Thread 107031123

>>107031123 (OP)
I'm heterosexual and of above average intelligence.

I'm poor

I have.

>>107031123 (OP)
I have. Shit's expensive but great. I can't believe I fell for the stinkpad-meme before that. Should've bought a macbook years ago.

I like being in control of my machine.

>>107031123 (OP)
I have.
Posted from my Mac Air.

>>107031123 (OP)
can't install gentoo

>>107031123 (OP)
NOBODY HAS ANY MONEY
thanks trump. fucking asshat.

I bought a used MBA M2 last year and it's great.

But a friend gave me a "Magic Mouse" and I'm surprised that it doesn't really seem to work.
It's their own mouse and yet as soon as I enabled right click in the settings, the other gestures all stopped working.

>>107031123 (OP)
I'm going to ask my boss for a MacBook next month, so yeah, soon I will.

>>107032234
Using a mouse on macbook is handicapping yourself.
It's clearly built around the trackpad, fuck that shit is so good they backported it to their desktop pcs.

>>107031123 (OP)
> Mst support
> Lower end hardware only supports 1 external monitor
I would love a Mac book air but the fact I have to spend more money on a goybook pro to support my 3 screen setup is gay and pathetic. Meanwhile my older Macbook air on an Intel chip handles it all just fine.

>>107031134
we know, i wish your peers will confess as well

>>107031123 (OP)
Tim Cook is gay

>>107031123 (OP)
used one throughout uni, but now i don't really need it. once my m1 breaks down i'll switch to nixos

>>107031123 (OP)
Why would I buy a Mac and put Linux on it? I have a framework 13.

>>107031123 (OP)
>Why haven't you taken the Mac pill yet
I'm not on HRT

>>107031123 (OP)
I am still mad from the intel switch in 2005/6.
I absolutely hate the trackpad and keyboards on their current laptops. The fake force feedback trackpad is probably the worst pointing and clicking device I have ever used... I thought I hated "diving board click pads" but I really hate the non moving thing more.

>>107031128
outdated meme by at least 10 years

>>107031123 (OP)
unironically poor college student, probably will down the line

>>107031123 (OP)
but I have, am very happy with my macbook pro m4 pro 14/20 1TB 24GB RAM machine
thanks Tim Apple, you made a great laptop.

Bros, don't do it. My life has been so tiring since I got my Macbook. I can't sit in a cafe in peace. Guys keep offering me jobs and women just won't leave me alone.

>>107033043
You know you're right when the only retort is some leftoid going "ugh how le unoriginal" since they've been getting owned since forever

>>107031123 (OP)
I refuse to pay for a screen with a massive cluster of dead pixels

>>107033975
That's a glass-half-empty take. They aren't taking pixels away. They're giving you the extra pixels on both sides off the camera.

>>107031123 (OP)
I might after Windows 11 stopped recognizing anything but left clicks on all my mice one morning, spent 3 days researching and troubleshooting but apparently it was at kernel level and I'm the only person who's ever had this problem so I had to reinstall and lose yet another day of work, I also got tired of Edge randomly setting itself as the default browser every few days. I use NixOS at home and it's very comfortable but Linux can't run the software I need and anytime I report a bug it becomes an endless game of e.g. KDE blames Wayland, Wayland blames Nvidia, Nvidia blames Wayland, Wayland blames KDE. My home computer has been running Linux exclusively since Ubuntu 10.04 but the community is becoming increasingly hostile (look at the NixOS drama) and despite what everyone says, shit's stagnated, it seems like the only thing improving nowadays is Proton and KDE and everything else is delusions and romanticism, so a Mac is really tempting for me right now, I just know I'd be trading a huge pile of problems for another pile of problems of unknown size. I guess there's nothing wrong with trying.

>>107034145
always blame nvidia

because if i wanted a craptop that can't do anything i could get one for one tenth the price and slap ubuntu on it
imagine accepting arm outside of phones

I switched over 3 years ago and it just werks
I spent more on my gaymen PC 8 years ago than I did on my macbook, iphone and airpods combined
m$ has gone full blown retard the last decade, I mean im old now so I dont game much but honestly if I get that itch i'll just buy a switch 2 and call it a day
all tech sucks now because its all hardware locked in their own little ecosystem with a monthly subscription

>>107031216
fag

>>107031123 (OP)
Because the existence of retarded paid shills, such as yourself, convinced me it was a shitty brand.
Good brands don't have to rely on mass lying campaign to be successful.

kys, shill

>>107031123 (OP)
Retarded notch in the screen...

