Considering the Apple "lifestyle"

Lets try this again. Last thread got deleted for some reason.

I am considering selling my Battlestation, Thinkpad, and Nexus 6p and replacing it with the new MacBook Pro, an ultrawide display, a amgic keyboard and magic trackpad, and an iPhone 7 Plus.

>pic related is pretty much what I'm aiming for

I feel like I'm wasting my life by being so obsessed with tech and wonder if I get rid of all the windows and android gaymer and Sup Forums bullshit and become an apple normie then I could possibly become normal again.

I'm tired of all the gayming pcmasterrace bullshit and notice that all the normal well adjusted non NEET basement dweller normies use apple hardware and actually have a life and friends and relationships etc.

I think switching to apple hardware will allow me to not take tech shit so seriously and make me have a social life and workout and be normal like everyone else

Am I fucking crazy?

Does anyone else feel like this?

Opinions please

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>I feel like I'm wasting my life by being so obsessed with tech
>Considering the Apple "lifestyle"

It's a common misconception that objects make the man, you'll still be the same person no matter the hardware.

Just like the saying goes, the man makes the clothes the clothes do not make the man.

Nice .gif but I need and actual breakdown of what the fuck is going on it my head bro

I literally feel like I'm going insane because i'm putting so much emphasis on the tech people use also I'm on new meds so maybe that's it?

What the fuck

Replacing tech does not make you normal.

You are fool if you think that this will change your personality.

If you want to change then start doing it.It will be pain at start but later it will be easy.

Go lift or jog.You will hate it when you start and love it later.

>Last thread got deleted for a reason
FTFY

Go ahead you idiot, blow all your fucking money on meme-tier hardware and meme-tier software, it's literally the downsides of not having windows and the downsides of not having linux.

Not really desu

If a man had to wear fucking rags it would be very fucking hard to make something of himself

But it was tech related

If you're scratching an itch, would a nice, used MBP work for you? That would take off the pressure and it can be resold easily if you're just fooling yourself. I just did this recently.

if you want to go and suck dicks and take dicks in the ass, why the fuck do you think we care?

gtfo with your blogposting. nobody here cares if you drink bleach and die.

How pathetic is your life that you consider a brand to be a "lifestyle"?

Get a motorcycle.

Well to a certain point it stands true.
If we put the stereotypical worthless fuck into a $30,000 outfit he would still be a worthless fuck.

Why?

>I think switching to apple hardware will allow me to not take tech shit so seriously and make me have a social life and workout and be normal like everyone else

>If I buy normie shit then I'll finally be a normie!

Nigga I'd be chad by now if that were true.

>I'm on new meds
>let's buy all apple products
I wonder who could be behind this...

OP you really need to talk to your doctor. Really you sound fucking insane

I didn't read your bullshit OP but just do it. Macs are great. I'm honestly really happy and my life has taken a turn for the better ever since I got a Mac and stopped tinkering with my font rendering. It's beautiful, powerful, smooth, clean, it just fucking works, and it has all of the Linux autism on the back end because muh terminal muh bash included.

Just buy one and never come to this place ever again.

I miss the old edits of dogs doing things like these before Sup Forums stole them and fed them to normies

>buying a Mac
Nigga just hackintosh if you want to try Mac

So you can crash while riding it and thus end your pathetic life.

Also, if you want to be a "normie" that badly, first step it's to stop coming to 4ch and instead go to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, I don't know.

Maybe you should sell your stuff. Go a month without anything with the exception of a phone (bottom tier Android go-phone at most). Then go ahead and buy an Apple.

Otherwise, you'll probably end up like any one of these Sup Forumspedo's posting their loli OSX desktop or ricing out their Mac with bullshit dock replacements.

Trust me, the break is not OPTIONAL. If you buy right after you sell you will remain a fucking ricetard Sup Forumsnerd.

Adding to my post, you're not stupid or crazy thinking this way. You just have a consuming habit that no longer improves your life, and it's just that now, a habit.

Take this from someone who has gone through the same stupid shit in other areas of technology, mostly gaming. I don't fuck with gaymes anymore.

