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Ah yes, the no true scotsman argument, classic. In reality Apple products overall have very good build quality, long software support timelines and very good s
by marcinzm 2y ago
Ah yes, the no true scotsman argument, classic.
In reality Apple products overall have very good build quality, long software support timelines and very good software-hardware integration. OSX is more user friendly than Linux and a lot less user hostile than Windows. Spending 8 hours fighting whatever idiocy Windows or Linux or Dell throws at me costs me much more than an extra $500 for an Apple laptop.
For example, my Macbooks have never woken up in a backpack at 2am and proceeded to thermally cook themselves for 6 hours to the point of the battery not working at all after 6 months. My windows laptops have.
- eertami 2y agoI wish my experience was like that. But my MacBook Pro keyboard became inoperable within 1 year, and too many times did an OSX update break something in my setup. Linux at least never breaks userspace. x86 sadly can not match arm on efficiency, so the MacBooks are king for thermals/battery life. Although I don't travel enough to need more than 1 work days battery life, which I easily get on a Linux Ryzen laptop. If I could run Linux on the MBP I might consider it - I find macOS is not ideal for an engineer.