Yes I agree about El Capitan. I currently have I tried El Capitan for a day and I downgraded mainly because TotalFinder is not compatible any longer. Another issue I discovered is that on my Windows Bootcamp the mouse and keyboard were not recognized any longer. The problem now is that latest updates from Sketch need the newer version of OSX. This one seemed to work with El Capitan. Yeah as alluded to in the post, even Yosemite was a step above El Capitan.
I can imagine that going back to Mavericks would be even better, but personally I try to avoid rolling back on anything.
Totally agree about TotalFinder. After using that wonderful app for years and then losing it with Anyway, those are the ones I remember. Because, Apple. Thanks for sharing your list, Mike. Hopefully someone out there at Apple is listening to the people who currently use their products. I used Macs from and switch to Windows in Then back to Mac in I am a clean freak.
I do manual backups. This way I know exactly what I backup and where. No hidden this or leftover that gets transferred to my backup drive. But still. My late Mac mini was in the shop 3 times with board failure in the first 9 months!!! After the 3rd failed board replacement, they gave me a brand new one. When I was at the Apple Store for repair, a lady in front of me also was given a new iMac due to the fact that her machine was having audio issues that Apple could not fix.
I think they were more solid and problem free in the early years. And as far as El Crapitan — well, the name says it all… just my 2c. Main Menu. Perishable Press. Banhammer : Protect your WordPress site against threats. About the Author.
Use Strong Usernames for Better Security. How to Block Baidu Bot. Grumpy old man. Maybe OS X will perform better if you upgraded from the model. Sweet Vishnu, why are drive letters still a thing that exist in Windows? Of all the ideas Microsoft has lifted from Apple over the years, ditching drive letters should have been among the first. You can use the Disk Management app to manually assign a letter to each of your storage devices, but Windows sometimes switches the letters back anyway.
Throw drive letters into a sea of sulfuric lava. Apple has found a way. Linux has found a way. Generally, Apple bundles several small updates into one big pack so you can run them all at once.
With a Windows machine, like my Spectre x, different components are made by different companies, and each has its own update schedule.
The Microsoft and HP updates are usually fine. The website scans your PC and tells you what updates you need to download. It frequently tells me that I need to install an update that I have already installed. For Nvidia which makes the graphics chip , you have to remember to open the GeForce Experience app from time to time, log in, and then install a gigantic update file. This update file is either very necessary for basic computing functions or is an optimization for some new game that you do not—and will never—own.
It would be great if Microsoft could wrangle all of these loose parts into one unified update app, because right now it feels very haphazard. But what the hell is it doing? And why? It woke up like this once when it was plugged in, and it whirred all night and was too hot to pick up in the morning.
The bottom of the laptop had two rubber strips to keep it from sliding around on a table. I once put it in, fully charged, then pulled it out on a flight only to discover that it had awakened for reasons unknown, was blazing hot, and that the battery had drained to 17 percent. I had a ton of work to do that day, and there were no outlets on that five-hour flight. Who knows. I like having Windows Hello face recognition and a fingerprint scanner, but both are pretty inconsistent. The fingerprint scanner is very finicky.
I would say that roughly half of the time, it takes multiple attempts to recognize my finger. After it fails five times, it forces me to type my password, and this happens more often than it should. Most of the time, my laptop works great. Even Windows is fine most of the time. Some of it can be recycled, but that takes resources and energy. I was patient and thought iOS 8 was just a big release, so I cut them some slack for a while. Now they are more into boondoggles like putting stickers in iMessages.
It creates a new way to make revenues by selling third party stickers. Lame, lame, lame… They forget what propelled them to being such a large company. It was the iPhone. When it launched, there was nothing else like it. It was rock solid. Remember how solid iOS 4, 6 and 7 were? They make different sizes of iPhones and iPads. The dollar MacBook Pro with the 16gb ddr4 and rx is beaten by the Razer Blade with i7 hq, gtx graphics, and same amount of higher clocked ram.
The Razer Blade seems like a great computer, but the MacBook is lighter and more compact. It also features better battery life. Components that weigh less, take up less space and conserve power tend to cost more. Apple also includes a software suite that adds a lot of value.
