• @Syldon@feddit.uk
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    111 months ago

    Lol, seriously my friend do not repeat that argument. OFC people use very old PCs. If you had a mac running for 10 years, this is not a regular event. The guy mentioned in this post, Louis Rossman, has made a lot of cash from pointing out the flaws behind the Macbook design. He makes a good living repairing them.

    The company I worked for had 286 PCs running the stock system all the way up till 2013. This is a PC that was running for 24 years before they considered replacing it. The company was not some back street mickey mouse set up who didn’t want to spend cash. This was one of the major car companies. Large companies do not change things that are critical to the operation without a lot of effort to makes sure it goes right. They rely heavily on old systems because they know they work. This is very much the case across a lot of large companies.

    • Fred Edwards 🔻
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      011 months ago

      @Syldon and I run a file server that’s now 16 years old, running Linux as happily as the day we bought it… of course, after it’s had its CPU, memory and hard drives upgraded multiple times. For 3 times the price of a Mac of the same vintage and no idea after the upgrades.

      I never meant to imply you couldn’t get quality PC gear, you very much can, but as soon as you do you’re paying just as much or more than a Mac.

      The PC vs Mac debate was old and tired in the 90s and now it’s just dead.

      • @Syldon@feddit.uk
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        111 months ago

        I never meant to imply you couldn’t get quality PC gear, you very much can, but as soon as you do you’re paying just as much or more than a Mac.

        I am guessing you think the internet is wrong then.

        • Fred Edwards 🔻
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          011 months ago

          @Syldon oh no, indeed not… the internet is the only place to go for accurate, factual and well-rounded and informed information.

          • @Syldon@feddit.uk
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            111 months ago

            If it was not for the internet people in the UK would have zero idea just how bad the media is, so I really do not understand your point.

                • Fred Edwards 🔻
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                  011 months ago

                  @Syldon for “blind trust”…? absolutely no where.

                  If you want to form an educated respectable opinion then you deal with people that are educated in the field, then listen and learn. Otherwise, an opinion is just vacuous gas.

                  The internet and society is full enough with people expelling foul smelling gas as is without adding to it.