Reply 100 of 136, by schmatzler
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wrote:to me the worst compromise is heat dissipation (particularly in apple computers)
It's not just Apple, a lot of manufacturers cram the biggest CPU's into the thinnest cases for marketing reasons.
My Thinkpad L390 Yoga is an amazing device - replaceable SSD, up to 64GB of replaceable RAM, Wacom tablet...but I will never understand why Lenovo put in a CPU with a boost limit of 4.6 GHz. It can boost for one second before it heavily throttles and without adjustments, it's worse when rendering videos than my old X230T from 2013.
The cooling system does only tolerate up to 3GHz without throttling and that still makes it a blazingly fast device, so there really is no reason for putting such an overpowered processor into it.
I will never go the Apple route, though. Their problems are even more massive under the hood than all of the Windows machines I had to deal with over the last few years. I work in an advertising agency and it's a very Apple-infested place, so to speak. I am the only one that refuses to use one of these, because I had to work on and with them for half a year and I still have to support the machines of my colleagues.
- Their build quality is atrocious. Just watch some videos from Louis Rossmann. Heatsinks and fans that go nowhere, short display cables that rip, keyboard problems, bad motherboard design that sends 52 volts into your CPU ...and more. Apple machines are very overpriced! For items with their luxury brand image I expect more than the typical quality of a 500$ notebook.
- Their software quality is even worse! For storage I've decided to setup a NextCloud for all of our files and that made me peek under the hood of their Finder software a little bit. It creates .DS_Store files in every folder. On a Mac you can't see them because they just get hidden and you'd expect that all of these junk files are not copied to a network drive. Well tough shit, they are. Have fun cleaning up your network drive after using this - that is, if you can even copy your files in a reasonable amount of time because the Finder makes thousands of requests on every file transfer and easily brings your server down. It even looks for kernel image files on the network drive with every request - WHY?
Then there's Apple Mail, where you have to go into the command line and hack some stuff in to keep it from automatically trying to make thumbnails out of your mail attachments every time...this stuff is the absolute worst.
Maybe their browser is better - Safari is based on Webkit, just like Chrome...that must be good, right? Nope, they've decided in their infinite wisdom to not put in the full HTML5 fields support into the desktop version. So you want to build a website with a date field and a date picker? Looks good on an iPhone, but not on a Mac. Your users will ask why it doesn't work - well of course, it's Apple's fault! They won't believe you...have fun explaining that to them.
Can they even do a calendar? I mean...it's just a calendar, right? My boss uses the iCloud calendar for all of our business appointments. On Windows, you can use the web version...which doesn't let you edit an appointment because there's always an "unknown error". It has been like that for at least half a year and every time I want to edit a minor detail, I have to delete an appointment and completely recreate it again. So tedious.
I really hope Apple dies sooner than later, but I know it won't happen. The masses don't care about these things. They're just users. They don't have to administrate these machines, a Macbook "just works" and "looks so good". Ugh. I'm really sick of it, if you can't tell by now. 🤣