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This. I'd wager that the entire set of hardware and software tools most of us use to make a year's worth of income could be purchased with two weeks of income (or less). The laptop being the majority of it. That's pretty astounding.

So yah, did I just drop ~$2,500 on a new MBP? Yes. Did I enjoy spending it? No, but I also want the thing to "just fucking work" and it's a tiny fraction of my income considering my last Apple laptop lasted me almost 4 years... before I dropped it.

> I want to get on with my tasks. An operating system linked to s fixed set of hardware provides me exactly this.

I get the same thing from [ThinkPenguin](https://www.thinkpenguin.com/), though the OS isn't linked to the hardware in any way --- they just choose free-software compatible hw.

>I don't want to waste my time dicking around with drivers and other such noise

Are you implying that PC laptops require you to "dick around with drivers?"

If so, you are basing your logic on non-facts.

Driver updates have been integrated with Windows Update for at least 5 years, now.