No, I'm not trying to start a war here but......
If you put a MacBook Pro and a laptop from pretty much any other manufacturer (HP, Lenovo, certainly Dell but even Sony) on a table you will quickly come to the conclusion that Apple has a very different idea of what a laptop should be. The MacBook Pro is so clean and so thin and so spare and so gorgeous that it seems a little silly to call it the same thing as the portables made by the rest of the pack. My friend's new plastic-icky Toshiba is actually thicker open than my machine is closed. The things are like little aluminum jewels (and are priced similarly). No, you don't get flip screen touch-pads or a billion ports on the side or port replicators or fingerprint scanners or all those little green lights or the odd function buttons. In fact, after using a MBP for a while you begin to see the foolishness of all that useless gimmickry. You don't even get a number pad (not even on the 17"? yup). What you get is this fast little accessory that you love to touch and to fondle and you find yourself opening it up just to gaze at it's neat little rows of glowing keys. It is a poem wrought in aluminum and silicon.
If you want something that runs ArchiCAD fast and cheap just get a Dell or HP. It hardly matters which. But, if you want to own an icon of design that also happens to be brilliantly functional workstation, there is only one choice.
Nattering nabob of negativism
2023 MBP M2 Max 32GM. MaxOS-Current
