Apple’s declining software quality

Re:Apple’s declining software quality by outworlder on Thursday February 04, 2016 @05:17PM (#11037741)

Depends on what you are doing.

Just yesterday, OSX was convinced that I had an external monitor. I did, but that was 2 hours back when I was at the office. So I got to the preferences screen and.. the kernel crashed.

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Re:Apple’s declining software quality by dkonofalski on Thursday February 04, 2016 @07:27PM (#11038425)

Do you have some kind of third-party display or window manager installed? I regularly (as in "every day") have my Macbook hooked up to dual monitors and I've never had the kernel crash due to a disconnect or a change on the preferences screen. Does that happen regularly for you or was that just a one-off occurrence?

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Re:Apple’s declining software quality by KirinDave on Saturday February 06, 2016 @11:11AM (#11048250)

I've got an otherwise unexceptional LG monitor that with one specific generation of MacBook causes all sorts of problems. My windows machines and newer macbooks don't have this problem, and connect to the monitor fine.

So it can be hardware issues. Often subtle ones.

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Re:Apple’s declining software quality by spronkey on Saturday February 06, 2016 @07:15PM (#11050784)

Connected via HDMI? And goes into YPbPr mode because OS X thinks its a TV? And has no override.

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