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OP, when I said Dell laptops suck, I wasn't trying to say your laptop doesn't suck. Of course all laptops suck. We're just trying to build awareness and start reforms to benefit a brand of laptops that has historically been overlooked despite sucking disproportionately.
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My 2011 mbp that I gave away to family is still nicer to use than the 2018 core i9 mbp that I have now because the goddamn fan spins up anytime I do something more intense than loading a webpage (like loading two webpages). Yeah the 2011 is a bit slower, but I was also able to upgrade the RAM and install an SSD unlike the modern one, so there's not that much difference unless you want to run a game or build/render stuff. And due to the fans, those are unpleasant work activities without noise canceling headphones and an external keyboard and mouse to avoid burns. It's only 3 years old and I already want to sell it and get a fanless m1. Of course the moment I do that I know something at work will come up that requires an x86 VM. The one nice thing I can say about the 2018 model is that I love the feel of the extremely unpopular and failure prone butterfly keyboard and will be sad to say goodbye to it.
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the "apple tax" these days is on upgrading the ram or storage. the base price of most of their laptops and phones are pretty reasonable for the performance and quality, but it escalates very quickly. but yeah, if you cross shop well made PC laptops (surface laptop, thinkpad, maybe xps), the prices are pretty similar with the PCs only being cheaper sometimes on the high-end upgrade fees.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:A couple of things that ensured I will never buy an Apple product again: Some of this is just unbelievable and I'm probably taking the bait by replying, but here we go. 1) Managing your phone through itunes sucks, I agree with that completely. But adding an mp3 isn't that hard and shouldn't take 4 hours to figure out. Syncing your phone won't wipe everything out (unless you're trying to do some complicated thing where you sync to multiple computers maybe). At least not in the time I've been using iphones, since whenever the 4 came out. How long ago was this? Anyway, the only thing I can think of here is that I remember a setting you flip to go from automatic management of your itunes media to manual, and if you switch over to manual it will wipe all your songs and movies and stuff and you have to select the ones you want to add and transfer them over. In other words, manually manage it. Yeah, it would be better if you could drag and drop from a folder instead of using checkboxes in a big itunes list, but it's not like itunes is impossible to figure out, and you can always google it. These days you can also use the Files app if you want to just move 1 file over quckly, but I'm guessing that wasn't around whenever you were doing this. 2) For photos, you can just plug the phone into a USB port and get to them like any camera. The phone will ask you if you want to trust the computer, you say yes, and then in windows you just find it in explorer and double click until you're in the DCIM folder. In MacOS it's basically the same, except you use the Image Capture app instead of going to a folder. Again, google could've answered this for you. You don't even have to open itunes and iphoto/photos to do this. 3) I can't comment about the browser being disabled on old ipads since I don't have one, although it sounds suspicious. What modern browser still runs on your windows 98 laptop though? As far as I can tell, Chrome has never supported windows 98, and the last version of firefox that did was firefox 2 circa 2006, lol. You're not gonna have a very good experience with those browsers on 2020s websites. That probably includes anything that uses https because I'm guessing the version of TLS would be too old to work. 4) My sister still uses my old 2011 macbook pro, which I believe was also the last model with the dvd drive. Safari still works, but you can also install chrome or firefox or whatever other browser on macos, it's not like ios which uses the safari rendering engine in 3rd party browsers. It's true that it can no longer update to the latest version of macos -- I think it's on 10.13 maybe? And I agree that's a problem because eventually browsers will stop being released for old OSes (like your win98 laptop). A quick google search shows that chrome requires at least macos 10.11, which means that any macbooks from 2006 or earlier are no longer supported by chrome because they don't have a compatible operating system. I don't care that you hate apple or whatever, that's fine and there are plenty of valid reasons for it, but not being able to figure out how to do basic stuff that millions of people do without issue is a pretty terrible one, lol.
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