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by oxfordmale 2137 days ago
Lack of repairability is the main reason I do not buy Mac Books. Yes, they are more reliable, however, if you encounter a problem, you endure a long wait at a Mac Book repair centre that is miles away. My work laptop developed an issue while I was on holidays in Spain, and if it had been a PC it could have been easily fixed by any of the local repair centres. Of course Apple being Apple, I would have to drive 2 hours to the nearest Apple repair centre with no guarantee it would have been fixed in time before I returned back home.
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They’re not more reliable. I’m still using a thinkpad from 2013 as my daily driver. My work mbp failed after 6 months because dust specs got under the keyboard keys and stopped them from registering presses anymore.
I concur, I work in a department of mainly MBP15's and they have a terrible reliability experience here. The most common things that go wrong are faulty displays, keyboards and overheating issues.

I'd go far as to say the MBP15 has a design flaw where the screen breaks right in the centre where you place your fingers or thumb.

My MacBook overheated and the entire logic board had to be replaced. Apple has designed the MacBook Pro to run right on the thermal limit, but their cooling doesn't seem to work well when you run multi threaded heavy IO processes. I now have a McBrick Pro
Last I checked apple was forth in manufacture reliability, behind Asus, Toshiba, and Sony. They are better than average, but people really overestimate the build quality of the macbook.
That must have been a really long time ago, if you're listing Toshiba and Sony, which are both gone from the laptop market, and had a tiny market share for many years before their exit.
Is it for laptop? Got any source? I wonder at which place Thinkpad / Lenovo is. And I'm amazed that Asus is better than Apple.