Tried to switch last year with MacBook M1. Normally both my wife and me use Dell XPS 15 for work and 13 when traveling. Macbook ended up being used 3x in one full year. Ended up selling Macbook. Point is, switching is hard, stick with what you have used to and with what you will enjoy more.
I've been a Mac user since 2007 and was forced to switch to Windows for work. They are both good OS's and Windows 11 has a surprising amount of attention to detail, but it seems that the Mac is just that little bit more refined somehow.
I just switched after trying to use a G14 and I am so much happier. Light with long battery life. Better advice is to know what you need and see if the alternatives will provide better value.
Tried macos for the first time last year and it has been good with working with my iPhone. Unfortunately, thats the only upside for me. I like windows more for laptops and ios more for my phone.
Not the best advice I’d say. It is better to know what you need and test things out. Might just be able to improve your workflow. Life is about taking risks and learning from them
@@kjeldkaj I have spent 1.3k to test, so I think its easier to say than do it. And when you move from Windows to MacOS, it is all about time to get things done. Mac is great, no question about it, just was slowing me down for many random things... One of the reasons I wanted to try it was also because of iphone (photos from phone to Mac etc), as I have it as my 2nd phone (android is of course main driver). In about same time I got Synology NAS... All in all, for me did not worked out.
I really cant wait till the snapdragon Elite X to see hwo Windows can compete then (especially with battery life). My only issue with most TH-cam reviews is that they focus on photo and video editing workflows rather than data workflows which is generally where Windows wins out.
True. Most people don't do video editing everyday on a sofa. Most people use a browser and productivity apps. It looks like youtubers must have a "normal" job in a real company if they want to make videos that makes sense 😊
Thank you. I’m in the same bucket. As I’m a data person first I can do all my editing on an iPad but need a computer for data and so lately after 14 years on a Mac I picked up a surface pro 9 and other than battery life I’m cool with it. iPad fulfils my Mac need which really is browsing, photo edits and watching videos.
@@derekhatake that’s right. You either edit video or play games all day. All these video editors, you’d think there would be amazing content out there (obviously this channel is great, but just saying). Think I’ll avoid that career. Clearly saturated already! Perhaps you can film your family vids in 4K edits.
The zenbook 14 oled literally outperforms the macbook air m3 in 90% of categories. Apple tech is good but the price is bloated due to branding and reputation. If you want raw performance and the best bang for your buck, go for the windows machine without thinking about it twice.
I used to be an Apple die hard, even worked for them for 6 years. The reason I don't use them anymore is because of their 'warm, comfy, cozy Prison." Love that you said Prison! There is some truth to that. I'm too much of a tech enthusiast to be limited with what devices I get and don't want to lose out on features just because I thought a phone with a fingerprint scanner is a better use case for me. Apple has a tendency to decide what is best for it's users, and any amount of customizability you want to do either costs you more money, or features on the product you own. I started to get tired of that trade off, so embraced Android/Windows because they do play nice together. At least as nicely as they can given the huge variety of both. Currently Using-: Work - Dell Lattitude 7970 i7 1260P 32GB Memory Personal -Acer Swift X (Ryzen 5800U/ Nvidia 3050ti), Custom Built Desktop PC (Ryzen 5900X, Radeon 7900XT), S23 Ultra, Tab S9, Galaxy Watch 6.
woah sir, I saw that you are using acer swift x for your personal work, I am a uni student wanting to buy a personal laptop, how is the swift x ? Its battery on a single charge and is it fast enough ? What about its thermals ? Please answer, I want to know as much as I can about it !!
I use what works best for me, makes me more productive, has less hassle, and has the best support. Since I moved there, the Mac has easily been my choice as I have been in the Apple ecosystem for 15+ years. I am well past the days of tinkering, aesthetics, and choice. I do not see the laptop as an extension of me, only something that gets stuff done. Windows obviously has a massive advantage in choice, as multiple OEMs give various takes. That is a naughty negative connotation as Apple is only a tiny player in the total PC market, around 9% share. The natural monopoly Windows has is a glorious advantage and almost impenetrable as people will generally stay with what they know.
