Old MacBook Pros encounter problems due to macOS Big Sur

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So on the macbook line, they have ~30 device variants to test that pretty much all use a similar hardware configuration. That QA testing must be quite difficult to test for all those hardware variants compared to MS...
 
Johnatan56 said:
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So on the macbook line, they have ~30 device variants to test that pretty much all use a similar hardware configuration. That QA testing must be quite difficult to test for all those hardware variants compared to MS...
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MS only has to deal with a million different possibilities from different Chinese manufacturers ...
 
Johnatan56 said:
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So on the macbook line, they have ~30 device variants to test that pretty much all use a similar hardware configuration. That QA testing must be quite difficult to test for all those hardware variants compared to MS...
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I disagree.
MS has an entire world of different hardware configurations that need to work.

Desktops, laptops, servers, the list goes on.

MS has WHQL enforcement for hardware and the software is of course Windows.
Even as early as 5 years ago, main Linux distributions like Ubuntu had issues detecting hardware and correct drivers for multitudes of systems.

I'm not beating on either of them.
Hardware, software, testing and assurance isn't a one way road.
 
|tera| said:
I disagree.
MS has an entire world of different hardware configurations that need to work.

Desktops, laptops, servers, the list goes on.

MS has WHQL enforcement for hardware and the software is of course Windows.
Even as early as 5 years ago, main Linux distributions like Ubuntu had issues detecting hardware and correct drivers for multitudes of systems.

I'm not beating on either of them.
Hardware, software, testing and assurance isn't a one way road.
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I'm saying that it should be a lot easier for MacOS than Windows since people keep pointing at Apple when Windows messes up updates for fringe variants.
For Apple, hardware testing should be quite easy, it's only software variant testing that they need to have even more variants for, and MacOS doesn't have as many configuration variants either (the joy of MacOS is the lack of messing with settings/customizations).
 
Johnatan56 said:
I'm saying that it should be a lot easier for MacOS than Windows since people keep pointing at Apple when Windows messes up updates for fringe variants.
For Apple, hardware testing should be quite easy, it's only software variant testing that they need to have even more variants for, and MacOS doesn't have as many configuration variants either (the joy of MacOS is the lack of messing with settings/customizations).
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Your last sentence in the previous post made me think otherwise.
I misunderstood your post :p
 
Luckily I've never had to buy my own macbook...

Had to use Windows on my home pc this year because of studies, and I swore every time I used it.
Main reason I'll continue using MacOS is because I hate less things about it than I do about Windows.
 
SAguy said:
Luckily I've never had to buy my own macbook...

Had to use Windows on my home pc this year because of studies, and I swore every time I used it.
Main reason I'll continue using MacOS is because I hate less things about it than I do about Windows.
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The inverse for me :p
 
|tera| said:
The inverse for me :p
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yeah, it's not even about which one you like more... it's about which one you hate less ;)
I'm not an MacOS fanboy, I'm just the opposite of a Windows fanboy.
 
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