can apple prog ram anymore?

My next Mac will be a PC. I cannot work with Apple kit anymore, it’s simply too unreliable!

Every Mac I’ve owned since my beige G3 has died or become so problematic it becomes impossible to work. My latest Mac – a late 2015 MacBook Pro – has sprung the latest joy from Apple, the amazing disappearing disk space bug! I cleared out 50GB of space yesterday to now be constantly nagged by Finder that disk space has almost run out, now at 327.7MB it should be over 100GB! Can anyone at Apple program anymore? I for one am sick of the Emperor’s new clothes! Apple = Oooooh, shiny, look how pretty it is. But try using Photoshop with this flaming bug, it won’t even launch, and I know it’s a Finder bug as it still happens in Safe Boot!

Apple – you ignore the pro market at your peril! It was the likes of me that still bought your computers during the dark years. Mark my words: the consumer is much more fickle and dark days are coming your way because your product only has the veneer of greatness these days.

Dare you to publish this guys, because I’m not the only pro saying this. A prepress pro recently told me that Windows 10 offers a 1000% more to a pro than a Mac ever will!

Graham says… Apologies for rolling out the ‘Keep calm and carry on’ poster, but keep calm! Macs are still more reliable than Windows machines. There could be a very simple solution for your Apple woes. If your Mac is reporting the incorrect amount of free disk space when you click About this Mac from the menu on your desktop, then you simply need to rebuild your Spotlight index. In System Preferences, click Spotlight, then choose the Privacy tab. Drag your hard drive from a Finder window into the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. From the same list of locations, click your hard disk and click Remove. Quit System Preferences and Spotlight will reindex the contents of the drive.