Except all companies are like that. Example: windows obsession with the Edge-browser and soon also the Copilot that will be forced onto every windows user
@susiolu The Swift X has been great for me. The price to performance is very good. There are some things I wish it did better, like had a 16:10 screen, a bit better build quality, upgradeable RAM, and better back-lit keyboard (seriously, a white backlight on silver keys is pretty useless unless you're in absolute darkness.) When I bought it though it was just under $1000 USD, and for the specs it has and price its a great all rounder. I came game on it with decent results, and do my work as a software developer with little issue. Having more than 16GB of ram would be nice sometimes, but it wasn't that much of a deal breaker to stop me from getting it. Maybe the newer models have more ram. I'm pretty sure the newer ones are 16:10 displays at least.
I have a Macbook pro 16" for work, and wanted a light travel/on the go laptop. I bought the Zenbook 14, and am happy with the choice. The only real issue with it is that it doesn't have "Instant on" like Mac, so when I haven't used it in a few hours, it takes about 20s to turn on. But battery life good (about 7 hours), display very good, got my 16GB ram that I need for software dev. Trackpad and sound good. Nice and light. It is actually a nicer consumption device than my iPad, especially in bed. If I was going to buy a Macbook Air/Pro, I would keep looking to move up the pricing ladder to get the spec I actually wanted, and would end up spending about 3 times as much. Go Asus.
What about the heat? MacBooks run cool most of the time and even when they get into the 90s the body of the laptop does not get hot, only very mildly warm. My biggest concern with the ASUS Zenbook is how quickly it gets warm, one reviewer said it got quite warm just using Word to type a document. I was interested in getting one as its performance was good and battery life improved but not the heat!
@@markmoriarty7760 I got a i5 equivalent from AMD, to get better battery life. It stays cool enough for me. Sits on my lap no issue. If heat vs performance is important for you, then yeah, maybe a MacBook air is a good choice. If I didn't need the ram, I would have got the M1 air.
@@martingifford5415 ikr lol.. recently some laptop window has IR cam which is make it more faster to open the laptop in just a second.. I would say faster than MacBook...
With intel unison, my iphone can finally “airdrop” into my downloads folder! - from iphone app: stable, but max 100 photos at a time - from windows app: needs couple minutes to sync up large album changes, but can pull hundreds of photos directly from iphone. Also has albums view, sort & delete ur iphone photos on your windows laptop! Not enough people are talking about this fantastic windows / iphone marriage, so I am.
I'm using both windows and mac so i think I can offer my two cents. I use both unison and phone link. Sometimes notifications duplicates lol. But the reason I use both is that sometimes one doesn't stay connect... But when it does work, it works almost as well, if not better than in the apple ecosystem. I can make a phone call from my pc, for example. I can still text on my pc. I can even check iPhone notifications from my pc. Windows has come a long way. @@smilorent
As a business productivity (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) focused user, I would never again go with Mac. I tried once in 2008 and again in 2022 (with a M1 Pro 14" Macbook Pro) and both times, my Mac laptop became a glorified table ornament used almost only for web browsing, music/video streaming and video chatting. Windows is a MUCH better platform for anyone who wants to use their PC for office productivity work. With that said, I fully acknowledge that my experience does not reflect that of creative type users. I will also readily acknowledge that Apple always has best in class hardware (which you pay a significant premium for) and their machines are very durable, but if you get a high quality Windows laptop, the same is true. It's just that yes there are $500 budget Windows laptops out there and so when those stop working after two years, that should be expected. If you spend $1000-1500 for a high quality Windows laptop, it will generally last you many years just like a Macbook Air. I'm not trying to knock Apple as they do make great laptops, but MacOS is not for everyone and to buy into the marketing shpiel that Macs are just better is a fallacy.
Lenovo ideapad 15ada05 with 2 cores and 16 gb ram = office and streaming stuff nowadays with good battery capacity (400 euros in 2019). I use Linux mint I must say because Windows 11 gets slow in this machine
I have an Alienware desktop PC and a Dell G15 gaming laptop, which go perfectly well with my Galaxy phone. I use Office apps a lot both for my personal and professional life, along with OneDrive to save and share files and a bunch of other programs; I love the amount of programs / apps there are available for Windows. As Tom says, I use my gear to work by day and game by night.
