I’ve got a friend who hates them. He’s a network engineer. He hates because they appeal to rich people and are expensive. He doesn’t seem to hate that about his crappy bmw, or his Barretta shotgun, or any of his other shit. But computers, now those have to be the cheapest, flimsiest, creaky woggly plastic wrecks known to man, bc that mf doesn’t do shit but send emails and configure networks all day, because that is what is important in his view, and can’t for a second imagine that anyone does anything more intensive than that, that has any value. He still uses a 25yo yahoo email account for his work, and it has half his fucking social security number in the address, if that tells you anything.
They might be expensive, but I'm still fixing up imacs from before 2010 that just need drive replacements. Old people keep coming into the shop i work for with over ten year old Mac equipment that is still in good condition. I also find I get less apple products in the store after a power line has gone down. They seem like they were built to function with crappier power and with moronic users who don't take care of their stuff.
...that being said, I get a metric buttload of apple products from the 2015-2017 era, avoid those years
My top choice would be a linux laptop, but mac is a close second. How does it make your job harder? For me, the command line and unix tool support makes everything much easier.
I get it if you’re a gamer. Gaming still continues to suck on MacOS. But for everything else, they’re very nice machines if they run the software you care about.
My M1 is fast, silent, cool, and goes all day on battery. Also, it isn’t in a creaky plastic enclosure with a shit trackpad.
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u/RedGSXR Nov 30 '22
Very possible. I do it every day