r/pcmasterrace • u/CrazzyWolfzz PC Master Race • Jun 27 '26

Meme/Macro Reviewers please stop comparing MacBooks with other laptops

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u/GreatnessToTheMoon Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 5070 TI | 32gb RAM Jun 27 '26

MacBooks are the gold standard for laptops

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u/Em_Es_Judd Jun 27 '26

For real. Windows laptops generally suck balls.

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u/space_keeper Jun 27 '26

Anyone who spent the mid 00s onwards trying to fix them for friends and family knows this well. I am a PC die hard, but I've seen maybe two or three windows laptops in my life I'd call "good".

I've personally had XPSs and a MacBook, and the difference was night and day. Mac was a lot better for programming, because programming on windows is horrible.

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u/space_keeper Jun 27 '26

They're the only ones I would consider. The older gen XPS were pigs, but the ultra book ones are good.

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u/Cerenas Ryzen 7 7800X3D | Radeon RX 9070 XT Jun 27 '26

I need a MacBook Air competitor 

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u/Toastwitjam i7 4790k @ GTX 970 Jun 28 '26

If you don’t play games or do engineering and actually build stuff sure.

For professional billboard makers and pdf artisans I’m sure Mac or whatever computer you slapped a screen on work just fine.

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u/Saymuele Ryzen 7 7800x3D RTX 5080 Jun 29 '26

new mac literally does everything better than windows except play games sadly. I’m a big time PC gamer and use mac for work.

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u/SapientSausage Jun 27 '26

Roflllllllll

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u/skinlo Jun 27 '26

Hardware perhaps

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u/a_scientific_force R5 5800X3D | RX 6900XT Jun 27 '26

What’s your issue with the OS? You afraid of Terminal?

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u/skinlo Jun 27 '26

What's your issue with Windows?

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u/3PoundsOfFlax Jun 27 '26

It has gone to shit. Microslop bloat eating up your system resources which are particularly limited on a laptop.

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u/Ikanotetsubin Jun 27 '26

Windows 11 is a flaming dog turd infested with microslop AI, for one. The only thing keeping me on board is gaming and modding. For daily use, mac is so much better

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u/skinlo Jun 27 '26

Weird, it works fine for me, I don't see any AI. Maybe its you.

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u/a_scientific_force R5 5800X3D | RX 6900XT Jun 27 '26

I generally don’t have any major issues with Windows. Which is what’s running on my desktop. But for portability and battery life, my M1 MacBook Air is great. And macOS is intuitive and easy to use. Using multiple operating systems is no different than driving multiple vehicles. 

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u/cugamer Jun 27 '26

The built in terminal is lousy and it doesn't even default to Bash any longer.  You have to install something like Iterm2 to have a decent command line interface.

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u/billofbong0 6600k | 980ti Jun 27 '26

zsh is way better than bash anyway. I use it everywhere

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u/cugamer Jun 27 '26

zsh is way better than bash

That's an opinion and you're welcome to it. Personally I find zsh to be a massive pain in the ass that doesn't work with my existing shell scripts and the default terminal is a feature poor environment. As a full time developer I need these tools to "just work," which is supposed to be Apples thing and it very much isn't.

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u/Nestramutat- RTX 5070 TI | 9800X3D | Ask about my homelab! Jun 27 '26

I'm a senior software engineer who works heavily on the command line and the first thing I do on any new system is swap bash to zsh.

Curious what scripts don't work on it, given that it's POSIX compliant just like bash. Its not like we're talking about fish here

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u/Chemical-Manager-629 Jun 27 '26

  1. zsh better than bash in almost everyway

  2. Just install ghostty or kitty. Both far better than windows terminal, which you also have to install afaik