Apple's Blue Ocean

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Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by seec » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 2:23 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #237

Dig1t wrote: post #220

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>Non-soldered storage. Seriously. Storage is the most likely component to fail. SSDs only have so many write cycles. One thing to note is the quality of Apple’s storage is above and beyond anything else you can buy. They have teams at every level of the storage stack and have an amazing focus on quality. From individual chips all the way up to the filesystem, all of the software is customized to extend the lifespan o…

>all of the software is customized to extend the lifespan of the device It is widely known macOS paging out a lot more than Windows. On a multiTab Safari you could easily have 100GB write or higher per day. Kernel_Task lock up are extremely common on google search.

Thank god I'm not the only one to know that. Peoples keep talking about the awesome efficiency of Apple software but this happened to me and I trashed quite a few SSDs. Supposedly macOS is more efficient with the hardware but having built hackintoshs I know it is the reverse. Apple fanboys are so confident in their bullshit that it is hard to trust your own experience. For clarity I am still a macOS and Apple user. Not for long though, I won't buy new Apple hardware until they change their ways. Got the iPhone 12 mini and deeply regret it, even though the physical format is pretty nice.

Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by seec » Mon, Nov 06, 2023, 2:50 PM UTC

audunw wrote: post #198

1letterunixname wrote: post #110

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Apple devices aren't engineered to last; they're engineered to be manufactured, sell new, and sometimes sell expensive repairs by them. Also, NVIDIA cards in eGPUs and Thunderbolt (arm64) aren't supported. The best solution is either don't use Apple, or have a machine under warranty and very good backups. Complaints aside, the Anker 777 dock does 5K-8K DP over USB-C, 1 GbE, 100w charging, 4 USB-A and more and works w…

I have had many Apple devices since the 2nd gen iPod, and they have all lasted a very long time compared to my other devices. All my laptops back to my 15” PowerBook is still working. They have fixed a faulty GPU on a 4 year old laptop for free, even though I had opened the laptop and changed thermal paste. (Known manufacturing issue with that GPU, but still impressive) They have made mistakes. Like the battery in my…

Yeah, but equivalently priced hardware is just as good if not better. I put as much money in a PC build as I would have in a Mac Pro, and I got a 1000w PSU replaced for free because it had 7-year warranty. So, it is not something special about Apple. If you are willing to put the price you will get pretty good hardware. If anything, you are more likely to be left hanging the short stick with Apple because they are unwilling to warrant their stuff for a long time no matter what price you buy it. Not without reason, because realistically, most of their hardware post 2015 really is not any good.

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