I dislike using other laptops than Apple MacBooks

[pshufd]

I bought a Lenovo Yoga 2-in-1 Gen 10 Aura with Lunar Lake as my M1 Pro MacBook Pro 16 isn't great for traveling and I use one important program that runs poorly on Apple Silicon. Build quality is comparable to my MacBook Pro except for the trackpad. It's a diving board design but I use tap to click so it's not that big of an issue. I do the same thing on my MacBook Pro.

It runs cool and quiet, comparable to my MacBook Pro and it gets about 14 hours of battery life doing casual stuff. It has a USB-A port which comes in handy, 4K OLED 14 inch display and can convert to tablet mode. Absolutely the best Windows laptop I've used though I've been MacBook Pro since 2008. Lunar Lake is a very nice chip from Intel, made on Taiwan Semi 3 nm. This is supposedly a one-off though.

M4 is better in single-core and multicore but I don't need heavy multicore. The ability to upgrade the SSD myself is nice and it runs at 6K+ MBps.

I am also running macOS Ventura on it.

 

[MuGeN PoWeR]

same here. I literally hate my work IBm Thinkpad!

 

[MacBH928]

I have a MacBook Air as well as a ThinkPad and as much as I prefer the Apple ecosystem I usually take the ThinkPad with me when I head out of the house.

why you prefer the thinkpad? also which specific model?

 

[EdwardC]

why you prefer the thinkpad? also which specific model?

It’s a 12th gen i5 L-14. Picked it up from MicroCenter a few years ago for $549.00. Have a M4 Air that is really nice but I find myself taking the ThinkPad most of the time I use a M4 Max Studio in my office. Im very much relegated to the Apple ecosystem since ‘95. I have found Mailbird is 100% compatible with iCloud email which is what I use on the Win machine. I use iCloud storage and the iCloud.com version works very well also.

 

[EdwardC]

It’s a 12th gen i5 L-14. Picked it up from MicroCenter a few years ago for $549.00. Have a M4 Air that is really nice but I find myself taking the ThinkPad most of the time I use a M4 Max Studio in my office. Im very much relegated to the Apple ecosystem since ‘95. I have found Mailbird is 100% compatible with iCloud email which is what I use on the Win machine. I use iCloud storage and the iCloud.com version works very well also.

Also to respond to what I like about it is that it’s very robust and easy to upgrade on the cheap.

 

[platinumaqua]

I used to be like that but then I grew older. Computers are just a tool to get work done. The less I have to fight against my computer to get things done the better.

The Windows PCs I got issued at work were pretty nice even though there are some quirks there.

Macs used to stay out of the way and just work™ but they have gotten worse since I first started using it since 2006. I don't care for the bad UI changes, the arbitrary cutoffs to force software upgrades (ending support for PowerPC->32 bit x86->x86-64 apps), how modern Macs don't have USB-A ports, poor 3rd party hardware support/drivers (that you hope Apple will fix eventually but never happens), and how they're designed to be disposable.

 

[pshufd]

I used to be like that but then I grew older. Computers are just a tool to get work done. The less I have to fight against my computer to get things done the better.

The Windows PCs I got issued at work were pretty nice even though there are some quirks there.

Macs used to stay out of the way and just work™ but they have gotten worse since I first started using it since 2006. I don't care for the bad UI changes, the arbitrary cutoffs to force software upgrades (ending support for PowerPC->32 bit x86->x86-64 apps), how modern Macs don't have USB-A ports, poor 3rd party hardware support/drivers (that you hope Apple will fix eventually but never happens), and how they're designed to be disposable.

One of the main programs that I use on macOS is broken in Tahoe. Someone did some amazing diagnostic work to figure out that it's an issue with new GPU handling in Tahoe so I'm staying on Sequoia until at least 2026 and maybe until 2027. I suspect that this has broken other software too which is why you see Reddit threads on people going back to Sequoia from Tahoe.

 

[platinumaqua]

One of the main programs that I use on macOS is broken in Tahoe. Someone did some amazing diagnostic work to figure out that it's an issue with new GPU handling in Tahoe so I'm staying on Sequoia until at least 2026 and maybe until 2027. I suspect that this has broken other software too which is why you see Reddit threads on people going back to Sequoia from Tahoe.

Yeah, despite Windows 11's constant annoying UI changes, even very old 3rd party software just continues to run without issues and I appreciate that more and more as a lot of apps switch to the subscription format or just get worse in general

 

[MacBH928]

It’s a 12th gen i5 L-14. Picked it up from MicroCenter a few years ago for $549.00. Have a M4 Air that is really nice but I find myself taking the ThinkPad most of the time I use a M4 Max Studio in my office. Im very much relegated to the Apple ecosystem since ‘95. I have found Mailbird is 100% compatible with iCloud email which is what I use on the Win machine. I use iCloud storage and the iCloud.com version works very well also.

its interesting you say you are in the apple ecosystem but you favour the windows machine for on the go

One of the main programs that I use on macOS is broken in Tahoe. Someone did some amazing diagnostic work to figure out that it's an issue with new GPU handling in Tahoe so I'm staying on Sequoia until at least 2026 and maybe until 2027. I suspect that this has broken other software too which is why you see Reddit threads on people going back to Sequoia from Tahoe.

care to share which app?

 

[MacBH928]

It runs cool and quiet, comparable to my MacBook Pro and it gets about 14 hours of battery life doing casual stuff.

i am surprised that the yoga is quieter than M chip macbook as everyone was boasting how M chip macs never run fans and has a long battery life