>>107031123 (OP)
because some retards got convinced that women and immigrants were gonna oppress us all and voted in a retard who has made life so expensive ill be lucky if we dont fucking starve?

>>107031123 (OP)
I have, absolutely hated it and replaced a 3000€ macbook with a 10 year old 500€ acer and it's so much better holy shit.

>>107034610
I hadn't seen that holy shit

>satania.webm

>>107031123 (OP)
I bought a Dell with a Ryzen 7 APU in 2023.
I then proceeded to buy 64GB of DDR4
I also bought a 4TB Samsung 870 EVO M.2 SSD
I also bought a 4TB Samsung EVO SATA SSD.
I opened the dell and installed all three.
Total price was $800.

I used the money I saved to buy Apple stock during a dip.

The only valuable Apple product to me is AAPL

>>107034666
Oh bruh you are a real simpleton if you think all of the inflation the entire planet is experiencing is Donald Trump’s fault. The inflation in France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, etc. is not Trump’s fault. The inflation in SEA is not Trump’s fault. The inflation in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand is not Trump’s fault.
You might be able to blame Tarrifs but again, China and every country that he put tariffs on already have tariffs on our exports.
Stop being such a Reddit pussy

>>107031123 (OP)
I want to know if the GPU is good enough for 3D rendering yet.

>>107035356
It’s worse than an RDNA APU

>>107035356
No
NO CUDA

>>107031123 (OP)

glorious pc clone at atx have not gotten further

>>107031123 (OP)
No cuda :(

>>107031128
With the Mac, there's no need for HRT.

>>107032534
The joy of on-chip video.

>>107033037
Interesting. I love the haptic touchpad. You can keep the diving board trackpad on Lenovo.

>>107031128
>above average intelligence
ah yes, very well know that congo, india and bolivia are the best-selling markets for apple, and not japan, china, and the white west
retard
about the heterosexuality won't comment because although surely is not a generalized phenomenon among apple users, i do love to suck a cute pink girlcock once in a while

>>107035356
If your main focus is modelling and rendering the results you're good, if your main focus is just rendering scenes it's not ideal.

>>107033779
Kek!

Sir, you're implying Desktop Linux is women repellent.

i did. lifelong windows user and i bought a m4 pro.

honestly it just werks and the battery lasts for fucking ever its amazing. i dont know why or how this is the case but i dont know why windows doesnt switch to this. having a battery last multiple days of work without charging is a godsend.

the price is insane though. i think i got mind on a discount of $300 and i used that to buy a magic mouse and keyboard. but it was still like $2800. i went with the 16 inch version though. 40 gb of ram and 2 tb storage. if it was $2000 i would recommend it to literally everyone.

>>107031123 (OP)
I was forced to work on a mac for 2 years and I despised every second of it. Never touching that shit again.

>>107033975
Yuo mean the notch? It isn't that bad.

>>107033975
so you dont have a phone?

>>107035280
Skill Issue

>>107031123 (OP)
Overpriced hipster slop

>>107031123 (OP)
Why would I buy something from the company that sucks up to the US president

Hate to see a notch

>>107031123 (OP)
>>107031123 (OP)

>>107035997
good morning sir

>>107031123 (OP)
i need an actual computer, not some battery powered toy. also i'm straight so fagbook is a mono.

there's some annoying faggot who shills their shit so hard every day that it's hard not to develop some kind of aversion to what he's trying to sell me

because a computer does 2 things. it runs the apps i want on the hardware i want. the mac limits both of these things. plus the UI, albeit prettier, is just not as functional. the dock doesnt work as well as the windows dock as far as window management, resizing/snapping shit isnt as good. it takes up so much screen real estate because by default it wants you to have the dock and top menu bar always showing and it builds the windowing around that. the dock and menu bar themselves take up more space and so you end up autohiding them. at that point im just running brave with nothing else on the screen so whats the difference from using windows?

>>107035997
I had a MacBook Pro with the expanded batteries. It took FIVE YEARS for the batteries to fail. Apple replaced the batteries in 48 hours.

Next.

