if you don’t game, then buy Mac. Mac with an old copy of Office for Mac. Anythin

if you don’t game, then buy Mac. Mac with an old copy of Office for Mac. Anything good is available on Mac. OSX? It’s case insensitive Unix under that superb UI. Best OS by far. No bloat. Won’t crash. Great UI. Flawless hardware. Available refurbished.

Myself, I gave up on MSFT in about 2008, partly because I spent too much time with that company and its people, and I wanted a clean slate.

So we have to choose between supporting an expensive woke apple, and a cheap broken microsoft. 😉 Today I don’t own anything but Macs. But then I gave up gaming in about 2010 as a poor use of my time.

I have and can ‘fix’ a mac pro (box), or a macbook pro. But it turns out that it’s just too cheap to pay someone to do it for me. Especially when I still have a mac pro from 2008 and a macbook pro 17″ from 2010 that work perfectly.

My only real complaint I have about macs is that I would like the battery to be pluggable and user-relplacable instead of glued down. And I wish it both had more ports and it was easier to replace the ports – especially microphone. Otherwise memory and drive are easy to replace yourself. everything else is just the mainboard or the screen or the keyboard. Unfortunately, the keyboard is a nightmare, and you’re better off buying the top case and keyboard and replacing that. So that’s the big ‘hole’ in Mac self repair.

IMO the only thing really stopping Apple Macs from going after MSFT, now that Silicon is so much better than Intel, and gaming and AI are on the table, is (a) A Better Excel (b) the willingless to bear the costs of biz sector support (c) and providing a replacement for enterprise security.
I’ll stick with my long standing prediction that the if the iphone market that funds Apple contracts, that’s when they’ll go afer the market that is the SMB and then gradually take over the MB and Enterprise.

Not that Nadella will sit and let it happen… 😉