scharfshutze009
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I don't think I like Apple Computers as a company anymore because I tried to upgrade the hard drives in my parents Mac Pro while visiting from the original 1 Terabyte drives to 2 TB Solid State Hybrid's and I couldn't redo the raid without having to resort to using the Snow Leopard DVD or reinstall El Capitan from the Recovery USB flash drive. I had to resort to using the Snow Leopard DVD because their Recovery Assistant 1.0 program flashed my thumb drive to El Capitan, which prevented me from redoing the RAID with Mountain Lion or Lion that was originally on the drive. I used the recovery assistant on the flash drive because I thought the flash drive was corrupt and the one with El Capitan.
I know I can use Mavericks or Yosemite to redo the RAID if I'm not mistaken because RAID support stopped with El Capitan, so I redid one with Mavericks just to be safer if at all, but it didn't help and neither did using one of the back USB ports. I don't know who's to blame, but Apple should be to blame as to why Recovery Assistant flashed my thumb drive to El Capitan instead of Lion or Mountain Lion, like it said it would. Finally if all the hard drives in both my Mid 2012 Mac Pro's fail then their just paper weights and I'm not to happy about that because I paid alot for them hoping to have an easy to use computer for my parents that worked reliably unlike Windows PC and Complex Linux or BSD UNIX Machines, such as Debian or PC-BSD considering they may have had to resort to command line to make them work.
I don't want to have to buy them a new computer, but even my Macbook is having issues because it shorted itself on and keeps rebooting when I login. I use Windows, Linux, and Mac as host OSes, but haven't Used BSD UNIX as a host yet. Therefore I pretty neutral to all of them, but find myself having more problem with Windows and Mac then any Linux or UNIX. I've only tried FreeBSD and found it to be a good learning experience, but to complex for the average user and I haven't tried PC-BSD to see if it just works as well as they claim it should if that's what I desire. I personally, try any OS to see how simple it is and to see if it's simple enough to recommend to the average user.
I can't afford a new Mac Pro and don't like Mac Mini's or iMac's because their not as customizable as the Mac Pro and even that's becoming more restricted with each new Mac Pro or any other Mac. I just to be able to upgrade the processor, memory, hard drives, optical drives or add them internally considering these aren't in newer mac's, and add other expansion cards, like RAID cards, Sound Cards, and TV cards at least, but Apple won't let me and forces me to use external optical drives, sound cards, and tv cards or anthing else that could be added internally in the past. I don't care if everything is moving to the cloud either and they think I don't need this stuff because I paid for the computer and I want to be able to do what I want with my computer, but they dictate everything I can I can do with my Mac and I don't like it.
I have a PC's too and more up to date than the Mac Pro's, but don't know what I should do about my Mac's and how if if I want to support them in the future if I have to deal with this. I don't like that Microsoft and Apple are forcing me to update without giving me something I want to upgrade to either because I have to upgrade to Windows 10 before July 29th 2016 or else it's not free and Apple did this to me. There's not to much else out there for me to choose from that isn't Linux or UNIX and that are modern enough either.
I know I can use Mavericks or Yosemite to redo the RAID if I'm not mistaken because RAID support stopped with El Capitan, so I redid one with Mavericks just to be safer if at all, but it didn't help and neither did using one of the back USB ports. I don't know who's to blame, but Apple should be to blame as to why Recovery Assistant flashed my thumb drive to El Capitan instead of Lion or Mountain Lion, like it said it would. Finally if all the hard drives in both my Mid 2012 Mac Pro's fail then their just paper weights and I'm not to happy about that because I paid alot for them hoping to have an easy to use computer for my parents that worked reliably unlike Windows PC and Complex Linux or BSD UNIX Machines, such as Debian or PC-BSD considering they may have had to resort to command line to make them work.
I don't want to have to buy them a new computer, but even my Macbook is having issues because it shorted itself on and keeps rebooting when I login. I use Windows, Linux, and Mac as host OSes, but haven't Used BSD UNIX as a host yet. Therefore I pretty neutral to all of them, but find myself having more problem with Windows and Mac then any Linux or UNIX. I've only tried FreeBSD and found it to be a good learning experience, but to complex for the average user and I haven't tried PC-BSD to see if it just works as well as they claim it should if that's what I desire. I personally, try any OS to see how simple it is and to see if it's simple enough to recommend to the average user.
I can't afford a new Mac Pro and don't like Mac Mini's or iMac's because their not as customizable as the Mac Pro and even that's becoming more restricted with each new Mac Pro or any other Mac. I just to be able to upgrade the processor, memory, hard drives, optical drives or add them internally considering these aren't in newer mac's, and add other expansion cards, like RAID cards, Sound Cards, and TV cards at least, but Apple won't let me and forces me to use external optical drives, sound cards, and tv cards or anthing else that could be added internally in the past. I don't care if everything is moving to the cloud either and they think I don't need this stuff because I paid for the computer and I want to be able to do what I want with my computer, but they dictate everything I can I can do with my Mac and I don't like it.
I have a PC's too and more up to date than the Mac Pro's, but don't know what I should do about my Mac's and how if if I want to support them in the future if I have to deal with this. I don't like that Microsoft and Apple are forcing me to update without giving me something I want to upgrade to either because I have to upgrade to Windows 10 before July 29th 2016 or else it's not free and Apple did this to me. There's not to much else out there for me to choose from that isn't Linux or UNIX and that are modern enough either.