Apple Thread - The most overrated technology brand?

[He Who Points And Laughs]

Ah that explains it being headless. If you're looking for a fun project with it that isn't just INSTALL GENTOO, I hear Amiga in its later years used PowerPC CPUs, which those era of Macs had. MorphOS is suppose to run on some models, may want to look into it.

It's completely gutted. All of the internals are long gone. It's literally just a case for an ASUS motherboard, hard drives, and networking cards.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

That spinning beach ball can be really annoying.

 

[Never Scored]

I've had four Macs over the years. The first was a Power Mac G4 MDD I got on ebay around 2006. This is probably my favorite computer I ever owned. I had used MSDOS/Windows since I started using computers in the mid-90s. At this time Mac OS X had this weird exotic allure, like fucking a black woman. I'd look at the system requirements for Blizzard games and see the Mac specs listed next to the Windows ones and I'd go, "Huh, I wonder what that's like?" I used it as my daily driver until 2008 or 2009 when all the developers started abandoning Power PCs.

At some point when I was still using the G4, I got a deal on a core duo Mac Mini on a local classifieds site. I hated it. I had to use a putty knife to upgrade anything and it was slow as fuck. I installed Boot camp and Windows XP and used it for Gametap nearly exclusively until that went to shit, then I sold the Mac Mini.

I got a refurbished Core 2 Duo unibody Macbook in 2009. This was a decent machine and I still have it and it still works today. I used a patch to upgrade the OS a few times after Apple dropped support, but it caused too many issues, so it mostly just collects dust now.

I recently was given a Macbook Pro from 2012 for free. This was the last update before the retina ones came out. The original owner told me it was too slow to use but I could have it for parts and it didn't come with a charger. Luckily the charger from my old macbook fit it. It had 4 gigs of ram and some horrible 5200 rpm harddrive. I stuck a 240 gig SSD in there and 16 gigs of ram and now it's a decent little machine. It's still getting software and OS updates too.

Unfortunately in my experience OS X has been going steadily downhill since the early 2000s as it becomes an increasingly claustrophobic experience. Now when I download shit, I have to go into settings to allow it to run and Apple tries to corral you into the app store. They're moving towards merging OS X and IOS into a single unified OS for retarded boomers. I understand shortly after the pro I currently own was made, Apple switch to nonstandard hardware and started soldering ram to the motherboard, and you are unable to upgrade ram or the hard drive yourself, and so I will probably never own a mac made after this one as a matter of principal.

Besides that first Power Mac G4 none of these were my main machine. That's almost always been a Windows desktop. The Macbooks are generally a dining room table computer that I use to look stuff up, or read the news in the morning or check my bank account, mostly because I hate using smartphones.

 

[NOMYBITCASH]

I liked the Iphone SE that was pretty based

Not a fan of any other tbh

but hopefully there is an Iphone SE2 soon.

Right now i'm fine with my chinkshit lagdroid.

 

[Ashenthorn]

Here are my Macs:

Current machine (not pictured) is:

Computer: Mac Pro
Model: MacPro5,1 (Mid 2010) - same case as the G5
OS Version: 10.11.6*
Processors: 2x 6-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Processor Core Number: 12
RAM: 32 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7950 (upgraded from stock ATi Radeon 5770)
GPU VRAM: 3072 MB
27" Cinema Display

Notes:
The iMacs were the wife's/kids.
In the 7300, I installed an internal SCSI SyQuest EZ-Drive (it was better, but less popular, than ZipDrives).
Later upgraded the stock 200 MHz PowerPC 604e processor to a 400MHz G3.
I skipped the blue G3 Yikes machines (used one at work)
The G4 was a Sawtooth (2x AGP) with SCSI drives.
I upgraded to my current machine primarily because Blizzard dropped PowerPC support for WoW.
The last 2 machines were refurbs from Apple, so not full price.

ALL of these machines still boot and run fine - except the //c (bad power supply).

* Currently running El Cap as my main OS, no desire to go any further... but I do have partitions to boot into:
Snow Leopard
Lion
Sierra
Various VMs for Windows.

Used to be an early adopter of all Mac OS versions (including the Mac OS X beta), but all recent OS updates are getting shittier and shittier.
Skipped Mtn Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, and anything after Sierra.

I've never owned an iOS device or an iPhone.

Bring on the "OK Boomer Macfag" posts.

ps: Never bought Applecare, never lost any data or had to reformat/reinstall, never had any hardware failures - except for the optical drive in the G5 iMac so I replaced it, never installed any kind of AV.

 

[Splendid]

My worst customer service experience ever was with Apple's fucking retarded "Genius Bar." That was my first and last Apple product, and I only got it because the thing that I wanted (an iPod Touch) didn't really exist in any other company's lineup at the time.
Fuck Apple.

 

[Mister Qwerty]

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Apple is one of those brands that attract utter THOT tier garbage as their consumer representatives.

Yet the more down to earth users don't ever mention leaning more towards Apple's ecosystem unless asked.