Their software engineers need to be paid, so it is part of the price of the computer. I learned this the hard way. Size, weight and battery life are very important aspects of a notebook computer. The MacBook is half the weight of the Razer Blade.
I also think the new MacBook may have a brighter display than the Razer Blade. Reliability is another issue. My Mac Pro is built like a tank. But their obsolescence also takes a long time. Apple supports the Mac with countless operating system updates, which are free.
Even if software is intangible, developers need to be paid. I hear that Windows 10 is the last version of Windows and will have free updates forever. Maybe so, but those updates may eventually hobble the computer with poor performance. They will get paid again when you buy a new PC, because the last one was hobbled by a Windows update.
Every Windows computer I have owned has been very unreliable. Consumer Reports found that even high end PCs are not reliable. Read this site, and you will see that I am quite critical of the company.
Apple hardware is peerless. Google has over 40, Macs. All of these intelligent people came to the same conclusion as me. Of course, if one is looking for a gaming computer, the Razer Blade beats a MacBook any day. I am a long time OSX and Logic user. Apple is not able to fix major bugs since they bought Logic from Emagic. But they charge full money for every major update from their long time customers.
Logic 10 has some cool features, do I need them? For example Reaper you just write a note at the forum and a few days later the bug is gone. Its away, you never see it again. What is this? The damn software just should work every single day without making trouble. I need to compose music because I earn money with it. If they still cant fix that sample rate error thing and the automation bugs… its not a pro application. I am on the jump to Reaper and the next thing will be to leave OSX as well….
If money is the only thing that drives you and you software quality sucks… can you see the problem Tim? If they had a lick of common sense, they would leave things alone. My first phone was an Apple and subsequent 14 phones for family and work , three desktops, four laptops and three iPads….. I bought an iPad Pro for the split screen feature because it was simple and it worked.
Apple seems to be sticking a square peg in a round hole here. Given the cost of an iPad Pro and accessories, a MacBook seems like a much better option for the professional user. I do think professional graphic designers have a lot to like about the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. How about the fact the that Apple changed the MacBook Pro ports such that none of their peripheral legacy products works with it?? I have thee Apple cinema screens.
I just bought a new MacBook Pro and none of the screens have compatible ports!! Totally unacceptable and ridiculous. I was a devout user and now am having serious second guesses after 20 years!!!!! Thanks for posting this. Your experience is upsetting.
This month I upgraded my computer as I do every two years. Prior I had only used MS Office, browsers, and media players. Now I use Adobe CC. A desktop was out of the question because I attend university. I bought an HP and am very happy with it. Apples not available Choice of five colors vs.
Apple comes in one — I got red. Note: While the Macbook has some solid advantages on paper, in my world two of the advantages are not worth paying for. With the high resolution of the Macbook combined with the 2. The faster processor speed I do not consider much of a benefit as computers seldom perform tasks as intensive as benchmarking.
Therefore a slightly faster machine will not save you any real time. Here is the wooden stake though; the price. Apple sure sucks cash. Further, I could easily upgrade computers in a year with a new machine at least as capable as the current Macbook that I would still be paying for. Not only does Apple suck but a lot of their brainwashed little adherents suck as well. I can buy any car I want and any computer I want. I drive an econo-box hatchback to be environmentally responsible.
When I speak of my choice of computers I expect some idiot to interrupt and accuse me of not being able to afford an Apple. I will replace it when it breaks. I hate having to carry a phone and have lived for 55 years in the real world.
People on both sides of the phone debate hoot over things like camera resolution. No matter how good you phone camera is, if you are using it you are not taking photographs. You are taking snapshot and they most likely suck as bad as Apple. Apple products ship with fully featured apps.
Out of the box, users can edit photos and videos. I use Pages all the time. I recently got a Windows 10 machine and the stock photo editing capabilities are basic and useless. I had to download GIMP to scale an image. You can also take your Apple product to an Apple Store and get help. Those employees need to be paid.
Where do you go if you have a problem with an HP machine? Usually, the dumpster…. As far as spec-to-price ratio, look a little deeper. Look at iFixit teardowns and research the components Apple uses vs. Apple uses higher quality components. It has been through a lot of abuse temperature extremes, having left it in my car for the past 8 years and still runs on the original battery.
