No. I used a MacBook Pro (2007ish model) for about 2.5 years. It was a miserable machine, where nothing ever "just worked" [1]. If I'd ever needed to use it more seriously than for occasional VPN access for ssh / a web browser, I'd have ditched it within months rather than wait for it to die of natural causes.
[1] It'd crash if an external monitor was connected after the machine had been asleep since the last reboot. WiFI
connectivity was fabulously bad. There would be multi-minute black screen+beachball hangs when logging in after waking
from sleep. The encrypted filesystem was a constant source of file corruption, though I only lost my home directory once. The DVD drive would vibrate like hell and make an absolutely sickening crunching noise for the first half a minute of a disc being inserted.
Even the industrial design was just ridiculous, like the gently pulsating LED light that was an order of magnitude too bright. So bright that it was literally not possible for me to fall asleep in the same room with the laptop without covering it up.
I'm not the target market of OS X either, but could probably had tolerated it if the basics really had just worked.
> It'd crash if an external monitor was connected after the machine had been asleep since the last reboot.
That sounds just like the MacBook Pro I was issued at my old job. The problem was to some degree mitigated by the fact that it was too heavy for me to want to move it off my desk.
I finally got so angry with the crashing and the irritation of installing anything relative to a Linux package manager that I just installed Ubuntu on it. It worked much better, and didn't crash when I (dis)connected a monitor. I was much happier!
When I left that job, I went to reinstall OS X only to discover that the DVD drive didn't work (a common problem, apparently).
The SSD models do a good job of hiding any underlying file system issues. With my MPB from 2010 it would hit a limit after a week or 2 of running where the file system would grind to a halt just about and struggle to browse a directory and be slow to sleep/awake.
With the SSD I don't seem to hit this and in any event the restart speed seconds instead of something like 10 minutes in the example above.
[1] It'd crash if an external monitor was connected after the machine had been asleep since the last reboot. WiFI connectivity was fabulously bad. There would be multi-minute black screen+beachball hangs when logging in after waking from sleep. The encrypted filesystem was a constant source of file corruption, though I only lost my home directory once. The DVD drive would vibrate like hell and make an absolutely sickening crunching noise for the first half a minute of a disc being inserted.
Even the industrial design was just ridiculous, like the gently pulsating LED light that was an order of magnitude too bright. So bright that it was literally not possible for me to fall asleep in the same room with the laptop without covering it up.
I'm not the target market of OS X either, but could probably had tolerated it if the basics really had just worked.