>Looking into laptops

>Find This one

>Think it would be good

>Dig deeper

>Turns out tons of windows laptops just are pieces of shit I guess with poor quality control and an hero themselves eventually

Is it time I walk into the light and purchase a Macbook Air or Pro? My surface scratching consensus I'm discovering is that apple actually has their shit together right now and produces quality laptops, while windows manufacturers can't get their fucking shit together.

>>93153740 (OP)

The only worthwhile laptops are the Apple MacBooks and the Microsoft Surface laptops. Dell is complete garbage. If you're familiar with Windows and just want Windows get a Surface laptop, if you want something new, a MacBook

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Name a windows laptop that isn't a low quality controlled piece of shit compared to a macbook. I'll wait for you to do so.

Dell Precision

The 15" model is literally the same as the XPS in that range.

No. Better quality control and no killer wi-fi kek

>>93153740 (OP)

> windows laptops just are pieces of shit 

Indeed, but this particular Laptop is also available with Linux.

>>93153740 (OP)

Just make sure you do not buy the intel ones. M1/M2 CPUs are really amazing and the main (besides the build quality) reason to get an MacBook.



But make sure your workflow will be OK on those, e.g. I can't build production docker images, since the servers run x64. So I build them on a remote server. But when it comes to running the x64 containers locally, it's still possible for most.



The situation with VMs is also a bit more complicated, e.g. Virtualbox doesn't work. So it's either parallels or some other thing that will work on ARM.

>>93153740 (OP)

I've been finding this out lately too. Laptops have gotten so thin and fragile that it's hard to make them last more than 2-3 years.

>>93153740 (OP)

I'mm be honest, what's the point of a powerful laptop nowadays?



I basically only use my laptop in Uni, and there SSH X-Forwarding gives me around 60ms latency, which isn't great obviously, but it's good enough for taking notes, hoping on zoom meetings, and making presentations. We really ought to get back to this original terminal shit. We should have our ultraportable, super long lasting, low power laptops that are terminals to our servers at home. Not cloud bullshit, but just classic terminal-server.

Gaming laptops are still thick.

>the faggot didn't denied it

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The main thing I love about my Apple M1 MacBook air and m1 MacBook Pro 16" is that they are efficient and quiet. The pro has a fan but I can't remember the last time I heard it. The Pro copes with multiple IDEs and docker crap a bit better than the Air but I think the Air is still a great laptop for most people.

I also have a ThinkPad P series from work and fuck I hate it: hot, noisy, plastic, horrible touchpad, crap battery life.

>>93153740 (OP)

I have a Dell XPS from 2015 that died recently for no reason. My laptop from pentium 3 era still works.

>>93153740 (OP)

i have an xps13 from 2017 still working seamlessly my fav notebook
