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After many years using MacBook variants I've made the switch to Windows. I've used every version of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air that have been released. My current laptop of choice is the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon / Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme.Turns out switching from Mac to Windows isn't as painful as I expected.
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I've been meaning to make this video for a while actually. Somehow I didn't realize that this had even happened and that I hadn't updated you guys
0:08
I've had some findings, some adjustments to my life and I think you might want to know about them
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So, I mean you probably read the title of this video, you kind of know what it's about
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On the left hand side here I have the 13 inch MacBook Air, over here is the ThinkPad X1 Carbon
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Now when this laptop came out, I made a very complimentary video about it
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The best laptop for most people. It was brand new and based on that evaluation at that moment
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it seemed like a really good buy for a lot of people, especially considering its starting price, the build quality
0:41
the association with the Apple brand. You know, just a good package for a lot of people
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So I called it that, but I ran into problems with this shortly after publishing that video
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In fact, I kind of felt guilty having called this laptop the best purchase for most people
0:58
So I came on here and I showed you guys that the keyboard was not functioning as expected
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I had problems with the E key. Jack has a MacBook Pro, Kirk has a MacBook Pro, and Will has a MacBook Pro, and I do too
1:11
So this isn't coming from a place of just wanting to bash a particular brand, Apple, anything like that
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This is just a personal experience. So anyhow, the E key starts to give out
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Then I kind of put it down and went back to using the MacBook Pro. Then I come into work and Will tells me his MacBook Pro is now exhibiting the same thing that this one was
1:31
Then the emails start to roll in for me of other people having experienced the same thing
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And I was like, man, I think this issue is bigger than I had ever expected
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And the guilt started to pile up for me. Maybe I should be warning people
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Will Apple fix it? Presumably but if this happens to you after your warranty expires that could be a very expensive fix and this is not an inexpensive laptop when that happened it kind of reconfigured my brain a
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little bit i was like man i've been using apple laptops exclusively for a very long time almost
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10 years and i was like i should go back to windows and see what's happening in windows
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and search for some windows based devices that i might actually like so that took me down the
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ThinkPad Path and guess what? I loved it. Wow, I really didn't look back
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I just tweaked it a little bit so that it was suitable for myself so that I liked it
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And I have fully switched over from Mac to Windows without much fanfare obviously without telling you guys officially
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And I'm not missing it. It's kind of a flipped version of that ad campaign from back in the day
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When you got the guy who's the Mac and the guy who's the PC and the one guy's in the suit and the other guy's cool
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I'm going the other direction. This became my main laptop. X1 Carbon, good battery life
2:48
Surprisingly, I began to really like the matte display without the glare and the gloss
2:56
Not the brightest display in the world, but I lived with it. I even lived with the chin on the bottom here
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I lived with the inferior trackpad on this ThinkPad when compared to the MacBook
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I lived with the bizarre button placement. I lived with the weird location of the fingerprint scanner
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I lived with all that stuff and I did so because when I got to type on this beautiful keyboard
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you see how I did that right there Jack? It's like Vanna White. I just, I come across it. When I typed on this keyboard, I had a sense of euphoria
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an epiphany of sorts that I was like, man, I've been missing out
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There are great laptop keyboards out there. I talking about the actual experience having used this Even if this thing was completely functioning correctly I would trade it in a second for this experience This thing invites me to answer emails and nothing does ever
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I never want to look at email, but here, it's a pleasure, it's a joy
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And it got me thinking about laptops in general in the modern era. Apple used to have some pretty strong advantages in thinness, lightness, battery life, things like this
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But now, when you look at a product like this, it's like, geez. It's barely thicker
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It's lighter, in fact, with a bigger display. 14-inch display, 2.5 pounds
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13-inch display, 3 pounds. Pretty much as thin, light. Way more interface capacity here
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Type-C to a breakout Ethernet. USB, there's an HDMI port. Another USB port, headphone jack
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SIM card slot. You could enable this device for full mobile connectivity
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along with a SIM card and a connection through your carrier so you're always connected
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It could be an always-on mobile device. But the biggest thing was Windows itself
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I went with like the simplest setup ever that I can show Jack here
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I took the number of apps that I use like on a relatively frequent basis
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I made them nice and small. I pinned them. And then most of what else I do
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just lives within the Chrome browser right there and via tabs. I mean, this thing is so clean
5:03
That's basically what I interact with. my daily life cup of coffee over here. Maybe it's over here and checking, you know, a couple of
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different apps. I mean, it's Windows guys. What do you, what do you really need? It got prettier
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It really did. It's not like it used to be. It's more reliable. It's smoother. It's better looking
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I turned off most of the system notifications that I didn need So they less abrasive That for me was like that way more seamless That too easy And I should have been looking at these products a long time ago Because they are valid substitutes for what Apple is doing now I should say that these two devices are not
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Necessarily targeted at the same clientele. I think most people are gonna say this thing looks prettier of course myself
5:47
I like the industrial appearance of the ThinkPad. That's the simple matte finish. It's like
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It's a tool it's cool with being a tool. It's a cool tool. It gets like smudges on it
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So what? I'm okay with that. I don't think everyone will be. The exchange you make there is you must go with this wonderful slick aluminum, which I have to admit it looks great
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But I was surprised. I enjoyed the switch and I'm actually quite happy to be in the Windows space now
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And have the wide variety of laptops to choose from. What is a laptop for most of us these days
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What do you really need here? What are you paying for? Durability, form factor, you need something that's light, you need something that has good battery life
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And then after that, it's a keyboard and a display. So ask yourself, how good are those components
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And I can pretty safely say, not just based on my experience, but also on the reliability factor
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that these keyboards on the MacBooks are flawed. And that is a major, if not the most major, component in a laptop
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It's a reason to pick up a laptop when compared to a phone or a tablet or some other device that you have
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If you do this experiment yourself, if you move over to a keyboard like the one on the X1 Carbon
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you will never want to touch or tap anything like this. Again, Windows is not that bad
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It's not as bad as it used to be. It's actually kind of pretty now, and you can make this move
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I have officially quit using Apple laptops, and it kind of happened quietly
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I didn't even really expect it, and I didn't even really set out to do it
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But I'm living over here now, and I'm not missing much
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