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I recently moved from a MacBook Air (running OS X, not Windows) to a Samsung Ultrabook and haven't seen any noticeable difference in battery life pro or con. Th
by Encosia 13y ago
I recently moved from a MacBook Air (running OS X, not Windows) to a Samsung Ultrabook and haven't seen any noticeable difference in battery life pro or con. That's with it driving a 3200x1800 display and a Core i7 processor too.
There are definitely $400 PC laptops out there that just suck from start to finish (including battery life), but good Wintel laptops are pretty easy to find these days.
- anologwintermut 13y agoYeah, but if you are looking for a good windows laptop, you might end up buying a mac and running windows on it.
- josteink 13y agoMacs have weird keyboards with non-standard layouts and keys. They consistently drive me mad every time I'm forced to work with them. If you're not going to run OSX you have no reason to ruin your workflow with a keyboard not matching the expectations of the running OS. There's seriously no reason to ever buy a Mac unless you want to run OS X, a OS specifically designed to not run well on other hardware.
- Encosia 13y agoI think there was definitely a time when Apple made the best hardware to run Windows on. It's a compromise though. MacBook keyboards are weird to use in Windows and the hardware drivers were never optimal. I ran Windows 7 on my MacBook Air, off and on for years, but could never get it to run as well as it did on the similarly-spec'd Dell m1330 that I had before. Now that there's Apple-quality (better in some aspects, I'd argue) Wintel hardware readily available, it doesn't make sense to deal with those drawbacks if all you want to run is Windows.