Because I wanted to

To piss off my college because they didnt specify which brand of laptop to buy for Electrical Engineering in the syllabus. I showed up with a MacBook and couldn’t run any of the engineering software’s they had available. Dean was like “Why a macbook?” I was like “Sale at the bookstore”

this was many years ago and I graduated easily.

Paid $200 bucks for it back it 2015 and it’s still pushing. It’s slowed down drastically but I no longer need it or use it.

Because I’m a developer and I prefer Mac over windows

MacOS is the single greatest OS ever known to man. Macbooks are better built than any other laptop in the market. The ecosystem integration is great.

That pretty much sums it up.

For Ableton, I wanted to make music on a clear screen.

my wife works for apple and has the M1 Macbook Air, she has it for school purposes. I prefer tablets, I use my Ipad for work among other convenient features, but different people have different purposes to get a laptop, just not for me. Ipad suits me for ease and convenience.

wanted to learn to program Swift/iOS stuff.

love the hardware, but I’d prefer Win11 over MacOS.

Yeah yeah shoot me.

Severely underpowered for what I do and none of my software will run on Mac.

i like how smooth they are, i don’t know how to explain it.

My mid 2014 is a top of the line MacBook at that time. Still works great today.

One thing I really do not like is Apple blocked me from upgrading to latest os. Makes no sense since, this laptop can deff run latest os 2.8 quad core, 16gb ram, GeForce 2gb. Literally runs like new! But I’m stuck on Big Sur.

long-term durability and battery duration

I used a 2014 model untill a month ago, so it was almost 10 years old. It still worked like new, even better than a normal laptop i bought 2 years ago. I only upgraded (to a macbook M2) because i needed more ram for my study, but macbooks are an investment fr.

Fully color managed desktop environment including compositing SDR & HDR content together correctly at the same time. Reference display modes. Accelerated ProRes codec in hardware. I pull it out on set for gigs I get hired for and it performs, no bs.

Where to start?
- Supported long term (many years of OS updates).
- OS-wide unified smooth scrolling, zooming, back forward gestures.
- Awesome touchpad still unmatched in precision by Windows Precision Touchpads
- Additional multi touch gestures and actions with BetterTouchTool
- So many cool continuity features, use iPhone as a camera, iPad as secondary screen etc.
- Unified calling/facetime/messages across all devices at the carrier level (not tethered to phone)
- Battery life much better than competition
- Run 4 4k screens plus laptop screen with “Max” chip
- 400Mbps memory bandwidth with “Max” chip (super fast machine!)
- DEVONthink (OCR PDF file cabinet document system with iOS apps and synchronization).
- Apple photos synchronizing everything to all devices.
- Never worry about a single software update bricking my laptop. Never worry about maintenance/longevity. 4 Macbook pros each lasting 9+ years at current rate (I buy once every 5 years and SO gets hand-me-downs, very economically viable, everyone is happy).
- THREE FINGER DRAG with the touchpad!!!