is it worth to buy apple anymore ?

[cider_eater]

I Have a Mac Air. no spreadsheets quite complicated! I had it updated few times will say lovely made machine,Just wondered if any one have one on here.?
Went in one of their shops today with iPhone 7 just asking a simple question such as (how to remove a couple APPS) the reply was I don't know go up there a make appointment I didn't want hang around so we walked out,

 

[Stewart Setter]

Never got on with Apple. Generally always have a Dell laptop and always have an android phone.

 

[Chris F]

We have Macs and PCs in the office. If you spend same on windows laptop as a Mac air book then both will be good. My new ThinkPad is a great machine for £525.

press and hold to delete apps by the way. When you do this on any app an “x” will appear next to every app and you can delete the ones you want to.

 

[Andrew]

I Have a Mac Air. no spreadsheets quite complicated! I had it updated few times will say lovely made machine,Just wondered if any one have one on here.?
Went in one of their shops today with iPhone 7 just asking a simple question such as (how to remove a couple APPS) the reply was I don't know go up there a make appointment I didn't want hang around so we walked out,

I bet if you’d have asked to be shown a new phone and how it worked, how you deleted apps etc I bet they’d have been happy to help.

 

[cider_eater]

Cheers Chris
thanks.

 

[cider_eater]

I Bet Andrew

 

[Steevo]

We have Macs and PCs in the office. If you spend same on windows laptop as a Mac air book then both will be good. My new ThinkPad is a great machine for £525.

press and hold to delete apps by the way. When you do this on any app an “x” will appear next to every app and you can delete the ones you want to.

Has changed in iOS 13 now though. You need to select “Rearrange apps” from the menu before they jiggle and the X appears.

 

[Kidds]

There will be a video on YouTube explaining how to do pretty much anything if you search.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

In recent years I have been quite keen on Apple when it comes to personal computing as I think their build quality and endurance was superior. I'm currently using a 2017 year MacBook Pro 15" and before that I had a 2010 MBP (first ones with SSD drives) and before that a 2007 year MBP 17". In between I've also had MacBook Air's for parents and kids alike. All very good machines and what really (I think still) set Macs apart from Windows - which is OS X - still a top notch operating system. Although W10 Pro is the best (desktop) windows edition easily.

I am staggered at how much I can flog a 3 or 4 year old MacBook Pro for on fleabay...maybe I look after them. But they fetch good money. Windows laptops you can generally bin after 3 or 4 years as no one wants them.

Saying that, like @Chris F , when it comes to Windows laptops I've also always particularly rated (Lenovo) ThinkPad's. It was twenty plus years ago, as a young punk, when I got my first T20p magnesium chassis ThinkPad as made by big blue (IBM). A really tough and well built machine

I've just picked up an 13" convertible laptop/tablet X390 ThinkPad Yoga. It's really a nice little beast of a thing.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Forgot to say I do run W10 on my Mac's - just as a "virtual machine" - using Parallels. Run them both at the same time, flip between the screens Mac to W10 and back and forth, access files etc across both. Works a treat.

 

[Dry Rot]

For ordinary mortals (e.g. me!), I think Macs are over kill and by the time you've learnt to use the latest software it will be obsolete! I've stuck with Macs because now I'm used to them and could not face learning everything new from scratch again.

Upgraded from a G4 to a G5, then a Mac Pro and now an iMac and immediately it's annoying me. Can't find the bloody 'on' switch which is round the back and recessed level with the panelling so you need to grope..... and when it's 'on' there is no tell tail neon light to tell you it's on! (Use a hub with a light and that works, but why be bloody awkward?). But my brain doesn't work as well as it used to due to old age. I did find a way around their making software redundant, though, so have got my own back! Yeah!

(Footnote: I don't understand most of what you guys are talking about, so put me down as a technophobe, as well as a luddite!).

 

[farenheit]

For ordinary mortals (e.g. me!), I think Macs are over kill and by the time you've learnt to use the latest software it will be obsolete! I've stuck with Macs because now I'm used to them and could not face learning everything new from scratch again.

Upgraded from a G4 to a G5, then a Mac Pro and now an iMac and immediately it's annoying me. Can't find the bloody 'on' switch which is round the back and recessed level with the panelling so you need to grope..... and when it's 'on' there is no tell tail neon light to tell you it's on! (Use a hub with a light and that works, but why be bloody awkward?). But my brain doesn't work as well as it used to due to old age. I did find a way around their making software redundant, though, so have got my own back! Yeah!

(Footnote: I don't understand most of what you guys are talking about, so put me down as a technophobe, as well as a luddite!).

to solve that issue , there is very little need to ever turn your Mac off or on with the power button. Just leave it on standby

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

But my brain doesn't work as well as it used to due to old age.

...

(Footnote: I don't understand most of what you guys are talking about, so put me down as a technophobe, as well as a luddite!).

I reckon you keep up pretty well actually! All power to you.

 

[Cowabunga]

Not sure what software has been made redundant. Since I've had my iMac, in late 2011, I've not lost a single program that I can think of until this month, as it happens, when I seem to have lost the ability to upgrade iMovie and Numbers. Since I use neither and the old versions still work, it is no loss, but rather perplexing. Both potential upgrades now show as being 'incompatible'. The incompatible versions are dated 30th Sept and Oct 7th, so there are no newer ones.

It has had many operating system upgrades which means that my current one is the very latest available and identical to a new machine bought today.

For its tenth anniversary I quite fancy an upgrade to the iMac. A 27inch screen and faster and more memory and storage would be nice, but not essential currently. Oddly, my wife seems keen on an upgrade, possibly because she does the VAT on the machine and it does have periods where it seems to be very busy doing its own thing, which means its very slow to respond to the keyboard. Give it five minutes though and its back to its seamless self again, going at a gallop.

I've stopped using automatic backups to Timemachine, because it did them too often and it did slow the machine to a crawl when actually backing up. I now back up manually when it's convenient for me and I'm leaving the machine for a while and actually have something worth backing up. I might back up every few hours or every few days or even once a week if nothing important has been filed on the machine in the interim.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

I've not lost a single program that I can think of until this month, as it happens, when I seem to have lost the ability to upgrade iMovie and Numbers.

Upgraded to Catalina (10.15) here last week and they’ve now dropped support for 32-bit apps (i must be fudgin old coz I remember when 32-bit was all singing and dancing, but that admittedly was last millennium....).

It’s all now 64-bit only.

So I’ve lost the use of about 5 relatively minor apps (mostly utilities). I still have Macs running the “cat” series of OS X so I’m not all that bothered - and I’ve found or finding replacements for the other apps.

People just don’t like change.

 

[Dry Rot]

I see the header to this thread and keep thinking it has something to do with cider making.....

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

I see the header to this thread and keep thinking it has something to do with cider making.....

I keep thinking it has something to do with share portfolios.

 

[cider_eater]

As I can see there isn't any where for business

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

As I can see there isn't any where for business

Where are you referring to?

 

[JP1]

Still on my MacBook Pro 13" 2008 - and it's travelled the World and had a LOT of use (most of it on here probably )

No complaints

I bought an iPhone 5S for £50 secondhand to replace a 5C that crashed. Sim free and cheap BUT things are not always easy eg Instagram crashing , button control on volume failed etc.

Mate at work has an awesome Samsung 'phone and the 4-way camera photo results are amazing and probably better than I can get with my SLR