Microsoft Office runs well on macOS, some say better, but I use it so rarely in Windows these days I wound't know. What I do find rubbish is Outlook in Windows. It's often 20 minutes later picking up my emails than Apple's Mail app. It's probably some configuration detail, but I didn't need to configure Apple's Mail app to deliver my emails promptly. Also, OneDrive, which is really useful, works perfectly on macOS. In fact I have it syncing across all my macOS devices, plus my PC laptop and both my Windows 11 VMs running on my MacBook Pro and my Mac mini. I used to enjoy gaming when I was younger, and still have an Alienware computer in storage somewhere, but it was a pain in the arse to configure it, and now I have no interest in gaming of that type - maybe Sudoku or Kukuro, but nothing that needs nVidia GPUs or processor cooling.
Because it has a way better webcam and that part of the screen is the top of the window bar anyway. Not saying it's the greatest but it's better than crappy webcam and being able to see a useless silver window bar in the same spot.
@@Äpple-pie-5k Dell has an equivalent webcam with a thin top bezel and doesn't require a notch. Apple ONLY put the notch in because their phones had one for Face ID and they saw it as some perverse (because it's ugly) sort of branding feature. I detest the notch but have thankfully got an app that gets rid of it.
I am using Macbook pro 14 with m1 pro, and also an Hp Omen with rtx 2070 as a windows laptop. I think windows is a little bit user friendly, start menu and screen using without a menu bar on top is a better experience. MS Office is better in Windows. Also as a software business user, I have to user some apps dont like using arm based chips such as MSSQL. And there is some screen hz issue that i can not describe. MacOS is not native 144, I think you have to develop your app using high refresh rates. You can test using Edge and Safari while making full screen. You can see the difference while they are getting bigger or smaller. I see the same issue in my LG 144 hz 34 inch display, so it is not about monitor, it is about OS. And also you can not see the copying speed while you copy files :) each time i have a little smile when i see that :)
I switched from my first ever laptop (a Celeron HP) to a 12’ MacBook Air 2015 at university, and then to the M1 MacBook Air a year after it launched. Absolute game-changer. I do miss Windows’ file management and window management system but that’s about it. I’m now looking to upgrade to a 14-inch M3 Pro since I made the mistake of going with an 8GB M1 Air, which isn’t enough for light work with lots of Chrome tabs, light photo editing, and Slack. Avoid 8GB MacBooks if you can - they are still awesome and super smooth but 16GB gives you headroom in case your workflow becomes a bit more demanding. And you aren’t really overpaying since when you sell it down the road, you’d get a bit more money if it has more RAM.
But have you tried a high end laptop? Celeron is the bottom of the barrel, so its not really a fair comparison. Of course the $1200 macbook is going to be better than the $350 celeron.
Had a Mac Pro from 2011. 2 years later the screen died. Mac store said needed to spend £450 for a new motherboard and wouldn't let me backup my drive even though it's a separate drive. Sent it to a aftermarket store, they backed up the drive for £20. Sold the device for £100. Buyer said they replaced the display ribbon cable for £15 and worked fine. Decided never to go back to Mac
Especially refusing to lrt you back up your drive. Apple has a *VERY* distorted view of computer/device usage. To THEM the most important thing is the HW/SW itself, and the data be damned. Fothose of us who actually USE our devices, what we've edited or saved on them, the data is the ONLY important thing, and the HW/SW can go scratch. Yes, you're out some money, but you're using the devices to achieve some goal, not to pad the donut-and-sushi budgets of some computer maker.
To be fair, you're dealing with a large corporation that doesn't have a SKU for backing up yourself for you. And you had a Mac which literally has mindless fire-and-forget Time Machine backups. And you haven't yet talked about trying the same thing with Dell or HP, where you'd get a worse experience.
Team Windows PC. - Adjustable RAM & SSD - Better price - Best for split screen. - OLED screen option - Better for 3D design and ML with Nvidia external GPU. - Better software optimization for gaming, non-software engineering, finance, and data analytical work. - Option to use Linux OS. - Better for C# and C++ software engineers. I do want to acknowledge the amazing features/traits of MacBooks. They just aren't part of my workflow or priorities. These are: - Best battery life. - iPhone synchronization. - Best for photo & video editors. - Amazing for DJs. - For software engineers/developers using Java or JavaScript, works near flawlessly. - Less likely to break down in less than 3 years. Usually, MacBooks last 10 years with 16GB of RAM and good maintenance. - Best single core performance for simple tasks. Very important for those getting a MacBook Air or Imac.
