Apple Fanboy Tries a Windows Laptop (for a week)

The choice between MacBooks and Windows laptops is easy...or is it?

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00:00 Introduction
00:43 The Windows Laptop
01:09 Windows 11
02:52 Performance/Battery Life
04:15 Pricing and Resale Value
06:05 Why One Is Not Better Than The Other

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[CreatedTech]

Do you think Tim Cook will forgive me?

[gime]

I switch between all three. MacOS personal use, Windows for gaming, Linux for development/work, they all have their uses and it's hard to just pick one for people that require multiple functionality. So I can't say whether one is better than the other because, each is really good at certain tasks.

[dougrattmann]

I've just purchased this Legion 7 from Lenovo as part of the aforementioned price drops, and it fits my engineering, gaming, and software dev needs very well. That being said, I only get ~5 hours of battery life on light browsing and am jealous of the M1 in that regard... hopefully my next buy a few years down the line will be closer to a merger of these two devices!

[drakata]

My prefer combo is
Laptop- Mac
Desktop - Windows

[Dunno_ian]

I am a university student that *finally* moved over to apple after years as a Windows user. When you said the MacBook was just "better at being a laptop" I completely agreed. Something about being able to have this machine always on without concern for the battery or RAM overloads is so convenient. I can now use my machine genuinely as a notebook. It's there when I need it, the quality of the machine will last years, and the OS has been easy to get used to; let alone the connection with my iPhone. For the performance I needed I couldn't see an extra $200 being an issue when I would like assurance in a machine to last 5+ years, that's only $40/year difference

[JP-jsjr]

I find using MacOS somehow more relaxing. Imo it’s better for focussed work such as literature research but for my project management job I like the snappiness of windows, stressed multitasking between 5 different apps is where it shines

[twistentiger]

I use all 3
Windows: Gaming, IT Networking stuff
MacOS: Programming/Development
Linux: Pentesting.

[DeepteshLovesTECH]

I prefer the versatile Windows platform. Cheap to get in and maintain with upgradability, tremendous GPU horsepower through big RTX/RX cards. AMD CPUs providing plenty of run time on battery. For serious work I tend to sit on a desk with my 27inch monitor with tons of windows open.
And obviously gaming.
I don't like closed ecosystem as they causes blocks and hindrance in my life when interacting with different users so Android and windows suits me.
Android also works a lot like a PC as well with file access and all that.

[PTYC]

I can see the windows side improve massively when mediatek or Qualcomm can figure out how to scale their chips. The biggest innovation apple did for their m1 was their scalable nature. If the d9000 scale up, can potentially compete.

[dazzer]

In my experience too, Macs last forever. I admit I add to my Mac tally each time rather than replace, and even as time goes on and my daily drivers get faster and faster, there is always a use for the older ones, they're just too good to bin. I still have a pair of 2008 iMacs on which I keep a lot of older files and use with legacy software; but they still work like a dream, just as though they came out of the box yesterday and one, from the day it was my main Mac until only within the last couple of years or so, was left on 24/7. It's been faultless. I could still get £50 for it and it's 14 years old! Working that out on a cost per day and it's about 40p per day, given that for many years, I ran my business on it. Even my 2002 Powerbook G4 works fine, although that's long been consigned to the back of my cupboard as a future museum piece. Personally, I think they are very good value, although it's down to use case scenario at the end of the day.

[WanderingAroundAZ]

I use both an M1 MacBook Air and an 8th Gen Core i7 Lenovo Yoga C930 with Windows 11. Even after a year, I am not a fan of the file system on MacOS… preferring WIndows 11 in that aspect. Also, my 4 year old Windows laptop is more than enough machine for most everything I do. I haven’t tried video editing on it though. Besides video editing, the only thing keeping me in the MacOS world is the integration with my iPhone and iPad. Maybe Intel will catch up to Apple silicon one day soon. My money’s on Ryzen getting there first though. Windows needs to get 100% ARM support 1st I’m guessing. Until then, I’ll just keep switching back and forth between the 2 depending on what I’m trying to accomplish.

[JakeColtrane]

"File Explorer is preferable to finder." That sentence made me fall out of my seat... As a graphic designer who uses both platforms, the ability to preview files with the space bar, rename files in one keystroke instead of 2 mouse clicks, simple editing and markup tools built right into the platform, and file tabs are just a few of the things I love in Finder that are painfully missing from File Explorer... But maybe my use case is way more specialized than I feel like it is...

[BorisTheShashlikKing]

As soon as I read the title, I knew you'd mention the battery life on the windows laptop. Yes it sucks, but what do you expect from something which has a GPU with a higher power draw than the entire M1 Max SOC? Plus, the legion 7 is well over 5 pounds. Most people will just use it sitting at one place.

[natbarmore]

Can you talk a little more about why you prefer File Explorer to Finder? I hear people say that all the time, but never can explain why except with really vague things like saying it’s “smoother” or similar. I’m really curious because my experience is the exact opposite: I miss lots of Finder features when using MSWindows, but I can’t think of any File Explorer features I miss when using macOS.

[sebuszqo]

Is Macbook a good idea for learning programming, I mean Thats the unix base system So that should be a good idea instead of Linux?

[cedricm]

I have a Synology NAS and using a M1 MacBook Air and I have never had an issue accessing my files on the desktop or saving them.

[andreydoichinov]

I have the legion 7 but just purchased Macbook Pro 14 m1 for work. The legion is a perfect beast ... can handle anything but it suffers from 3 things.
1. battery runs for about 1.5 hours (if you do not restart it in order to use the integrated graphics).
2. it is a heavy laptop
3. It's components are proprly cooled but its body stays warm just browsing the web in chrome. If you play a game ... you can put eggs on top of it near the display and you will have a free cooked dinner.

[Zed-gbzf]

Just switched from my Mac to Legion 7, and I'm in love. Windows is extremely polished now.
❤️

[vipersrt]

i used the depreciation for my gain. got a laptop with i7 11800h and rtx 3070 for 1.2k, which is supposedly a 2k+ usd spec normally.

however, you mentioned video encoding of the m1 being so good, i actually specifically got an intel laptop BECAUSE it has an igpu hardware acceleration for video encoding and especially h265 files. tho it needs to be 11 gen or newer for this specific feature. but again the biggest sacrifice here is battery life and even bigger dip in performance when you're not plugged. so its also not perfect lol

[busyak]

Just got the new Asus G14 and it’s my first windows machine since 2011. When I swiped four fingers and W11’s expose ripoff showed up I laughed. Love Windows 11 so far.