How long have you owned your iPhone or MacBook?

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Which models are you using?

What have you mostly enjoyed about them?
 
iPhone 8 - a year and a bit
MacBook Pro 2015 - been using it for dev work for over two years

Both operate like the day I got them and I do enjoy both (especially the MacBook).
 
My oldest working mac is from 2008; a mac mini, second oldest is an iMac from 2011 and my current workhorse is a iMac Pro; first Apple computer I ever used was an Apple IIe.

macOS is the main reason why I like macs, second would be the track pads, and from a developer perspective it's the seamlessness (and speed) of running multiple OS VMs (using Parallels) simultaneously on different desktops; with a seamless four finger swipe between each.
 
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The X since last Feb... with an iPhone history running back to a 3G a little over ten years ago.

The MacBook since October... before that was the Air I got in 2012 and before that, the Pro I bought in 2007.

I operate in Apple basically, whether it’s MacOS or IOS... Nothing about Windows or Android feels natural to me.

Every time I have to use a Windows machine, I spend a third of my time wondering why the hell you’d want your OS to work that way... and the other two thirds of my time wondering how OEMs feel it’s okay to allow machines with trackpads from the 90s (the 1890s), off-center to boot, out of the factory.

Folk should be in jail for trackpad crimes against humanity... Their saving grace is that the 90 percentile don’t realise the horror manufacturers are inflicting on ‘em.

Then there’s Android... I feel the venn diagram for folks who love Android, and folks who weren’t loved by their parents overlap. A lot.

Also, in twelve years, I’ve upgraded RAM, put in a hybrid drive and replaced a battery... and that’s been the down-time. All of it.

Yeah, Windows and Android folk can have all the market share they like... You get my Apple gear from me from my cold, dead hands.
 
Almost the same -

iPhone 8, about 4 months. Got the 8 as it was cheap, and I wanted wireless charging and a real home button.
Makes life easier when you can just drop the phone on a charger, and not fiddle with cables.

Using a MBP 15" late 2014, which I just upgraded the ssd in. Stuck in a 1TB M2 PCI-E NVME drive, and flashed the bios to support sleep. Double to triple the original drive speed, feels like a new machine.

Also have a Macbook 12" 2017 (for travel), and a MBP 2018 13" (for work), but most of my personal work is done on the 2015.
 
2011 15" MacBook Pro (Intel 2nd gen i7, 2.4GHz, 16GB RAM) - still in use (albeit for bedtime Netflix only)

2018 15" Touch bar MacBook Pro (Intel 8th gen i7 2.9GHz, 16GB RAM)... Daily driver.
 
RedViking said:
I haven't owned one, but heard they age well. Not sure about the latest Macbooks as fans don't seem to be to happy with them.
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Only because of upgradability and lack of heat dissipation on the latest gen.

My 8 year old MBP is still ticking away - replaced it last year with the latest top spec MBP and expect that to last a number of years too.
 
greg0205 said:
Folk should be in jail for trackpad crimes against humanity... Their saving grace is that the 90 percentile don’t realise the horror manufacturers are inflicting on ‘em.
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Exactly; it's a big reason why I would never buy a Window's computer.

greg0205 said:
Every time I have to use a Windows machine, I spend a third of my time wondering why the hell you’d want your OS to work that way...
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Bonus is that Windows on a mac (with Parallels) is far more pleasurable than on a Window's PC.
 
Hamster said:
iPhone 8 - a year and a bit
MacBook Pro 2015 - been using it for dev work for over two years

Both operate like the day I got them and I do enjoy both (especially the MacBook).
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You didn't experience any MagSafe problems or burnouts?
 
[)roi(] said:
My oldest working mac is from 2008; a mac mini, second oldest is an iMac from 2011 and my current workhorse is a iMac Pro; first Apple computer I ever used was an Apple IIe.

macOS is the main reason why I like macs, second would be the track pads, and from a developer perspective it's the seamlessness (and speed) of running multiple OS VMs (using Parallels) simultaneously on different desktops; with a seamless four finger swipe between each.
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I used Bootcamp but it was a slow process, although I got a free subscription coupon for parallels I didn't use it that much.
 
Bresder said:
You didn't experience any MagSafe problems or burnouts?
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I've had two macbooks with problems; keyboard issues (keys stopped working) and graphics card packed up. In both cases these were known engineering faults so were fixed for no cost. No MagSafe issues though.
 
Bresder said:
I used Bootcamp but it was a slow process, although I got a free subscription coupon for parallels I didn't use it that much.
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Never used Bootcamp; always felt it defeats the purpose of having a mac; started out using VMWare, but I switched to Parallels because it's always been a feature step ahead of VMWare incl. more performant.

You should try it.
 
Bresder said:
How long did it take you to learn all that?
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Learning a new language is not difficult; try it.

Mastery of the syntax and frameworks behind the language is what takes time, but the more languages you learn the easier it becomes.
 
Hamster said:
Java, some Python, some Node....de other stuff like Kotlin, Swift. What does it matter?
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VS for the win, loser!

No seriously why would you think it matters? I was just curious. Think I'm to old for IDE and OS wars
 
13" MBAir 2017 256gb which replaced my 2013 after the logic board died. It's my internet/music/movies machine that I live on outside of work.

iPhone XR replaced an 8. Took me a while to get used to the size but I love it now and the battery life is incredible.
 
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