Oh please, gimme a break ! Stop speaking nonsense about "planned obsolescence" .... There is nothing "planned" here, just defective components failing over the time.
You can't blame him for thinking so given Apple's track record for purposely making their equipment obsolete. This is normally done by abandoning all support for the hardware in the operating system. This has already been done to all PPC equipment, early Intel Macs and most of the iOS devices out there (e.g. Just one generation back old, the iPod Touch 4G is not supported in iOS7 and thus a lot of new software updates have abandoned it and many games don't work on it.) Nothing lasts forever, but compared to Microsoft, who still supports a 10+ year old operating system, Apple is pretty damn cheap-arse sorry sons of britches, especially given how much money the company has.
There is simply no excuse for their poor support record given their riches, IMO. Apple even supported Safari updates for Windows XP LONG after they dumped it for OSX Leopard, which was half a decade newer. Then, of course, they simply dumped support for Safari for all versions of Windows without so much as a single word of announcement about it to this very day. It simply "disappeared". That's contemptible.
It's not mavericks the culprit, is the time ...
I'm not sure what language that was written in. There appears to be a run-on sentence in that there are two verbs, but only one subject. Mavericks isn't capitalized and ... is used incorrectly. Thus, it cannot be English as what it says doesn't even make as much sense as most foreigners trying to speak English, IMO. They might leave out an article (e.g. "the" or "a/an"), but you appear to have left out everything that makes the slightest sense. Is the time what? It's not Mavericks "THAT IS" the culprit? "Mavericks the culprit" sounds like a bad character title like Vlad the Impaler or something.
What planned obsolescence !? As if pissing off customers who paid 3000$ for a MacBook after 2 years is a good marketing move, right
They wouldn't see it that way if it were true. They would see it as an opportunity for you to spend another $3000 on a replacement or else they'd offer a better standard warranty (and they don't). In other words, it is the customer's fault for not purchasing an Apple Care extended warranty. But then take the above examples of iOS obsolescence. They've pissed me off by dumping support for my iPod Touch 4th Gen. So what can/should I do? Go buy some Android device and dump all my software for iOS that I already bought? Come on; this is why Mac people don't often move (back) to Windows. You've got a software investment/library at some stage in the game and switching means abandonment. It's easier to switch TO the Mac because Macs can run Windows with something like VMWare Fusion or Parallels or even Boot Camp. It's less simple to run Mac software on a Windows machine.
Yes, yes, sure. Windows based PCs are notorious for being high quality computers
...... in Balmer's dream maybe.
Oh please. That's a load of annoying fanatical talk. There are great Windows machines and bad ones, but most are perfectly decent. It's not like it's some arcane knowledge how to build a PC or even a good motherboard. There are dozens out there and most work fine. Use a quality power supply and you're probably not going to have problems. A PC is just as likely to get a bad chip from a manufacturer as Apple and vice versa. "Balmer" has not a flipping thing to do with hardware quality on a typical PC. Microsoft makes operating systems, not computers.
There is a big difference, however and it is price. One would expect better quality for their money from Apple. If Apple cannot deliver that quality (whether a supplier they use is as at fault or not), they shouldn't command the prices they are asking. It is that simple. If Apple continues to have bad quality computers come out at prices substantially higher than the PC equivalent, they will inevitably get a bad reputation and this will hurt future sales. Apple may enjoy a halo effect from the iPhone and iPad, but it won't last forever if they keep putting out tripe. Apple has to watch out for bad hardware AND software since they are responsible for both.
Don't game on a Mac. That is from experience. Get a PC or a Console. Done.
Yes, waste your money buying a second computer or console when you could have one computer do everything.
I'd get a Hackintosh and have the best of both worlds. Apple could get the money instead, but they'd need to offer better GPU hardware.
Yeah they put way too much thermal grease on the processors. I don't believe there's a risk of your computer going out like the ones on the original post as it doesn't have a dedicated graphics processor, but there is a risk of the cpu going out because of the heat. My 15" 's left side would be extremely hot by the time it turned on, almost burned my thigh.
Your logic is backwards. If the computer has a lot of thermal paste AND is burning your thigh THEN the thermal paste is doing its job and transferring the heat AWAY from the processor and into the case like a heat sink (e.g. my Gen1 AppleTV units get hot, but that's not a bad thing since if it wasn't radiating out of the case, it WOULD be cooking the hardware inside the case instead. Apple's default fan control behavior sides on the err of "quiet" versus cool, though. A Fan Control program is recommended if one does CPU intensive tasks on any model.
