Comment Re:That's not on Apple (Score 2) 141
Reliable? HA! The only time I've ever had a computer completely fail, to the point of not being bootable anymore, it was an Apple MacBook Pro. The old Core Duo model from 2005 or so. That was the last Mac I bought. I still have a beige G3 that runs fine. It's useless, but it runs. Apple's build quality declined sharply in the mid-00's. Nothing about their product is "reliable" anymore. So "ancient" technology is just outdated.
I'm not pretending that Apple hardware specs aren't shitty these days but I've gotta stick up for their build quality. I have a 2010 13" MBP and a 2012 15" one. Both are still rock solid. Literally, in fact; I once dropped the 15" one and made a nice little hole in the carpet. Still runs like a champ. Unibody MBPs are essentially indestructible.
I have had an MBP fail spectacularly on me; it was the 2007 model. It died of the Geforce 8600M GT bug - essentially, Nvidia had fucked up their chip design, causing all 8600M GT chips in the world to slowly self-destruct. The 2007 MBP used the 8600M GT. Apple tried doing a free repair program but the replacement logic boards had the same GPU so they weren't long for this world either.
I'm actually kinda sad that everything Apple has released after 2002 has shit specs and ridiculously expensive purchase-time-only upgrades. I really like the build quality but with the crap Apple keeps putting out my next laptop will come from someone else.