I have this weird desire to buy a mac

I have this weird desire to buy a mac.

So by all means tell me about the bad experiences you have had with Apple.

ITT: We write shit about Apple.

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=jkDZP5Z1sYI
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

I was expecting to be able to rice my desktop but instead when I turned on my mbp for the first time it was already set up perfectly by professional designers.

Nice shilling, ina ll seriousness I own a Macbook Pro. To start of when they break you are fucked, the repair costs are very high. Also my macbook pro overheats quite regularly which is quite the nuisance. Further it's lacking in the games department and software in general. No web support of safari either (which is ver annoying) because for some reason.... chrome destroys your battery life.

The only Mac worth buying is a MacPro and even that's pushing it. You could build a machine that outperforms a loaded MacPro for half the cost, run macOS on it and get more performance.

If you just want to be able to run macOS, either make a machine yourself or buy a Mac mini.

As an employee of an apple product repair shop, let me tell you the 4 best ways to get into macs
>Buy a used mac pro. Get any from the 1,1 up to the 5,1, but preferrably stick to 4,1 or 5,1 if possible. Then, upgrade the shit out of it for dirt cheap using used server parts off of ebay
>used mac mini. Upgrade ram and HDD and you'll have a bangin' machine
>Retina macbook pro. these machines are just fabulous, but not upgradable at all.
>Macbook air. Lightweight, falrly powerful, and can be found for relatively cheap prices sometimes. Only go for machines with at least an i5/i7

I recommend avoiding the older macbook pros(the non-retina ones) and the polycarb white macbooks. Yes, they can be upgraded to hell and back, but they are just such problematic, flawed and twitchy machines and the screens are absolute dogshit. nvidia GPU's fail, sata cables faul, SMC fucks up, etc. Don't even look at the 12" macbook, it is literally the dumbest mac in existence.

In terms of OSX, It's actually a very nice system to use. It is UNIX, so you could easily tweak it with your autistic shit. It's locked down by default but its easy to get around. BEWARE THOUGH, HFS+ IS THE FUCKING WORST FILE SYSTEM EVER. SHIT GETS CORRUPT ALL THE TIME AND FILES DO GO MISSING. Luckily MacOS Sierra is introducing APFS, which is actually a kickass file system based on the keynote.

Gaming on macs sucks, but if you bootcamp or download parallels, you'll be golden. Don't game on anything other than an upgraded-to-shit mac pro.

They kaintain their resell value extremely well, and it's even better if they're upgraded to the max. They sell for fuckloads.

personally im just finishing upgrading a mac pro 1,1 that i got for free from work. dual xeon x5355, 32gb ddr2 ECC, 6TB + 240gb ssd(with room for a 6th drive), r9 270x. total cost for parts = $200. the mac itself is probably 200-300, so still a good deal for $500. I paid $200 in total but the machine is easily worth $700 after the upgrades.

I wanted to play webms. I couldnt with the native software and had to leave apple ecosystem. Which showed that apple is not flawless and destroyed the essence of my existence. Since then I started visiting Sup Forums and Sup Forums more regularly and even tried to install gentoo but that was too complicated so I settled on Ubuntu. I don't believe in ecosystems anymore, I am an advocate of openness. May open source prevail.

Bought a MAC, immediately loved its speed and OSX clean and well designed interface. Came to /g to post about it but everyone called me a fag. And that I wasted my money

So I've dug out my 486 on windows 95 and am using that instead and have sold mey mac on ebay and given the money to charity.

Sometimes what people think and say about you is more important than using a good computer.

webms play in firefox on the mac, and also vlc player.

2015 rMBP: Overheating, throttling, noisy fans, mirror-like glossy screen, bad OS
Older macs: Garbage-tier performance

>It is UNIX, so you could easily tweak it with your autistic shit.
I love this meme. It being UNIX doesn't help anything outside of the shell, and everything else is either impossible or a pain in the ass to customize.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) here.

All in all it's a good machine. Here's what I dislike:

- The screen is unusable outside.

- Can't code with dark themes unless you're a narcissist prick that loves watching himself in a mirror.

- I "feel" some energy or electric sensation or tingle or whatever you want to call it while the thing is charging. It's truly annoying and makes me a bit paranoid.

- It gets quite hot, not CPU-Z nerd hot, but my legs are frying and it's unpleasant to type hot.

- The keyboard wobbles.

- OS X animations lag.

>switching OS because a web browser can't play a video on a Chinese dry cleaning forum

>- I "feel" some energy or electric sensation or tingle or whatever you want to call it while the thing is charging. It's truly annoying and makes me a bit paranoid.
I've had this with multiple laptops, I think it's quite common. It helps to use a grounded power supply.