I know a guy at a local car wash who hacks the shit out of anything into a Mac, he's seen the other side of anti-consumerism by Apple which eventually Louis Rossman covered. I can't recall the video, but it mentioned the end of hackintoshes due to some logic board alterations.

Another thing, the shill media constantly bring up the Note 7 debacle (which on the other hand is whatever, stop defending corporations over huge mistakes they made) but either never recall or flat out deny that the original iPod Nano was prone to overheating and catching on fire. It was a much much much worse design since battery tech didn't really peak back then for super slim devices. Speaking of bad design, anyone remember this sad little nugget?

I had money to burn one day and got this out of curiosity for just $15. It was bad. Like really fucking bad. Its switch would feel close to failing after a days use, can only hold about five songs (and that widely, widely depends on various factors), and was practically useless since it had no built in controls and very few in-line controller headsets worked properly with the trial and error clicks. The battery life was astoundingly worse than the second gen shuffle, and by the time the fourth gen came out Apple backtracked 100% to the second generation but got rid of the offset design for something more fully congruent (and logical).

 

[Liquid Kent]

 

[Rungle]

Used to have a macbook I got from my grade school mostly for games than homework .
thing could only run dmg files so gaming in class was a chore.
they werent domain bound so they couldn't track our activity.
weird kid in my class started to go a level higher and watched porn in our class which the teacher saw.
year after I left they switched over to ipads which they couldn't take home.

moral of the story, apple products fuck your academics.

 

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By the way, does anyone remember that dinosaur game that used to come default with Macs? It was called Nanosaur. I don't remember it being good BUT ITS A FUCKING VELOCERAPTOR THAT SHOOTS MISSILES.

Great game. There's even a Windows port around.

At some point when I was still using the G4, I got a deal on a core duo Mac Mini on a local classifieds site. I hated it. I had to use a putty knife to upgrade anything and it was slow as fuck. I installed Boot camp and Windows XP and used it for Gametap nearly exclusively until that went to shit, then I sold the Mac Mini...

I recently was given a Macbook Pro from 2012 for free. This was the last update before the retina ones came out. The original owner told me it was too slow to use but I could have it for parts and it didn't come with a charger. Luckily the charger from my old macbook fit it. It had 4 gigs of ram and some horrible 5200 rpm harddrive. I stuck a 240 gig SSD in there and 16 gigs of ram and now it's a decent little machine. It's still getting software and OS updates too.

Yeah, the Mac Mini has always been a very poor cousin of the rest of the lineup.. the only thing that could even approach it in that respect is the old trashcan Mac Pro (which got some very funny sideways rack mount options to cater to businesses that needed build machines). That generation of Macbook Pros is great.

On the laptop front, they seem to be getting back on track with the new 16" MBP. They haven't walked back the USB port choices, but they've stopped using the keyboard design that was prone to breaking early and often.

In the 7300, I installed an internal SCSI SyQuest EZ-Drive (it was better, but less popular, than ZipDrives).
Later upgraded the stock 200 MHz PowerPC 604e processor to a 400MHz G3.

Always liked about the strong base of companies that would produce really worthwhile upgrades for the PowerPC Macs in areas like that, upgrades that would actually work pretty smoothly because you ended up with much the same hardware as you'd have in a slightly later generation Apple unit.

It's easy to forget how much of a revolution Mac OS X was when it was introduced. The eye candy on its own was impressive, without even getting into the way they managed to provide a solid migration path from classic Mac OS while not hamstringing themselves for the future. If Apple ever moves to ARM chips in their laptops or even desktops, they'll have migrated everyone over with solid backwards compatibility within a few years, while Windows will still have a 'Program Files (x86)' folder two decades from now.

 

[Ashenthorn]

Yet the more down to earth users don't ever mention leaning more towards Apple's ecosystem unless asked.

Rush Limbaugh was a huge unabashed Mac advocate... which I always found pretty amusing.

 

[Jaimas]

My biggest experience with Macs was also the one that pretty much set the stage for me hating the fucking things, and it's sad because Macs used to be at least halfway decent with good specs. Not that one could appreciate that given what was surrounding the Macs we got at the time.

The school district near me, due to a staffer in the tech department who was convinced Macs were totally the future you guys, bypassed an upgrade IBM was offering for the school computers at the time (basically modernizing them to PS/1s for cost) and instead upgraded the middle school to gen-1 Macs. With none of the trimmings. Behold our mighty computer room, stocked with computers that don't have the required RAM to run the cut/paste option in the paint program in fucking Clarisworks.

Even better, this was at a time when all our existing experts were trained for IBM. What this meant is that we had no one who could fix the things in-district when they fucked up, which they did with clockwork regularity. Even worse, the macs we got all needed extensive new hardware. Even if you think we had a fully set up computer, we didn't. For example, the CD-Rom drives on these fucking embarassments needed a special Optical Disc container that the CD fits into.