I'm thinking about getting a Macbook Pro. Heres why: Currently have an HP laptop running windows 8, roughly two years old. I7, 16gb ram, 2tb hd, 4gb dedicated graphics. The headphone jack and integrated webcam are both broken. After tooling around on a macbook this weekend the combination of a non-retina screen and windows 8 make this thing feel like a windows 3.1 machine. If I upgrade to Windows 10 I'll literally be paying for bandwith for windows to spy on me, not to mention Windows 10 just sucks in general. The build quality on this thing is awful. Either way my next machine will probably be a mac, but is it time? Idk. The mac seems like it will last but I'd be shelling out more money for less specs. But do I really need those specs?? Idk what to do op.

>just waste your time with an unstable system that you can't update for fear of having to tinker for hours and hours to get things working, sometimes having to modify or even write your own kernel extensions
no thanks.

>2006-2015
>trackpad impossible to click near upper edge
>extremely loose near bottom edge
>overall flimsy diving board piece of shit
>even applel admitted it's shit and went back to solid non-click touchpads
>still has no real buttons
>relies on pressure sensitive gimmick bullshit
>if you press too lightly or too hard it does something completely different than what you intended
>shit tier 1mm travel chiclet kb
>OSX is a steaming pile of shit with horrendous battery management
>applel's solution is to cram in a massive heavy 95WHr battery to make up for it
>even XXXTREME GAMER cancer like razer blade with 4X the CPU/GPU power and 70WHr battery matches it in battery life in same tasks
>gets BTFO by 55WHr Yoga 2 in battery life in same tasks
>the battery takes up the space where a cooling system would've been in a laptop not designed by the world's thinnest and lightest gay hipsters
>overheats constantly from abysmal crippled cooling system
>throttles to 800mhz due to chronic overheating problems
>retina meme for "pros" have have gloss mirror coating impossible to use with overhead lighting
>blurry as shit retina meme scaling
>shitbook air even worse with glossy 1366x768 TN eye cancer
>systemic battery explosion problems for over a decade

>2016+
9to5mac.com/2016/11/03/2016-macbook-pro-thunderbolt-compatibility-issues
youtube.com/watch?v=NYVjIjBMx6o
>can't use any existing TB3 devices
>can't use USB and wifi at the same time
>ultra shit tier zero travel kb
>keyboard louder than WWII cricket
>memetouch emojibar
>no USB-A
>no escape
>soldered ram
>soldered SSD
>tamper tape on battery screws
>applel falls for their own thin meme and uses 54WH battery
>2 hour battery life

howtogeek.com/198043/how-to-merge-folders-on-mac-os-x-without-losing-all-your-files-seriously
>it's 2017 and moving files around in finder will STILL cause massive data loss

>macshit is good
Can we finally put an end to this meme?

I'm sorry

How did your father take the news?

Still there are many ways to actuate your needs. Perhaps you should play some Fallout 4 and reflect. See the path for YOU and you alone.

I guess you haven't tried it then, Installed Sierra on a random Asus board and it took maybe 30 min max to get everything working. Signed into the App Store and updated Sierra to the latest version just as you normally would.
Hardest part was finding MacOS install media which I just used a VM

I never understood this either. If you're on Sup Forums and or a pedo why the fuck would you be using the preferred OS or hardware of Normies which is Apple?

What do you use now? Are you an Apple person since you stopped gayming?

I'd say go for it. The worst that could happen. Is you stop being a shut in and go outside and have a life

Because Apple stuff is decent in some ways and good bit of the time those some ways are what some people care about.

Typical troll/retard replies in this thread. I'll actually try to help you out.

Here's a run down of my setup
>iPhone 7
>MacBook Pro with a dock hooked to monitor (this is my "desktop")
>Mostly use google services (Maps, Gmail, Keep, etc)
>Have a Synology with 2 4tb HGST drives (omg a prebuilt NAS! fucking retard!)

