I made the choice to move from windows to Mac for my work-provided laptop and I absolutely love it for track pad alone. I have never used another machine where the track pad worked so well. The movement feels natural in relation to how the cursor moves on the screen and the gestures seem so reasonable for my mind.
I’m always open to suggestions when it comes to better hardware but, right now, I can’t see changing away because I like the feel so much.
After the fappening Apple actually started to care about privacy whereas Google just got worse in every aspect. So yeah, I believe you are happy with it. I’ll stick to Android/GrapheneOS nonetheless until we eventually get a true alternative.
I’m not defending Apple, but they made a choice. Less repairable, but more durable. Needing repairs less vs. being easier to repair.
Have they succeeded in “needing repairs less”? Arguable. But for the iPhone, few phone last as long as long as you take even minimal care of it.
Also, the vast majority of laptops are not upgradeable, never have been.
Only the desktops have this issue. And for the more “normal” desktops, they are actually upgradeable. At least the last version of them was. Not sure if it will be still when the update it… wouldn’t count on it. Like I said it’s clear Apple made their choice.
All laptops I own are upgradeable. I didn’t buy them with that in mind. I just bought most of them cheap and used on eBay. The most recent one I got I upgraded the m.2 WiFi to wifi6 a few years ago. Bumped it from 16 to 32GB of ram. 256Gb Nvme to 1Tb.They even sell 4k panels for them. Though that is a very Advanced upgrade. The only thing I can’t upgrade is the CPU and the Apu inside.
All modern apple silicon desktops or laptops have soldered in Ram and proprietary storage. All of them. Unfortunately this seems to be a trend that other manufacturers are looking to follow. The storage is technically kind of upgradable. But you have to jump through massive Hoops to do so compared to any standard computer.
Maintaining a system? Apple has many pieces hardware locked to a system. Going to get a replacement board for your apple silicon laptop? Good luck. If you get lucky it might not be hardware locked. This was one of the major bullshit things that got Louis Rossman on his right to repair campaign specifically.
Durability? Yes Apple Hardware is way more durable than your standard 200 dollar cheap chromebook. But if you look at similarly priced devices. Most of the time they’re just as durable. I would actually like apple silicon if it wasn’t for all the anti-repair anti-competition lockdown that they performed. If Apple would just provide basic device trees Etc allowing the BSD and Linux communities to build their software for their devices. They would be my preferred Hardware. But they and Qualcomm are notoriously bad about that. Leaving everyone to feel around in the dark reverse engineering things needlessly.
I’m in the Apple ecosystem, hardware-wise, and pretty happy about it. Not much to discuss, if other people feel differently, that’s fine.
I agree on the hardware front.
I made the choice to move from windows to Mac for my work-provided laptop and I absolutely love it for track pad alone. I have never used another machine where the track pad worked so well. The movement feels natural in relation to how the cursor moves on the screen and the gestures seem so reasonable for my mind.
I’m always open to suggestions when it comes to better hardware but, right now, I can’t see changing away because I like the feel so much.
After the fappening Apple actually started to care about privacy whereas Google just got worse in every aspect. So yeah, I believe you are happy with it. I’ll stick to Android/GrapheneOS nonetheless until we eventually get a true alternative.
My only complaint Hardware wise is all the extra lengths that Apple go to to make sure that things are less upgradable etc.
I’m not defending Apple, but they made a choice. Less repairable, but more durable. Needing repairs less vs. being easier to repair.
Have they succeeded in “needing repairs less”? Arguable. But for the iPhone, few phone last as long as long as you take even minimal care of it.
Also, the vast majority of laptops are not upgradeable, never have been.
Only the desktops have this issue. And for the more “normal” desktops, they are actually upgradeable. At least the last version of them was. Not sure if it will be still when the update it… wouldn’t count on it. Like I said it’s clear Apple made their choice.
A MBP is super easy to open up compared to just about every other shitty piece of plastic held together by clips molded into the case.
All laptops I own are upgradeable. I didn’t buy them with that in mind. I just bought most of them cheap and used on eBay. The most recent one I got I upgraded the m.2 WiFi to wifi6 a few years ago. Bumped it from 16 to 32GB of ram. 256Gb Nvme to 1Tb.They even sell 4k panels for them. Though that is a very Advanced upgrade. The only thing I can’t upgrade is the CPU and the Apu inside.
All modern apple silicon desktops or laptops have soldered in Ram and proprietary storage. All of them. Unfortunately this seems to be a trend that other manufacturers are looking to follow. The storage is technically kind of upgradable. But you have to jump through massive Hoops to do so compared to any standard computer.
Maintaining a system? Apple has many pieces hardware locked to a system. Going to get a replacement board for your apple silicon laptop? Good luck. If you get lucky it might not be hardware locked. This was one of the major bullshit things that got Louis Rossman on his right to repair campaign specifically.
Durability? Yes Apple Hardware is way more durable than your standard 200 dollar cheap chromebook. But if you look at similarly priced devices. Most of the time they’re just as durable. I would actually like apple silicon if it wasn’t for all the anti-repair anti-competition lockdown that they performed. If Apple would just provide basic device trees Etc allowing the BSD and Linux communities to build their software for their devices. They would be my preferred Hardware. But they and Qualcomm are notoriously bad about that. Leaving everyone to feel around in the dark reverse engineering things needlessly.
Me too ✌🏻 I like it, the hardware is rock solid and software-wise I try my best not to get too far into the walled garden. It’s a good compromise