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by soulbadguy 1078 days ago
> I know, it's not a great reason

I think it's perfectly valid reason. At the end of the day a laptop is a tool, and your experience using the tool trumps any intrisic quality of said tool.

I can relate, the main reason i do not use Mac's as personal device ( i have had some issue to me in my professional life) is MacOS. It always existed in a sort of middle ground that doesn't suits my needs : Doesn't have the broad compatibility with windows (in my case gaming, CPU/GPU and tools like intel vtune) and it's a unix, but close to enough to linux where most of professional work revolves around (lack of virtualization, not elf format support, native toolings are different etc... etc...)

The hardware is amazing, the price is great, but the software is just not for me.

And it's sucks, because the landscape of high-end windows laptop is just plain embarrassing. I am currently driving a surface pro 9 : Garbage battery life, runs hot on anything but web browsing and worst of the all the screen (120 Hz minds you) have HORRIBLE ghosting.

The only saving grace of windows laptops right now is that if one is patient there are some sweet sweet discount deals to be had.

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Yeah. I don't understand why no one on the Windows side can fully catch up to Apple laptop hardware.