>>107031123 (OP)
Conservative Americans and Indians like Apple because they're fucking retarded.
Use Linux ffs

>>107036535
i do use linux, on my desktop
but on the move, anything other than a macbook is a fucking joke that will only give you headaches

>>107031123 (OP)
i take the make pill like 5 years ago. never going back.

>>107034345
>but honestly if I get that itch i'll just buy a switch 2 and call it a day

there is more than enough stuff to game on mac, without even using crossover.

i did
it was an alright choice imo

>>107037468
>tfw got the 8GB model a few years ago
My regret is immeasurable. It was just for being a lightweight travel laptop, but still, 8GB is shit.

>>107037492
>itoddlers can't even upgrade their ram

>>107037504
Kinda how it is on most laptops now, at least really lightweight ones.

>>107037511
all laptops are lightweight, they're laptops
even when they were 2 inches thick they were light, it's a laptop

>>107033043
I don't fucking like it. It feels like a system for retards. Worst file manager ever and it's actually gotten worse than it was 20 years ago. Retarded fullscreening of applications. Updates take ages to install and you better install them or some shit refuses to work. Will still have to open up the Terminal for dumb things.
>>107035493
>ah yes, very well know that congo, india and bolivia are the best-selling markets for apple
That's because they're fucking poor not because they're dumbasses and although those two go together, the whole brand obsession phenomenon is more prevalent among the stupid.
>china
I really fucking doubt that. Chinks aren't even rich .
>white west
USA can barely be considered white. Europe is mostly evenly split last I checked.

>>107031123 (OP)
I need to run stupid proprietary software that only runs in Windows and need access to I/O devices which are a pain to run from docker or a VM.

Lunar Lake laptops are great

>New job sponsored me an M1 Pro.
>Remote job shit (webdev + vibe coding + devops) photo editing(lightroom)
>Needed good battery life and great screen, performance was not main priority
>Was using a Razer blade 13 for remote shit and photo - with win 11
>And my real, at home, laptop is a dell latitude, running linux obviously
>Have been using linux since I was 12
>Have gotten used to windows over the years

After many hours of research, I found that, to my surprise, a mac, the m1 pro, was the best bang/buck in my budget, matching the needs... and by a huge margin.

After 3 weeks:
>turns out it's fast af
>battery life is amazing
>build quality also is great, but it just *feels* more fragile than my latitude(or thinkpads)
>mac os is annoying, but can be made to behave in a way I used to
>most importantly, shit really just works

overall: 7.8/10 - can't wait for the OS support to end so I can just put linux on it with a clean heart

>>107031128
a midwit incel. seems about right

>>107039353
being in a 1 woman 6 søymen polycule doesn't give you the right to call others incels

>>107031123 (OP)
My country imposes a 90% tax on luxury electronics. A 1000 dollar Mac becomes 1900 dollars.

>>107038516
Now if only they figure out how to use LPCAMM2 ram.

>>107039398
it wouldn't if that were true, but nothing does other than the person being an incel

im considering it, mostly because of the battery life

>>107036672
we're all sporting non-mac laptops here among those with a laptop at all, you're going to have try harder to troll, sweetie

>>107035819
CrApple fags tolerate it like the submissive sheep they are.

>>107039692
>non-mac
>"sweetie"
Linux and programming sucks then huh?

>>107031179
I've been looking into macbooks, but I just don't know if I can beat the refurbished prices of Thinkpads. X1C and T14s have pretty good used deals between $300-$500, are there any good Macbooks in this price range?

>>107039750
Probably not, the used ones start around $800 and you can get them brand new for an extra $200. Overall they hold value pretty well which is pretty appealing.

>>107039636
its only good for like 3 years, after that it will be just like any shitty laptop 2 hours, i have an iPad Pro 12 inch from 2017 generation 2 that just came out, it literally could go full day of college i took my notes on it all day and then studied from it 10 hours battery life was like magic

now I am getting like 2 hours on it if all I am doing is watching youtube, if i gave its going to be less than an hour probably


now they have much better circuitry that bypasses battery IIRC, undercharging to 80%, none of this stuff was a thing, if you use all these tricks then your battery mileage might be better

iPad still works but recently got a display artifact, I updated it to the latest possible iOS17, to my surprise it hasnt became useless garbage as has been my experience with regular non-Pro iPads, this one is actually fully usable, and I Was able to get Brave browser finally on it to block ads and watch youtube for another several years until it bricks, it lives in the kitchen

as far as laptops, mac is great sure, close to linux, but the storage not expandable, not replaceable, whole thing is too locked down, it is not something to last, apple is really shitty when it comes to mechanical things, ipad has no moving parts, all macbooks have one issue or the other, i love the M CPUs though

>>107039788
>it is not something to last
Apple stuff is pretty infamous for it lasting. There are still people that daily use pre-M chip devices and are only just looking to upgrade.

