I work in an office with ~15 Macs … mostly Mac Pros with a few iMacs and MacBook Pros. About half of them have had to be wiped and reinstalled because of documented High Sierra issues. While I completely commiserate with Windows driver issues, Apple has buggy updates too, and seemingly with increasing frequency.
As others have said, the frustration with Apple’s “pro” products isn’t the price but lack of upgradability and outdated hardware. If you’re on a five year replacement schedule, you have to buy the Mac today that will still keep you productive in four and a half years. If you work in a Windows or Linux shop though, you have the freedom to choose the computer right for you today, and upgrade the bottlenecks as needed later. Neither five-year-old Mac Pros nor non-upgradable iMac Pros are making any of us excited about spending our annual equipment budget. And let’s not get started on the anti-user design choices requiring dongles, adapters, hunting behind the machine to plug in anything, and the cost of external raid enclosures since you can’t put them inside the computer.
I like OS X and Apple, but life in Macland isn’t all roses. There are still a few thorns.
Honestly, the only reason I’ve stuck with OSX is because Adobe Creative Suite doesn’t work well in Wine. I’d be so much happier if Adobe supported Linux.
