> They're obviously pushing for a walled garden experience just like the iPhone, which is reprehensible enough on its own to warrant a boycott against the whole

> They're obviously pushing for a walled garden experience just like the iPhone, which is reprehensible enough on its own to warrant a boycott against the whole company. There's no evidence they're doing this. For average users there's signed applications, and it's literally a single checkbox to disable them if you don't like it. There's also no requirement for any applications to be signed. > It reduces quite a lot of the expense if you can swap out just the CPU or just the GPU. You have never, ever been able to do this with an Apple laptop.