>>107039788
>storage not expandable, not replaceable
if my laptop somehow breaks, i would just buy a new one or something.

>>107039788
It's funny but I don't feel like I need to store that much on a laptop, same with my phone. I went with 512GB since that's really enough and I just have a portable SSD to store anything bigger (which then also makes it easy to have everything on a second computer).

>>107039828
If you don't need much storage, you don't use your laptop that much to begin with.

>>107039981
nta but my desktop is using a 250gb ssd as its main drive

>>107039981
I work in commercial photography and use it daily for work on the go and at home, so yeah, I do use it a lot.

Apple won.

>>107031123 (OP)
I've never used an Apple product before. Tell me only this: Do I need to make an Apple Account to use the fucking hardware I bought?
On this answer depends if I look more into the possibility of buying one.

>>107040095
Interestingly, no, you don't need an account. I setup an iPhone the other day without an account of any kind. It'll be pretty gimped since you need an account for the app store but you can use it with absolute basics without an account.
Or if you're in the EU, you can sideload as much shit as you want.

>>107040103
I forgot to note, if you're going with a Mac, you also don't need an account and you can install shit from literally anywhere you want. Only the phones/iPads don't allow stuff form outside an app store.

>>107031123 (OP)
I don't like the gayness of macOS, my job, interests and taste in general requires me to use windows instead.

>>107036399
>so whats the difference from using windows?
having nice hardware and good battery life.
but regarding your OS complaints, you can setup a TWM with some effort, it approaches Linux much more than Windows in terms of usability

>>107040103
>>107040108
Great. Yeah, I figured since I know you can use iOS/Android without accounts and they still work as phones. You only need an account for (((services))).
Then I guess I'll consider getting one if I catch a good deal.
Thanks, anon!

>>107037511
apple is different, other laptop manufacturers just put ram chips on the mobo. it doesn't make them faster.
apple silicon has memory on the cpu package itself. it's more like L4 cache or eDRAM. techlet freetards on this board don't understand the difference.

>>107039788
my old ipad 4 still holds 10-15 hours after 12 years

Is it really worth buying a MacBook Pro over an Air?

>>107031123 (OP)
I like to control my tech
I like to actually be able to play games
I don't want to spend 1.5x the price for the vanity

Take your pick OP.

>>107040241
Main difference is extra ports and a fan, so it can do sustained high workloads whereas the Air will throttle if doing heavy workloads after some time. I think it is also slightly stronger overall but it really depends on what kind of usage you're going for.

>>107040254
I could snag a 15 inch MacBook Air M4 with 24 GB of RAM at the Black Friday sale for nearly 300 quid cheaper than the new M5 Pro. Don’t think waiting for the M5 Air is worth it

>>107040281
In that circumstance, go for the M4. 24GB will be more than enough RAM and you can do some decent shit on the Air before it throttles.

>>107040292
Thanks anon

>>107040198
get a toilet currynigger

>>107040358
why are so mad rajesh

>>107035990
this is actually perfect to illustrate it because yes you do make a bigger deal out of it than it actually is, you literally have to comically exaggerate it in order for it to seem bad, because it wouldn't seem if you just take it as it actually is

>>107031123 (OP)
Because both their hardware and software is inferior.

>>107036400
> Apple replaced the batteries in 48 hours
Meanwhile i replaced the batteries of my five year old Dell laptop in 5min myself.
Apple is simply crap. They have atrocious low quality. Everything constantly breaks. Software gets painfully slow after a single update.
I had a macbook once and i needed to send it in to repair every 6 months.

They are just objectively bad.

>>107031123 (OP)
>>107031128
>Mac is... LE BAD!?!
When will the jeets stop using this bait

>>107040588
>>Mac is... LE GUD!?!
When will you jeets stop using this bait?

>>107031123 (OP)
Can't do gaming and the apps sucks
Who cares about performance when all you can do with that performance is opening shitty women design apps faster

I'm ready to order a mbp the instant my favorite mmo releases their mac client. I would still have my desktop for everything else.

