In my entire life (and as context my earliest experiences with a PC predate the first consumer-available apple computer) there has not been a single time where I have felt the phrase “only Apple can achieve” to be worthy of anything other than a snort.
Apple’s unshakable confidence that everything they do is earth shattering is overlapping heavily with that mediocre white man saying these days.
I will say though that I never thought I’d live to see the day where an Apple laptop is the best bang for the buck laptop. If you can grab a M1 macbook refurbished with warranty (places like best buy in canada or back market in the US will offer warranty on refurbished laptops) it is very likely the best bang for your buck laptop.
I got one myself an I have to say, the M1 and likely the other M series laptops are insane. The battery life is nuts and the performance is unlike any non-M series laptop I’ve used. It feels even snappier than a 2024 Asus G14, a laptop that costs double the M1’s price.
Then you get to the hardware and the entire laptop just feels so well designed. I really hate that there is this much of a gap between Apple laptops and everything else.
I have to give credit to Apple here for absolutely demolishing the laptop market.
In my entire life (and as context my earliest experiences with a PC predate the first consumer-available apple computer) there has not been a single time where I have felt the phrase “only Apple can achieve” to be worthy of anything other than a snort.
Apple’s unshakable confidence that everything they do is earth shattering is overlapping heavily with that mediocre white man saying these days.
I will say though that I never thought I’d live to see the day where an Apple laptop is the best bang for the buck laptop. If you can grab a M1 macbook refurbished with warranty (places like best buy in canada or back market in the US will offer warranty on refurbished laptops) it is very likely the best bang for your buck laptop.
I got one myself an I have to say, the M1 and likely the other M series laptops are insane. The battery life is nuts and the performance is unlike any non-M series laptop I’ve used. It feels even snappier than a 2024 Asus G14, a laptop that costs double the M1’s price.
Then you get to the hardware and the entire laptop just feels so well designed. I really hate that there is this much of a gap between Apple laptops and everything else.
I have to give credit to Apple here for absolutely demolishing the laptop market.
Yeah, I felt the same when I bought my old iPad (as I needed a good pen for writing)