[kevinherron]

I'm guessing you haven't ever laid hands upon or used a MBP. The screen quality and build quality are untouchable as well.

Keyboard is definitely a personal choice, and Apple had a multi-year stretch of terrible keyboards, but they're back to being good IMO.

I have both a new Dell XPS 15 with Intel i7 and a 16" M1 MBP on my desk right now... it's really no comparison. You really need to base it on whether you need Windows-specific software or you simply prefer it. Even some of the Windows/x86 apps I need turn out to run without issue with Windows 11 for ARM via Parallels Desktop on the M1...

[kujin88]

"I'm guessing you haven't ever laid hands upon or used a MBP"

Nope, my work forces macbook pros upon all of us and I've been using one with an Intel CPU for years. I don't like it because it's constantly going off (the fans always spinning), and gets insanely hot. It also slows down a good deal for anything intensive. I never liked it really.

I don't like Mac OsX all that much either and felt they have a weird ux,but that's not a deal breaker though. More than anything the fact that wsl performance on windows is close to bare metal seems to entice me a bit

[kevinherron]

Yeah, one of my personal laptops is a 2019 16" MBP with Intel i9. It's hot, loud, and slow. Just like the work issued XPS 15.

[kujin88]

This is what I am worried about. If it's anywhere the same with M1 then I would just rather bail out of Macbooks and go straight to Windows.

[kevinherron]

That's what I was saying in my first post though. The M1 suffers none of this. It's playing in a different league than other laptops.