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
remon@ani.social 2 days ago
Why is it that, when Apple has inherently worse hardware
Uhm … no? They have some of the best hardware, it’s just expensive.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 2 days ago
djdarren@piefed.social 1 day ago
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.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are those videos around the 2016-2019 MacBooks?
Yep, exactly that period. Repair vids from that of these MacBooks were how Louis grew into big well known youtuber with millions of views at some point.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
They have some of the best hardware, it’s just expensive.
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!
remon@ani.social 1 day ago
I don’t see the issue with a 60 Hz display, you’re not getting one for gaming. It has thunderbolt 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.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I don’t see the issue with a 60 Hz display, you’re not getting one for gaming.
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!
They have thunderbolt 4 ports, which is all you need
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.
Some people prefer shallow key travel.
Fair point actually
but there is absolutely nothing wrong with their laptops other than being a bit more pricey.
Again, that’s the issue.
remon@ani.social 1 day ago
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!
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.
Until you need to connect your laptop to an HDMI display and don’t happen to have the required dongle that is sold separately.
That’s a feature! Dongles are great. You can connect every single 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!
Again, that’s the issue.
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”.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I have a MacBook Air that I connect to any of my screens through HDMI using a plethora of sub-20USD USB-C docks that are not made by Apple. I use the same docks for my other laptops. Would I make my MacBook Air bigger to have more ports in it? Fuck no, keep it tiny and put the ports on a SEVENTEEN US DOLLAR DOCK so I don’t need to put the motherfucka on life support every time I want to use my keyboard/mouse/monitor/external SSD/10key/controller/DAC
I plug one cable in and it all works (and charges at 100w!)
If I’m traveling and want to plug in a flash drive but don’t want to use a dock that’s less than half the size of a phone? My travel bag has USB A-to-c (and C-to-A) converters. Plug that wired bitch right in.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Yup. I’m no fan of Apple, but I like to be honest about my criticisms. And hardware quality is not one of them.