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by slavox 6247 days ago
Honestly I actually agree completely, If anybody actually bothers to search through the trolls and actually uses a mac they might understand this.

When you have a problem with a mac you can't fix it, 90% of the time the problems are hidden away and impossible to troubleshoot.

My first mac, Kernel panic when using "Internet sharing" You plug in the Ethernet and it was 100% guaranteed to happen every time I got no support. Cool one bad laptop ok!

So i get a second one, Macbook 15" and it builds up it's own little box of problems, Overall it's wonderful but it just always manages to pipe up a few little errors here and there, Crash sometimes and not support very simple things. I got 3 new logic boards (That's CPU/Motherboard/Graphics) All replaced and still had the same problems over and over, Either they didn't actually replace it or there was something very seriously wrong with my ram (Which was never replaced anyway and now is fine)

The whole bootcamp/windows/linux on a mac is bullshit, there are always problems, And you void your warranty if you remove OSX (Yes it's true I got refused repairs due to windows)

I wish I could replace this with a windows laptop.

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When you have a problem with a mac you can't fix it, 90% of the time the problems are hidden away and impossible to troubleshoot.

Demonstrably false. As far as systems and hardware are concerned, I worked as one of the guys who troubleshoots and repairs macs at a busy Apple store. Never once was I forced to say "I don't know. The problem is hidden and I can't troubleshoot it."

On the programming side, macs ship with dtrace. How much more troubleshooting power can a developer possibly ask for?

Just because you haven't bothered to learn enough about a system to troubleshoot it doesn't mean the problems are hidden. They're just hidden form you.