Moving to a MacBook?

[Storeman]

found a way round it going to build a pc both mac oc and widows should be fun but will cost less and have better performance and be reparable

Sounds like a good plan.
Lets us know how it all goes.

 

[yorkie]

Sounds like a good plan.
Lets us know how it all goes.

its at the start and source stage, hope doesn't end in tears

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

its at the start and source stage, hope doesn't end in tears

Are you building a hackintosh?

 

[yorkie]

Are you building a hackintosh?

giving it a go no Mac will do what my pc will but every thing else is apple and Evan for 3.5 grand an iMac is a glorified laptop insiders got the cheapest Mac mini to get operating system, office is half the price any way, have now got OS X on a usb ready just got to rebuild pc at weekend as mother board has a crack and keeps loosing bios and won't start up is ok when you get it going

 

[Storeman]

Plenty of info online with regard to hardware choices.
It will be an interesting project, look forward to hearing how you get on.

 

[yorkie]

Plenty of info online with regard to hardware choices.
It will be an interesting project, look forward to hearing how you get on.

just using way is in it at moment apart from a new mother board and updating prosper to a7700k,every thing else is ok ,spent enough on it a while ago but that might as well be done when it is in bits

 

[yorkie]

Sounds like a good plan.
Lets us know how it all goes.

from new home built Mac,now to finish building

 

[MrKip]

Ex macbook user here. Sold mine in Dec and switched back to Windows.

It was a nice machine. Like other have said the build quality is excellent, and they're nice to use.
However, they're costly to repair. I think since 2012 apple has started to do some shitty things with their laptops, like soldering the memory in place, gluing the hard drives in the chassis. They don't want 3rd parties and other people repairing them and upgrading them.
You can get them upgraded but you'll have to take it to the Istore or send it to apple. And those repairs are expensive for what they are.
Part of the reason my i sold my 2012 MacBook is that it went unsupported this year. This means that it can't be repaired or upgraded by Apple. My only option would be to buy a newer model. I don't like being forced like this to upgrade. I should be able to run and repair my PCs how I want.
So i sold it and bought a Thinkpad with windows 10. And i'm fairly happy with my choice.
I can run and repair this machine myself. And once it gets slow I'll just bang a lightweight version of Linux on it and use it as a glorifed web browser.
Also, i don't like how Apple is getting rid of a lot useful stuff on there laptops. They don't do a 17" machine anymore. Lack of USB ports. I know they use thunderbolt but barely any manufacturer makes products for it. USB3 is the dominant way to connect stuff now. So why not just give me 4 USB ports.
Also, I hate Itunes it's a piece of sh!t software that you can't remove from OSX because all the updates have to go through it.
To summarise, it wasn't for me.

 

[yorkie]

update,osx is not what is supposed to be,both in same pc,by the way apple don't make a computer to same spec as this if they did it would be cheaper to buy a house,takes longer to boot up,takes more power to do the same things and apps take longer to load,windows ten is in a different league,takes twice as long to import a cd into I tunes,is slower on the internet and windows lets you do things while it updates,this is using latest sierra update and same with windows,glad I built it but didn't waste thousands on a apple mac,phone and ipad are ok tho,for all of you who bought juniors a mac laptop and run windows on it hope you put security on it aswell,because apples software doesn't protect that

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

update,osx is not what is supposed to be,both in same pc,by the way apple don't make a computer to same spec as this if they did it would be cheaper to buy a house,takes longer to boot up,takes more power to do the same things and apps take longer to load,windows ten is in a different league,takes twice as long to import a cd into I tunes,is slower on the internet and windows lets you do things while it updates,this is using latest sierra update and same with windows,glad I built it but didn't waste thousands on a apple mac,phone and ipad are ok tho,for all of you who bought juniors a mac laptop and run windows on it hope you put security on it aswell,because apples software doesn't protect that

Sounds like an interesting experiment. What motherboard and drives did you end up using?

As said earlier I have been using genuine MacBooks since 2007 and fitted with SSD drives since 2010. Now on my second. I do think that Apple spend time optimising the hardware and chipset. They flipping fly. Otherwise everyone would be running Franken-Macs on the cheapest possible hardware.

Don't get me wrong I have built numerous (probably dozens) od PCs and servers myself since the early 90s. So I have no axe to grind. But I do think you get what you pay for.

 

[yorkie]

Sounds like an interesting experiment. What motherboard and drives did you end up using?

As said earlier I have been using genuine MacBooks since 2007 and fitted with SSD drives since 2010. Now on my second. I do think that Apple spend time optimising the hardware and chipset. They flipping fly. Otherwise everyone would be running Franken-Macs on the cheapest possible hardware.

Don't get me wrong I have built numerous (probably dozens) od PCs and servers myself since the early 90s. So I have no axe to grind. But I do think you get what you pay for.

all the divers re downloaded on to Mac from a web sites just the same as building a new pc, install operating system and then rest of drivers and soft ware, both on separate drives, sort of 3 computers in one, widows on 1 drive,osx and windows in parallels on the other, Asus mother board,7700k processer,980ti graphics card, both systems on Samsung 960pro m2 ssd,32gb 3000ddr4ram,like how apple works and layout and on latest windows you carnt delete the pain cortina, adds more fun to it and you can fix it yourself, the latest I Macs are made so you carnt apparently only apple can not like the old ones, bought a Mac mini to get operating system from so all is legal, put windows on it and it takes you back 20 years in speed it operates, going to take it to bits and see what we can do with it when warranty runs out, keeps me out of mischief and one need 1 keyboard and mouse, sent from the apple sideweekest side of apple is the cheap laptop graphics cards, before I built the last pc got the top of the range iMac and it wouldn't run farming simulator on high, never mind ultra, they are designed for office and work not pleasure