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Two previous mac books died on me after a year or so (they were already used for a year or two when I bought them). One died due to GPU solder problem. The other due to some unspecified damage to HDD controller.

Hope our new retina will live longer. If only my girlfriend that actually uses it would allow me to kill the osx and put Windows 10 there it would save us both a lot of frustration.

Mac OSX is hardly usable. I get how developers can get used to it. Once you start Terminal you have a fairly usable sort of linux computer. I still don't get how graphic designers use it. Its UI is so buggy, glitchy, uncooperative towards hardware (wacom tablet! or just ordinary mice).

As for the hardware it's really powerful and the price is right or better than right for those components. The thing is that you wouldn't build PC out of those component yourself, because you'd rather use processor that's 8% weaker but costs half as much.

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>If only my girlfriend that actually uses it would allow me to kill the osx and put Windows 10 there it would save us both a lot of frustration.

That's a terrible idea from a battery perspective.

It's rarely used when disconnected from a charger.

> Mac OSX is hardly usable.

You cite anecdotes that you don't even pretend to justify with examples. Are you speaking from experience? I'd bet not. And it's interesting that you think putting Windows 10 on your girlfriend's machine would solve your problems - moving my entire family to a Mac running OS X has solved all of mine.

Me too, moving my in-laws to an imac has given me about 1-3 extra days in the year.

To list problems I had with Mac OSX over last few months I'd need at least few blog posts.

But that would be redundant because a lot of them are not unique. When I'm infuriated by something I search for solutions an I'm seeing lots of people expeiriencing same glitches or "featurs" and sharing some workarounds (working if I'm lucky) often paid, or just piling up comments about the issue.

Are you sure your familiy still uses computers you migrated to mac osx? Maybe after that stunt they are just afraid to ask you about anything else?

There was a joke where a guy who was sneezing went to the doctor but the doctor made a mistake and perscribed him a laxative. When the guy shows up at the doctors again in few day a the doctor asks "Do you still sneeze?" guy replied "I don't dare..."

> Are you sure your familiy still uses computers you migrated to mac osx? Maybe after that stunt they are just afraid to ask you about anything else?

Yeah, I'm positive, since they're not entirely without problems and I still get pinged periodically. I also live relatively near them and talk to them all the time.

It's worth pointing out that while you say your issues with OS X are numerous and well documented on the Internet already, you didn't like to any of them. So it's still unjustified anecdotes. Here's a practical one I just dealt with - there's one hold out in my family on Windows, and he wants to set up a syncing calendar between his computer and iPhone. Outlook can't natively support CalDAV - the backend his company's server runs uses IMAP and Cal/CardDAV - so I could either pay for a plugin or convert him to Thunderbird. If he had a Mac, it'd have been a two minute deal since the built-in tools have CalDAV support. But that's just one example, of course.

Don't even get me started on iPhone. Putting mp3 ringtone on it is some serious trick coercing of itunes even on Mac. Ios web browser can't even download arbitrary files. You can't mount iphone as a thumbdrive to move files around.

As for mac, magic mouse is basically useless as clicking causes unwanted scrolling especially in adobe apps and google maps. All praise to good people who made Mouse Prefs app and give it away for free. They should get a pot of gold from apple.

Finder is such a piece of crap that basically first advice given to mac users is buy a file manager. It can't display directories above files. You need to install xtra finder for that.

Image browser is nowhere near the functionality of Fast Stone on windows. Also 3rd party browsers are far behind.

Network drive doesn't autoconnect sometimes and often disconnects. Remote folders visible in finder window don't show up in save dialog of a web browser. Folders disappear from favorites in finde for no aparent reason. Finder sometimes doesn't indicate if contents of the remote dir ar still loading so when seeing empty remote dir you don't know if it's empty or it just didn't load yet.

Some high dpi usb mouse can't be used because it feeds mouse move events too fast for mac osx and they swamp mouse down event so dragging a window becomes very hard and deliberate operation.

Dropown menus on finder got damaged after some use. Clicking away from the dropdown menu on some button locks this button, as if it didn't register mouse down event until it gets mouse up event that somehow got swollowed by dissaperaing menu.

Computer sometimes closes very slowly. Finder just hangs and blocks computer restart. Multiple desktops, multiple fullscreen apps, fullscreen apps at all just get in a way. Switching them with gestures is source of additional confusion.

Additional monitors display weird lines when they are turning on an off.

I even installed clean yosemite in hopes that it will fix some obvious defects. It didn't help much.

So far my expeirience with mac that costed three times any of my previous computers is that it's pile of failing crap.

Yosemite is pretty win 98. Maverics was the same but with different skin. Even linux wasn't that bad. At least not for the last 5 years.

> One died due to GPU solder problem

Let me guess, NVIDIA GPU? The Windows laptop world got hit pretty hard by that one, too. It wasn't just Macs affected, it was a systemic failure (brought by EU-mandated lead removal in solder, iirc).

I have the same problem on my Mac with an AMD GPU. It's fairly common for 2011 Macbook Pros and there was a recall on the 2010 MBPs for a similar issue iirc.

Yup. I tried to save it be heating gpu few times. Each time I got few months of life.

Now it would need proper reballing.

  > you have a fairly usable sort of linux computer.

You have unix computer.

I never used unix :) other than linux and that mac osx darwin thing.

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