Whenever I hear somebody moving to a Macbook and make any sort of complaint onkine, lots of people unhelpfully tell you to buy a $1000+ iPhone and that will solve all your problems, or when an Android user is "switching to iPhone", a similar thing happens with "just use a Mac". Why the hell do you need to purchase all the expensive devices to just use one?
Most of the time, using an iPhone, Mac, etc., does not "just work". Maybe the UI is simply not very usable (not just Liquid Glass, see MacOS's terrible implementation of a settings app, iOS not having an option to combine the quick settings and notifications), third-party devices (headphones, chargers, tablets, etc.) simply do not work well (no, "get the iDevice" is not helpful!), iOS having the most ass file management that may as well not exist, all the different bugs poking around everywhere (through my own experiences with iOS* and my friend's with MacOS), etc. "Give more money to Apple to fix it" is not good advice and does not help to solve anything.
Why is it that, when Apple has inherently worse hardware, everybody seems to put up with it? On their Macs, you have 60 Hz LCD displays on a $1000+ laptop, no good ports selection unless you spend thousands more, ridiculously priced memory and storage upgrades that would be a death sentence to any other company, very shallow key travel that feels terrible to type on compared to other options, etc. As for their iPads, you have similarly not so great displays on a relatively high end tablet unless you spend thousands on a tablet with an uber-fancy M5 chip (why would anyone need that???), a keyboard case that is so expensive despite feeling like a cheap membrane keyboard you got on Aliexpress and being so top-heavy, etc. Who in their right mind would purchase a $550 set of headphones made of ridiculously heavy metal, with uncomfortable cushions, terrible battery life, mid ANC, and several year old innards?
How has Apple manipulated so many people with their marketing? ~~I don't really see anything quite like it in other product segments.~~ What is the secret apple sauce?
*note that I currently run an Android phone, but I have my issues with them too that I won't get into. My particular device is very bloated and incredibly annoying to work with sometimes, but it's what I've got. On my laptop I happily run Linux, where the device simply listens to me which is a nice change of pace
edit: Actually, no, I think something similar occurs with Nintendo (in video games) and Disney (for films)
Uhm ... no? They have some of the best hardware, it's just expensive.
Yup. I'm no fan of Apple, but I like to be honest about my criticisms. And hardware quality is not one of them.
And that's the problem. Unless you spend unreasonable amounts of money, you don't get a display that is similar in class to their competitors, the I/O, the keyboard, etc.
And in the case of their over-ear headphones, their hardware is poor while still being expensive!
I don't see the issue with a 60 Hz display, you're not getting one for gaming. They have thunderbolt 4 ports, which is all you need and their keyboards are just fine. Some people prefer shallow key travel.
Not sure about their peripherals as I don't use them, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with their laptops other than being a bit more pricey.
But the devices don't exist in a bubble. Laptops that cost much less get 90 or 120 Hz displays, and similarly priced options get OLED and touch support!
Until you need to connect your laptop to an HDMI display and don't happen to have the required dongle that is sold separately. Or when you have a USB(-A) flash drive, you need a dongle too.
Both of these cases are very common for all groups of people, particularly in educational settings.
Fair point actually
Again, that's the issue.
Ok, so some cheaper laptops have a useless advantage over macbooks. I don't care. If I could pay one extra doller to get a macbook with a 120 Hz display, I'd save the dollar.
That's a feature! Dongles are great. You can connect dozens of peripheral by plugging in a single cable. I wish they would have stuck to that concept instead of re-introducing obsolete ports on their recent models. 4 TB ports + headphone jack was perfect!
But why? No one is forcing you to buy their products if you don't think they are worth the price. But a lot of people do and we didn't need to be "tricked".
Did you just claim that not having ports is a feature? Lol
If you weren't being facetious about that, I think you might've had too much of that Apple Kool-Aid.
...which is actually probably a flavour of Kool-Aid, lmao
I think your knowledge is a bit dated? MacBook Pros have had HDMI ports since the M1 release in 2021.
Yes, not having legacy ports taking up space is a feature.
Repeating tropes sure is great if you don't have arguments.
I've watched enough old Louis Rossmann videos to know their products are garbage. They might have good CPU but rest is designed and put together like a fresh turd
Are those videos around the 2016-2019 MacBooks? Because yeah, Apple massively dropped a bollock with those things.
But I'm at a point where I'm genuinely pondering whether a fully-specced 2015 MacBook Pro running Linux might be a great replacement for the M2 MacBook Air I currently use, once it dies on me, or Apple drop support (whichever comes first (which will be the dropped support, guaranteed)). I said in another comment on here that I still have a 2011 MacBook Pro at home, running Debian, still trucking along as well as the day I bought it. My home server is a 2014 Mac mini (also running Debian) that's my Jellyfin/Navidrome/Grimmory/Lidarr/QBittorrent server, all with just 8gb of soldered RAM, drawing very little power while doing it.
Apple have many, many problems, but the build quality of their hardware ain't one.
Yep, exactly that period. Repair vids of these MacBooks were how Louis grew into big well known youtuber with millions of views at some point.