I'm currently using an M1 Pro 14 inch MacBook Pro and I'm very happy with it. After using this laptop for over a year and a half, it would be hard for me to go back to a Windows laptop that didn't have comparable power efficiency (so either Windows on ARM or maybe an AMD-powered laptop). It certainly helps that I've been very deep in the ecosystem for a long time now & have a gaming PC at home (along with a PS5, Switch & various previous-generation Xbox & PlayStation consoles) I can use when I do want to game.
apple is efficient in terms of battery. but their OS is really not user friendly. i used it for 4months and i hated it. hard to change settings. hard to minimize maximize windows. external softwares wont work.
@@nourishcherish9593 yes, their app snapping ability is really bad compared to windows. i can work faster on dual monitor because of windows snapping rather than mac. in mac i always have to resize windows.
No, Windows’s chip allocation does not allow that, too many configurations, and Microsoft does not customize their OS for every single configuration, even their best business partner, Intel, has trouble with their recent big little core designs with OS not allocation the cores most efficiently.
I grew up using PCs and then I bought a macbook pro in 2015 and havent gone back since. This macbook from almost 10 years ago still runs really well. Every laptop PC I used to use would maybe last 3-4 years tops before I noticed a downhill in performance and battery life.
odd im using a thinkpad t410 and only thing thats gone is the battery but its fine cause its easily replaceable, meaning this laptop has lasted 14 years without breaking down
it's a lie. Then u definitely bought a cheaper PC. Some of you do unnecessary comparisons. if u would be true to yourself, just buy a Windows PC at the same selling price as the Mac. The Mac is just overpriced because of the brand not because of performance.
@@addoconstant How you gonna say someones else's experiences is a lie? The mac book pro literally out performs a lot of flagship laptop PCs just look at the performance comparisons for the M2 & M3 pros.
@@addoconstantwell tbh that argument is getting a little old since macbooks of the same price are often using better hardware for everything when compared to contenders. The case itself, trackpad which is haptic, speakers, cpu which is still quite ahead in technology especially compared to intel, and screen which has often best brightness and color accuracy and contrast (no oled doesn’t automatically mean its better than mini led), and all if that while mostly matching or enhancing performance while staying quiet. Because benchmarks are nice but you are never going to use the performance of your laptop if it means the fans get insanely loud or the battery will die in just an hour
I was choosing a laptop for work about a half year ago, and after lots of consideration, I took Lenovo Yoga 7 on Intel 13700H with a dedicated 4050, 1Tb SSD and 16Gb of RAM. Sometimes it drains the battery faster than I want and has some other minor issues, but on the other hand, it's far more versatile than Mac. You just can do so much more with it that is impossible to do on Mac!
After 4 Macbooks Pro since 2004, I finally bought a Windows' laptop for my post-production workflow. My last Macbook Pro died two weeks ago, the second time in three years and for the same problem (burned motherboard). Apple's prices and lack of repairability make me reflect, and I decided that for the moment they are not worth it for me. My new Windows' laptop does not have the same battery efficiency, but for a fraction of the price of the M3 Max Macbook Pro, I have the performance and quality that I need from my professional equipment. Windows is not Mac OS, but I am enjoying its customization.
@@nnnnnn3647 For me It has been three iPhones, with problems that could not be fixed. All the problems were after the 1st year of warranty expired. Also, all my Macbook Pros (for the exception of my 2012 Pre-Retina Macbook Pro) had to go to the repair shop at some point. Apple is not the epitome of quality that many people believe or preach.
I sold my HP EliteBook 820 G1 and got myself Macbook Air M1 (found a brand new for €700) - and it's a great laptop for traveling. Sure I have Windows PC at home but if I want to go somewhere and need a computer with me, M1 not only delivers what I need with incredible battery life, but is also silent (no fan), light, secure (if I forget to lock laptop with my Apple Watch it locks automatically the moment I get far enough and unlocks when I return) and it is so easy to work with it with my iPhone - as you said airdrop is amazing. I take a photo or video and bam it's also available on my laptop. Not to mention the ease of use with my Airpods and how easy it connects to my phone for internet without needing to make hotspot myself. Would I trade my desktop PC for Mac? No. But a laptop? Yes and I'd do it again.
