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it's true. The year MAC has the best new reliable, and fast chip, PC has AMD with broken, burnt CPU / motherboard, Intel has a chip so hot to cool down.

by nXqd 3y ago

yourusername 3y ago
Even outside hardware, a fresh windows 11 install before you decrappify it is such a bad experience. Clickbait integrated into the OS, sponsored apps pre-installed like it is a $100 android phone, constant attempts to upsell you to their cloud services.
tayo42 3y ago
What about the keyboard? I actually forgot how bad it was until I used one yesterday on one of the MacBooks
- selykg 3y ago
  The new keyboards are better than the older butterfly keyboards and absolutely more reliable.
- flohofwoe 3y ago
  The new Mac keyboards are fine really, they rolled back from the problematic butterfly keyboards to the older magic keyboards (whatever that's actually called, but it feels a lot better and is a lot more robust) - thankfully I skipped the 'butterfly era' completely when I switched from a mid-2014 13" MBP to a 14" M1 MBP.
- sgjohnson 3y ago
  Apple had a dark period between 2016 and 2019 when the keyboards on MacBooks were complete and utter garbage, but in 2019 they admitted their mistake and dropped the butterfly keyboard. Both my work-issued 2019 16” and my personal 2023 16” have excellent keyboards.
  - tayo42 3y ago
    wow was it really in 2019 they switched back, amazing how long that stuck with me lol
    - sgjohnson 3y ago
      Well, it was long 3 and a half years. Long 3 and a half years that I didn’t even feel at all because I’ve never even touched a butterfly keyboard MacBook. My previous personal MacBook was a mid-2015 15”.
- bamfly 3y ago
  No worse than most other laptops, now. A little better than many of them. Not as good as back when Macbook Pros were still thick enough to hold a disc drive and the keys had a lot more travel, but nothing like the dark days of the very-loud, shitty-feeling, unreliable Macbook keyboards of a few years ago. Totally OK. (FWIW I use a mechanical keyboard with mine when at my desk, but I don't, like, hate life when I'm away from my desk and have to use the built-in keyboard, even if it's for a whole week. It's fine. I don't even really think about it.)
sliken 3y ago
AMD had an issue, but really it was short term and has been fixed, seemed to only impact a few dozen CPUs and motherboard and only when overclocking a home built machine. Yes it made quite a bit of news and drama, but it's all fixed. With all that said Apple does have a premium product that generally "just works", is more power efficient, and has (on average) a longer life cycle than a PC.

it's true. The year MAC has the best new reliable, and fast chip, PC has AMD with broken, burnt CPU / motherboard, Intel has a chip so hot to cool down.

by nXqd 3y ago

it's true. The year MAC has the best new reliable, and fast chip, PC has AMD with broken, burnt CPU / motherboard, Intel has a chip so hot to cool down.

yourusername 3y ago

Even outside hardware, a fresh windows 11 install before you decrappify it is such a bad experience. Clickbait integrated into the OS, sponsored apps pre-installed like it is a $100 android phone, constant attempts to upsell you to their cloud services.

tayo42 3y ago

What about the keyboard? I actually forgot how bad it was until I used one yesterday on one of the MacBooks

selykg 3y ago
The new keyboards are better than the older butterfly keyboards and absolutely more reliable.
flohofwoe 3y ago
The new Mac keyboards are fine really, they rolled back from the problematic butterfly keyboards to the older magic keyboards (whatever that's actually called, but it feels a lot better and is a lot more robust) - thankfully I skipped the 'butterfly era' completely when I switched from a mid-2014 13" MBP to a 14" M1 MBP.
sgjohnson 3y ago
Apple had a dark period between 2016 and 2019 when the keyboards on MacBooks were complete and utter garbage, but in 2019 they admitted their mistake and dropped the butterfly keyboard. Both my work-issued 2019 16” and my personal 2023 16” have excellent keyboards.
- tayo42 3y ago
  wow was it really in 2019 they switched back, amazing how long that stuck with me lol
  - sgjohnson 3y ago
    Well, it was long 3 and a half years. Long 3 and a half years that I didn’t even feel at all because I’ve never even touched a butterfly keyboard MacBook. My previous personal MacBook was a mid-2015 15”.
bamfly 3y ago
No worse than most other laptops, now. A little better than many of them. Not as good as back when Macbook Pros were still thick enough to hold a disc drive and the keys had a lot more travel, but nothing like the dark days of the very-loud, shitty-feeling, unreliable Macbook keyboards of a few years ago. Totally OK. (FWIW I use a mechanical keyboard with mine when at my desk, but I don't, like, hate life when I'm away from my desk and have to use the built-in keyboard, even if it's for a whole week. It's fine. I don't even really think about it.)

sliken 3y ago

AMD had an issue, but really it was short term and has been fixed, seemed to only impact a few dozen CPUs and motherboard and only when overclocking a home built machine. Yes it made quite a bit of news and drama, but it's all fixed. With all that said Apple does have a premium product that generally "just works", is more power efficient, and has (on average) a longer life cycle than a PC.