I was eating some chocolate when I imagined a world where Hershey’s was widely accepted, even by elitists, as the best chocolate.
Is consumer elitism just a facade for pretentious contrarians? Or are there things where even most snobs agree with the masses?
Also, I mean that the product is intrinsically considered to be the best option. I’m not considering social products where the user network makes the experience.
Edit: I was not eating Hershey’s. Hershey’s being the best chocolate is a bizarro universe in this hypothetical.
MacBooks.
Plenty of reasons to hate Apple as a company but the hardware and build quality of MacBooks really is second to none. I know several Linux/OSS die-hards who swear by their M1 MBPs.
I full heartily disagree because MacBooks are a trap: While I agree with you in terms of production quality it’s a point of no return for a lot of use cases which rarely makes it the best option in my opinion.
It’s basically eliminating too many options down the road for it to be a good recommendation for most people for me. There are exceptions of course but i couldn’t call it “best” with good conscience.
Right. Of the major operating systems, I think none of them are good answers for this. Too close of a market share to really be in the spirit of the question, and they all really do hit different markets.
Agreed - and none of them are a catch-all answer suited for everyone from my point of view.
Wake me up when you can repair one without Apple’s hostility and replace storage and RAM without a soldering iron. Hard pass.
Tons of Windows based laptops have soldered storage and ram, though.
But you’ll pay extra just because it’s Apple
I can attest to this for older models. It’s really hard to know if standards have slipped in their luxury product era, though.
My over 10 year old ThinkPad disagrees. The abuse it has put up with while still working puts macbooks to shame.
I know, the newer ThinkPads aren’t what they used to be, but I have a pretty new one as my work computer, and it still doesn’t let the MacBooks off the hook.
The MacBook I’m typing on (in Linux) is closer to 15.
2011 Macbook gang rise up!
I don’t use mine that much these days, but it’s still going strong. Two SSDs, 16GB RAM, and it’s running Arch(btw). The thing won’t die.
Yes, but I mean… Has it survived a fall from about a meter onto a concrete floor, a fall from an overhead luggage rack, as well as a number of other falls I don’t remember, all without a case - and a bicycle accident (that time in a laptop bag)?
That’s what I mean. Just about any computer will last 15 years if handled carefully, but surviving a lot of active use and abuse, that’s another story.
I could totally believe that ThinkPads are more rugged under actual abuse. I don’t think Apple tries to be, really.
That being said, I have plenty of other younger laptops around that have been reduced to server usage do to falling apart. Apple’s early adoption of SSD also helps.