I HATE APPLE

My 2011 MBP felt completely new after an SSD upgrade.

^ same experience, don’t think I’ll need an upgrade for another few years

Yeah, the advantage of being on a moribund platform is that hardware doesn't date very fast.

My wife’s 2017 mbp is currently in the shop due to the terrible keyboard, I imagine they’ll replace it with exactly the same part so it’ll still be terrible.

The guy at the Apple store didn’t want to talk shit but it was obvious that this was a frequent issue

this is probably more "i hate microsoft" than "i hate apple" but why does every single iteration of office for mac insist on critical updates every time i open an office application? i've been using office for mac for 10 years on different macs and this has always been the case

It's because Microsoft want to reinforce the notion that Office is a little flakey on Macs so eventually you'll come over to Windows and love it. cf cross-platform glitches between Powerpoint embeds, fonts, etc. None of that "oh it's a Mac to PC thing" actually exists outside of Office, and MS do nothing to solve it because they don't want to. Acrobat / PDF demonstrated it was possible 20 years ago. MS even *removed* the ability to reopen the last set of working documents from Office on Macs. Feature worked perfectly on Office 2013(?) for years, then bing, gone, no comment, no replacement. Single biggest bump in my workflow, at least the apps don't crash much now so I can just leave them open.

I love PDFs

Except when I have to edit them, cosign.

Hackintosh always sounds the dream solution but no doubt the reality can be a nightmare.

i ran a dual boot for a few years, Windows 7/OSX, so that i could edit video in both Premiere and Final Cut Pro. just finding a working OSX distribution that would install was a pain, then it took forever to find drivers (you need specific video drivers to run FCP). it worked fine after setting it all up but introducing any kind of hardware change and it was like being back to square one.

this is probably more "i hate microsoft" than "i hate apple" but why does every single iteration of office for mac insist on critical updates every time i open an office application? i've been using office for mac for 10 years on different macs and this has always been the case

i finally put an SSD in my 2011 mac mini and holy shit i love my computer again :)

1TB HD in the second bay (already regretting not springing for a 2TB) - everything, everything fucking flies. even backups happen incredibly quickly.

Plugged in my old iphone that I've carefully kept at ios 10.3 so that it wouldn't get all slow and shitty in order to back it up, and after it finished it immediately got all fucky: Safari bookmarks disappeared, photo thumbnails are all blank. It could not be more obvious that Apple sabotaged my shit to force an ios update.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/12/apple-stops-selling-2015-macbook-pro/

lol what a shit sandwicj

Just went from a 6700K to an 8700K and build times decreased from 57s to 30s ✨

— Adam Bell (@b3ll) July 3, 2018

It is crazy that as an iOS or Mac dev company, if you’re not using Hackintoshes then you’re as much as doubling your build times. Macs just don’t compete, and your life isn’t getting those hours back https://t.co/grzKKw8SEt

— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) July 12, 2018

rip, or whatever

https://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2018/07/ultimate2018macbookpro-800x425.jpg

…nice

v nice

tempted to buy one of those 2015 ones on clearance (lol at clearance being over 2k)

enjoy the keyboard, and the fucking touchbar, and the four identical fucking thunderbolt ports

(I love Macs, have forever, but I have one of these MBPs and it's a gritted teeth experience compared to my saintly 2012 Retina MBP)

you guys don’t do your builds on a massively parallel memdisk cluster? amateurs

has anyone tested the "new" keyboard. I read somewhere that the 15" with Touch Bar has a slightly different keyboard.

I'm a totally in the tank for Apple but those MBP keyboards from the past year or whatever are HORRIBLE.

update the rest of your mac product line you dicks

Nothing can be as bad as the Microsoft surface keyboard - my work surface has to be the worst laptop I’ve ever had.

I will be getting one of these. It’s a shame they didn’t update the rest of the product line, the an updated MacBook may have been viable.

I really wanted to like the Surface but yeah

has anyone tested the "new" keyboard. I read somewhere that the 15" with Touch Bar has a slightly different keyboard.

FWIW, the keyboard on my 15" 2017 MPB has been a-ok. My partner just ordered a new 13" MBP for herself this morning so we'll see how it goes.

xxp mine is the newer 15" keyboard - it's reasonable to type on but (a) keys will stick or double-fire if microscopic grit gets near them, and (b) it sounds like dropping scrabble tiles in a coffee can, whereas the old one was near-silent.

My wife really loves her surface but that may be because she has windows 10 and can manage it herself whereas mine is stuck on Windows 8 because we haven’t upgraded yet. The lack of space between the keys or any shaping means it is super easy to strike two keys at once and the whole keyboard is basically a sound board that our conference room microphones seem to be perfectly tuned into. It can be deafening if you’re on the other end.

Off to try the MacBook Pro keyboard but it seems inevitable that I will buy one.

apparently the new keyboard has a silicon barrier to help against dust?

the official line is it makes the keyboard “quiet” because apple doesn’t want to get sued

FWIW I went to the store and typed a page on the gen 2 keyboard and thought it was fine. Louder than the Air but way quieter than the surface. Incidentally the surface keyboard has improved a lot. Still very load but at least the keys are separated now.

I guess the joy of getting a new Mac has been replaced by that of getting a new phone
Fuck phones

I was going to say, the new Surface keyboards are great — I forgot about the old ones with the keys all closed up together

wth is a “ SURFACE “

Microsoft laptop/tablet thingy

if there's one thing I hate more than apple

i was in a meeting the other day and somebody had an iPad with a keyboard and i guess I'd been snobby about this combo in the past but suddenly i was like, this is the way to go for about 80% of what i do, maybe more.

Yes I do that for anything I can. I think I’d like a slightly bigger keyboard but I have the 9.7in, would be better w the 10.5

i love this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNjuVQcoNYo

i didn't understand any of that but i watched the whole thing. he's great.

Between this guy and the ifixit guides I've saved thousands over the years.

A lot easier to attempt repairs with confidence when you understand why you're having the issues in the first place.

this is the kind of bullshit that worries me about the mac becoming abandonware https://williambharding.com/blog/technology/linux-touchpad-like-a-macbook-goal-worth-pursuing/

so my laptop just died again and another resurrection is looking unlikely...

is this the right time to upgrade? i see the macbook pro just got an upgrade and it looks maybe impressive at least inside and maybe better than the last keyboard iteration?

take it to that guy on the LES whose youtube i posted!

but yeah, now seems to be the least bad time in a while to upgrade

This sucks though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8J125s4cg

God I dread the day that my top of the line 2014 mbp work computer dies.

still seems a bad time to upgrade.... hopefully refresh some more of the line soon......

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that is abysmal

yeah that seems like a major boo boo if it's not a problem with that guy's specific mac.

but afaict the new 13" (which doesn't have that CPU) is solid, and 15" "laptop computers" all suck anyway.