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    [โ€“] [email protected] 76 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Apple devices make sense - how else are you going to deal with the overheating problems?

    [โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

    But you have a lot of cold air to cool it down, and on a side note it makes your room warmer which you might want in that cold region ๐Ÿ˜…

    (But the energy savings is hard to argue with)

    [โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    apples still have overheating problems? that was a problem with the first macintosh. All because genius engineer and giant among men Steve Jobs didn't think vents were trendy.

    I guess the apples don't fall far from the tree.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    All joking aside, I havenโ€™t had issues with Macs overheating in years, especially with the M chips. Last time I had an issue was when they tried to cram an i9 in a MBP.

    Now the Dell laptops we have at work on the other hand, Iโ€™ve had to down clock them in bios so they donโ€™t run at 100% or they will literally overheat just running windows. One of my coworkers has to run his upside down or it doesnโ€™t get enough air through the vents to prevent it from auto shutting down due to thermal issues.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Dell

    Well there's your problem, I've instituted an IT purchasing policy with a whole section dedicated to banned brands, HP is first and Dell a close second lol (power is nice sometimes lmao)

    [โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Would love to hear your thoughts on HP. I had an internship at a IT company doing general setup and maintenance for businesses IT and since each consultant managed their own customer they often stuck with their own brands.

    Having setup some of these I often felt like Lenovo was hot garbage, I've had a lenovo laptop with terrible manufacturing issues and the company I was at too and some of my friends. I would feel lucky if I get a Lenovo laptop without errors. Dell I haven't heard anything bad of in general, one employee usually preferred buying them and then one other preffered HP. There was one or two people there who ordered Lenovo simply because they were so much cheaper for the specs but build quality and other components are just so garbage.

    Of course, I'm not speaking about their budget 300 euro to 700 euro laptops now. The ones I was able to handle and setup were all 1300 to 3500 euros.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

    How long ago was this?

    Many years ago, HP was actually pretty good even on their budget lines of the time. Then those got shitty to keep costs low, and it just creeped up from there until shitty cost cutting was evident throughout all their other lines up through premium business class laptops

    Also, HP's bullshit on other areas like Printing is what earned them the top spot

    Dell suffers the same enshittification on their laptop lines that HP did, just a bit behind. I cannot tell you how many batteries turned into spicy pillows in just MONTHS after being opened even on their supposed premium business laptops

    Lenovo used to be shit, but I've noticed they've stepped their game up the last few years while OTOH Asus is the opposite being good at first but now starting to show signs of enshittification.

    Basically, brand loyalty is BS any brand can turn to shit at any time and any brand can go to being a diamond again (Except HP, they've become irredeemable in my eyes) and those business contracts to get bulk discounts serve no purpose other than to lock in IT departments to that specific brand instead of being able to be flexible when the times change

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Interesting and sad to hear. Personally Iโ€™ve gone with Lenovo if Iโ€™m not going with Mac. Heck, My wife has a 2011 Lenovo which has been running flawlessly. The only thing I did was bump the RAM and put in an SSD when Win7 upgraded to 10. Maybe I just skipped the crappy years?

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

    Almost sounds like it, these were all recent experiences. I've been looking at Lenovo previously as a potential "look-at-first" brand, can't really say goto since if there was something more fitting I'd drop them in a heart beat back when looking for laptops but their offerings were cheaper and on paper didn't seem to lack much.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    We went from surface to Lenovo ๐Ÿ˜„

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    That honestly feels like a downgrade to me

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

    That could be.. I did not decide ๐Ÿ˜‚

    [โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

    MacBooks havenโ€™t had overheating problems since Apple switched to their own SOCs.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

    I actually don't know! It was a meme a while ago, but they might have fixed it by now.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    So this is why the globe is warming

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

    Macintosh heat sinking into ice-caps.