# Wanting to Buy a New Laptop. Suggestions? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 20, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanting-to-buy-a-new-laptop-suggestions/772501 "2016-11-20T02:58:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanting-to-buy-a-new-laptop-suggestions/772501/21 "2017-02-17T00:13:16Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I wish more Mac fans actually would have some experience with Windows 10 - everything I hear from them seems to date back to Windows 95 or 98. My experience with Windows 10 suggests it’s a steaming pile of horse droppings. Here’s hoping my 2013 MacBook Pro holds up for quite awhile longer. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanting-to-buy-a-new-laptop-suggestions/772501/22 "2017-02-17T00:22:32Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > My experience with Windows 10 suggests it’s a steaming pile of horse droppings. How deep has your experience been? Have you actually used it to produce work? I have both Windows 10 machines and Macs here. I know both deeply, and earn a living doing support on both. My clients are businesses, photographers, graphic designers and architects. I can confidently say that Apple has dropped the ball. If you’re producing work, their design anorexia - this insane need to make things thinner and thinner - means that you wind up with dongle kudzu dangling everywhere and a machine that is nearly unrepairable. They’ve dropped their good ideas like the MagSafe connector. The iMac is the last decent item in their line, and it’s anyone’s bet how they’re going to run that in the next iteration. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanting-to-buy-a-new-laptop-suggestions/772501.md?page=1)