Not going to lie but Apple have put pretty high standards on what people expect to work with all laptops nowadays, and many OEMs seem unable or unwilling to try to catch up.
The thermals are awful under moderate CPU use, the fan spins when using an external monitor, the battery vampire drains when it's shut for an extended time instead of saving memory to disk and shutting off.
I think what really happens is people compare $1k Dells with $3k Apples.
I'm looking forward to an M1X MBP, though. That may legitimately outclass any Windows device.
In this case, I think it’s Apple’s proper prioritization of features. Probably also that Apple is able to do this because they don’t have to work on dozens of different models at the same time.
It’s amazing to me that no major PC manufacturers have really done this yet.
The MBP from my perspective is just more of the same. Not better, not worse, but different.
Now with enterprise scanning tools running for "security" they check in daily or hourly to look for new threat signatures or what have you, no matter the power state, no matter the network state, no matter if its in a bag. Likely because the bulk of the tool was just ported from a world where you turn it off or the computer isn't off.
Things are a bit better now that he bought an iMac, but for that price I could have assembled 2 excellent desktop PCs with a good screen.
Maybe I got lucky but I really hope my next machine (probably going to buy the next 16" pro) will last as long.
Manufactured obsolescence.
Windows 7 for example had a support lifetime of about 10 years. Any red hat release has a support lifetime of 10 years plus another 3 or 4 years of extended support for releases since 2010.
I agree that 7 years is not little, but it is not much either.
Apple too has a good track record of releasing security updates for versions of OSX that will run on 10 year old hardware, regardless of whether you can update that hardware to the latest OS.
Many PC OEMs completely abandon security updates for drivers and firmware when their systems go out of warranty, if not immediately after they're discontinued. I had this issue with my last Thinkpad which was less than 2 years old.
But more to the point, it is a true rarity to find manufacturers that provide support that far out for their devices. If we’re bemoaning planned obsolescence, Apple is not the poster boy for it (in my opinion)
It's very obvious what it's about, make "old" hardware feel outdated and force the customer's hand.
Inducements to buy new hardware is a company’s life blood, and the methodology you’ve outlined seems like the tamest way to do so.
The current scheme is designed to extract our disposable income as much as possible. You are given a trivially better deal by Apple, but it’s still very much a raw deal.
Can you really choose not to have a smartphone? No. It’s a necessity of modern life just as a car is for many. This tilts the balance in favor of the manufacturer, you’ll buy one anyway.
I've never had one of mine get hot in a bag. Wake from sleep is nearly instant, and always has been.
I will cop to hearing the fans more often since I switched to running two 4K screens with it, but I'm not sore about that.
The whole post is about Dell XPS laptops not being able to be used in a bag so when you said "it's as shitty" we could assume you were also talking about those issues.
Although why you can avoid it probably depends on what country you’re in. But as a general rule it pretty tricky to get a true “zero volt” reference out of an AC socket. (You can’t know if the neutral is actually zero-volts, or just a different phase, or if a fault elsewhere has caused your neutral to drift slightly. Equally you can’t rely on the ground, because if you started leaking current down it, it would trip the ground current leak protector and turn your house off).
Which means the ground the power supply presents to the device is alway gonna be a little bit off.
I guess I’ve spent too much time looking at high voltage (measured in kV) power electronics used in HVDC transmission, it didn’t occur to me that household electronics would use a slightly different approach.
Linux too. I have a Dell XPS Developer edition with Ubuntu. When I close the lid, it simply goes to sleep and doesn't wake up again until I tell it to.