All good points, it's good to have alternatives and balance of power. I've been using macOS exclusively since Feb 2014, I like the OS, I like the convenience, but recently I bought a PC to go along with it.
Because the price of my convenience is:
- Want 16GB more of DDR3 2166 RAM in your laptop? $400 please. Paid $320 for 64GB of DDR4 3200 for my PC. Want an iMac with 64GB of DDR4 2666? Pay $1000 to upgrade from the standard 8GB.
- Can't have an NVIDIA GPU (at least not out of the box and even with an eGPU the support isn't first class)
- Can't have an AMD CPU
- Want 1TB SSD? Pay $300 more to upgrade from a hybrid HDD. Want a 2TB SSD? Get a volume discount and pay $700 more! Oh...
- No HDMI port
- honestly... hardly any ports and they "forgot" to include the dongles
- touchbar
- keyboard
- AppleCare - you better buy it because everything is soldered, your warranty is 1 year, and you really don't want to know the price of repair.
I'm reevaluating Linux as a viable choice every year or so too, it's getting better each time, but so do other platforms, so it's always playing catch-up. This year it was GPU drivers again (yes, NVIDIA). I problem solve for a living, but if I spend half my weekend and still can't figure out what's wrong, something is seriously wrong.
Because the price of my convenience is:
- Want 16GB more of DDR3 2166 RAM in your laptop? $400 please. Paid $320 for 64GB of DDR4 3200 for my PC. Want an iMac with 64GB of DDR4 2666? Pay $1000 to upgrade from the standard 8GB.
- Can't have an NVIDIA GPU (at least not out of the box and even with an eGPU the support isn't first class)
- Can't have an AMD CPU
- Want 1TB SSD? Pay $300 more to upgrade from a hybrid HDD. Want a 2TB SSD? Get a volume discount and pay $700 more! Oh...
- No HDMI port
- honestly... hardly any ports and they "forgot" to include the dongles
- touchbar
- keyboard
- AppleCare - you better buy it because everything is soldered, your warranty is 1 year, and you really don't want to know the price of repair.
I'm reevaluating Linux as a viable choice every year or so too, it's getting better each time, but so do other platforms, so it's always playing catch-up. This year it was GPU drivers again (yes, NVIDIA). I problem solve for a living, but if I spend half my weekend and still can't figure out what's wrong, something is seriously wrong.
So, whatever you choose, you pay.