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https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=mac+os+x+update+breaks+wi...

Super irritating how often updates have broken wireless on Mac. You'd think someone at Apple could focus on that since it happens so frequently.

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Yosemite has not done well in the wifi connectivity arena in my house. My wife's Macbook will drop its wifi while sitting next to a Surface Pro that happily maintains connection. The wifi issues have meant that we both are moving away from Apple products and are purchasing alternatives.

Surface Pro 3 had awful wifi reliability at launch, but it's only gotten better since then. Unlike OS X's wifi.

To be fair, you can do this with Windows 8.1 too and get the same results: https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=windows+8.1+update+breaks...

I think they finally had it fixed in 10.10.2 but something got reverted in 10.10.3. That's been my experience.

Is the Wifi hardware in Macs from Intel? Intel's drivers on Windows are pretty terrible, it wouldn't surprise me if they came from the same source.

I don't recall ever seeing Apple use an Intel solution for wifi, only Broadcom and Atheros. These are the only plugin kexts I see inside IO80211Family.kext:

AirPortBrcm4360.kext

AirPortBrcm4331.kext

AppleAirPortBrcm43224.kext

AirPortAtheros40.kext

They each support multiple chipsets so the kext names that appear so specific are a little misleading, but it's still just those 2 companies apparently.

I'm not defending Apple, but ...

https://www.google.com.mx/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=JaBFVd6SBoKO8QfbqoHQ...

Come on - this is on their own hardware. Everyone else has {large_int} amount of hardware combinations to test

As Apple has full control over their hardware and the selection is limited, I expect better QA from them. I dealt with spotty WiFi driver issues with them in the past and it took months to get a fix.

if you were trying to it wouldn't be a very strong argument since Windows has to support hardware from a million different vendors and deals with a lot more third party drivers.

"I'm not defending Apple, but ..."

You're trying to shift attention away from Apple by attacking another vendor. Unless Microsoft Windows updates have some affect on Apple's updates, your links have no relevance to the problems with Apple's wifi bugs.

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