Macbooks have nailed down the basics when it comes down to the user experience:
1. Best touchpad period.
2. Good overall keyboards (Ignore the 2016-2020 butterfly keyboards)
3. Best sounding speakers.
4. Every display has 400+ nits of brightness with good color accuracy.
5. Very good battery life per watt-hour of the battery and lasts better with time as well.
The package is what make the macbooks great. I don't have to go through a list of laptops and go through pros and cons of laptops and there are a LOT of cons.
You may think that bad sounding speakers or 250 nits screen is not a very big deal but just try using a macbook for a while and you'll see how these these make a drastic change in the user experience.
People go on about how macbooks are over-hyped and expensive (they are!) but I think that what they offer is a level above anything else on the market.
I am using a MBA 2015 for my dev purposes and sometimes the 8Gigs of RAM feels like it could use an upgrade. (I want to upgrade but it is so much expensive moving on to the new ones). I've tried so many laptops and none of those impress me. This is the only reason that Macbooks, even though they cost a bomb, last for well over 10 years.
Edit:
It "seems" windows laptops are catching up, but please list one laptop that would be usable after, say 8 years. For eg. a MBP 2012 will still work very good in 2020 compared to any of the laptops from even 2015.
Are there any windows laptops in 2020 that you can say the same for?
1. Best touchpad period.
2. Good overall keyboards (Ignore the 2016-2020 butterfly keyboards)
3. Best sounding speakers.
4. Every display has 400+ nits of brightness with good color accuracy.
5. Very good battery life per watt-hour of the battery and lasts better with time as well.
The package is what make the macbooks great. I don't have to go through a list of laptops and go through pros and cons of laptops and there are a LOT of cons.
You may think that bad sounding speakers or 250 nits screen is not a very big deal but just try using a macbook for a while and you'll see how these these make a drastic change in the user experience.
People go on about how macbooks are over-hyped and expensive (they are!) but I think that what they offer is a level above anything else on the market.
I am using a MBA 2015 for my dev purposes and sometimes the 8Gigs of RAM feels like it could use an upgrade. (I want to upgrade but it is so much expensive moving on to the new ones). I've tried so many laptops and none of those impress me. This is the only reason that Macbooks, even though they cost a bomb, last for well over 10 years.
Edit: It "seems" windows laptops are catching up, but please list one laptop that would be usable after, say 8 years. For eg. a MBP 2012 will still work very good in 2020 compared to any of the laptops from even 2015. Are there any windows laptops in 2020 that you can say the same for?