[freedomben]

I had many hardware issues with Macbooks as well. The final straw for me was when I bought an expensive Apple-made monitor, and 50% of the time when unplugging my MBP from it, the MBP screen would stay off/blank rather than receiving the handoff. The only way to recover was to hold the power button. On a $4,000 setup. Where the same company controls the entire stack, on both devices. Absolutely inexcusable to buy a product set so expensive and so unreliable. The insult to the injury though was people telling me I must be doing something wrong because Apple stuff "just works." (I literally just plugged and unplugged a cable)

[smoldesu]

Yep, the prevalance of broken things and asinine limitations is what ultimately pushed me back towards Linux/Android. If I'm going to have to install extra software to make my experience tolerable, I may at least use the platform where those extensions don't cost me extra money on top of the hardware premium I'm already settling...