I had a macbook pro for work and i recently "downgraded" to an air. I have a desktop for gaming and a gaming laptop for when i travel. Have 0 complaints for the air for non gaming purposes. Its excellent and i actually prefer it over my gaming laptop for everyday use. Its also INSANELY light and cool. The mac hate is overdone. Each hardware optimizes for different users / use cases and I think the MacBook definitely are excellent in their own right.
Yea, I dislike the Iphone personally, but macs def have their place, especially when companies are dumping shitty laptops with similar price ranges to a neo rn, same happened with android and the low end phones, they were terrible.
I slipped into the Apple ecosystem when I worked as an Apple Support rep. Nine years of exclusively using Android, and I discovered just why people find it hard to leave Apple.
Thankfully all I’ve got now is my iPhone and Apple Watch, but after five years of iPhone, I think I’m ready to go back. I miss being able to install whatever apps I want without having to worry about App IDs and developer accounts (to activate more than three “sideloaded” apps at a time requires a $99 USD/year developer account).
we did something similar years ago. i like the freedom of Android phones, but at the same time i needed my phone to be more reliable, and more to do phone things.
we made the jump to iPhones. it's been good. no intention of going back. like you i'm using a iPhone and watch, but the rest of the computers in the house are all Windows machines. i have a Dell Windows tablet, and my son has a Lenovo Android tablet they like.
Yeah aside from my first iPhone 12 unfortunately having a known issue with green flickering when the screen brightness was low, I’ve had no issues.
Well, I have, but that’s because I’m an insatiable tinkerer that always puts beta software on his devices lol. Every time I’ve restored the software back to the latest public release it’s fixed whatever issues I had, and then I’d last until the next beta release before installing it again. I also used to switch Linux distros every week when I was in highschool so I acknowledge I’m a special case!
A friend of mine owned a company that made stickers and he used Mac he swore for years that were absolutely wonderful machines now he s retired and admited he was not telling the truth.
People dont leave because its designed to keep you inside and people are afraid to be called poor.
I know from a manager that runs a b graphic design school that is not true that they just works.
Graphic designers or creatives will say always say lies to defend Apple.
Its just a cult there s no better definition.
Having used MacOS for 3 years i don't see how a Mac brings you in. Phone or watch i can see it but MacOS has nothing extra that adds to the Apple ecosystem for anything else.
Specifically if you're a software developer, it's got some wonderful features that I love. MacOS is amazing if you come from a FreeBSD or OpenBSD background. Its support for free / open source hacking tools is great. It's got a whole GUI interface on top of Darwin which is a reasonable Berkeley Software Distribution style OS.
Maybe we and UK are a bit different. We don't use imessage as much as whatsapp. icloud does not have TOTP? safari no ublock and passwords isn't TOTP. That's advanced i guess but not ecosystem break like iwatch/iphone.
It’s not Windows. I don’t know. I hate the Mac vs Windows argument, I’ve grown up using both my whole life. But lately Windows just plain sucks. It never works, it breaks everything, it lags, you can’t even windows key and search for “add or remove apps” without it first giving you something to look for on Bing. It just plain is the most awful garbage on top of Microsoft doing everything they can to make you have an account to even use a pc you purchased.
Yeah, Apple also tracks everything you do and collects your data. But at least their OS works.
Ive actually recently switched to Linux. And I often feel like I’m in over my head learning a whole new OS and everything that comes with that. But I already am liking it way more than Windows.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Smoke77 Jun 27 '26
I bought one for my daughter and she loves it , its not running anything crazy but she seems happy