>>107039806
well thats my experience too it does last, i was talking about mechanical stuff, their keyboards, their screen mechanisms, its all very fragile, i feel like toughbooks are more robust

>>107039813
i mean sure, same, but with my laptop id just grab that SSD and put it into a new laptop, with mac you are shit out of luck, unless you have time machine external backup, if that is still a thing IIRC, now its all icloud

>>107040214
on minimal brightness sure

>>107035657
>OS shows 'UPDATE MEEEEEE' notifications almost daily
>OS is buggy as fuck
>skill issue

>>107040951
minimal brightness on it is like 40% brightness on my ipad air m3

>>107040951
iCloud sucks. TIme Machine is the best thing ever, you can have same software on different macs, with windows you have to clone your entire boot drive there is no other way to transfer your installed 3rd party software on a different windows machine

>>107039806
>Apple stuff is pretty infamous for it lasting
No, they are infamous for having a good repair policy.
Apple shit breaks all the time. Show me single crapple user who never had to send something in for repair.
You get a low-quality product for a premium price and have an insurance included. But i rather have a high-quality product, even if it comes with slightly worse support. And i am able to buy a high-quality product and add an insurance to it if i want to.

The funny thing is that, depending on where you are, others are matching or surpassing their support already.
Acer changed a motherboard of a three year old laptop i spilled coffee over, for 50 bucks, even thought i fully admitted that it was my mistake and its out of warranty.

>>107041060
>you can have same software on different macs
Is it like a Windows Domain, like a Microsoft OneDrive Sync or BTRFS snapshots?

>>107036535
Wow I don't like liberals so I guess I love apple now thanks shill-kun

>>107040095
>Do I need to make an Apple Account to use the fucking hardware I bought?
no, I have like 200 packages installed from nixpkgs and homebrew, only 1 from the app store, uBlock Origin Lite for usage in safari. the store requires an account, so if you dont plan to use safari then you're good

It's funny how every tranny fucking hates apple with a burning passion.

>>107031123 (OP)
Macs are fine if you're rich, bad with money, or someone else is paying. When I was rich, I bought a maxed out M1. I've stopped working now, so it's ThinkPads running Linux until or unless something changes.

The thinkpad t14s looks good enough for me. planning to run some sewing software on it so i can make some nice clothes my for BJDs

I have and im never going back! Getting a ipad 11" pro on black friday aswell.

>>107041436
Macs are for poors pretending to be rich

>>107041499
what's the name of the headphones and are they worth it?

The value proposition is poor. Maybe a second hand one from a few years back is better but not by much.

Corpo 16 inch M4 Pro with 48gb RAM here, never used mac before. Retails for around 3-4k I think.

In my previous job I had a maxxed out dell xps 9520(i think?) with an i9/32gb/1tb/rtx3050 which retailed for around double what the macbook costs.

Aside from the gorgeous 4k oled screen on the xps, I'd say I'm never touching a windows machine again for anything to do with code. Battery life on the dell was fucking ass and the i9 would make it heat up quick, whereas the mbp can stay up for 8-10hrs of continuous usage easy. I cannot say I've ever heard the fan spin on the mbp, and the unified ram thing is very useful for local AI inference.

Would I buy one? Prob not the 48gb model cause it's kinda overkill for my hobby shit but yeah, I write a fair amount of code and it works. I CANNOT say the same for win11 machine which dies/bsod fucking randomly.

Not an iphone user so idk how well that integrates, but airpods work great.

ty for coming to my blog

>>107040109
must be a miserable existence

>>107040241
yes. better screen, better keyboard, better speakers, better battery life. but you can get the bottom of the barrel if you want

Focal Hadenys, 700€ worth every penny for me. Cant answer the question for you.

I'm still rocking macOS sequoia on my Thinkpad t480. I'll get an air whenever macOS 26 will stop receiving security updates (2028 I think)

>>107031123 (OP)
Mac is just Linux for retarded techlets

>>107031123 (OP)
I have for most* development tasks. It's usually not as much of a pain in the ass to install the needed dev tools on osx as it is on Windows. But in terms of AI development and then gaming in still stuck windows because of GPU driver support.
Just wish valve would release steamos already. I'd probably make it my main os for everything.

>>107041941
how are you a dev and waiting on steamOS instead of just installing any distro and calling it a day.