@@Hunter_Bidens_Crackpipe_ with Google there's another thousands of 3rd parties they sold it too for profit after giving it to 3 letter agencies 😂 And same with Microsoft. Nobody is clean.
Once Windows laptops offer arm chips, this will be a more interesting conversation. Longer battery and the same power without being plugged in is the biggest advantage Apple has. But for most users, that's huge.
I can buy TWO interesting laptops or one laptop one desktop with money to spare for ONE Macbook..and upgrade them both.Battery life? I can take my TWO WiN machines,and use them yet really when i travel I am not away from an outlet for more than 4 hours..Let's be logical..
It depends on where you work. If you are at a coffee shop or on an Indonesian beach, then MacBooks are the best choice. Also, college students fighting for spots at the library with a charging port. If you only work at home or an office with tons of charging ports, the battery life advantage goes away. Who needs 13+ hours of battery life when you are finished with work after 8 hours?! Most want to watch TV, do some activities, or spend time talking to family & friends instead of being on their laptop. Cellphones can cover text messaging or social media apps.
@@akin242002 Most folks do not work in places where there are not adequate numbers of charging spots..Common sense is why I have a powerbrick that charges multiples devices for the day, and if I go far a solar charger as well. If you have $7000 for a laptop, fine get one, because I would ,yet folks on YT pretend they are so important, just to do it.
I like how fast my MacBook Air is but it has been a whole week and I still don’t understand how to use this thing. I still have to pick up my hp laptop to do my schoolwork because it takes me longer with the workarounds on Mac 😞
"Hardware canucks" got 21 hours of battery life from zenbook 14 in light browsing test. Core ultra 7 155H has faster video editing than M3 in Davinchi, Capcut and premiere pro.
I bought the zenbook a week ago, and i cant stress how much value this machine compared to the macbook alternative. Only bummer is battery life which usually lasts 8-10 hours on medium load.
The Zen Book is hands down better valuable, it's not much of a competition to be honest, the OLED display alone is more than enough for me. I currently have a Vivobook Pro 15 OLED and every time I use it I think "man this screen is so nice".
I've been a Windows user since the mid-90s, even got Microsoft Certified back when that was a thing, and I still have a modest gaming PC (an upgraded SFF Dell OptiPlex 7010 with an RTX A2000 GPU) and an ASUS VivoBook S15. About six years ago I started the transition to the walled garden, more for the fun of something new than anything else, with the 2018 Mac mini. Once the M series chips were introduced I made the full transition (desktop, laptop, tablet), but I'm not getting rid of my Windows PC, and my wife has taken over the ASUS laptop.
A balanced review Tom, good job! I was comfortable and warm in the Apple Walled Garden as well, but got tempted away by the Galaxy Fold. Now my next Laptop will probably be a Framework as I want to be able to upgrade and repair my own things.
I recently tried switching from a Macbook Air M1 to a Dell XPS 15 9510. The XPS had a wonderful display, great build quality and a very large and comfy trackpad. I was fully expecting a bump in performance, but to my surprise, for the tasks I do for a living it didn't offer more performance and had horrible battery life in comparison (tasks like graphic design, simple motion graphics etc.) I would often be slightly bothered by the fan noise of the XPS where the MBA is basically silent. Another issue for me is that the experience of using a trackpad in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign is far better on Mac than on Windows, which is sad because its honestly just a software issue, an issue I didn't experience in other apps. I really wanted to keep the XPS but it didn't make sense for my needs. I think its always just a matter of finding the tool that you like the best.
Another youtuber ran tests on the useage of Macbooks from M1 to M3 (all in each range) for music production/ audio mixing et al and found that ironically the M2 and M3 are less equiped to handle pro projects with larger track counts, than the M1 range in a number of DAW instances. This includes logic, which was surprising, until you see that the increased cores aren't apportioned to performance but to efficiency. That will work well for multi-tasking , but not necessarily for apps that haven't yet been optimised for the changes. That goes some way in explaining why used macbooks (and macs) don't stick around long enough to buy them at better pricing.
