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thewebguyd parent
No argument there. Where I work (I'm in infrastructure, not a dev) we've switched almost entirely to MacBooks and experienced the same when were a Dell shop. Horrible reliability. We've been on Macs since ~2023 and I've yet to need to send one off for repair or RMA.

I keep them for use at home as Linux machines because of the repairability and ease of upgrading, but my main machine is still a Mac.

I'd love MacBook level of hardware quality combined with easy access to repair and swap parts.


jorvi
IBM saw their internal tech support requirement plummet when they switched to MacBooks.

I've never understood companies that cheap out on laptops. Even if you only pay someone minimum wage (€1800), a high end laptop is ~1 month wage, and you get a tax write-off on it too.

Even if that person only works there for 2 years, that's 4.2% of the cost of employing them.

Even worse is when management doles maxed out iPhones and MacBooks Pros out to themselves, but the main workforce has to make do with €650 craptops and cheap Samsung phones. For me that's always a double red flag because it tells me management is both inept and greedy.

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