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I dropped my personal Dell laptop (XPS13) and broke the screen. Dell sent a tech to my workplace and repaired it. No charge.
You've paid for this and you know it.
Of course, you pay for it with Apple, too.
Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
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Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
#192With the rise of mobile predominance, innovation on desktop platforms has essentially stalled. Consumers don't really care.
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#1931. Never once seen an issue with USB-C to HDMI or VGA connections. It doesn't even make any sense since MacBook Pro users with external, third party monitors are an extremely common combination. 2. I just downloaded Caret (Markdown editor) from their website and used Homebrew to install a CLI tool. Nothing has changed between the current OSX and previous ones. 3. If you have a tech support issue go into the Apple Sto…
> 4. MacBook Pro has 4 USB-C ports. Maybe we should specify it to mean USB ports you can use for something without an adapter.
Things change, deal with it. I've swapped USB cables to USB-C cables. Only USB drives, which i rarely use anymore require an adapter. Meanwhile, I can use all 4 ports to:
- Run a display
- Charge my laptop
- Charge a phone
- Connect a drive
I can even use a single port to both charge the laptop and run a screen with multiple USB devices attached to it.
I now need to daisy chain converters to use my PS/2 mouse on my MacBook though, so that's a bit of a hassle.
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So, Apple products should not be used in countries without an Apple Store. Sounds about right.
My nearest Apple Store (not a third party reseller - they're bloody useless) is a 3 hour round trip, and they never have any appointments any way. Granted that's still better support as non-business you'd get from one of the PC OEMs, but still crap.
replacement of batter and screen was done in two days, given that parts were ordered and shipped from another city. not bad. But I understand what original article owner writes. sometimes non usb keyboards stop working and only plugging them in into the port on the hub and replugging them back into the system block gets them recognized again.
Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
#195Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I'm now dual-booting Ubuntu/Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15". What this experience has taught me is that computing in 2019 basically sucks. The problems with 2000-era Linux, as described in the article, are…
I came here to say the same. I do have more issues with macOS than I did, say, 5 years ago.
However, the constant Windows update cycle is a nightmare and Linux still can't seem to get battery life and things like Bluetooth (audio inputs, etc.) quite right, so I'm left with hoping that Apple gets their stuff back together.
Operating system stability just seems to have declined in general in the last 3-5 years.
Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
#196Note: I had written this comment before I had read the actual article, so it is only vaguely related to the topic, but it seems wasteful to delete it... This might be a subjective thing, but Linux when I used it in 2008-9 (I was a kid then) was unfriendly. My local community was very unfriendly, expecting you to RTFM three times except often the manual didn't exist or was obsoleted years ago. Linux (Debian was what I…
Until 2014-15 it was my understanding that the approved way was to reinstall the OS every 6-7 months. Things would slowly stop working with drivers and software installations...
(I briefly switched to Fedora, which is now my most long-lived linux install at 3-4 years, I gather that also debian and ubuntu got better over time)
Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dropped my personal Dell laptop (XPS13) and broke the screen. Dell sent a tech to my workplace and repaired it. No charge.
You've paid for this and you know it.
Does it matter when getting good support from Apple requires buying AppleCare? Dell is solving the problem of not having physical stores to do servicing by sending people in trucks.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 1. Never once seen an issue with USB-C to HDMI or VGA connections. It doesn't even make any sense since MacBook Pro users with external, third party monitors are an extremely common combination. Last year I had a lot of problems with this. It was pretty common[1] that USB-C to HDMI cables would work at first and then stop working in a particular port. Sometimes rebooting helped. Sometimes swapping the cable for ano…
i have those problems still, sometimes after waking up, so i play the game have i tried this usb-c port or not. it usualy works after one two times. thank god i have 4 of them. i have a 2 external monitors and usually close the macbook. but hey at least it works. on my linux laptop it allways forgets the layout that i had and resorts to puting the external monitor right, and dont ger me started on X and fractional sc…
You can use xrandr to load your specific layout at startup. If you don't wanna be bothered with crafting an xrandr command, you can use arandr to generate the script for you.
Scaling is a mess though, totally agree with that.
Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
#199Well, no, it's not the Linux of 2000, it's worse than that, because it's closed source. The GNU/Linux (e.g. the ecosystem) of 2019 is really fantastic. It keeps on getting better, and better, and better. There may be a few missteps, maybe you don't like GNOME 3, but you can still use Xfce, or KDE, or LXDE, or i3 or whatever else if you want, no-one is stopping you. By contrast, if Apple or Microsoft update the OS and…
As somebody on a 2015 15" MBP looking to make the switch, how do you deal with things like Word/Excel documents or updating the firmware of IOT things (not mine but those of relatives) that only offer proprietary Windows and Mac updaters/installers? Do you just spin up a KVM and pass through USB, or use a separate computer? These edge cases (and the uneasy feeling that there are many others that I won't discover unti…
I can't speak for everyone but I have a Windows 7 VM just for things like this. But I can say I don't think I've ever needed to use it. I run photoshop (cs5) in wine, although I could program get by with gimp I rarely do anything other than crop or rotate a photo. For Office I just use Google Docs or LibreOffice depending on the situation. I'd say 90% the former 10% the latter.
Re: Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
#2001. Never once seen an issue with USB-C to HDMI or VGA connections. It doesn't even make any sense since MacBook Pro users with external, third party monitors are an extremely common combination. 2. I just downloaded Caret (Markdown editor) from their website and used Homebrew to install a CLI tool. Nothing has changed between the current OSX and previous ones. 3. If you have a tech support issue go into the Apple Sto…
Linux 2000: writing a post summarizing Linux's issues will compel a point by point response in which a fanboy will either tell you "works for me" or "you're holding it wrong". Apple 2019: writing a post summarizing Apple products' issues will compel a point by point response in which a fanboy will either tell you "works for me" or "you're holding it wrong".
{any technology} {any year}: writing a post summarizing X products' issues will compel a point by point response in which a fanboy will either tell you "works for me" or "you're holding it wrong".