[kylebenzle]

Your issues are valid and as a never-mac user for 10 years Ive been baffled watching tech friends buy and use Apple products.

Google says your ipad is 1.5 lbs, my thinkpad X1 nano 13" is exactly 2 lbs and does everything iPad does, WITH A KEYBOARD! 1 tb, 16 gb ram, even a sim card slot. Oh, and actual PORTS, for a COMPUTER, imagine?

It honestly looks like brainwashing, I've interrogated smart friends about why they use apple and I can NEVER get a straight answer. I think it is because they don't want to say the truth, they use Apple so other people know they can afford Apple. Thats it. The products such, the marketing is hype and they have no direction as a company.

Also, the Apple VR headset is idiotic and sure to be a flop.

[lholden]

I appreciate your stance, though it's dripping with the zealotry you are complaining about. Just in the other direction. :)

I like the nano, but it suffers from the "I may find myself doing work on it when I'm trying to not be working" problem. The X1 series are great though, I've been a big fan and user of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon for several years.

I will say, my iPad had nothing to do with any kind of love for Apple. Buying the iPad was to prevent myself from being able to use it for work, and I do think it's served that purpose pretty well. It also beats the hell out of my X1 Carbon for watching movies.

But I don't really understand how people can seriously claim they use it to entirely replace a laptop. It's just too awkward of a device for that use case.

[filoleg]

> Also, the Apple VR headset is idiotic and sure to be a flop.

As someone who spent a lot of time looking into it, as well as talking to a couple friends working at Apple who use it near daily, I have a feeling that this comment is gonna age about as well as the infamous “why cloud storage, just use rsync, it is that simple” comment.