

Him: "Just because it's Apple doesn't mean it's good, ubermonkey." Him: "All laptop trackpads are terrible! You know that." Me: "Why can't you just use the trackpad on your laptop? Is it broken?" I didn't get it until we started talking about it in earnest a few years back, when one of my colleagues literally took a cab to Best Buy from our hotel to buy a replacement mouse. I've worked with mostly-PC folks for a long time, and I always struck me as weird that they ALWAYS carry a mouse on the road - and it's apparently super weird to them that I don't. Yeah, it's a huge advantage, but it's one I feel like is still not widely understood in the PC world. Trackpads on the Macs are definitely better though. MacBook Dimensions (WxDxH): 304.1 x 212.4 x 14.9 (mm), 1.37 kgīuild quality on the Lenovo is pretty solid, all aluminum construction. And the Lenovo is a 14" screen in a 13" chassis. Plus I get a discrete graphics processor that can run modern games pretty freaking well. Roughly equal performance with single-threaded apps. The 8th-Gen i5 idle at a much reduced clock speed to save power, but turbo well and have significant performance advantages over the previous gen at multi-threaded applications. I was in this very situation 4th quarter last year, and opted for a Windows PC:ġ3" MacBook Pro, 2.3GHz 7th-Gen i5/8GB/256GB/Iris Pro 640/2 TB3 ports = $1979 CAġ4" Lenovo Ideapad 720s, 1.6GHz 8th-Gen i5/8GB/256GB/GeForce MX150/Actual connectivity including TB3 ports = $1147.49 CA.