>>107041419
but trannies are cooperate cocksuckers plus macs are for fags, they (he) should be in love with them

>>107041993
trannies are mostly linux users

>>107041436
>I've stopped working now, so it's ThinkPads
so did the mac break already? or are you really that poor you had to sell it

>>107042350
no theyre not.
im willing to bet theres a lot more smarter conservative linux users than there are trannies
you can't argue with science, there's only male or female from birth

>>107041958
>Do software dev for work
>Why aren't you doing software dev in your free time
When I'm playing games I'd prefer it just worked. Steam OS is that. I'm not gonna fuck around with some other distro so I can discover the joys of debugging why my video drivers suddenly stopped working.

>>107042375
i don't think software dev is the right career for you

>>107042385
It's been right for 13 years, chief. I don't work for free. Not even for myself.

>>107042350
yes, trannies are rust enjoyers rewriting all the GPL software into MIT/BSD for their corporate overlords

>>107042375
>the joys of debugging why my video drivers suddenly stopped working
gaslighting yourself into believing made up scenarios, weird.

>>107042814
>Be me decades ago
>I'm gonna try Ubuntu because the autists on /g/ won't stop talking about how great it is
>Install
>Wow this actually does work
>Using it for a few days
>Lol the gui is kill
>This is before smart phones and I can't even look up the solution
>Flail around in the dark until I finally manage to recover into windows
Nah Linux can suck my left nut. I'm not going to FOSS my OS when the response for support is always "lul get gud".

>>107042960
>Be me decades ago
i stopped reading here btw

>>107039692
oh sorry, i meant people with a job and responsibilities
please do carry on

>>107031123 (OP)
i did, i just didn't do it the way you'd like,
>>107031216
kek. hell yeah.

>>107042960
the only way to use linux for me was to install fucking microsoft copilot and use it to replace the thousand forums I used to search for help

>>107031134
After they put out the 512GB M3 I have to admit this as well. Applefags won.

If half the people on x86 used an M4 for a month they would be demanding much more from Intel/AMD and MS. I can do so much shit simultaneously and this shit doesn't even get warm. My Ryzen 7 laptop sounds like a jet engine and shit lags so badly even when doing half of what I'm doing now.

>>107042979
>Waah use Linux
>I did and I didn't like it
>Lalala I can't hear you
And this is why nobody will use Linux if they're not forced to by their job.

>>107043707
Yeah it probably would have been fine back then if AI and smart phones existed. But at this point I just need software that works. I'm tired of fucking around with a million cli dependencies just to open a basic program that doesn't even do what they advertise.

>>107043756
>blames hardware manufacturers for microsoft's faults
low iq

Always hated Apple, but got a cheap M1 Air recently as a portable machine for work/media as everything else on the market atm is shit and overpriced.
This has completely changed my mind. It's a lot closer to the average linux distro than I thought once you get brew installed, god tier battery life compared to x86, and runs rings around anything else in this price range (which is almost all chromebooks). Even supports my 5.1 headphones properly without needing the stupid lg hub software. It's nice.
I'm in no rush to get an iphone or ipad or whatever, but I wouldn't mind hunting down an old 12in powerbook or something similar for shits and giggles. These fruit themed things ain't half bad at all.

I have the M3 air 16GB. Wish I had waited a month and gotten the M4 24GB at the same price.

>>107043897
decades = at least 20 years. you're a fucking idiot if you think we should take you seriously. i was using linux decades ago and shit is different.

>>107043756
I mean to be fair MS users are demanding more from MS, MS just told them to shut the fuck up and stay in the cuck corner.

>>107031123 (OP)
I don't watch gay porn and I have software I need to run, job requires more than checking my email.

>>107041932
It's so limited and cucked in functionality that's it's practically very far away from Linux. It's like saying a human and a cat are similar because we're both mammals.

>>107044127
for 90% of shit you just install it from brew and it's just like linux.

>>107035461
HRT makes me both pretty and more confident. It's a win win.

>>107044057
Yes. It was like 2004 or 2005. I tried what was described as a "user friendly distro" and it shit the bed almost immediately. When I finally recovered into windows and asked what went wrong I got a bunch of venom about how I must have been retarded with no real help. 20 years later and it's the same shit. Imagine my shark.
The biggest problem with Linux isn't even the software support. It's the double niggers that make up the community creating a bad name. I'll stick to an OS that's at least well documented and doesn't require a certification course just to get my monitors to work.

