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Honest answer: Apple is a lifestyle brand, however they manage to offer a superior product to the layman because they have tight control over both hardware and

Honest answer: Apple is a lifestyle brand, however they manage to offer a superior product to the layman because they have tight control over both hardware and software codevelopment. In my experience, people tend to also like Apple hardware because Apple stores are ubiquitous, so when you need a repair done, you just take it to your local mall and get it fixed rather than mailing it away to Lenovo and hoping for the best. Out of curiosity, in your engineering course, what are students expected to used to their own computers for? In my experience, any engineering course with labs that would require dongles supply desktop computers anyway. Your school doesn't have desktops in the classroom right? What equipment are you interfacing with that would be easily both mac and pc compatible anyway?

dymk 5y ago
> Apple is a lifestyle brand If "I want it to just work" is a lifestyle, then yeah, it's a lifestyle brand.
- TillE 5y ago
  It's astounding how difficult it is to find non-garbage build quality on, well, pretty much anything. Even just for something as basic as a charger, Apple is probably the only company you can rely on to not use third-rate electrolytic capacitors. Maybe Anker too.
- mst 5y ago
  I've had a lot of "just works" with thinkpads' pre-loaded windows installs. Every other windows laptop brand, not so much. Mileage will of course vary - any thinkpad centric thread on here has a bunch of people with experiences like mine and a bunch of horror stories, after all.
  - loudthing 5y ago
    Back in the day I had a Thinkpad T40 tablet that served me very well. Absolutely bullet proof PC, and it could run Crysis on integrated graphics :)
- loudthing 5y ago
  "I want it to just work" is a very subjective phrase. I think you'll find the majority of users have very different use cases for technology than you do. Also, try to read past the first sentence before you downvote me.
  - dymk 5y ago
    I didn’t downvote you.
Evidlo 5y ago
People prefer to use their own development environments, and the microcontroller family we have designed assignments around (Atmel AVR) has a cross-platform toolchain.

dymk 5y ago

> Apple is a lifestyle brand If "I want it to just work" is a lifestyle, then yeah, it's a lifestyle brand.

TillE 5y ago
It's astounding how difficult it is to find non-garbage build quality on, well, pretty much anything. Even just for something as basic as a charger, Apple is probably the only company you can rely on to not use third-rate electrolytic capacitors. Maybe Anker too.
mst 5y ago
I've had a lot of "just works" with thinkpads' pre-loaded windows installs. Every other windows laptop brand, not so much. Mileage will of course vary - any thinkpad centric thread on here has a bunch of people with experiences like mine and a bunch of horror stories, after all.
- loudthing 5y ago
  Back in the day I had a Thinkpad T40 tablet that served me very well. Absolutely bullet proof PC, and it could run Crysis on integrated graphics :)
loudthing 5y ago
"I want it to just work" is a very subjective phrase. I think you'll find the majority of users have very different use cases for technology than you do. Also, try to read past the first sentence before you downvote me.
- dymk 5y ago
  I didn’t downvote you.

Evidlo 5y ago

People prefer to use their own development environments, and the microcontroller family we have designed assignments around (Atmel AVR) has a cross-platform toolchain.