OK. I’ve had it with you. I asked you, reasonably politely, to drop it.
I would have handled this in a private message but you don’t have the guts to make your profile public.
You are a troll. This is a first for me: I am going to put you on an ignore list.
You are entitled to your opinion, but not your facts. I’m typing this on a MacBook Pro. I just went to Best Buy to spec an equal Windows machine:
500GB SSD
16 MB RAM
13"
Intel i7.
I wasn’t able to get the exact equivalent, i.e. all peripherals like SD card slot, HDMI port ASF.
Still, Prices range from about $1200 to $1800.
The only thing is - my MB pro is from 2014 and cost about $2000 back then. So a ten year old machine, that has seen a lot of use and abuse, still keeps up with new Win laptops.
I just checked under the hood (so to speak) and battery health is at 96 %.
It’s a lot of money upfront, but it sure is not a rip-off in any way.
Say what?
I just boughta new computer for $1,100 and it blows those specs out of the water. Like, by nearly an order of magnitude.
The “equivalent” laptop for Windows that supposedly costs 1200 to 1800, what kind of GPU does it have compared to your macbook?
Moderating:
This is attacking the poster, not the post. Please back off.
This is completely inappropriate for cafe society, and a violation of clear guidelines. That’ll be a warning. Next time, just report the offending post.
Back to the topic - as mentioned before what’s offputting is the “destruction” imagery. But it crosses my mind though that a lot of that may have been addressed for many viewers by the ad having a second half in which all these things or rather the creations of these things —the music, the art, the games— would be seen now emerging from the iPad looking and sounding great (maybe even with the iPad digimorphing into the piano, guitar, sculpture, canvas, mixing board, game console, etc. as appropriate) in the hands of human musicians/artists/gamers thus representing that it was not lost.
I’m not terribly invested in the Mac vs PC thing but still want to point out that “i7” by itself is meaningless. An i7-980 (first gen, 2010) is nothing like an i7-14700 (14th gen, 2023)
At a glance, the 2014 MacBook pro contains a 4th generation i7-4980HQ processor which is pretty antiquated by this point. You’d have a hard time comparing it to a modern laptop for sale because no one is selling 4th gen processor laptops as new computers these days aside from weird refurb AliExpress machines. A quick look at Best Buy suggests that any laptops you’re seeing in the $1000+ range have a 13th gen processor.
This, of course, doesn’t mean you can’t be perfectly happy with your laptop and it can work great for what you need. You might not need the extra power a new machine has (not many do unless they’re into content/media creation or gaming). But it’s objectively underpowered compared to a current gen machine at the same price.
More importantly, a current gen machine from Apple is underpowered compared to a similarly priced current gen machine from almost any other brand.
Correction, I got the Fire tablet after the pandemic began; about mid-'21 if memory serves. Still far more reliable than anything I ever bought from Apple.
And let me tell you what the employees were like (I haven’t been in that place in over a year, so I don’t know if things have changed). They could be the most affable, helpful, understanding folks if you’re shopping or testing out a computer or just breathing in the atmosphere. But just try to get any kind of recompense when one of their products has problems, doesn’t meet your needs, or flat-out fails, and they’d defend the company line like they had shining armor and mighty horses. No rudeness or condescension (thankfully), but they made it clear in no uncertain terms that unless the problem fell within the very specific niche of what could be covered in part, I was just out of luck.
And if I may? This was completely unacceptable. At minimum, if there’s a certain seemingly harmless thing you should never do with your iPad or it’ll become completely unusable in a few months, the device should warn me about it. And if it’s impossible to make it that thin without risking severe battery problems, Apple should’ve either not made it so thin or sold it as a cheap bargain item. See, that’s what completely puts me off about the whole elitist attitude behind Apple (this goes back to the commercial in question), the idea that you just have to accept ridiculously high prices, accept a complete lack of reliability, accept shelling out for the newest latest model every year. And apparently accept tone-deaf advertisement as well.
So, that’s a “yes,” I take it?
The underlying problem is that the current trend puts thinness above such declasse notions as “functionality”, “durability”, or “battery life”. It’s not exclusive to Apple, though it does seem to be particularly severe with the iPad.
I agree with that. If your iPad was still under warranty (as ostensibly it was if it was only a few months old) and the battery was physically bulging, it makes no sense that they didn’t replace it. Not to rub it in, but I wouldn’t have left the store without a new one or a replacement. Did you tell them you had dropped it or perhaps gotten it wet, or was there some other kind of physical damage to indicate that this was not normal wear and tear?
What exactly was this?
No, I never dropped it or got it wet. No, there wasn’t any visible damage. No, I never left it on the stove or took it with me on a torch relay. The stupid thing just puffed up like a balloon, and then the replacement stupid thing (which I treated better!) dropped dead. What would it have taken to get a non-gouging replacement? Hell if I know; I’m not a haggler or Apple shareholder. But you can bet that the whole experience dropped a nuke on whatever cool factor the company had. I don’t want to carry a grudge, I just want to get as far away from that bad rookie mistake as possible and continue getting good use out of my Fire tablet.