Back in the days, as in 2012, MacBooks were an IT miracle. They were 1,000 years ahead of everything else out there, and so was the iPhone. Today both are shiny objects, with a good marketing campaign, and nothing else going for it.
Every time somebody asked me what computer to buy, I'd say; "Get a MacBook, they simply work. You don't need to do anything to make them work, they never fail, and it's impossible to misunderstand how to use it".
Today they come "pre-broken" from the factory, I can't even set their latest operating system to the battery configuration I want - And if a tiny resistor breaks down, something that costs 50 cents to replace may I add, I have to buy a new hard drive, motherboard, CPU, and RAM - Because everything is soldered together into a single piece of iron to make it impossible to repair ...
The reason? They've modelled their hardware business on the SaaS business model, out of greed, which of course is a joke for a company manufacturing hardware.
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Back in the days, as in 2012, MacBooks were an IT miracle. They were 1,000 years ahead of everything else out there, and so was the iPhone. Today both are shiny objects, with a good marketing campaign, and nothing else going for it.
Every time somebody asked me what computer to buy, I'd say; "Get a MacBook, they simply work. You don't need to do anything to make them work, they never fail, and it's impossible to misunderstand how to use it".
Today they come "pre-broken" from the factory, I can't even set their latest operating system to the battery configuration I want - And if a tiny resistor breaks down, something that costs 50 cents to replace may I add, I have to buy a new hard drive, motherboard, CPU, and RAM - Because everything is soldered together into a single piece of iron to make it impossible to repair ...
The reason? They've modelled their hardware business on the SaaS business model, out of greed, which of course is a joke for a company manufacturing hardware.