garyi
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I suspect that is the view of someone who has never used Apple kit, let alone in the fields they traditionally dominate (music creation, deign, photography etc). There is a lot that hugely annoys me about the current products from a Right To Repair perspective, but they are a very good computer range running superb software and providing a level of systems integration that doesn’t exist without faff on other platforms. I’ll also be very interested to see how Intel, AMD etc respond to the M1 and beyond, a chip architecture that looks to have moved Apple years ahead of their competitors. My guess is we are going to see some extraordinarily powerful Macs and Macbooks this year with an efficiency that needs ridiculous water cooling etc to match with Intel architecture. I just wish they’d stop with the soldered-in BS when it comes to SSDs and RAM. I understand the performance edge such construction brings, but computers do need to be long-term serviceable IMO. In fairness I’d counter that to a degree as my 2012 MBP is still working perfectly (I upgraded SSD and RAM), as is my 4 or 5 year old iPhone (a 6S).
FWIW my main ‘tool’ is an iPad Pro. That is what I use for 98% of my job. I only fire the MBP up for accounting and some server maintenance stuff.
Apples software solution in BigSur is mediocre at beast, it suffers just as many issues as any of my windows computers and if I am honest MacOs always has. If you stick with their basic inhouse apps, its ok, but other stuff just is not a great experience and I don't know if I can continue to blame Adobe, Microsoft etc. Why these apps perform so poorly on macs is outside of my understanding. That and crap networking, flaky as assholes thunderbolt connections (for instance kernal panic when waking mac with a connected screen) and frankly still poor keyboard with the new/old switches in the 2020 macbook, I am thinking I am done with them for my next lappy. New technologies for trackpads coming out right now is all it needs for me.
Trying not to be negative but other than the trackpad I cant think of a single reason why I would need a mac next time round.