than whom?
Apple = single point of contact for devices and OS
Intel/AMD based equipment; 100s of vendors with plus MS = one place for support.
Than Wintel. Apple service has been fantastic. Better products too.
than whom?
Apple = single point of contact for devices and OS
Intel/AMD based equipment; 100s of vendors with plus MS = one place for support.
Underspecified hardware given the price, and an eco-system that gets more insular with each passing year, terrible ongoing support for "legacy" devices (which means any device Apple decides is legacy). Nice to use, but not nearly as nice as the fans make out.
Than Wintel.
I run a MacBook Air M1 2020, an iPad Pro M1 2020 and also an iPhone Mini 13 and basically they all just work together.
I also have an HP Spectre X360 13 ap0000na touchscreen convertible laptop running windows 10 and I can't stand windows, the laptop is good, probably as good or nearly as good as the MacBook Air but macOS is in another league as is IOS and iPadOS.
The main thing about Apple stuff is that it holds its value second hand, windows stuff you can't give it away.
I used windows for years before going over to Apple and with the Apple stuff it's just intuitive to use, a two year old or an 80 yr old can use it however windows is another kettle of fish.
Buy a new MacBook Air/MacBook Pro and copy over everything from your old MacBook Pro using the migration assistant and it's done in an hour with no faff and no big deal, you have a completely new machine that works like your old machine as everything is just there, same with the phones buy a new iPhone and the process to set up your new phone as a clone of your old phone is as simple as it gets the only thing that doesn't move over is credit card/debit card info and email accounts except the apple email account.
I remember moving laptops in windows and losing a day trying to get everything working properly.
I use two windows programmes for business which is why I have a windows laptop but even then I can use numbers for one of the programmes which is an Excel spreadsheet the other one is exclusively windows but I can move to a web based version of that program so I can use the iPad or the MacBook Air rather than windows however I'm still considering whether to do that though.
You can run windows on a Mac but the new ARM processors mean that you have to have an ARM version of windows to be able to run it on a Mac and at the moment you can only use parallels version 16 or something, bootcamp on an M1 Mac doesn't work with windows at the moment as far as I'm aware so it's difficult but not impossible to run windows on the newer Macs.
Personally I hated switching between windows and OS on my old MacBook Pro running windows on a Mac just wasn't right to me, didn't really provide the same experience as using macOS on a MacBook Pro.
BTW OP if you do go for a new MacBook Pro have a look at the base MacBook Air M1 2020 it's all the MacBook Pro you'll ever need unless your are into seriously intensive graphic stuff, Amazon are currently selling it for £890 or thereabouts I bought mine last week from Apple for £999 but they've offered me £320 trade in on my mid 2015 MBPr and I managed to buy a £400 apple gift voucher for £355 making the price £633 which is roughly the current second hand price for one plus I get an Apple invoice for £999 for business use.
The new MBPs are supposed to be going to be around the £1700 mark which makes the M1 MBA a complete bargain.
Every single Macbook I've ever owned (about half a dozen) has had battery or keyboard failures within a matter of 2 or 3 years. So my experience is not the same as yours. Apple seem to have a history of problems with their battery technology in particular. And recent Apple machines are almost unserviceable by end users, for even simple fixes.
I'll remember that last statement next time I'm at the command line typing "sudo".I've been using Linux on a PC for about 15 years, on a succession of desktops and laptops, and am very happy that way. No licences, no viruses, everything just works.
Good call. Now let's start some proper apple bashing. My Macbook Pro motherboard went tits up after 3 years and 3 months. And then again after 5 years. 150 quid each time.I procure several 100 laptops per year and have stopped procuring Apple products as they fail more frequently (average time 2 to 3 years) than traditional PCs (4 to 5 years).
My wife uses both platforms, and prefers Windows.
Apple provides a closed environment.
Choose the tool that best meets your needs, not by brand
Same here. Apple are pretty good but Windows have gone some way too, also softwarewise. Can’t say one bad thing about M365, at least for private users.Can't remember the last time i saw a blue screen!
Can’t say one bad thing about M365, at least for private users.