monkey wrote:Ah right. All I'd read about it was some fairly partisan stuff on some Linux sites.Mod74 wrote:All that needs to happen is the user turns off that feature in the BIOS or Linux vendors (i.e. the majors) have their OS signed. There's no real conspiracy.
Jimmy The Lips wrote:Surely if you buy the support package along with the laptop then this is really a nothing jab at apple. boohoo, you can't afford support but you can afford a huge ass amount of cash for a spangly piece of tech.... hmmmm.
Jimmy The Lips wrote:Its a non issue for me obviously but I may just be fortunate that I can choose my own equipment for work and we have a refresh policy of 3 years which happily coterminates with when the applecare support runs out.
Jimmy The Lips wrote:The important point is that you should always have a backup of your system using time machine or some other such app or cloud service so that "if" not when your machine braeks you can access everything from the replacement system asap.
Blue Swirl wrote:It's not about being able to afford the care package. It's about Apple claiming to be environmentally friendly, and then glueing all the parts in. It's about not being able to upgrade after you've bought it. It's about not being able to repair it without sending it off to Apple.Jimmy The Lips wrote:Surely if you buy the support package along with the laptop then this is really a nothing jab at apple. boohoo, you can't afford support but you can afford a huge ass amount of cash for a spangly piece of tech.... hmmmm.This. I have to buy my own computers. For me, a computer that's going to last me three years is too short a time. I got six years out of my iBook G3 with careful upgrading, and I plan on getting the same amount of time out of my MacBook Pro.Jimmy The Lips wrote:Its a non issue for me obviously but I may just be fortunate that I can choose my own equipment for work and we have a refresh policy of 3 years which happily coterminates with when the applecare support runs out.Having a back up is a must, yes, but you could avoid having to use your spare machine if you could, I dunno, put a new battery in the current one yourself. Again, it's not about not being able to afford the Apple Care, it's about being able to fix/upgrade my own stuff. This is like buying a car with the bonnet bolted shut and just saying "well, you should have bought the care package and have another car on stand-by". Why not just unbolt the bonnet? It just seems to me that they've done a lot of stuff for bizarre reasons; I mean, why the hell would you ever glue the RAM in? Why claim environmental friendliness (which Apple do quite a good job on, truth be told) and then glue the glass to the aluminium, making it completely unrecyclable? As the article I posted said, it comes down to us. Apple are still selling the 'standard' MBPs, we'll just see what people choose: a computer that's locked shut that they'll replace in three years because the care package has run out and can't be opened, or a slightly thicker computer that you can fix yourself. I'll stick with the latter, ta.Jimmy The Lips wrote:The important point is that you should always have a backup of your system using time machine or some other such app or cloud service so that "if" not when your machine braeks you can access everything from the replacement system asap.
Blue Swirl wrote:It's about not being able to upgrade after you've bought it. It's about not being able to repair it without sending it off to Apple.
This is my argument for why macs should stay as they are re the 'closed' nature of the OS.Elmlea wrote:Blue Swirl wrote:It's about not being able to upgrade after you've bought it. It's about not being able to repair it without sending it off to Apple.
I've always thought this is sensible corporate policy to an extent. Â It protects the brand; the number of older relatives/colleagues/acquaintances I've seen complaining that their "Dell is rubbish," or that "Windows is terrible" because they've taken it to a "mate" to have it fixed and it's not working properly is amazing...
Mod74 wrote:Ultimately they satisfy two different markets. Neither approach is right or wrong, it just depends what you want.
Sending back to Apple for an upgrade isn't especially attractive if you're paying for the service and through the arse for the part.Mod74 wrote:Related I've heard a lot of complaints that the SSD size is ridiculous if you're working in HD video, and the upgrade costs 3x times the retail cost of what the SSD would be. Which is unfortunate as the rest of the machine seems almost ideally suited to that task.
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