{"id":2149,"date":"2026-02-25T11:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:15:16","slug":"mac-hardware-is-great-but-macos-26-is-a-disaster-say-pundits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/mac-hardware-is-great-but-macos-26-is-a-disaster-say-pundits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac hardware is great, but macOS 26 is a disaster, say pundits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Mac-hardware-is-great-but-macOS-26-is-a-disaster-say-pundits.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Jason Snell\u2019s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> report card is out, rating the company\u2019s performance according to 56 influential commenters, including <em>9to5Mac\u2019s<\/em> editor-in-chief Chance Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The results show a dramatic difference in perception of Apple\u2019s hardware and software across the board, but most notably with regard to the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a> \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,mac,macos-26\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1040658\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/25\/mac-hardware-is-great-but-macos-26-is-a-disaster-say-pundits\/#more-1040658\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Snell\u2019s annual Apple report card is out, rating the company\u2019s performance according to 56 influential commenters, including ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}