Subscribe to a print newspaper. Communicate only face-to-face in an empty meadow, or by letters handwritten or typed on a mechanical typewriter and preferably delivered by hand or bonded courier. Eschew all technology.
I’ve used Lenovo for years, they have a good product. When it comes to laptops it’s my go to. For desktops I build my own, and haven’t had one go down since sometime in the 2005 range. The quality of the components matter, and the big name builders (Dell, etc) are more concerned with keeping cost down and increasing margin.
Continuing this off-topic discussion ...
It was never really about the hardware for me, it was about the software and ecosystem. All the things people warned that I wouldn't be able to do never mattered. And the things that I did worked much better and were well integrated. It. Just. Works.
Copy/paste also works for photos, that saves you an airdrop or icloud roundtrip.
Not just photos. I can copy/paste slide(s) in Keynote from one Mac to another. Sadly, though, MS365 isn’t on board so a PowerPoint slide copied on one Mac pastes as an image in PowerPoint on the other.
I could have got a Macbook for work but there are too many legacy systems that IT won't support on MacOS. We are moving non-core systems to public cloud as soon as possible but a USD170B revenue/200k employee company does take some time!
If you really want a de-googled world, visit mainland China. Been banned there for a long time. Traveling there shows how much data can be collected and used.
You are the one acting like a member of a cult. You claimed a couple of times that Apple laptops have a life of only 5 years, and when confronted by figures from an independent consumers association that 88% are fault-free after 7 years you go off on a rant about something else.
Absolutely. It's crazy world, I find the intrusion to be quite nefarious. It isn't ad serving that is a threat, but rather data location tracking, snooping unnecessarily that is awful.
Yes, small companies are good that way. Most of the lab instrumentation runs on Windows boxes. However, many newer small instruments are shipping with an iPad for control/output.
+1 These are recent examples of why I have relative confidence in Apple products. I mean, they make certain compromises to be allowed to sell (eg) on the Chinese mainland, but when I compare them to pretty much any other manufacturer, I still see actual advantages.
Oh dear! Isn't there a computer rant group you could join?
Every forum has at least one mother hen who feels seniority to bash newcomers, so I guess that's you. If you are a moderator, just request my account be deleted. The Apple off topic was commented on by several others, so I guess it's just me who you wish to berate. Par for the course. I have other posts, many of which have received likes and replies. My apologies if I wasted 30 seconds of your precious time.
off topic post ? Yet it's liked by the Apple fans. Pundits I guess need to be censored?
