I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to communicate. It's true that if you only consider an Apple laptop, you will only consider an Apple laptop. Windows laptops compete against each other. Few people cross shop them. That being said, it seems that 75-80% of personal computers sold today are still running Windows, not OS X. As someone that has software that runs equally well on Windows and OS X, and who does not use a track pad, bang for buck on hardware performance and quality (and minimal OEM meddling) sells me my laptop.
It's also true that AMD has an uphill battle with convincing OEMs to make really great laptops using their APUs. But one would suspect that reading this article, you can tell that Asus has at least a foot in the door, as this is a review of a very high quality laptop - the whole package, not just the CPU.
And finally, it's of course also true that most Microsoft Surface products use Intel chips, with just one version of the Surface Laptop using an AMD chip. But they already began to buy into AMD hardware, so I would expect more along those lines this fall!
I'm was making an assertion that I feel that a lot of people will buy apple while having a substandard product in some aspects. Because overall it has the "package"
When i refer to "many of us" I was talking about startups/developer community maybe not super enterprise-y like a Freddie or Fannie/ BofA etc.
"Why is that?" was a question. I answered it for me, but I was wondering for others. That may buy a macbook over something with arguably notebooks with better cpus / configuration. Why are they doing it?
AMD has a great processor, what they need is a great platform. I hope Microsoft partnership they have pushes them forward. Because I'm tired of buying intel macbooks/notebooks
I've owned/used lots of laptops (both my own & from work).
When I tried windows laptops in recent times I searched for the best ones in my size range - both times they were dells (last one is a 2015 XPS 13) & in both I've paid close to apple-level prices (the xps was €2400 IIRC) and yet I had to have both repaired within about a year of buying. With the xps it was just after the 1 year mark which meant I had to pay several €100s for a screen replacement.
This never happened to me with a MacBook pro despite having used a lot more of these than I have PC laptops (which were supposed to be high-end laptops).
For what it's worth I don't care about OS - my main computer is an iMac I duelboot Mac & Win via boot camp.
This is anecdotal. The last macbook I bought the GPU stopped working and it black screened after 2 years or so. It was also ran hot due to apple's weird indexers constantly using 100% cpus in the background and it being a closed system meant you couldn't really figure out wtf it was doing that or fix it.
However my 2012 era thinkpad is a complete tank, and even better any issues are easily user serviceable.
Yeah I had a company issued 2019 top of the line xps 15. It replaced top of the line HP 5 years back.
I would commute a lot and bring my macbook to use in place of the dell. I would dual boot i. I only take out the XPS to get on vpn :-/
I personally have never seen a "windows" developer do any development work on a windows laptop (I see they have visual studio etc installed). Unless you counting documentation / requirements. I have seen a lot of ix devs and osx developers develop on their laptops.
I work as a consultant in big enterprise world and with many startups on a range of projects.
I have seen plenty of them in the last 30 years, specially since 2006 doing consulting for Fortune 500, where docking station/thinkpad combos are pretty much standard.
A very famous Finish telecommunication company, several well known German companies in medicament production and life sciences domains, and a couple of car and package delivery companies.
Ahhhhh!!!
You are correct the docking station. I ment being mobile and doing work. Most definety. I see more devs with docking stations then Apple / Linux combined.
I just never seen them used it undocked for dev though lol.
Great point!
It's also true that AMD has an uphill battle with convincing OEMs to make really great laptops using their APUs. But one would suspect that reading this article, you can tell that Asus has at least a foot in the door, as this is a review of a very high quality laptop - the whole package, not just the CPU.
And finally, it's of course also true that most Microsoft Surface products use Intel chips, with just one version of the Surface Laptop using an AMD chip. But they already began to buy into AMD hardware, so I would expect more along those lines this fall!