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Why don’t you like Apple?

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Real question. I would like to know what drives you to hate Apple? (In terms of privacy of course because in terms of price it’s another story).

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bushvin@lemmy.world
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Overpriced hardware comes with a boon: It lasts longer. I am by no means an apple fanboy, but when I discovered the 12 year old Mac of my dad still performed like mid-range PCs with Windows, I was quite surprised.

Still not buying their hardware though…

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jaschen@lemm.ee
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Except a 12 year old Mac isn’t supported by Apple anymore and will likely be riddled with vulnerabilities. You could just load Linux on it since it’s probably an Intel based chipset.

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audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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It depends on the chipset. The big changes in chipset have been the big barriers for Mac upgradability. My father ran a 10 year old MacBook that was still running the latest MacOS until he found that his 4GB of RAM wasn’t going to be enough and bought a new one (without talking to me first). I had a PPC MacBook that ran on the latest MacOS for about 6 years after Apple switched to Intel.

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subtext@lemmy.world
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Also the hardware support is not great, for example the webcam. I installed Linux on my old MBP but it was a hassle to get the webcam working involving some dubious command line entries with sudo

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bushvin@lemmy.world
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As long as the OS was supported, updates were available.

But yes, I loaded a nice Fedora on it… 😉

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Deckweiss@lemmy.world
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Check out Louis Rossman on youtube. Especially his apple hardware design analysis.

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kbotc@lemmy.world
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Rossman has a vendetta against Apple ever since he got caught importing counterfeit batteries (You can’t slap the Apple logo on batteries that Apple did not make, even if you call them “refurbished”)

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