A classic Apple move. Then a year later, they will offer to "fix" the affected model with "reasonable price", and people still have no choice but to go along with it.
Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pros Attempt to Solve Flexgate, Without Admitting It Exists
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#42There are many examples of Apple never admitting design issues! Beside what they are doing with their reputation and customers loyalty, I’m wondering how is it going to affect their engineering culture within the company itself. They are very biased with their strategies in everything and they hardly change them. Same situation Microsoft was in some years ago.
I don't know about others, but I don't dare to buy Apple products anymore. My 2012 MacBook Pro is still going strong, but newer MacBooks don't have anywhere near the same build quality and durability.
When you have an issue, and complain about it or even ask advice what to do, I've often encountered toxic behavior from Apple fans. Denying the problem's existence and such.
The problem is of course what to heck to buy. MacBooks do have nice features, like fast wakeup and an excellent touchpad, that I still haven't seen matched in the "Windows" laptop camp.
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#43Last years there are many fuckups with pro models.
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#44That's the company that removed strain relievers from all their cabling with the very intention of making them break easier. What did you people expect?
Looking around my desk, I see a MagSafe power supply, with strain relief on both ends, a Thunderbolt cable, with strain relief, an HDMI adapter, with strain relief, a Lightning cable, with strain relief...what are you even talking about?
Judging by the number of failed magsafe cables I've seen, I suspect the strain relief was more decoration.
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#45Eventually Apple will make a disposable $3000 Mac and everyone will love it ...
Is that the current MBP? If nothing else fails, you’ll have the glued-in battery to deal with...
I always wondered why the battery isn't part of the bottom cover - it seems making a once piece bottom/battery would save space and allow for a bigger battery. I guess it's so that its deliberately difficult to replace.
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#46A classic Apple move. Then a year later, they will offer to "fix" the affected model with "reasonable price", and people still have no choice but to go along with it.
just like their generous $30 battery replacements on iPhones after they were caught slowing down the iphones.
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#47I regret not buying a stash of 2012 Macbook Pros and hoarding them for my own use. Edit: And iPhone SEs as well
Bought first Macbook Pro retina in 2012 with a hefty $2500 price tag. It's been seven years and it still just works fine. Not looking to upgrade
Same boat. I rationalized to myself when I bought it that this would be the laptop I stuck with for a decade. I didn't realize the reason I'd be doing that is because the current generations are just so bad. (Keyboard, touchbar, aggressive port diet, etc.)
If someone were to steal this, I'd probably get a Thinkpad at this point. At least their keyboards don't suck, and I can get by with the half-decent touchpad. Maybe even convert to the red little nib...
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#48Eventually Apple will make a disposable $3000 Mac and everyone will love it ...
It will still only have a 128GB SSD.
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#49Eventually Apple will make a disposable $3000 Mac and everyone will love it ...
Tired of this kind of lazy trolling on every article even vaguely critical about Apple.
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#50Still waiting for Apple to make anything anywhere as good as the Pismo was. I've had hardware issues of one kind or another with every single laptop from them since then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G3#PowerBook_(FireWi...
This might be more a matter of luck and fond memory. The Pismo is a rickety plastic crate compared to any unibody MacBook.
Maybe it's just me, but I never did like the change to metal all that much. I have both plastic and metal laptops now and still dislike metal. Typing on a plasticky HP right now with certainly a better keyboard than the MacBook, but let's not get started with that...
Edit ： I was using for a while both the PowerBook G3 and the PowerBook G4, and much as I tried, I hated the latter as much as I loved the former, and the G3 outlived the G4 by a couple of years.