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Hey! Web dev/writer here that can relate — I've been writing about this after having gone through the same experience. In the last year, I've written about the

Hey! Web dev/writer here that can relate — I've been writing about this after having gone through the same experience. In the last year, I've written about the Razer Blade, Eve V and about to ship a review of the Dell XPS 15 today or tomorrow (will post in this comment), which I ultimately settled on. It's a killer machine! I use Windows and WSL to do my work, and it's just as good as my MacBook setup ever was — except I have 32 GB of RAM _and_ a bunch of ports. Happy to answer any questions/offer advice, I've basically tried all of them — I am extremely curious about the new Surface Book 2 15", but it's been hard to get my hands on one. The post that started it all: https://char.gd/blog/2017/why-i-left-mac-for-windows-apple-has-given-up https://char.gd/blog/2017/why-i-left-mac-for-windows-apple-h... Razer Blade: https://char.gd/blog/2017/the-razer-blade-a-killer-macbook-pro-replacement https://char.gd/blog/2017/the-razer-blade-a-killer-macbook-p... Eve V review: https://char.gd/blog/2017/a-startup-made-a-better-laptop-than-anyone-else-could https://char.gd/blog/2017/a-startup-made-a-better-laptop-tha... Replacement tooling for Windows (given how good Bash on Windows is): https://char.gd/blog/2017/essential-apps-for-switching-from-mac-to-windows https://char.gd/blog/2017/essential-apps-for-switching-from-...

MiddleEndian 9y ago
If you live near a large mall, Microsoft stores should have Surface Book 2s to play with. I went a few times before buying mine and am happy with my purchase.
owenwil 9y ago
Apparently I can't edit comments, but here's my review of the XPS 15: https://char.gd/blog/2018/ive-finally-found-a-macbook-replacement-that-doesnt-suck https://char.gd/blog/2018/ive-finally-found-a-macbook-replac...
eknkc 9y ago
I tried to switch to XPS 13 from MBP a couple months ago. My main focus was to use WSL but it’s so freaking slow on disk access that sometimes “git status” on a repo would take 10-15 seconds while it’s <1s on macos or linux. How on earth do you manage to work with it? every single thing hitting the disk was noticably slower. I went to Ubuntu and decided life is too short to use a crippled touchpad. Went back to MBP.
camflan 9y ago
Thanks for the write-up, I’ve been curious about that machine amid my Apple frustrations. However, you mention a lack of quad-core i7 cpus in the MBP but that’s not true. My 2013 is a quad core and they have been quad core in the 15” ever since.
seltzered_ 9y ago
Wrote about this elsewhere, but the eve v is fascinating in how one could theoretically raise the display higher up and still use the bluetooth keyboard. http://bitcannon.net/post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/ http://bitcannon.net/post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/ also wrote briefly about it, and supposedly it'll run Fedora according to https://eve.community/t/summary-of-linux-and-the-eve-v-status-community-updates-q-a/3965/123 https://eve.community/t/summary-of-linux-and-the-eve-v-statu... . Despite being fairly married to the mac platform I'm really curious, and honestly hope they make a larger 14-15 inch version.

MiddleEndian 9y ago

If you live near a large mall, Microsoft stores should have Surface Book 2s to play with. I went a few times before buying mine and am happy with my purchase.

owenwil 9y ago

Apparently I can't edit comments, but here's my review of the XPS 15: https://char.gd/blog/2018/ive-finally-found-a-macbook-replacement-that-doesnt-suck https://char.gd/blog/2018/ive-finally-found-a-macbook-replac...

eknkc 9y ago

I tried to switch to XPS 13 from MBP a couple months ago. My main focus was to use WSL but it’s so freaking slow on disk access that sometimes “git status” on a repo would take 10-15 seconds while it’s <1s on macos or linux. How on earth do you manage to work with it? every single thing hitting the disk was noticably slower. I went to Ubuntu and decided life is too short to use a crippled touchpad. Went back to MBP.

camflan 9y ago

Thanks for the write-up, I’ve been curious about that machine amid my Apple frustrations. However, you mention a lack of quad-core i7 cpus in the MBP but that’s not true. My 2013 is a quad core and they have been quad core in the 15” ever since.

seltzered_ 9y ago

Wrote about this elsewhere, but the eve v is fascinating in how one could theoretically raise the display higher up and still use the bluetooth keyboard. http://bitcannon.net/post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/ http://bitcannon.net/post/a-year-away-from-mac-os/ also wrote briefly about it, and supposedly it'll run Fedora according to https://eve.community/t/summary-of-linux-and-the-eve-v-status-community-updates-q-a/3965/123 https://eve.community/t/summary-of-linux-and-the-eve-v-statu... . Despite being fairly married to the mac platform I'm really curious, and honestly hope they make a larger 14-15 inch version.