The windows laptop experience is frankly nothing short of embarrassing today. Battery life is measured in closer to minutes than hours, sleep/hibernate is less reliable than my last Linux laptop (in 2017), default OS functionality is unusable for 10-20 minutes after booting, boot times measured in minutes, a never ending stream of windows updates (despite me installing them all at every opportunity), and such lacklustre performance are all problems I have with a < 4 month old top of the range dell laptop my work provided for me (and this is actually the second one they gave me.)
I’m usually in the camp of “things aren’t as bad as you think and they weren’t as good as you remember” but I’ve upgraded from a mid range windows 10 laptop to this and it’s one of the first times I’ve ever experienced a complete step back on what should be a generational update. And that’s before you get to the “quality” of the hardware.
Meanwhile, my 5 year old MacBook pro is faster than either of those machines….
I’m usually in the camp of “things aren’t as bad as you think and they weren’t as good as you remember” but I’ve upgraded from a mid range windows 10 laptop to this and it’s one of the first times I’ve ever experienced a complete step back on what should be a generational update. And that’s before you get to the “quality” of the hardware.
Meanwhile, my 5 year old MacBook pro is faster than either of those machines….