lolol idk dude Windows 11 seems to get a lot of hate, i use 10 and 11 daily for work and gaming and i hate them both. i have so many more problems with them vs macOS
Windows has had "a lot of hate" thrown at it since its inception. Yet despite there being ample time and opportunity for some other, better OS to displace it on the desktop, that has simply never happened.
what do you consider incredibly poor build quality? i cant remember ever getting something from apple with poor build quality. maybe a few flaws here and there but thats the case with every manufacturer at that scale.
Well, just this week we've learned of Apple screwing up the most basic of peripherals, and this isn't exactly the first time it's happened. If you want to look into the not quite so distant past, you can see plenty of examples of poor thermal design in laptops, weird noises coming from a supposedly "silent" desktop machines, poor image quality on cameras integrated within their monitors..
i realize there are a handful of Windows machines among the pile of trash that are built pretty well, Razer makes some good hardware (although the Blade i had had issues with ghosting on the display), but you’re paying just as much as a Macbook at that point, and stuck with Windows/Linux…
Best laptop I've had to date was a Dell Precision which sported some incredible specs and build quality back in 2013. At the time it was priced about the same as the base-line Macbook Pro of the day, and blew it out of the water in pretty much every way. The Latitude model that I use for work now is absolutely solid save for the weak battery life that plagues all Intel laptops. The flip-side, however, is that it is fully reversible (nice for when I'm actually using it while travelling), includes much more storage and RAM than a similarly-priced Apple laptop would have, and I can actually run non-gimped versions of productivity software on it.
show me an all in one built as well as the iMac though,
The iMac is in a league of its own. That I will absolutely happily admit. The MS Studio is probably the only all-in-one that has come close to being a high-end all-in-one computer that can match it. That being said, the iMac is still an all-in-one computer, and many of the things that it is designed to excel at (like photo and video editing - thanks to its incredible screen and performance) are still hindred by the fact that it is an all-in-one, and some of that over-engineering makes it prohibitively expensive to buy for some of the more "pedestrian" use-cases for which all-in-ones are more suited. Most people who would buy an iMac are probably better off with a Macbook.
While perhaps not quite as pretty, thin, or metallic as an iMac, both HP and Lenovo make some very solid all-in-one machines. They perform well for their intended use, most have a touch screen (not a well-liked feature by the folks in these forums to be sure, but it was a hit with my kids when they were much younger and head-to-head Fruit-Ninja on a 24" monitor was a sight to behold), and they tend to cost a lot less than an iMac.
or a monitor built as well as the studio display...some people are willing to pay more for a device milled from a block of aluminum...
Again, "built as well as..." can be quite subjective. The ASD has a nice super high-resolution screen with a tremendous level of brightness and colour accuracy. For people doing video or photo editing, it is fantastic and is probably the best monitor for the job. For every other use-case, it is expensively over-engineered at best, and impractical at worst.
For the work I do (financial modelling, and ERP system development), the LG Dual-Up that I currently have to my right is a far more useful monitor. It is a much better aspect ratio for coding and its native resolution is perfect for any kind of text-based work. It also works as a built-in KVM, and can act as a single large portrait monitor or as two monitors (with two different video sources). For anyone doing software development of any kind, either the Dual-Up or the new BenQ coding monitors would outperform the ASD, and at a much lower cost.
Now, none of these monitors are encased in milled aluminum, so for people who spend more time admiring the back of their monitor than looking at the front of it, that might be a deal-breaker. As they say - you do you. Personally, I'll happily trade a pretty looking case for a lower price tag and specifications that actually, you know,
benefit my workflow, any day.
...and an OS that is beautifully designed and well-integrated with the hardware
So well integrated that there are currently a few thousand users who currently can't use the function keys on their brand new Apple-branded keyboard or the scroll feature on their brand new Apple-branded mouse because that "well-integrated" OS doesn't properly support those features. So beautiful.