I draw manufacturing and quality equipment in CAD for a living….I also spec/build all the higher end computers non typical office computers for the business I work for.
I despise windows based laptops. They never last. I have several floating around work with 4xxx series graphics cards and high end CPUs. All they are good for is making heat and throttling while your trying work on a project.
My experience has been the opposite, I bought from a relatively niche brand with no customer support to speak of, cyberpowerpc, and three years later my laptop, 2070S max-P and 10875H, is running great. 78% battery health with good idle and stress thermals.
My beef is with trying to use a laptop for extremely resource intensive programs that just cause massive heat, thermal throttling, and delay work getting done at an acceptable rate not with windows or laptops for doing your taxes.
I used exclusively Windows up until about age 16, then switched to Linux for a few years, then back to Windows with a Linux dual-boot for development work. I got a 13" 2015 MacBook Pro in 2020, and I’ve used exclusively Mac since then. I have a literal stack of 8 Windows laptops my parents have given me to either fix or recover data from in the last 3-5 years. Windows laptops, even the expensive ones, just do NOT last as long as Macs, even when they were on Intel chips.
Between 2009 and now I’ve owned two Windows laptops: an HP pavillion and an Asus Zenbook which still does its job (from 2017). Both were under $1000. Anecdotes are anecdotes.
Funny to see most Windows laptops mentioned in this article be at least $1000 cheaper
Well the nice thing is that’s $1000 towards replacing it when it becomes a pile of hot (HOT) garbage 2 years down the road.
in what world are are these kinds of laptops obsolete after two years? spoken like someone who’s never used a Windows laptop with these kinds of specs
I draw manufacturing and quality equipment in CAD for a living….I also spec/build all the higher end computers non typical office computers for the business I work for.
I despise windows based laptops. They never last. I have several floating around work with 4xxx series graphics cards and high end CPUs. All they are good for is making heat and throttling while your trying work on a project.
My experience has been the opposite, I bought from a relatively niche brand with no customer support to speak of, cyberpowerpc, and three years later my laptop, 2070S max-P and 10875H, is running great. 78% battery health with good idle and stress thermals.
Lol so you’re a manufacturing engineer and also the IT guy?
Stop making shit up rofl.
At least you can run CAD software on windows natively. On Mac you need a virtual machine or remote desktop.
No doubt.
My beef is with trying to use a laptop for extremely resource intensive programs that just cause massive heat, thermal throttling, and delay work getting done at an acceptable rate not with windows or laptops for doing your taxes.
Do you think your “qualifications” grant your opinion any weight? Lol.
I use all that shit too and my windows laptop has literally zero problems.
40gb ram. 3070.
Easy mode.
I used exclusively Windows up until about age 16, then switched to Linux for a few years, then back to Windows with a Linux dual-boot for development work. I got a 13" 2015 MacBook Pro in 2020, and I’ve used exclusively Mac since then. I have a literal stack of 8 Windows laptops my parents have given me to either fix or recover data from in the last 3-5 years. Windows laptops, even the expensive ones, just do NOT last as long as Macs, even when they were on Intel chips.
Between 2009 and now I’ve owned two Windows laptops: an HP pavillion and an Asus Zenbook which still does its job (from 2017). Both were under $1000. Anecdotes are anecdotes.