 63.5% failure rateunheard of on PCs, and yet you curryniggers defend it with "jus werx fer me!"just because you're in the 36.5% survivor group doesn't make your currynigger trash any goodthis list goes on foreverthere's no PC laptop as total fucking currynigger shit as crapple's streetshitter booksthey are the biggest heaps of steaming currynigger shit in the history of computing second only to curryPhones
>>108667694>Intel macbook were shit due to apple being curryniggersfixed for reality iJeet
not this retard spammer again
>>108668455>asks for advice>gets advice they don't like>gets madyou already want to use that external thing. just use it.
>>108668583why are you posting intel shit?>>108668576>oh man, that longhorn guy must be pissed. i bet he sold that apple laptop years agohttps://x.com/never_releasedstill an apple user.
>>108668640>lie about your currybook being bad because intel>in reality it's because your currynigger engineers earned their engineering degree on the same dirt road where they shit the street>someone calls out and BTFOs your lie with documented fact>s-s-stop mentioning intel!!!111street shit harder iJeet
>>108668672So, what OS do you use? Windows? Linux? BSD?
>>108668672>>108668583>>108668576iTODDLERS BTFO
>>108668685android, like any self-respecting jeet
>>108668067> you can do everything through terminal on macOSWell I once had a weird issue with icloud where files weren’t loading in finder (shit file manager jfc). But they did show up online. There is essentially no gui control for icloud, so I troubleshooted and reset a bunch of stuff through the terminal. Didn’t work though, and there was no way for me to find out what was going on. Im not pretending to be some techno God, but I just find it interesting that most people think macos is so easy to use, while you can’t easily control a whole bunch of stuff that you can easily manage on windows. Sure you can defer to the terminal but then I’d rather be tinkering with Linux.
>>108668672the last intel product release was before covid.
>>108668742and yet you still felt the desperate need to "dunk" on intlel chips and defend the honor of your curryniggerbook out of nowherewhen the reality was, intel chips ran 500% faster on all other laptops on the market, only your curryniggerbooks ran like shit
>>108668764no, i said your image was based on laptops released over 6 years ago. i didn't actually say anything about the intel cpus.what os do you use, btw? i don't believe you were the android reply.
>>108667573Reliable piece of shit. Like MS, Apple used to make awesome hardware decades ago. Now it's on par with very cheap no brand chink hardware
i don't like iPhones, iPads or anything else from Apple.but they do make the best laptops. great battery life, great build quality, amazing speakers, best touchpad ever on a laptop, good high-res screens, good performance and quiet operation.no laptop from other manufacturers ticks all these boxes in one device.
>>108668804see >>108668576
>>108667573I've been using my 2015 macbook pro since... well, 2015.It's served me well, and I'm quite happy with it.I'm not happy with the new M5 macbook pro I got.Maybe I'm just getting old and don't like new things. I'm still running ddr4 epycs and volta.
>>108667860MacOS just added this feature to limit battery to 80%, no third party app needed.
>>108667573I bought a refurbished one from 2020 and it's still in mint condition. I used to hate Apple but now I appreciate their philosophy, I use Linux, macOS and Windows daily. Sometimes you want something to just works, no tinkering and no windows bullshittery and Apple gives you that
>>108667573I wouldn't touch one with a 10-foot pole
>>108668955>applel literally a decade behind the rest of the industry as always
>>108668955just? that's not a new tahoe feature. they added some config options, but it's had the charge-to-80 for years now.
>>108667639>poorfag delusion or pc laptop manufacturer shillingSince I got my first MacBook I consider PC laptops to be worthless e-waste until they fix battery life, sleep issues and start building them from normal materials instead of cheapest plastic available.The funniest part is they're not even expensive anymore compared to current PC laptop prices.
>>108669123street shit harder pajeet your currybook is ewaste before it ever left the design room
>>108669123>drop 99.9999% software compatibility in the desperate chase for battery efficiency>alienate all professional customers>alienate all developers>cheat with hardware accelerators in web browsing to make up for ARM being total shit in real workloads>get utterly destroyed in battery life anyway 3 years later by intlel and ayymdARM is dead, and iCucks will bend over at take it up the ass when applel is forced to switch back to x86 and deprecates all their shit apps for the 10th time
>>108669554who's cheating in that image? once you get away from benchmark tests and actually play a game the mac wins. also, the apple laptop should be tested in safari, not chrome.
>>108669692>the apple laptop should be tested in safari, not chromeHow is that any fair?Just run the shitty snowflake browser instead of what everyone actually uses, that way you get battery. Seriously? You have to condition yourself to use that piece of shit just to get more battery. Are you for real?
>>108669554>ARM is dead, and iCucks will bend over at take it up the ass when applel is forced to switch back to x86 and deprecates all their shit apps for the 10th timeOH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>108667573Yes, they're reliable.A decade might be a stretch. 5-6 years for sure, but after that you'll start gradually feeling tempted to replace it due to battery or end of OS support or whatever. It'll still work after 10 years but might not feel very useful at that point.
>>108669554>drop 99.9999% software compatibility in the desperate chase for battery efficiencyWhat are you talking about? Most Mac apps have successfully crossed over to ARM.
>>108669554install linux on that XPS and then you will not see it pass the 3 hour mark.
t14g5 on power saving gnome. i dont game. i can't game. only thing running is two chrome tabs and dnf
>>108669778>5-6 years>currybooklol nohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuv4TIjk-I
>>108667573I keep my previous one 11 years and it was still working fine, just needed more power.
I'm just about fed up with Windows and I can only wait so long for the music production VSTs I use to start working in Wine. Yabridge also still lacks Wayland support. I'm hoping things change for Linux soon in the music production area but macOS currently seems like the best way to escape the intensifying Copilot regime.
>>108669874>nooooooooooo le heckin spying>it's ok when applel spies on me harder and charges me $5000 extra to ream me in the assiNiggers are literal subhumanat least wangblows faggots admit they're being spied on, but use it because it came free with the PC and they're used to itiNiggers are fucking cum guzzling cucks
>>108669874she looks so happy with her mac
>>108668149>nooooo don't talk about different products and OSsGet lost lintroon.
>>108670496>I AM A PAYPIG!!! A PROUD PAYPIG!!!
>>108669954Apple Tax™