I used to have a Thinkpad running Linux and I have a desktop with a Xeon and a 1070 that I used to game on. I'm a software developer as a profession so I loved to tinker in Linux. Had a Nexus 6p as well. The integration between iOS and MacOS is invaluable to me and the level of polish on both is just leagues ahead of anything else. I have my Synology set up as a time machine and a NAS that gets backed up to AWS as well. Could I have a custom desktop with better specs, and android phone with better specs, and a custom built NAS with more utility and better specs? Definitely. But coming home every day I honestly just want shit to work, and some of the integration is impossible outside of being integrated in the Apple ecosystem. To be fair, I don't game much anymore so that makes things a lot easier. Windows and Android just feel like clunky pieces of shit now when I go back and use them, Windows especially. With this setup its also great to just be able to undock my MacBook and have my machine with me. Theres just so much less shit to think about and I don't have to come home everyday and see what broke Xorg this time.

Don't you need to have AIDS like steve jobs to live the apple lifestyle

I don't understand it either. It's fucking weird.
Anyway, I use Winblows a lot still because of my job and that's what how our enterprise is setup. Personal use though, I use Apple (MBP and iPhone). Besides lots of gaming, I also used to root and mod the fuck out of my phones(Android, obv). I do not give a shit about that anymore. Also, iOS is nice because most up-to-date apps thanks to normie audience.

Like I said though, take a break after you sell and then dive in or else you will probably be very tempted to do the same shit.

just sell the thinkpad and install os x on your thinkpad and desktop

Mr. Jobs DID NOT DIE FROM AIDS. show some respect.

>Two english disctionaries
Fuck off ahmed

>He thinks this is my setup
>he didn't read the fucking post

Noice. Has your life improved any after giving up the gayming? What do you do for hobbies now?

>I feel like I'm wasting my life by being so obsessed with tech
>continues to define his personality by what consumer electronics he wastes his life on
you're a fucking retard

hey now....words hurt user

Completely doing away with all that tech won't change anything.

In the end, when you're sitting at your desk surrounded by all that shit, you're going to realize that the problem was within you, and not in the technology you were using.

I know someone who works at Apple and absolutely hates their shit. She only pretends to like their stuff so that she could rake in $150+/year. Whatever you use to shitpost on Sup Forums doesn't define who you are.

Thank you so much for the honest and well layed out answer user

Ayy my man
You don't need to sell your shit
You know buying apple isn't going to change your interests and thus gain a life

What you need to do is force yourself to go outside, workout or whatever the fuck you want to do

Get new hobbies (not to replace your interest in tech entirely) but so that you can fully enjoy life and so that you'll have something in common with other people

once you've done that it's only a matter of making yourself available for new friends by actually doing shit outside and going places


This isn't a brag but this is my story
I've been a tool most of my life
didn't have many friends when i was younger
because the only thing i would ever talk about was computers and my hate for apple

I moved into a share house with a bunch of random people, i was very quiet for the first few months and didn't do anything but keep people awake until late as fuck, they hated me.

Then i started picking up skateboarding, for me it really changed my life, i started seeing the world differently, my taste didn't change and my biggest hobby was still computers

but it really brought on a whole bunch of shit
I started getting into conversation with random people in the city (i became a smoker so everyone was asking me for ciggarettes) and at some point during this part of my life people started seeing a better person in me

I started becoming friends with the people in the share house. made tons of friends and gained many memories of being absolutely fucked up on alcohol (good times)

Most of my friends from the house have moved out but i see them all the time anyway
and last year i got a girlfriend, we've been dating for a year, basically 2 months after she moved in and i see no end to our relationship

I still browse Sup Forums nonstop and have arguments with my girlfriend that apple is complete shit
but because I've made these relationships people simply overlook it now

how about you stop being a fucking retard then?

So much. Mostly programming at and outside of work. I like problem solving. Other than that it is piano/making music or hanging out with friends.

I will say though, for friends, I had to distance myself away from some who only guilted me to start playing. Also, some of the friends I have had for years I realized were downright toxic in and outside of gaming. Those I have recently cut out and may have attributed to me gaming more than I should. That was a big part.

time flies when your a faggot

Simply disassemble your shit, you will be too lazy to assemble it back in order to use your computer, nobody needs this shit aside from entertainment.

Hmm interdasting. And yeah I had that same problem with some of my old friends as well. They would literally spam me with fucking sales for the Xbone and beg me to get one so I could play Destiny with them

>Disassemble your shit

Hmmmm this is an interesting idea. I could take everything apart and sell it separately

If I were you I'd do the following
>2015 Macbook
>iPhone 6s or (Insert comparable android flagship)
>magic keyboard and mouse, trackpads are shit.
also: You won't become normal or even a better person, this won't help. You need to stop coming here for a while, masturbate weekly not (amount of fap here), use a dedicated machine for gayman (Console).