This is why Apple has my brand loyalty. I am writing this on an 8 year old Mac. Apple really does suck. Here is a simple example: I am using Pages for a document, and I want to view two pages side by side as I create and edit the document. Guess what? Not possible, they removed that feature many versions of Pages ago. Why in the world remove useful features?
There is no legitimate reason but it happens over and over, they remove useful functionality. I use Pages, but I use the web-based version on icloud. I can tile two browser windows and work on two documents at the same time. I would also be annoyed if they removed a feature I used all the time. I did some quick research, and they did this over 4 years ago, and a few people are upset about it. You have to figure, so few people use iWork anyway…. MacOS High Sierra sucks big time.
Finder hangs more often than not, besides being extremely primitive as compared to Windows Explorer. Have you used Windows lately? I have worked on both Windows 10 and Mac systems, and Windows 10 is horrible. If I am doing something as simple as working on this site, all with browser-based tools, it eventually grinds to a halt due to poor memory management memory leaks.
My 10 year old Mac performs better than a newer HP system running Windows I am shocked to see how bad Windows 10 is. That Windows Explorer file manager is an ugly joke. It looks like something from some weird Linux system from Windows 10 bogs down, I reboot it, and it is better for a while.
Windows 10 is so ugly. How ugly is it? Even a modern PC needs to run it with jagged fonts, because font smoothing is too resource intensive. Yes, I can turn smooth fonts on, but Windows 10 advises that it uses too much processing power.
I had some work to do on a Friday evening. I restarted Windows, because, unfortunately, rebooting is the norm.
When it came back up, it starting running an update. No one is burning the midnight oil at Microsoft. I doubt they even work 40 hours a week. It is probably 15 hours of work and 25 hours of foosball and network games. What are they going to do? Fire someone?
Replace that person with someone even worse? The mouse works fine. Eric Schmidt was pretty adamant about the superiority of the Mac over Windows machines. The truth of the matter is that all tech companies are facing a decline in quality.
It is hard to find talented engineers, so they are hiring morons. I mean, complete and total morons. The best developers are going to startups or starting their own companies. People like me have left the industry entirely, because the culture has changed so much.
The Silicon Valley is a den of sociopathy, much like Wall Street in the s. Wherever the money is, sociopaths will follow… ahem, Zuckerberg. Their salaries are a joke. So the big companies hire newbies, H1Bs and people who have been shuffled around from company to company. One of the worst managers I have ever worked for ended up at Apple, in a very senior position.
It speaks volumes. These big tech companies have low standards when it comes to hiring. I have been a Mac user for the last 10 years. They were actually pretty good years. This has never been a extreme disappointed.
The only reason I bought Mac in the first place was for Pages. The version of Pages is simply terrible. I write books and manuals and routinely move chapters around to make the material flow better. So easy in the older Pages program. Click on one thumbnail, select the range of pages you want to move, shift click on that page, and move the whole works. Not any more. Even that sucks. Every time I move a single page I get the pinwheel for about 40 seconds.
These changes have completely destroyed my productivity and increased my frustration. I had no idea that i could install windows on a mac. Over the years I have gone from being all in with Apple products to barely using any of them. Nothing special about it and every PC makers offers better specs for less money.
Hate to say it, but your sort of a fool to buy an iPad Pro or Mac these days, unless you absolutely love the Apple ecosystem. There is most certainly a price to pay for staying with it, and a lot of benefit to your pocketbook to leave it. The notion of an iPad Pro is laughable. Even simple things, like selecting text, are hopelessly buggy. Multitasking is so ham-fisted and awkward. The thing is, you can do much worse. In general, the tech industry launches defective products because there are too many incompetent engineers cramming in as many features as possible, in order to stay competitive.
Competition has led to feature-cramming, which has led to very defective products. The claim is that the difference between the 7th and 8th gen Intel processors is what one usually sees in 3 years from Intel, but they did it in one year. Of course, they had to.
After a slew of security defects, they had to be more generous with their technology. I know people who have worked at Intel. They could release a processor that is much, much, much faster than what they normally release. The Apple A-series processors double, triple and even quadruple in one year. I would check out the benchmarks on the MacBook Air when it comes out. You may be surprised at how fast it is, even with that 1.
