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apple silicon machines are just as temperamental and weird as ppc macs were but at least ppc macs would like try and tell you what's wrong instead of just being completely unresponsive

performance is great and all but in reality i'm not sure this macbook pro has been much more reliable than my fucking hackintosh lmao


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i dont blame the hardware apple's been terrible at maintaining the mac the last 10 yrs. it's new features and marketing bullet points over stability now...no way to treat a mature platform

yeah that totally makes sense. kind of what i’m most worried about in the long run. i did have an issue with it bootlooping at one point and it managed to snap out of if but i still have no idea why that happened

yeah that's like the big reason why i'm afraid of ARM devices entering the larger computer landscape in general - there's no fucking way OEMs won't use this to lock things down further the way they've done with mobile devices

What frustrates me is like it probably didn’t have to be this way. Like apparently the Linux boot chain on apple arm, if the old posts I found are to be believed, just implements UEFI at some point. that being said i think it needs to be installed on the internal flash anyway

that's what really frustrates me about these new macs. The performance of the hardware is excellent but it's such a shame you're stuck with macOS...

Here's the best hardware on the consumer PC market but you have to use a neglected, frustrating, unreliable operating system on it.

Oh, this is important information for me!

I don’t know if you can give more info, but what type of crashes have you seen on the Apple silicon MBP?

^ I ask, because I literally had a crash on my intel MBP 16” last night, and I thought to myself “I need to switch to Apple silicon MBA” so this is good info to know