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PaperclipPerfector  1d ago (text post)   1140 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 27, 2024

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Personal hardware list:

  • Alienware desktop - Say what you will about Dell, I bought my desktop for $1700 at a time when the video card in it was going for over $1K. I wanted an all-purpose PC with an emphasis on gaming and there was simply no way that I could have beaten it for this.

  • Apple ecosystem stuff - MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, iPhone [whatever version], old iMac. Apple things just work better than whatever else you can get and I am not very price sensitive. Everything I buy from Apple lasts forever and just works the way that a normal person would expect it to.

  • Garmin Epix - The one exception to the above. I owned an Apple watch, and it boggles my mind that they couldn't be bothered to put out a decent setup for runners. If you give a shit about running, Garmin just blows them out of the water.

My only real complaint is that I have to take an absolutely idiotic number of chargers with me on trips.

Apple ecosystem stuff - MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, iPhone [whatever version], old iMac. Apple things just work better than whatever else you can get and I am not very price sensitive. Everything I buy from Apple lasts forever and just works the way that a normal person would expect it to.

I've bought one apple product in my life. An iPad 3. It got an unprecedented refresh in 6 mo versus the typical year, making me feel like quite the chump. At this point nearly everything has stopped working on it. Netflix, Youtube, Amazon Video, it's all shut down. Most websites load funny because of outdated SSL stuff I assume. More than half the storage has been eaten up with remnant files of OS updates that I can't get back no matter what I do. Apps don't get released for it anymore because apple dropped 32-bit support. Some of the old apps I have for it are just broken now for reasons I don't entirely understand. But storage is so gimped it's a constant chore to remove the 2 or 3 games that still fit on it to make room for others. About all I can do on it anymore is copy ebooks over from my PC.

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