I've updated to Sequoia just last month, but my touchbar still hasn't been fixed. Macs are still crap. My Mac hasn't been crashing for a few months already, but the touchbar still blinks crazily and goes out after a while, unless I go kill the Control Strip and the Touchbar to stop the crazy blinking. This means I can no longer send a crash message to the dev team at Apple right after a crash. Maybe my previous messages got them to fix the crashes, but not the underlying issue. Apple has much fewer hardware to support than Microsoft, yet they have so many more issues. It's no wonder they've remained so 2nd rate as a computer company. They only survived because they created the iPhone and created the AppStore marketplace. They're really an iPhone company and not a computer company. They're really neglecting the Mac. After I just updated to Sequoia 15.4, the touch bar got better, but it still goes on a crazy blink fest until I touch the keys, or let it go to "sleep" to save energy. It's only been a few days, but the touch bar hasn't died, so far. It's improving, but still crap. Why did it take more than a year to reach this point. This is definitely a software issue introduced by the OS team. Windows was reliably stable for me since Windows 2000. I've only had a handful of bluescreens back during XP, and while I've seen others with bluescreens after that, I haven't had any of my own since then. Most of the issues with Windows has been with other apps and not Windows itself. I've seen far more Spinning Beach Balls and the old Sad Macs than I've ever seen of Blue Screens, and that was even when I used Windows far more for work.
P.S. I've finally just got a Blue screen recently. I think it's mostly because Zoom doesn't like the graphics driver on the work Thinkpad P Series laptop. If I don't quit zoom after I'm done with the meeting Zoom will freeze up and eventually crash. This time it happened because I forgot to quit Zoom after my Meeting on April 1, and it was doing weird stuff on April 2, here I could connect and hear the other person, but the entire interface froze up. Then my browser froze. Then the entire system crashed and I finally got my first blue screen on this 2.5 year old laptop. I did my standard dism, chkdsk, and sfc checks and they were all clean. I'm not sure why Lenovos have the largest share of the market, probably because they're in places like Costco and average people don't know any better, but they have worse computers than Dell overall. I didn't have as many issues or crashes with the Dells as I have had with Lenovo, and that's with supporting more total numbers of Dells. I think most of the bluescreens I've seen in the previous 8 years were Lenovo and they were 1/4 of the laptops in the various companies I had supported. |