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by SyneRyder 2757 days ago
I've just gone through this experience and switched to PC after 12 years with Apple. My MacBook Pro (mid-2012 model) kept failing literally every 2 months, Apple replaced the failed SATA flex cable six times before I finally gave up on it as a lemon & bought a PC.

For anyone else switching, do your research carefully. There are still things Apple does right. I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga, and here's some of the problems I'm having:

* The Dolby Vision HDR screen isn't actually HDR capable (though it is bright & wide-gamut).

* The HDR display has a really bad red-tint (roughly +10% red shift). I'll need to buy a colorimeter to calibrate it correctly. It clearly wasn't individually calibrated at the factory like my Dell monitor was.

* The built-in speakers are really terrible & thin sounding.

* There is a nasty audio click at the start & end of audio playback (eg a sentence played back in Duolingo). That's probably a Realtek audio driver problem rather than Lenovo's fault. Most people won't notice, but if you work with audio & use headphones it will drive you nuts. It works perfectly with my Focusrite 2i2 audio interface & ASIO drivers, though.

* It doesn't have media playback keys, which I used all the time with Spotify while working. Even my Logitech bluetooth keyboard has them, but this laptop doesn't. (Looks like the Surface Book 2 doesn't have media keys either.)

* I can't figure out how to disable two-finger click (different from two-finger tap). It seems a registry hack is required to do this, but none of the registry hacks I've tried so far work on this model.

* The usual Windows gripes. While I could uninstall Candy Crush & Fitbit Coach on the Windows 10 VM I had on my Mac, every time I try to uninstall them on my Lenovo X1 Yoga, it reinstalls them again on reboot.

There are things I like about the Lenovo, so I'll make it work. I love that I can replace/upgrade the SSD myself, that it has a touchscreen & pen, the keyboard & trackpad are better than Apple's latest butterfly keyboards. And it hasn't broken down yet! But it seems that PC makers & Microsoft still aren't painting both sides of the fence yet. If the MacBook Pros had decent keyboards & replaceable SSD / HDDs, and I could somehow trust Apple's build quality again, I'd switch straight back to Apple.