That’s what I call sticking to your guns...a LOT has changed over the years, including the launch of M1 Macs that were the first round of game changers. Build quality has certainly not been an issue for years and I can’t imagine why this pending launch of MBP’s is going to be any different, other than the fact that they may be some of the fastest and most efficient laptops ever.
I believe we all will. This should have been a national holiday or I wish we had a black out zone during the time of the event 😆
It really isn’t contradictory.
I did run a desktop Hackintosh for a few years, but got fed up with the inconsistencies between Windows and OSX with a Windows laptop. I even hackintoshed a Netbook at one stage! Eventually I went Windows only.
It was a 2 year plan, which generally puts it at mid-2022. I doubt we'll get the larger iMac update or the MacPro today.
It has to be hurting sales of higher end devices if the new base models outperform them.
Smart thinking and I believe this has been rumoured a while ago and makes sense going with the phrase for the event for a truly unleashed beast of a device.
Almost 15 years ago, when I had a corporate job, the company wanted to get everyone onto the same laptop and chose an HP that was a visual knockoff of an IBM Thinkpad. At the time, I was using my personal MBP, which probably was a CD model (15”) come to think of it. Within a week, half the HP laptops died. Mine worked and because of that, I had to let a higher-up executive take it to use, since I had my personal MBP to use as a backup. Then his HP died as well. Our IT department (two relatively new hires) were overwhelmed trying to deal with a bunch of people unable to work and HP not being responsive in fixing the issues (all of them had bad main boards, which ended up not being fixable). I kept working as I had been, because of course the MBP worked without issue. I left the company not long afterwards, but remember going back for a social visit and meeting with the CEO who at that point had an iMac on her desk, had traded in her Blackberry for an iPhone and had a MBP for work travel use.
I have a mere i5 model. But I know that my M1 mini runs almost as cool as when I switch my Surface off completely overnight.
The i7 has fans for cooling, and I haven't experienced the rotation/keyboard issue much, but battery life is not great.I have a mere i5 model. But I know that my M1 mini runs almost as cool as when I switch my Surface off completely overnight.
This Surface frequently gets too hot to be comfortable to touch. It loses the keyboard many times every day. It keeps deciding it is being rotated when it isn't. And the battery life is disappointing.
I now have no real need to keep a Windows machine at all. So my choice is between a MacBook and an iPad.
New job just said purchase the MBP and they'll reimburse me.
