Switching from Apple to Lenovo
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Switching from Apple to Lenovo
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Re: Switching from Apple to Lenovo
#2Switching from OSX to widows. Bad idea, anyway!
Re: Switching from Apple to Lenovo
#3I had a very positive experience with a t480s (also switching from mac), though I use linux...
The hardware feels much better for my needs than a mac: way better keyboard, matte screen and all the ports you'd expect including ethernet...oh and did I mention it's also way lighter?
Re: Switching from Apple to Lenovo
#4While Apple has certainly made their share of mistakes in designing laptops (like designing a laptop that will crash because it doesn't starts it's fans when the graphics card get hot, or the butterfly keyboard) general quality is how they trap you. People normal say that Apple lock you into their ecosystem, but that's not the main reason I generally choose Apple product. My reasoning is: That the hell else do you suggest I buy?
Windows is still to this day physically cramping up my hand when I use it. It's a slow incoherent mess. I love Linux, on servers, but I really don't want to manage my laptop and the desktop environments are still worse than macOS.
For hardware, the minute you want a good screen and trackpad, you might as well just get a MacBook of some sort, the price will be more or less the same and I get macOS.
I don't mean to sound like an Apple fanboy, there are other great products out there. Generally speaking though, if I just want my stuff to work, and work together, I don't have many options.
Re: Switching from Apple to Lenovo
#5I had a very positive experience with a t480s (also switching from mac), though I use linux... The hardware feels much better for my needs than a mac: way better keyboard, matte screen and all the ports you'd expect including ethernet...oh and did I mention it's also way lighter?
What distro did you run? I have been contemplating the same with PureOS
Re: Switching from Apple to Lenovo
#6While Apple has certainly made their share of mistakes in designing laptops (like designing a laptop that will crash because it doesn't starts it's fans when the graphics card get hot, or the butterfly keyboard) general quality is how they trap you. People normal say that Apple lock you into their ecosystem, but that's not the main reason I generally choose Apple product. My reasoning is: That the hell else do you su…
Agreed. I switched from macOS to Linux, and i don't see the point if you're not getting something very valuable out of it.
I am however, in my mind, so i'm quite happpy. Specifically, i'm toying with immutable operating systems. I view that as valuable because i feel confident in the stability and reproducibility of my system. I'd probably switch back to macOS if they offered something similar to NixOS, but that seems unlikely in the near future.
If i use Mac for my next laptop i'll probably stick Nixpkgs and HomeManager on it and touch the OS as little as possible outside of Nix.
Re: Switching from Apple to Lenovo
#7While Apple has certainly made their share of mistakes in designing laptops (like designing a laptop that will crash because it doesn't starts it's fans when the graphics card get hot, or the butterfly keyboard) general quality is how they trap you. People normal say that Apple lock you into their ecosystem, but that's not the main reason I generally choose Apple product. My reasoning is: That the hell else do you su…
Ultimately, this is what I found since switching from Windows to macOS back in 2014. The build quality of their computers is second to none. There are some manufacturers that get close to Apple build quality, but their price is right up there, too.
Not to mention, the warranty coverage and support from Apple is second-to-none. I've had a few issues with laptops over the years (the late 2016 model, but not the keyboard), and both ways, the laptop was overnighted and the fix took a day, so I was without it for three days. With anyone else, it would be weeks of turnaround time.
Re: Switching from Apple to Lenovo
#8I had a very positive experience with a t480s (also switching from mac), though I use linux... The hardware feels much better for my needs than a mac: way better keyboard, matte screen and all the ports you'd expect including ethernet...oh and did I mention it's also way lighter?
I have a T480, little thinker, but hot swappable battery. What a fantastic machine!
Running Gentoo on it, with Windows dualboot for Pioneer rekordbox :l
Re: Switching from Apple to Lenovo
#9I had a very positive experience with a t480s (also switching from mac), though I use linux... The hardware feels much better for my needs than a mac: way better keyboard, matte screen and all the ports you'd expect including ethernet...oh and did I mention it's also way lighter?
I got a Lenovo t450s some years ago but never found Linux support to be specially good. In fact, I remember I found some issues with the trackpoint's buttons.
That, along with the fact that Lenovo would not agree to refund you the never used Windows license (as other vendors like ASUS did) put them in my black list.
Re: Switching from Apple to Lenovo
#10Switching from OSX to widows. Bad idea, anyway!
It works fine nowadays in general for software development with: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
You can even have VS code running extension on it and such: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/wsl
Source: I did software development on a window machine recently for a job.