Reagan wrote:
Never any problems with any of my Apple products in 10 years
No crashes, no viruses, no anti virus software to slow it down
Never having to defrag
I would like to build a PC again one day but probably just so I could hate myself ay a later date for doing it
R
That’s just it Reagan, Macs of old are great! Up until about 2015 versions. After that, many of them are no longer user serviceable. RAM is soldered in, as is the processor and hard drive. Apple appears to be back pedaling on the hard drive front, but the cases are getting so hard to get into.
On the software side, malware and viruses are out there for Mac. Not many, but there are a few. As was seen with the iPhone recently, planned obsolescence is a thing with Apple, even if they disguise it as “Oh, were throttling the processor in the phone because your battery is aging and we really don’t want you to replace it with a $59 battery, we really want you to buy a new iPhone for $500+.” How naive are we Apple users to think this only happened on this particular model of iPhone? With Apple churning out a new operating system every two years, and dropping support for operating systems two versions old...This isn’t the Apple we fell for anymore.
Please don’t take this as me being an Apple hater. I’m not. Like I said earlier, I work with Apple products for a living. If my college stopped using them, I would effectively be out of a job. I don’t like where Apple is right now. Some of their new tech will be literally forcing enterprise customers to rotate computers out as soon as three years, when we have been able to get by for 5-7 years...and sometimes longer when we could make our own repairs. The new T2 chip...I can’t even swap a failed hard drive without using an authorized repair vendor. It’s as bad as Adobe threatening to sue it’s paying customers to stop using older versions of the software they have been paying for!
Everything you have said rings a chord with me. My desktop computer is getting long in the tooth and could do with an upgrade. I started to scope out a 5k iMac (those screens are gorgeous) and saw that the innards were older tech and that the only user customisation component was the DRAM. The iMac form factor is fantastic and reduces cable clutter for sure but Apple's pricing is shocking - even if I was to use my daughter's 10% student discount.
On top the £2000 asking price for a middle specified 27" 5k model.
Upgrade from a 1TB Fusion drive to a 1TB SSD hard drive + £630.
Upgrade from 8 to 64 GB DRAM +£900
Upgrade to i9 processor +£450
Those upgrade components alone cost more than a Z6 with adapter so you can see where I am coming from (and neatly brings this conversation back into the realms of photography).
I am still on the fence with regard to a Z camera given prices are slowly but surely dropping in the UK.