>>107044174
Gods being a man is so much fun I can't imagine ever wanting to be anything else.

>>107033785
you know you're right when your monkey iq thinks you owned someone because "ha le gay computer!!!!", thank god we filter you retards

>>107044243
kek gay computer that's funny
your computer's gay, bro

>>107044243
Just as being a queen is being less of a man, and being a "liberal" is also considered lesser, so too is the mac less of a computer and the user less of a man.

>>107039766
this isn't true, I've found M1 chip MBA's on FB marketplace for $500 CAD (in which you can probably talk them down.) M1 chip is still highly usable today. My base model M1 chip Mac mini still performs great, however storage is my only issue.

>>107040358
freetards always using the same irrelevant dogshit image to prove lmao. in what situation you want to compile the x86 optimized linux kernel with macros made for it VIA asahi linux?

>>107041108
I never ever sent one of my apple products for repair, you're just a retard and no we won't buy your shitty thinkpads

>>107041605
focal hadenys, yeah they're worth it

>>107031123 (OP)
I am a grown man, I don't need toys anymore.

>>107044451
it's just one schizo. he's easy to spot.

>>107044116
this guy is jobless lol

>>107044323
hahaha kekw omegalul

>>107044392
you can shove your metaphor where I think, Macs are the best tools if you don't vidya

>>107031128
gottem

Parents have run macs for years.

They got an iMac and it died after 3 years. Took it to get repaired. Lasted 6 more months then dead.

Mom has had a 2019 MacBook she's used sparingly. Just died. Techs refuse to fix it. Apparently it might be the battery. First time ever seeing a laptop not work off the power adapter with the battery dead.

They don't make these computers like they used too. They're disposable.

>>107044201
There were no user friendly distros in 2005. Even Ubuntu was still just Debian with a slightly nicer default theme. To pretnd things aren't completely different now than when linux was in it's infancy is retarded.
>>107039766
>>107044397
Got my M1 MBA for £350. Sold an old GPU in the same store so only ended up paying about £200. Zero performance issues, it's still a "screamer". I hear Apple are having a lot of issues with people hanging onto M1 macs a lot longer than they predicted too.
No retarded notch either. It's nice.

>>107044724
There were distros back then that were advertised as friendly I think. They basically just made X look like windows. My M1 MBP still does everything I need out of a laptop and much more.

>>107035487
I have a panasonic notebook, so I have real discrete buttons for my trackpad - the way it was intended to be..

>>107044724
Look, I'm just not gonna install Linux. Yeah I know I know. I'm just not gonna do it.

>>107044534
This fag owns a mac lmao

>>107045029
Out of the choices between being a mac faggot, a linux tranny, or a shit eating winjeet, I'd rather be a fag.

>>107031123 (OP)
I don't like suppositories

>>107031123 (OP)
The MacPill

>>107031123 (OP)
Because I need to work.

>>107044557
>Macs are the best tools if you don't vidya
And if you don't make all the things related to making videogames like 3D sculpting, retopology, texture baking, rigging, animation and so on.
Oh CAD tools are also ass on mac I believe

>>107045170
>I pay the retard tax and I'm proud
lol

>>107044557
I can tell you don't do serious work or art on your computer because you think Macs are better.

>>107044243
you know you're right when people get so easily tilted over a basic fact that trumps shitty opinionated feelings that they resort to muting/banning/filtering/censoring people

>>107044646
I've been using Macs since 2011 and have never had an issue other than by user-error (broke my screen) or a sticky key (fixed by AppleCare).

>>107045478
I don't need the money for hrt pills anon.

>>107045463
>And if you don't make all the things related to making videogames like 3D sculpting, retopology, texture baking, rigging, animation and so on.
Maybe in the days of shitty intel cpu''s and mobile nvidia cards. They're really good now.
They're not incapable of 3D, they just have ass porting tools for actual videogames.

some guy was playing arma 3 on a macbook a while ago and I felt pity for the poor wigger sod. he wasn't the worst shooter ever, as far as I saw from the kill feed. but you have to be in some kind of abyss to play that game on such a piece of crap.

