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Re:Switching from macOS: The Basics by chadgeidel on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:07PM (#12858215)
It boggles the mind that no "PC" manufacturer has done what Apple has done with hardware design and integration. Apple has been hitting it out of the park for at least 4-6 years, plenty of time for some other company to do it themselves. Even Microsoft is struggling (although the "Surface" products are really good)

The only thing I can think is that it's really difficult and expensive to iron out all those little hardware bugs.

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Re:Switching from macOS: The Basics by amirmansour on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @05:11PM (#12859316)
It is without a doubt not easy task to release a product with the polish of a MBP, but as you said, you would think there would be something competing at an equal level by now.

I don't think Lenovo's efforts lived up to the glory of the Thinkpad line, but I will give them credit for the X1 Carbon. Though the Carbon only comes in a 14" model.

From an industrial design standpoint, the Surface Book is fantastic and demands respect. I bought the Surface Book when it first came out, and that thing was always overheating, which is a no-go for something trying to be a tablet/notebook. It also suffered from various issues when it launched. Microsoft actually asked Best Buy to stop selling them for a brief moment while the issues were fixed.

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Re:Switching from macOS: The Basics by reitanqild on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:02PM (#12859786)
> It is without a doubt not easy task to release a product with the polish of a MBP, but as you said, you would think there would be something competing at an equal level by now.

I feel Ubuntu could have been there if they had continued their effort to create a rock-solid Gnome 2 experience instead of starting to copy Mac for no good reason (dock, window decorations, alt-tab handling etc).

Now Ubuntu has lost a few years of development time and what once made a hardcode KDE fan like Gnome now feels completely alien to the point where I have stopped even testing the LTS releases.

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Re:Switching from macOS: The Basics by yrro on Thursday November 03, 2016 @01:30PM (#12866042)
A friend of mine returned his surface pro 4 after 48 hours. A software update bricked it and it would not turn on. It really put me of buying one. My current laptop is ten years old an still going strong with a ram and sad upgrade If it died tomorrow I don't know what I would replace it with.
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