once cuba macbook for work, never gone back, even my m1 air still decent, intuitive to use even without mouse, never worry about battery, its just reliable. Not sure about Windows laptop nowadays, other than gaming, my experience with them not great, sometimes blue screen and the frequent updates are unnecessary and take so long which i cant tolerant for work purpose

I think Mchips are generally can run everything smoothly. Even their FCPX are optimized with the chip can run very fast even with Air model.

So i guess the only difference now are the looks.
1. MiniLED
2. Fan for the body
3. HDMI, SD Card ports

Ask around who still using 2020 windows laptop? M1 still very strong in battery too until now

mbp 13" 2016 can trade in for RM450 on Apple website if can still turn on.

can give me this paper weight, i use it as display relic

This post has been edited by iSean: Apr 9 2025, 02:54 PM

For gaming, better you buy x86 Windows laptop or preferably desktop.

Will get used to it eventually.

I'm still using my Lenovo Y720-15IKB laptop (7700HQ/GTX1060.) Forgot what year it is. But now using as desktop since battery bloated and had to be removed.

screen problem. missed the exchange deadline to replace it. so prolly worthless as trade in.
maybe leave it to run some compute task 24/7

if gaming go back windows for value for money la.
if kids, if they don't value mac, no point also.
if they value mac and mau gaming, expect your wallet to vomit blood. even then also maybe not up to spec.
if go windows for hardcore gaming, also wallet vomit blood.

so either you know your shit, or they know their shit.
but the bill might end up as a surprise to you, if their expectation is high

haha..very wise words...

now days kids play pc game?

i tot all only know play mobile game

Macbook battery life better then window lappy.

Not any more. New X Elite and Intel Lunar Lake can outlast M3 or M4 MacBook Airs.

Im using m1 macbook since 2020 still as good as new when first bought

16/256 enough long term? unker need to maintain 100 browser tabs while juggle xcode, cursor, yotube, imovie, whatsapp, tg, google sheet and genshin.

If that’s your use case, you need more ram.
Also, Genshin doesn’t run on Mac OS.

Very expensive. Will see if can snag an M2 or M3 during sales.

I’m still happy with my late 2020 Intel 27” iMac.
Still working well so far, hope it can last me a few more years.

I would imagine apple silicon Macs will last even longer.
M2/M3 Macs would still be relevant until 2030.