>>107031123 (OP)
I have anon, I have.
>>107031128
Muh grape

>>107046580
I'd rather build my own PC and use Win Enterprise LTSC IoT but if you don't feel like (or cannot) do that then I guess your only option is shelling out the extra couple thousand bucks

>>107031123 (OP)
im poor and asahi needs to catch up. I would love an apple silicon machine (but would rather live in a cave than use macOS)

>>107041060
so you are saying if I get a macbook, I can time machine it to external storage and have whole 100% of the PC with software registrations etc just mirrored there in external drive, and if my computer shits itself I buy new one and it recovers from time machine 100%?

>that notch
cracks me up every time
who buys this garbage

>>107031123 (OP)
For me an important thing is having NVIDIA so I can work on my machine learning project, CUDA, cuDNN, do not exist outside of NVIDIA and they made the NVIDIA the powerhouse that it is today, not the hardware they sell, this is why they are shitting on all competition due to tools they chose to develop while everyone else was busy with videogayms


Now apple is doing their own AI stuff, but there arent any libraries its all garbage right now, and will stay that way for a while, while nvidia has a huge upper hand by now

>>107047331
>I can time machine it to external storage and have whole 100% of the PC with software registrations etc just mirrored there in external dri
i mean you can do this with any computer, in fact with most non-archaic filesystems you don't even have to turn your computer off to to make a complete 1:1 indistinguishable clone of your drive

>>107043591
>mac
>workhorse
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Oh, look, anyone with job uses a Dell/Lenovo/HP machine or their own of any kind running Windows, any of us can see them in public or at workplaces. You don't need a Mac to fill out reports, you retarded NEET, even Linux will suffice, though it's just normies that don't know that bit.
C'mon, your poorfag ass doesn't even own a fagbook, do you?

And now the times are getting tougher, so even less normies will be buying crApple's janky toy computers.

>>107047331
yes
they make it easy for you

>>107046711
Why, if it isn't the sound of a salty poorfag jeet moving the goalposts

>>107047355
Could be worse. You could be some stupid chink that saw the macbook notch and decided to copy it with a REVERSE notch.

>wife upgrades her 2009 iMac to a 2023 iMac
>gets 256GB storage because no massive need for more and figure she can use external/network storage if the needed.
>/Library fills up entire drive, with idk nothing in particular just cruft.
why is Apple like this?

>>107047390
you know i do have windows backup enabled, those backups go to a 8TB HDD, but ill be honest if my main ssd decides to shit itself and i cant boot into my pc, I have very high doubts i would just be able to restore the pc from that 8tb drive, of all the years of installing different versions of windows i have never seen an option on brand new install to recover windows from backup.

I am willing to test this out, I have windows backup enabled, I will take my C drive SSD out, and insert a clean 4TB ssd and power on the PC, that C drive contains the EFI boot drive, so PC will likely say "no boot detected kindly go fuck yourself" then what are my options?

>>107048339
It's an intuitive design to give normies a hint so that they open the lid the from the middle to reduce Hinge Problem™

>>107048528
>why is Apple like this?
Why is your wife like this? Something clearly isn't right if Library is taking up the entire ssd

Mac’s are awesome until you get locked out

cuz i'd pay $3k for a computer that does the same thing my current PC does but can't play games and I'm stuck with macos. feels like a lose-lose desu

>>107035461
Fucking kek

>>107031123 (OP)
i took the thinkpad x1 carbon pill instead

>>107040588
It's literally bad, though.

>>107044201
>t. pissing and shitting his pants
cope, low IQ and skill issue

>>107031123 (OP)
I'm a male.

>>107035636
nta but my phone doesn't have a retarded cluster of dead pixels called notch either.

>>107031123 (OP)

More like suppository.


>>107031128

You forgot white. R... right?

>>107040198
I do. M4 pro is still slower than ryzen ai max with socketed ram right now. Only reason apple chips seemed ever seemed good is because they put ram on the chip a bit before ddr5 was figured out. Apple is playing a losing game.

Apple makes okay hardware
Too bad Mac OS sucks balls

>>107049040
for the user library, podcasts, movies, & other downloaded junk get placed in the library area

Daisy Disk will show you what's there.

For example, the Aerial screen saver places video clips in the library area.

>>107031216
OP OWNED

>>107048339
That's genuinely better than covering part of your display.

>>107036193
no one asked you to post your feet lmao

>>107051322
There it is

>>107040490
>cope

>>107051644
Until it breaks. Which since it's Lenovo, it will.