This won't make you better, change comes from within my man. This will merely change you and adapt you to something new, like a midlife-crisis if you will

>installed sierra and update to sierra
w0t, memes aside can I get the guide you used? All of them require macs don't they?

I know I have to change myself as well instead of changing possessions. But what I've seen is that I stopped working out and got really depressed after I built this battle station. And yeah sometimes I want to just leave Sup Forums forever

Just get other hobbies and keep your current stuff. It actually helps to just browse other boards a bit. You ever looked at /diy/ or /out/? Some of the smaller boards are really interesting. Still, improving your social skills is not gonna be easy or automatic, even if you stop obsessing over tech.

user do it.
lemme give you some background:
2009: C2Q rig, 2011 got a macbook, 2013 got a rig, 2016 got another macbook. many laptops flew by from 2014 to 2016, and macbooks are just insanely good, or maybe theyre too expensive for me to fuck them up regularly who knows.
2013 i got a rig to add to my mac, so that i can live the GAYMING! lifestyle (4770k, GTX780 dank shit for the time), and as soon as i started college with a new macbook pro i realized, all the forums and the desktop hardware craze suddenly disappeared.

currently im running a early 2015 retina 13, an iphone 7 (non plus) and a surface pro 3. OS preference is up to you and honestly i can use both.

but changing your lifestyle? thats up to you homeboy. just because you have apple products wont mean people will approach you and try to make friends. this applies everywhere and everything. sure there are communities in shit like cars but def. not in tech where everyone just wants the newest thing...

get yourself banned, I got banned for 30 days because some pedo falsely reported me and the amount of shit I was missing from my life was immense. likesaid, try browsing other boards, as a matter of fact try /o/ and obsess over cars next.

Actually, you might want LESS hobbies and more friends. I'm not talking internet friends, IRL people you meet and like, use tinder or some dating app to meet other people.

What I meant was updating to the latest version of Sierra (installer was only for 10.12 after install I updated to 10.12.3 trough the App Store)

Don't expect the same luck as I had, and yes you need some form of working Mac or a VM with Mac installed and usb support (VMware)

tonymacx86.com/threads/unibeast-install-macos-sierra-on-any-supported-intel-based-pc.200564/

thanks! I won't but I'm 100^2% that my EliteBook 8460p is just a chunky macbook

Just get a Mac and masturbate to hot trap cock, that's they were made for ultimately

How about you stop blaming your problems on inanimate objects and try changing yourself first? Changing things you own is not going to magically make you a better person.

op i'm at the exact same mental place as you

for whatever reason i find i spend a lot less time on the internet when all i have is a laptop to work with. my gaming pc setup was "too comfortable" and i would just leave it on all day, drifting between games and random tinkering bullshit

i've since unplugged it and put it in a closet and use a setup containing only a macbook pro, phone, ereader, and a monitor/keyboard for doing school work, and i already feel a lot better

it might be some new ago placebo horseshit but the fewer pieces of tech i have the better i feel about my life, and though macbooks are overpriced it's nice to not worry about upgrades or replacing parts or switching to a different os or any of that garbage

tl;dr i wouldn't sell everything you have but just put it somewhere else and maybe try using just your laptop for a while to see how you like it, or if you have to buy a macbook and wait before you blow thousands of dollars to get into apple's ecosystem

Join a running club. Even if you can't run for shit. I fucking mean it

Yeah I was running and lifting for a while but quit because muh depression. I go back to school tomorrow....maybe I'll go to the gym and force myself back into at least running

I'd just sell everything and buy a chromebook if I wanted maximum normie.

Just buy a used old Mac Pro. I bought a 2008 model with two xeon quad cores @ 2.8ghz and slammed in a newer graphics card for about $150 total and it works great

Even normies understand the compatibility problems with Chromebooks tho. Cant run wangblows office

>implying normies use office
They don't use anything but a browser these days. Office shit is done at normie job, not in normie personal machines.

samefag

Actually no but yeah I can see how it would look like it

Normies just use their phones these days tbqh.

