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Could the Best Windows 10 Laptop Be a Mac?
dkatana writes: Now that Windows 10 is finally out there many people are looking for the best laptop with the power to make the new OS shine. The sweet spot appears to be in $900-$1500 machines from Dell, Asus and HP. But Apple, the company that has been fighting Windows for ever, has other options for Windows 10: the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. According to InformationWeek there are many reasons to consider purchasing a MacBook as the next Windows machine, including design, reliability, performance, battery life, display quality and better keyboard. Also MacBooks have a higher resell value, retaining up to 50% of their price after five years.
why not advertise for System76 and other companies that sell good hardware with Linux pre-installed?
I cringe every time I have to use a Mac keyboard. They're awful. In what universe are they better? They're usually not even full keyboards. The one I'm stuck with at work doesn't even have pgup/pgdn, not even with the fn key. There's holes where you could put them near the arrow keys, too, like a sane laptop, but nooo.
Okay, I like the extra bucky bit, but that's an OS thing and it isn't worth the price of "nothing on a macintosh has accelerator keys".
Like Apple or not, they've done a fair amount to force notebooks to be as good as they are today: very high resolution IPS panels, thinness, aluminum bodies, etc. I will ding Apple for seemingly starting the widescreen fad.
The only real competitor were the IBM ThinkPads but since those have been sold to Lenovo, Apple is about the only computer make who is capable of creating a decent notebook computer without just blatantly ripping off someone else's design.
Consider the Dark Ages of notebooks just a few short years ago. Crap from Dell and the others were sporting 1024x768 resolutions on crap LCD displays and were thick, heavy pieces of garbage. My ThinkPad T43 from 2004 had a 1400x1050 IPS panel and 5 years later, outside of CPU, the enterprise class machines actually had worse specifications!
I assume you must be thinking of one that's well-known enough we'd all get your reference, which would suggest you're talking about the one making the rounds in the news recently, right? But that one was only introduced in the latest version of the OS, rather than "existing for years". And that one has already been patched in both the latest version of the OS and the next version of the OS.
So surely you must be thinking of another one. Or else you just ignored all of the inconvenient truths. Either way, I'm eager to be corrected or informed, as appropriate.
Worth noting: next version of OS X switches to a "rootless" security model, à la SELinux.
'Up to' is a weasel phrase. Like 'some scientists believe', anything qualified by this is sure to be pure BS.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
People don't buy apples to run windows on them. They buy apples because they cost 1.5x more, hating windows is hip, and the millennial hipsters thrive on conspicuous consumption.
And that Dell XPS 13 2015 will cost a pretty penny, as soon as you deck it out to similar specs, if you even can. That's not to say that Dell hasn't improved significantly over the past 5 years, because they have. But, I still recall my run of 5 Dell laptops in less than 3 years, because they kept crapping out. I have had 3 MBPs in the past 10 years, the first which I still own and still works fine, the second died after 5 and a half years of dev machine use, the third is my current all around box used daily. It's over a year old and you'd never know it.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
Uhhhh what? You're spec'ing a sub notebook against a 15" notebook. Of course the sub notebook is not going to be configurable into the same range, and is going to get very expensive.
If you're comparing against a 15" Lenovo, you want to compare against the 15" Macbook Pro, which is the equivalent.