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Why limit yourself to a Chromebook? Macs and Windows PCs have a browser plus everything else. If all you want to do is browse the web a tablet is a better choice.

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Macs are undoubtedly better, but have two main drawbacks: cost and boot time. ChromeOS wakes up in seconds. My Mac takes a while.

Windows is just so awful I don’t know where to start haha

Why would you boot your Mac all the time? That’s what sleep is for.

I tend to power down when I’m not using it, if I don’t I feel like I always have too many windows and tabs open after a while.

That's not what most people do and not how it's supposed to be used, so you are arguing a strawman. My MBA M1 is the best laptop I have ever used in 30+ years. The battery life alone is outstanding and it does wake up effectively instantly. I can go months between rebooting.

ADD: as for cost, in my experience, my MacBooks tend to live for MUCH longer than my winbooks. My wife's MacBook Pro is over 8 years old. Personally I dread switching notebooks (moving data, adding customization, etc) and would happily pay double for something that will last me twice as long or longer.

Strawman? Really? I’m just talking about my own experience of how I use my own computer.

That’s fine but maybe don’t complain about how booting takes time then.

Nah, I will

> would happily pay double for something that will last me twice as long or longer.

I'm still delivering software and making money from my Toshiba 1805. I'm not sure exactly how old it is though, I got it secondhand maybe 19-20 years ago.

My piece of advice. Just don't. Keep in sleeping. Just close the lid and forget about it. It's a very good experience.

What kind of Mac do you have? My “power down” habit was learned from my PC days, where my laptop would slowly burn down battery on sleep/hibernate, combined with the slow degradation in performance from extended sessions.

I get it! I haven't used Macs much, mostly windows and linux, suspend/resume is really funky on windows for me. Linux was pretty much instantaneous when resuming on my ThinkPad.

I also didn't lose much battery life, probably 5% overnight-midday.

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