>I feel like I'm wasting my life by being so obsessed with tech
what the fuck some brand will do to solve you having your head so far up your ass that you need to ask about selling your crap and then buying everything back again?
Are you retarded? Did you fall on your head?
>Am I fucking crazy?
No, you are just being stupid. Basic, like a brute and stupid on top of that.
>Does anyone else feel like this?
No. Nobody in their right mind would think this is a sound idea.

If you don't want to be obsessed about tech, just don't be. Use whatever phone, computer, whatever you feel comfy about and stop imagining stupid ass shit. Buying new stuff won't make you feel better or different.

>I'm wasting my life by being so obsessed with tech and wonder if I get rid of all the windows and android gaymer and Sup Forums bullshit and become an apple normie then I could possibly become normal again.

Nop, you will go to (the verge,r/Apple,macrumors,Appleinsider) to say how superior is Apple and read all self-help guru books about Apple and Steve jobs.

Just make you live great again.

Take a look at this very deep philosophical video I found on the interwebs

youtube.com/watch?v=wSV1UFbhJ-A

I did pretty much just that. Sold my battlestation, moved out and bought a rMBP, it's enough that I spend >10 hours staring at a computer screen at work every day.

No regrets.

That's what I'm after really. Get rid of the gaymer addiction and get on with life

>Buying all the newest apple iShit will change my life
lol faggot

I've done this as well and it worked out pretty great. My programming job requires a Mac so the switch was easy. Now I pretty much spend all my free time with friends, outdoors or programming. If I ever feel the itch for gaming I do it on my Switch or PS4.

I find that console games are a lot less addicting and time consuming compared to PC games. They're also comfier.

This. I work in a non-tech field surrounded by normies. Most of them don't have a computer in their home aside from their phones.

>rid of the gaymer addiction
I don't know how a mac is supposed to accomplish this. I'm in a graduate CS program, 75%+ of students have macbooks and they're all gaming on them.

Yeah. I can do light code, blog, and podcast from my Android phone. It's not ideal but it can be done.

I was very happy with my 2010 MacBook pro, I accidently dropped a Coke on it, repair if would have cost the same as a cheap windows laptop, so decided to jump back to windows, decided to get a top of the line Windows laptop, bought a MSI PX60, I deeply regret it now, I have experience lots of bugs, upgrading the SSD required to flip the motherboard, steam games Audio is glitchy for some reason, windows 8/8.1 was a word half-baked experiment, the keyboard was making a noise that was driving me OCD insane, had to pay profesional cleaning to fix that sound,

Windows is horrible with upscaling with 1080p screens, things look either too small or pixelated, maybe when more software updates for high screen resolution this Will be less off an issue,

For one side, I like the convenience of steam, you can get cheap games on it, but they might glitch on your specific setup, or an unexpected driver update may fuck up everything, I can solve my way around this issues, but I missed the convenience of not having to worry around making this work, and just use them as they are supposed to.

I could do things over again, maybe I would have gotten a Mac instead, a console for gaming, the iPhone it's very expensive were I live, and I'm an Android fan so probably would stick to Android anyway

I always feel like talking about this but can't find anyone to talk with. I always check Sup Forums and very rarely find threads like this. If you're there, OP, let's talk.

A little over a year ago, I started working full time in an office again. At the time, I was a power user relying on both Android and Windows to get things done. My setup was far from that of a normie, as I had stuck with Windows 7--and even now, Windows 7 is my OS of choice for my work laptop--and I really had no problems with it. I enjoyed the power I was able to exercise with my devices. I was a master of everything and didn't really feel the need to change anything up.

Then a few months into my work, I had come to the realization that I was doing far too much customization and running too many custom configs that I had felt the stress of all of it coming down on top of me alongside all the new-found work stress that had entered my life. That was when I made the choice to switch to an all Apple /edc/.

I now have a late 2015 MacBook Air 11, an iPad mini 2 with 32GB storage, and an iPhone SE. This setup was and still is amazing for me because my needs are served perfectly. The Air is the netbook that I've always wanted, all the power of a full-size laptop in such a small and lightweight package. Then the iPhone SE also delivers on the same promise. As for the iPad, I bought it to make sure that my phone is actually used as a phone as much as possible, and I'm still trying to get that down all these many months later.

