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As someone who buys Asus motherboards when he builds PC's, it hasn't been a shock for me as an owner of a Macbook for the last 18 years. I've been of the firm

As someone who buys Asus motherboards when he builds PC's, it hasn't been a shock for me as an owner of a Macbook for the last 18 years. I've been of the firm opinion for a very long time that Macbook's are the best productivity laptops and now even more so once Apple moved from Intel to their own M chips. Their entry level Macbook before the Neo you could buy and it would be a laptop that would see you for many many years.

vrighter 7mo ago
all of my normal pcs served me well for many many years. They don't get slower naturally, it was windows getting ever more bloated. I put linux on an 8 year old computer and it just flies again
- fxtentacle 7mo ago
  Fully agree. When I have to use Windows from time to time, I’m always surprised by how laggy the cursor feels even on hardware that can do 8K VR just fine.
jahnu 7mo ago
2016-2019 was an awful blip but otherwise I agree
TacticalCoder 7mo ago
> Their entry level Macbook before the Neo you could buy and it would be a laptop that would see you for many many years. I hope they fixed the ultra brittle screens of their Macbook lineup. I bought a MacBook Air M1 a few years ago and I've been royally pissed off when, after 13 months (one month out of warrant in my case/country) the "bendgate" hit me: the screen died overnight, without any reason (was fine the day before, woke up: screen dead. MacBook Air didn't move). Many people had the same happen to them and they called this the "bendgate" (except there was no "bend"). This prevented me from buying a MacBook M2, M3, M4 and now M5. Well... Unless I can be convinced that this time the screen isn't going to die overnight. Saddest thing of them all: I'm the kind of person to only ever use the laptop at home on my lap and never ever put it in a backpack (I don't even own a backpack).
- zdc1 7mo ago
  Personally, I would not buy any laptop without 2-3 years of warranty support / Apple Care. Laptops are expensive and things can stop working for lots of reasons. It's why I've loved ThinkPads, though I now use Apple as my usage these days is less dev / more fun.

vrighter 7mo ago

all of my normal pcs served me well for many many years. They don't get slower naturally, it was windows getting ever more bloated. I put linux on an 8 year old computer and it just flies again

fxtentacle 7mo ago
Fully agree. When I have to use Windows from time to time, I’m always surprised by how laggy the cursor feels even on hardware that can do 8K VR just fine.

jahnu 7mo ago

2016-2019 was an awful blip but otherwise I agree

TacticalCoder 7mo ago

> Their entry level Macbook before the Neo you could buy and it would be a laptop that would see you for many many years. I hope they fixed the ultra brittle screens of their Macbook lineup. I bought a MacBook Air M1 a few years ago and I've been royally pissed off when, after 13 months (one month out of warrant in my case/country) the "bendgate" hit me: the screen died overnight, without any reason (was fine the day before, woke up: screen dead. MacBook Air didn't move). Many people had the same happen to them and they called this the "bendgate" (except there was no "bend"). This prevented me from buying a MacBook M2, M3, M4 and now M5. Well... Unless I can be convinced that this time the screen isn't going to die overnight. Saddest thing of them all: I'm the kind of person to only ever use the laptop at home on my lap and never ever put it in a backpack (I don't even own a backpack).

zdc1 7mo ago
Personally, I would not buy any laptop without 2-3 years of warranty support / Apple Care. Laptops are expensive and things can stop working for lots of reasons. It's why I've loved ThinkPads, though I now use Apple as my usage these days is less dev / more fun.