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Apple Silicon iMacs appear to suffer from screen deterioration after two years — flood of user complaints hit Apple Community forums (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not really anymore. They make them expensive to repair, but they also don't want you to switch to another brand, because for them a user in the ecosystem purchasing apps and subscriptions is worth way more than a frustrated user purchasing a one time display replacement. Their whole strategy now (for a few years really) is to make devices that last at minimum 5 years, because it makes the user happy that their 5yo phone still works, and that means they are likely to get another iPhone, and because as long as the user is in the ecosystem, they are making money by taking their cut of everything that happens on the device

[–] DJDarren 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I still use a 2011 MacBook Pro. It’s running Linux Mint now and hasn’t been my primary laptop for a couple of years now, but it’s still a solid machine. In fact, as is the norm with Apple stuff, it lost OS support long before it stopped being a viable laptop.

Fortunately, Opencore Legacy Patcher exists…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's hope Asahi linux becomes usable enough as a daily driver before the M series laptops stop getting updates

[–] DJDarren 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that’s the route I’m expecting to take. It’s why I’m dipping my toes into Linux now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I should put mint on my SSD/16GBRAM 2011 MBP…

Can you dual boot with OSX?

[–] DJDarren 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s the same spec as mine, though I also replaced the DVD drive with a second SSD.

And yeah, in theory you dual boot, but in practice I managed to bugger mine up, so it’s 100% Mint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh my SSD was absolutely my optical drive before I replaced it hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

So we rely on expensive things hard to fix with controllable lifespan.