Is there a point to any of this? Well, I want to say that since switching to iOS and Mac OS my life has become easier in terms of managing my devices. Firstly because the battery life on my laptop, phone, and tablet are now far longer than I was used to with Windows and Android. Second, I didn't need to worry about all the petty shit that was going on in Windows. And I knew I was free of the fear of viruses from Day 1, so I wouldn't need to rely on Common Sense as much.

Then stop being so obsessed with technology , going normie wouldn't change shit. If you're a loser who can't get a girlfriend, it's not because you own a thinkpad, it's because you're a loser

Switching to Apple has lifted a considerable weight off my shoulders. I already mentioned the battery thing. My devices being small yet powerful also relieved me of the stress of having to carry huge-ass tablets being marketed as phones so I'm able to move comfortably and confident that I've got everything I need. It used to be that I had to carry the biggest phones available, with the heaviest laptops available, and despite them being mobile they actually limited my overall mobility. But now, having the SE and Air in combo lets me truly do what I feel like doing literally wherever I am.

It's ironic because I finally got my hands on these devices when I started working in an office where I wouldn't be able to use them much outside, whereas in the past, when I was always out and about, working remotely or just out of coffee shops, I passed them off as childish toys in favor of PC and Android counterparts that now seem way too clunky in comparison.

Looking at the situation with Windows now, it looks more and more like I made the right decision. That said, I'm afraid that Apple is slowly but surely fucking up Mac OS and iOS as well. So I think I will hold on to my current lineup of devices for a couple more years at least. In the meantime, I'm currently trying to look at gaming laptops like the Acer Predator and Razer Blade as possible choices to have a Windows laptop again, but Im not keen on running Windows 8, 8.1, or 10, so that's keeping me on the fence. I want the freedom that I used to have on Windows and Android, but I also want the comfort and the peace of mind that I get with Apple.

I can only say never buy an IKEA table. With every keyboard stroke this piece of shit is wobbling/shaking and it is annoying as fuck. God fucking damn it.

To be honest you're better off investing in Windows on the desktop and iOS for your phone. They've been on their way back up while Apple's been acting lazy for years.

Also, Apple users are way, way more obsessed with tech upgrades than the majority of normies.

a brand won't fix your mental state. spend less time on the computer instead of investing more money into it.

Try it out and see if you like it, OP
You can always return / sell it if you don't like it, it's a fucking material good so whatever.
I did the same as you, OP. I really like my Macbook Pro & iPhone.
MacOS is a much better environment to work in compared to Windows I think, I feel like Windows 10 is a complete step down from 7.
As for the iPhone - Androids can be pretty cool, being able to flash custom ROMs & all that - but I need a phone that actually fucking works. The iPhone is reliable and has iMessage, so communication is actually faster through texts.

no shill.. that sounds stupid...

if you insist on not being a shill.. well do whatever you want to do.. for real.. why are you saying you don't want to be so obsessed with technology when you come here and obsess about buying shitty overpriced products... buy a dildo if that works for you, you don't have to ask anyone if you feel that is the answer

>all apple workstation
>ubuntu mouse mat

Why has no one pointed this out

OP, I would recommend starting out small.

Get high-end iPad and see how it goes from there.

Just buy the 2015 Macbook Pro and the iPhone 7 Plus, don't get the 2016 one.

i fuckin did it bro
sold my 3 thinkpads, battlestation, gaming peripherals and all my other tech shit
bought a retina 21.5 inch imac and a macbook pro
lifes so much easier now. i dont need to worry about shit for technology. ive also become more social because less time tinkering with configs and parts. overall it has improved my quality of life as someone who was severely depressed (disclaimer: i am still depressed but i have more time for social activity which helps)

>Am I fucking crazy?

You are literally using one specific tech brand as a definition of your "lifestyle", so yes, yes you are.

Just use whatever the fuck you want nigger.

You're just depressed and want to buy new things to try and curb that depression. If you really want to change, try eating better, sticking to a normal sleep schedule, and exercising.