@munir
If you enjoy both the hardware and the software, there is nothing wrong with it, but if you don't — there isn't much you can do about it. I'm a former Apple user and I simply can't stand modern Apple UIs, it's all just disgusting to me 😖 I can somewhat mitigate it with hacks, but it makes the system less stable and why would I be fighting with the system that I have paid premium to enjoy?
@munir
And with the way I have my system set up, I can squeeze 4 hours of video even from a decade old HP with its tiny battery, it's no longer a selling point: with my usage patterns any more or less recent system would have seemingly infinite battery life to me.
@GNUxeava
Generally true — yes. But of course there are exceptions, I've had experience with both: faulty Apple devices — I'm typing this right now on an old MBP with fried GPU, and all the models they had produced that year and the next one had issues with discrete GPU, Apple admitted it only in 5 years and started a replacement program 🤪
And there are quite durable and reliable "Windows" laptops — technically ThinkPads are just that, some HP laptops also turn out to be fine 🤷
@munir
@GNUxeava
Yeah, I was talking about their business and high-end consumer lines. basically Spectre and ProBooks, the cheaper ones are indeed meh 🤮 Even among higher end ones there are disappointing models.
Speaking of Apple, there's also higher resell value in their devices to the point of being amusingly overrated by some — some onlune ads are like: man, this machine is completely unusable in the current year and you want to sell it at half of its original price, are you nuts? 😆
@munir
@munir
Either I'm paying for the product I'm pleased with, or I'm investing time into making it such, but not both.
But yes, the "overpriced" is often coming from those who have never had personal experience with their products. If you like what you get, the premium you pay seems negligible.
In addition to that, the system became quite significantly more locked down and the hardware less repairable in the recent years, so I'm never looking back.