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No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple's anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can't even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don't even own it.

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[–] catfish@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just got an M2 MBP. In my personal experience it is very much not "shit".

Expensive and a PITA to fix? Quite possibly.

[–] frostwhitewolf@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

+1 apple products are very much not shit. Otherwise people wouldnt buy and use them as prolifically as they do.

I started using Macbooks because the user experience on windows laptops sucks in comparison.

[–] CorruptBuddha@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What kind of user experience issues are you facing on windows?

[–] legion02@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Let's start with sleep mode not actually sleeping about 50% of the time and turning my backpack into an oven and killing the battery whenever it does?

I wish Mac laptops were crap but they function so much better than windows laptops in so many little ways I find myself having a hard time justifying fighting windows laptops anymore.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Modern standby fucking sucks, luckily my laptop is from before that existed (and it runs linux but that's besides the point)

Amen to this. I have to deal with it on my Zephyrus M16 which has shit battery life to begin with.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IDK, I've had exactly the same problem with my work MBP. I was late to something and the computer locked up, so as soon as I got some level of control I put it to sleep and it seemed to sleep. An hour later and the fan was going crazy and it was super hot.

It doesn't happen a lot, but macOS isn't immune to stupid issues like that. I've had far more hard crashes with macOS than I have with Linux.

[–] Catweazle@social.vivaldi.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@legion02 @CorruptBuddha, don't blame laptops, blame Windows. The difference between PC/laptops and Mac is compatibility, to use any OS you want, Mac is only compatible with Mac, apart from costing twice as much as a PC/Laptop with equivalent system performance and features.

[–] legion02@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Does it matter who's at fault? The end result is the same, a dangerously hot laptop. Even though I'm a huge Linux advocate it's not an option for work reasons.

[–] jimrob4@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

wildly gestures at everything

[–] SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always speaking of bad experience using Windows, but never explaining it.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They replied and explained it. Try again mate.

[–] SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, a different person after I made my comment speaking from anecdotal experience.

Yeah, a different person after I made my comment speaking from anecdotal experience.

Yeah my bad

[–] Tristan@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I work in computer simulations and their great. CPU is crazy fast, stays cool and silent. Battery life is solid.