And this was for 2 middle schools, 4 elementary schools, and a high school. It was a massive boondoggle that cost the school district millions. Humorously, they wound up mostly being sold off to another school district; West Babylon wound up buying them and refurbishing them with cheap replacement parts from slightly newer macs, and they were used as the mainstays of the computer programming class thereafter.

 

[Pissmaster]

Speaking of bad design, anyone remember this sad little nugget?

I had money to burn one day and got this out of curiosity for just $15. It was bad. Like really fucking bad. Its switch would feel close to failing after a days use, can only hold about five songs (and that widely, widely depends on various factors), and was practically useless since it had no built in controls and very few in-line controller headsets worked properly with the trial and error clicks. The battery life was astoundingly worse than the second gen shuffle, and by the time the fourth gen came out Apple backtracked 100% to the second generation but got rid of the offset design for something more fully congruent (and logical).

I have one of those, actually. That's an iPod Shuffle, 3rd generation.

I really like the idea of it, a little tiny iPod Shuffle that's around the size of a USB drive, and they came in a variety of metallic colors. They feel like solid little pieces of aluminium and the clip is really strong.

But, yeah, they're bad if you try to actually use them. They hold either 2 or 4GB of storage, and use an odd 3.5mm to USB cable to charge and transfer songs. The controls are really the worst problem, considering you need a rare pair of headphones that has the right in-line controls to actually change the volume or skip tracks. Apple's Earpods don't even work with them, nor do generic ones that work with anything else. And there's no special name of the standard that works with them or anything, so, good luck ever finding a way to control them if you lose the earbuds it came with.

If you don't have compatible earbuds, it'll just start playing a random song at medium volume when you turn it on. That's it.

It's a damn shame they didn't stick any controls on there. I had a thing up my ass once to try and find the absolute smallest MP3 player, and that model did activate my almonds, but it was frustrating that they didn't at least make some kind of intermediate dongle thing that you could plug into it, and then plug your own headphones into for controls. Maybe someone bootlegged one up, who knows.

Speaking of which, I once met someone who just bought a bunch of really, really cheap iPod Shuffle knockoffs online, that were like just a few dollars a piece. If he broke or lost one, it wasn't a big deal, he'd just buy another one. I thought that was really smart.

 

[A Logging Company]

The school district near me, due to a staffer in the tech department who was convinced Macs were totally the future you guys, bypassed an upgrade IBM was offering for the school computers at the time (basically modernizing them to PS/1s for cost) and instead upgraded the middle school to gen-1 Macs.

And this was for 2 middle schools, 4 elementary schools, and a high school. It was a massive boondoggle that cost the school district millions. Humorously, they wound up mostly being sold off to another school district; West Babylon wound up buying them and refurbishing them with cheap replacement parts from slightly newer macs, and they were used as the mainstays of the computer programming class thereafter.

One of Apple's go-to stratagies was to market and sell heavily to the education sector, since its a reliable market and you would get the youngin's first experience being with Apple computers, with the hope that once Jonny and Susie become big boys and girls they would buy themselves a nice MacBook.

Speaking of Apple marketing, its funny to watch sitcoms from the late 90's and early 2000's and notice all the wonky Mac designs they payed product placement to be seen in the show.

 

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Speaking of which, I once met someone who just bought a bunch of really, really cheap iPod Shuffle knockoffs online, that were like just a few dollars a piece. If he broke or lost one, it wasn't a big deal, he'd just buy another one. I thought that was really smart.

Yeah, the clones are commodity items after Apple popularized the form factor. I've heard them mentioned as a good choice for jury service.. even if you're allowed to have non-communicating electronic devices with no capability to take photos, better to have something that doesn't matter if it's taken than a legit Shuffle.

 

[Coolio55]

Yo, everyone here with shitphones/pads.

Delta emu has finally been released after like 5 fucking years (Sequel to GBA4IOS with snes, nes and n64). They took so long sperging on twitter instead of coding I don't even have an iPhone anymore (Good riddance).

 

[Cedric_Eff]

The Macintosh series was an mistake and Apple should’ve focused on the Apple IIGS hardware instead. I mean for fuck’s sake, they could’ve made a version of the IIGS where it’s an all in one like the Mac and actually call it an Mac.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Last time I used an Apple product was around 2001 or so when my high school had these in the computer lab. Never had an iPhone, never owned a Mac, I had a Zune instead of an iPod. Apple is garbage.

 

[byuu]

The Macintosh series was an mistake and Apple should’ve focused on the Apple IIGS hardware instead. I mean for fuck’s sake, they could’ve made a version of the IIGS where it’s an all in one like the Mac and actually call it an Mac.

The IIGS was weak but still overpriced. I doubt it would have been as popular in America if it weren't for Apple's deals with American schools. (Directly marketing your products to the clueless retards that run schools is one of the smartest things Apple has ever done.). You were better off with an Amiga, Atari, or PC clone.

Macs at least were proper professional workstations where the price tag was much more justified.