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85notch

85notch

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I am very close between two computers I am possibly going to buy. I am looking at the macbook, or a lenovo PC. I had a mac in college and it was great but it wore out, I also went through about 4 pcs in college all of them failing me. I need to run basic every day programs and real estate stuff. What do you suggest?
 
I'll be in the minority here but say mac. I have a Lenovo Yoga 920 (7th gen i7, 16gb Ram, 512 ssd) and a Macbook Pro 2015 (5th gen i5, 8GB RAM, 128 SSD). The Macbook is 3 years old and still outperforms the 6mo old Lenovo. The Lenovo is nice that it has the touchscreen and tablet mode but the Mac just outperforms it period. The lenovo will be garbage in 2 years. The Mac you''ll get triple that time before you need to replace.
 
Mac book pro here. I can’t stand PC anymore. I’ve had a MacBook Pro since 2007. Had to buy a new one when the iPhone 6-7 was released, my MacBook was early 07. iTunes could not load in it, where the late 07’s could. Damn thing still works. Never replaced Shit. Never hardbooted shit. No death screens, never ran or installed any antivirus..... in 10 years!

Bought a new MacBook. Same thing. Zero issues.

We rotate PCs at work every 6 months. Virus magnets.
 
Ive had both and prefer pcs. One thing ive come to terms with is if you get a pc get a dell. I have dell laptops over 15 years old that are still working. The thinkpads were the same way when they were ibm, im not sure lenovo has kept up the old standards or not. My current dell has an amd processor with an embedded graphics chip that absolutely shreds anything available from intel for graphics. I also have an original surface pro that made it about 5 years before the battery crapped out, and i really really liked it, the built in ssd made is crazy fast to do work on and it was super portable.
 
Q1) Do you use any particular software that you must absolutely have, and if so, is it supported on OS X?
Q2) Are you willing to re-learn how to do very basic things, and not get frustrated when something that you can do in 2 seconds in Windows takes 30 mins of googling for equiv in OS X?
Q3) If for work, assuming you aren't a small business owner, are you willing to endure the possible incompatibilities between you and your Windows brethren? e.g. Drafting a PPT and it displays 'wrong' when you sent the pitch to Windows user to display/project.
Q4) Are you made of money?

If your answers are No, Yes, Yes, Yes -- then you may be a good candidate for Macbook Air/Pro. Apple is also expected to release new Macbook models this Fall, so you may want to wait a month or so. There's also nothing keeping you from running linux on PC hardware, if your only complaint with a PC is Windows itself.
 
Killjoy said:
There's also nothing keeping you from running linux on PC hardware, if your only complaint with a PC is Windows itself.
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That's what I've been doing for 15 years. PCs don't age much when you run Linux. I paid a whole $190 for my Lenovo TS140 a few years back. Bumped the RAM up to 8GB for $40 and put in a 256GB SSD for another $70.
There was no off-the-shelf machine that could touch it at the time for that kind of money.
 
I've been running a Lenovo X220 with a 2nd gen Core i7, 8gb RAM, and 256gb SSD as my main machine since 2011 with zero performance complaints. I've replaced the battery once and the fan once. It has had Win10 since it was released and has been a great machine. I'm not looking to replace it anytime soon. Aside from gaming, assuming you buy a laptop with equivalent specs/quality as a macbook, I'm not sure what you could be doing that you need to replace a PC any more often. Obviously a $400 PC laptop isn't going to last as long as a $1500 macbook, but a $1,000-1,500 PC laptop sure will.
 
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