I was disappointed at first, because I saw the i5 and i7 processors. But these are the new 8th generation ones, which are way faster than the 7th gen processors.
Even with that 1. One also needs to look deeply at the specs, particularly memory speed. I found that out when I decided to buy my Mac Pro almost a decade ago. When I actually found comparable Windows hardware, down to the bus speed, the computers cost almost as much as a Mac Pro. Unfortunately, the Windows computers had crummy cases and everything else. I have owned so many of these Windows s—t boxes over the years. They break. Consumer Reports found that the most expensive Windows machines were also not reliable.
They all suck. See here and here. In Finder, the behaviour is completely random, other programs expand to only most of the screen. This is a long-standing problem that many have complained about. Confusing situation with programs that exist only as icons on menu bar. And yet, the program is halted and all menu items disabled waiting for my response. For months I thought the program had crashed and force-killed it.
One day with relatively few programs running I accidentally noticed the dialog box hiding there under all the other windows. Dialog boxes lose focus all the time , and you never see them. Browser No icons for shortcuts in browser. Note that they actually removed this feature. I thought macs were about being graphical? Instead of 19 shortcuts that I can identify immediately from an icon, I have 9 shortcuts that I have to parse as text.
Happy to note that Google Chrome for Mac, released for Mac last week, does show icons. Strange browser tab UI : why does the tab connect upward to the favorites bar? This makes no physical sense.
Call me old fashioned, but I have seen actual physical folders existing in the real world. Yes they do exist. And in my memory, they look something like the image below.
Observe the fine detail of how the folder title is connected to the folder itself. Apple engineers are smart, but I think they remember folders working a little differently than I do.
Or perhaps they grew up somewhere that used a different kind of folders? Ones that looked more like this, perhaps:. No option to Cut files in Finder, only Copy. A pain when trying to move a large number of hand-picked files to a new location.
Renaming files only possible from time-consuming mouse gesture. Nor is there any keyboard shortcut. Nor is there a menu option. Nor is there an entry in a help file somewhere. So frustrating when you can see it in window title!
This guy is amazed to discover that this is useful. As a general note, on the Mac I find myself writing down or trying to memorize long paths all the frickin time.
So sick of this. Mac Laptops cannot perform a right-click-and-drag , as they have no physical right button. In Windows explorer, this allows you to drag files and then specify whether they will be copied or moved. Other programs use right-drag in other ways. But guess what? I ask the impossible!! Yep, this powerful Mac can only look for files that it has pre-indexed. How friggin retarded is this?
Earth to Apple: finding files should not be a problem for a GUI in the 21st century. Note: some have suggested that this is because the drive was formatted for Fat More on Mac Search Suckage.
Minor, but annoying. You just have to know that some things are in the right click menu, some things you have to find in the menu bar, and some things are only available as mouse gestures. Cannot permanently delete an individual file.
See this applescript hack. In Windows this magical feat is accomplished by holding the Shift key while deleting. See here. Not even a menu option. You must open a mail program, and navigate the file system to re-find the file which you have sitting right there in front of you.
Thanks Apple! Even more bizarre, Apple does let you change your default email reader. Microsoft pulls this kind of crap too, of course. No shell extensions. Impossible to move mp3s from Documents to Music folder. Finder always wants to copy. No way to force it to just move, without going to command line. One wrong bit of typing, and the only way to fix it is yet again to open a finder window and navigate your way through the file system back to where you already are in the dialog.
However, there is no way to show this information. For example, in Icon mode you start Command-clicking a few thumbnails of files to upload. Then you need to switch to list view to check a date. See above. Well, thank goodness that clicking lots of little file names is so much fun , because after switching views you get to do it all over again! Hope you remembered them all!!
For example, to preview or resize images before uploading, or compress large files before emailing, or rename, whatever…. The amazing ability to manipulate files when you see them! And lo, even to rename, compress, or re-size them as needed before emailing. The amazing ability to see the sizes of more than one file at a time!
What terrible genius dwells in Redmond that gives Windows XP such truly awesome and fearful powers?!
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