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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.
"Also MacBooks have a higher resell value, retaining up to 50% of their price after five years."
They may maintain up to 50% of their price, but most certainly don't retain 50% of their usability. You're stuck on obsolete programs and OS updates.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
How do you figure that?
more powerful
Mac book processing specs ($1900):
1.2GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor (Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz) with 4MB shared L3 cache
8GB DDR3
512SSD
Intel HD Graphics 5300
Lenovo Y50-70 (highest model) ($1750)
4th Generation Intel Core i7-4720HQ Processor (2.60GHz 1600MHz 6MB)
16GB DDR3
512MB SSD
NVidia 960M
The Lenovo is above or equal in all major categories.
more fully featured
How so? It has less USB port, smaller screen...
Not only are they less expensive for the lifetime of ownership
Explain how. I don't see it.
longer lives
Compared with $300 laptops maybe but all the Lenovo laptops purchased 5 years ago in our business environment are still going strong. The one I purchased for my wife is 6 years old. The only thing I did was replace the drive with an SSD drive to improve her user experience.
Total win
What Apple has over all it's PC equivalent is the amazing in store support but that's only available for those who live where there's an Apple Store.
With the exception of outdated drivers and little to no support from Apple fixing them and forcing WIndows 8 on newer macs.
If the drivers are so outdated and horrible, then why does review after review claim that Windows performance (pick your version) is stellar on Macs?
And are you talking about Boot Camp not supporting earlier versions of Windows? I was sad when they stopped supporting XP, too; but it is understandable from a Support point-of-view. And like every other (or almost every other) PC manufacturer immediately drops driver support for the previous version of Windows when the new one comes out... It's just the way things are in the whole PC industry.
Do you really think that Apple wants to move Windows users forward to a new Windows version? That's nonsensical. I would suspect that it's more like, just like everyone else, Apple relies on "reference designs" for the basis of their Drivers (especially the Windows Drivers), and when they update their hardware designs, they can't find compatible driver-models for earlier versions of Windows, any more than anyone else can. Think about it.