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by bearjaws 537 days ago
It is always amazing to me people who will chastise people for using Macs.

It is by far the most robust hardware and 15 years later Windows laptops may finally be catching up.

My first programming job was LAMP so I had a Linux desktop and loved it. Later I got a new job that gave us laptops, but they were quite beefy.

I had a Dell laptop with an Nvidia GPU and an Intel iGPU... After updating my OS my gpu was the only way to use my laptop, which made the battery die in under an hour and of course it was much hotter.

I tried numerous driver installs, proprietary, open source, reinstall OS, different OS... Nothing got it working again on a newer version of the Linux kernel.

Went to the Apple Store bought a MBP and have never had an issue since. Not one dead laptop, in 10 years, I plug in my USB C dock and go.

2 years later, what happened to one of my coworkers? Same exact thing. He spent 3 days trying to fix it and basically had a workaround that crashed occasionally.

I get paid to produce working software not configure my OS, and people wonder why Macs are so popular?

2 comments

Now install Linux on it.
Macbooks have been nice since M1 era, but the Intel Macbooks between years 2013-2020 were hardly robust. My partner's 2014 MBP Retina's screen plastic film started peeling off, which was a known design flaw of those models. Later the ones with butterfly keyboard were notoriously unreliable, with keys getting stuck.

Personally I haven't had much trouble with Linux on modern Thinkpads. Very little to configure manually, as long as you pick the right distro. Even a Dell laptop at work with Linux isn't causing me much OS-related issues, although battery life sucks.

Well, no. The 2015 MBP is a well known workhorse that stretched many people professionally up to the M1. I would absolutely agree that the 2016-2020 Intel MacBooks were rough though.
Every company can have its issues, I think it's more about how many issues there are and what the company did to address it.

My 2013 4GB RAM MacBook Air is still running great, and is used for browsing in my household. Currently writing this on an M1 Air that is phenomenal as well.

I switched to old ass thinkpads like the x120e which I absolutely love, and ssh into a server much more powerful to do my work.