Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry

Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by adpirz on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:33AM (#18131212)

I was a PC user long ago, and I moved to mac _because_ it felt like a tool built by a master woodworker (so to speak) as both a general user and a dev. When I first got any PC, I always had to do a fresh install of the OS to clean out the adware, regularly run some cleaner on the registry, and if it was a laptop, it was unpredictable what would happen if I closed the screen to name just a handful of sources of frustration.

When I tried a mac, it really "just worked". You get it, you open it, and you're running. If you need to, close it, and pick up where you left off when you open it next. My current MBP is 4 years old and feels as snappy as day 1, and I've had no part in maintaining that. As a dev, I have a *nix environment right out of the box, which is incredibly helpful.

I'm hoping Microsoft has finally relieved some of those frustrations and gotten these things right as well.

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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by philliphaydon on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:42PM (#18132059)

We have wildly different experiences to OS X. It’s never “just worked” for me and it crashes often. I love my 12” MacBook but OS X just isn’t like it used to be. It used to be rock solid. Never crash. Always fast. But it really feels like it’s becoming windows xp. Windows 10 runs better on my 12 MacBook than OS X... I do miss my original retina MacBook tho. That was the last true good laptop Apple made.

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Re:Microsoft now has the best hardware lineup in the industry by adpirz on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @01:28PM (#18132548)

Sorry to hear that! I’ve definitely noticed a steady decline in the joy I experience with macOS with newer updates (i really miss Spaces), but it’s still head and shoulders above any experience I had with windows.

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