I have a 13-inch rMBP 2015, so far the only downsides I've noticed are the fact it gets pretty fucking hot and OS X shits the bed with H265 content, other than that it's perfect.

In what instance would a laptop power supply not be grounded? Is this an Americlap thing?

It's not particularly better or worse than Windows. It does some stuff better but mostly just different.

I had 2 Macs between 2008-2012.

One was a MacBook pro, which at one point needed upgrades and some shit happened where Apple just stopped sending any updates to it, I guess because there was a major OS change. It was also the model that existed a bit before they started moving to the "muh no moving parts" meme.

Took it to the "geniuses" to ask about the OS and see if they could fix a clicking noise somewhere in the PC. Their response, as expected at the time was to just get a new one because they didn't support what I had.

Decent PC though, some of the default software like iMovie was ok to have around.

Other one was a MacBook air which overheated probably a few months after purchase. Burned out the keyboard and I couldn't turn it on after that point. Couldn't afford repairs at the time, so I switched to a decent PC.

Dumb argument.

People buy laptops because they need laptops. Suggesting they build a PC is retarded.

You should just suggest a laptop that's better and cheaper, like the Razer Blade Stealth

>It helps to use a grounded power supply.
In a grounded power point.
Also, the equipment should be double-insulated.

i'm europ but it could happen if it actually is grounded but you just put it in an ungrounded outlet
also I have a 3rd party universal charger that has no grounding

If the charger is actually grounded but you still get it that just means the case itself is not connected to ground, which would be pretty retarded.

Their cables fucking suck

I went through 3 powerbricks in less than 2 years because of that shitty magsafe design

I live in the UK where everything is grounded, doesn't not grounding your devices cause issues with power surges and such?

LIES! OS X is NOT UNIX. It's sorta-kinda-BSD-abomination-whatever-Mach. It's arguably a lot less UNIX than Linux, which is specifically not UNIX. The only UNIXy things about it are the GNU parts, and GNU's Not UNIX.

Just for the record, I say this not as a Windows fanboi, oh no. I say this as an IRIX hardcore aficionado. Now, I will grant you that my DateTime struct is BSD. I admit that, and I apologize for it. But the rest is Bell System V Release 4, the One True Operating System; and I can ASSURE you, my friends, that OS X is emphatically NOT SVR4!

Proof? PROOF? YOU DEMAND PROOF?!

Bring up an OS X box from bare iron. Was fdisk involved? Did you need to bootstrap the thing from sash? Did your disks have slices, not partitions? Did getty enter in to your thinking? Was tar involved? Was it gtar, because THAT DOES NOT COUNT? DO YOU HAVE A FRAME BUFFER INSTALLED, YOU FILTHY HEATHEN? 19200/N/8/1?!?!?!

Nope, none of the above. Your machine goes "bonk" when you fail to enter your home zip code so that Apple can send you valuable offers of future services. If I tried to give a real UNIX box my home zip code so that I could receive valuable offers, it would probably detonate with the fury of a thousand Hiroshimas, AND the kernel would panic.

tl;dr, GTFO my ARPAnet.

Why are you using a ten year old OS
Also are you actually running it on some old SGI hardware? If so, nice

The 2017 updates of the mac line will remove the 3.5mm audio ports, so buy while you can

Just.
Don't.
Do it.

Get yourself a chinkpad and hide in a cave.

Serious answer: Apple is going down the shitter lately. OS X used to be a great piece of software, it's getting bad at a frightening pace. I'm not buying another Mac unless something major happens.

OS X is POSIX compliant its UNIX

Cooling in apple hardware is pretty bad. Sometimes with a new version of the OS they add in some retarded feature I have to turn off. Gaming sucks unless you're playing casual shit. Can't play webms in safari. Magsafe cables fray easily.

That's all I can think of ATM. Despite these things I still use OSX mostly, since it's just about the only thing I can trust these days.

i bought a retina MBP back in 2013. My first apple computer. Honestly, i do understand all the hype around the pleasing design. It does feel solid and well built. the trackpad is probably the best i've ever used on a laptop, and the performance CAN be really fucking snappy....... buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut

The thing was 3300 dollars and for that kind of money there were somethings that bothered the fuck out of me.

1. the webcam was total fucking garbage. for that kind of money it should have come with a camera that could do 2k video. my logitech 920 has better clarity.

2. The fans on this fucker ramp up too often and too loud, because the thing gets hot too quick. You have to get mac fan control to keep the noise down.

3. OS updates make this thing run slower at times. Keep in mind this was the fully loaded (all things are flash) laptop.


overall id give it a solid 8/10, im not saying MBPs are shit, but if all your going to do is watch videos/surf the web. Dont waste the money getting a new one. Mine is basically a glorified mega expensive youtube/porn machine.

Yeah when you use the power brick without the grounding extension you are going to get static discharge.

the base rMBP is like $1500. choosing the max i7 and SSD config is hardly the norm or even required for a worthwhile experience

the base model 13 inch rmbp is literally the perfect laptop

too bad next generation they are ruining it with the shitty oled strip + removing hdmi and sd ports

i think you have the gay.

programmable oled seems useful but i would miss the esc button. display port >> hdmi and sd ports are pretty useless unless you're a dslr fag

i think dslr fags make up about half of the macbook pro's market

also hdmi is a lot more common on tvs/monitors which is why it's nice to have, even if display port is the superior port

not really. most normies use their phones for pictures nowadays anyways. dslr enthusiasts are really becoming a dying breed (i.e. pure photography hobbyists)

a display port to hdmi dongle is like $5 and connecting a laptop to a monitor/tv is an edge use case anyways

have you had any other weird symptoms like
- wanting to see penises
- fantasizing about things penetrating your anus
- wondering about the taste of cum
- the feeling that your entire life is waiting for you behind what appear to be a pair of closet doors
if so, then your problem might be quite bigger and wanting to buy a mac may be just a small symptom

you should know since you keep gay porn screenshots on your computer

xD epic

TopKEK
I actually expected more comments resembling this one.

Just buy a Macbook Pro. 13 inch. Best laptop I have every had. I do not understand all the hate against the MacBook Pro's of Apple. There are freaking light, well designed and powerfull enough for most web programming etc

( 2015 macbook pro 13 inch with 16 gig ram )

Cons:
- no gaming

did you just use the word "fabulous" to unironically describe an apple product?
oh you just made my day

>don't play games on nothing other than a mac pro

False. I play GTA5 on a MBPr and get quite good results (40-50fps on medium settings)

i don't get it, does applel sell you a non-grounded charger?
don't tell me you have to buy an optional accessory for that because i will literally shit my pants from laughter

Garnishing 101 - Something can look like 24 karat gold and still taste like shit. The trick is to dress your shit to look like gold. Or rose gold, in Apple's case.

do it OP. grab homebrew at brew.sh for that dank package management. macs fan control for controlling fans, textual for IRC, and movist for watching movies.
chrome destroys your battery on all OS's. safari is optimized for power management, which no developers seem to think is important
you said retina macbook pro incorrectly.
agree with this so much- APFS is also very fast on TRIM-enable SSD's - I actually went from 700mbs write/read to 1100 on my retina macbook when i tried the sierra beta.
use chrome
you dont know what you're talking about

>MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) here.
I have a Late 2013 rMBP maxed out here's my experience

>- The screen is unusable outside.
It's actually one of the better screens I've used outside as long as you don't have your fat fingerprints all over it

>- Can't code with dark themes unless you're a narcissist prick that loves watching himself in a mirror.
Never had this problem with dark themes. Have always used a dark Xcode theme and it never reflects my ugly face unless it's sunny and pointed directly at a window which, why would you do in the first place?

>- I "feel" some energy or electric sensation or tingle or whatever you want to call it while the thing is charging. It's truly annoying and makes me a bit paranoid.
Maybe I'm not that sensitive to electricity but I've only felt this when plugging in my charger and accidentally putting my finders on the lead.

>- It gets quite hot, not CPU-Z nerd hot, but my legs are frying and it's unpleasant to type hot.
Yes, the activity monitor will be your friend if you want good temps. The cool thing is it'll either be putting out absolutely no heat or within seconds an untouchable sun if there were a rough process or you went on a webpage made by a shitty webdev who wouldn't know performance if it imprisoned them for 9 months. That's why activity monitor is your friend, oh and unlike windows it actually shows you all the shit that is taxing the processor, not just top level applications.

>- The keyboard wobbles.
Don't have that problem, the keyboard is fucking fantastic.
>- OS X animations lag.
Don't have this problem either and I have an older laptop.

>Azis
>porn screenshots
It's art with iPads you uneducated fuck, here, culturize yourself
youtube.com/watch?v=jkDZP5Z1sYI

I bought a macbook air for its battery life for school. Did I fuck up? Should I return it for a Pro?

It's grounded and the charger has a big microcontroller in it. Apple knows their shit when it comes to electrical engineering

no, it's great. 16h battery life and nearly half as light. definitely better if you need something on the go

No, MBA is actually good if you're just doing schoolwork and programming

>considers gay porn art

fuck off faggot

well the problem there is gold is not meant for consumption

Apple marketing should get in touch with this guy ASAP.
This is much better than the crap they churn out.

You're just gay but u don't know it yet. Get used to it faggot

are you sure you're an apple user? because you seem to lack any meaningful understanding of art and especially art involving apple products

the retina screen is a pretty massive upgrade but the trade off is more weight and much less battery life

When you see the price, your desire will go away OP. Its just not worth it.