That’s so interesting, I am about to study Music Composition at uni soon and will need to get a laptop to run apps like logic, Sibelius etc. Should I keep looking into Macbooks or focus more on windows?
@@ZOOOKAGEno physical fuction keys is deal-breaker to me, g16 2024 is better in overall, xps line up always has poor reliability, overheat and overprice laptop
Like @TechChap I was a serial XPS owner until Apple Silicon came along and now I’m also trapped in an ecosphere of MacBook, iPad, iPhone, Beats etc. Meanwhile the quality and customer service of Dell has plummeted - countless bad experiences of the enterprise laptops at work and the Black Edition I bought my son for uni. 🤬 Use case & software needs are the decider but the Apple user experience, sales & after sales support are streets ahead of any other brand. Also worth pointing out that Windows laptops are increasingly coming with soldered in RAM etc. I would buy a Windows laptop again but only with an AMD chip. Intel is a busted flush.
My eldest boy wanted a Macbook for university and his little brother got a Dell XPS 13 for his start at university. My eldest said it would be his first and last Apple PC and he would be rejoining the windows fold when he needs a new laptop. Meanwhile my youngest loves his XPS and will hold onto it for as long as he can.
I was there, I bought ultrabook, gaming laptops and MacBooks but I always went back to MacBook. Noise and batterylife consistency was key! I don’t want to hear a fan when I open word. Fucking word! Using a M1 Pro and don’t think about moving back to windows.
@@Teluric2my macBook is basically silent for 95% of its life. Even then, the fan is MUCH quieter than any Windows lappie. But the fan is minor compared to the battery life issue.
Ideally, I want both. And you're not "stuck for life" with either. I use OneDrive on Mac and when I need to switch I have my most important files. I also have Apple ID, so if I need to switch between both I have this option.
One reason for me to stick with Windows based laptops is the option for a num pad. It's nice to have when you are working with Excel or accountancy software. Also if you want to run Linux, AMD or Intel based laptops still are the better solution.
@@happysinghrocks I don't want to carry an extra full size keyboard in my backpack when there are excellent thin and light Windows laptops for sale with a built-in num pad.
I can never get used to how terrible Finder and multitasking windows are on Mac. It's an absolute dealbreaker, and I'm saying this while typing this on my MacBook lmao... I won't be going back if I ever get a decent Windows laptop.
Having to use the Macs at work on occasion finder feels like something from decades ago 😂. Software at a core level iOS or MacOS just seems behind really. Multitasking is just a basic example of that
@@driven01 in iOS it's basically non existent. Well you can bounce back and forward between apps. Maybe that's why they thought one computer screen in the vision pro was ample 🤷♂️ In MacOS window management is just clunky.
@@Spoonfed78That's not at all what multi-tasking is. (Sorry, CS professional here, terms actually have meanings). That's a UI feature to organize your visible apps. You are talking about YOUR multi-tasking, not the computers. But to that point, you can use CMD-Tab, you can use the 3 finger spread on the track pad to get an overview of all your apps, you can use multiple desktops. I can actually get more done on MacOS in that regard than Windows. (One of the reasons I use it as my daily development / creative OS). As for the Vision Pro, I have NO idea. If I had $3,500 laying around, I'm doubt I'd use a Vision Pro as a productivity tool. But regardless, it's a first gen product. That can be fixed with software, and it likely will be. Good talk, thanks for that.
Tom you can't just generalize Windows to that one laptop and can't compare Mac vs Windows in this way. It's much broader discussion than that. Laptops vs desktops - specific usecases for laptops vs desktops, type of applications and their availability, interaction behavior with other OSs, then is the actual OS usability, spirit of upgradability and generalization vs no upgradability and specialization etc etc. I'm sticking with the advantages of the PC platform.
This video is just about laptops. And the video talks about all sorts of windows laptops. Just for the visual aspect, I've selected 1 from each side to have on my desk. But if you watch the whole video I am talking about much broader points
This is quite relatable to me; I'm a old Software Engineer, and my 2 computers are a 14" M2 Pro MacBook Pro, and a ASUS VivoBook 14X OLED i9 (20 thread) RTX2050. It is an interesting comparison, things like battery and efficiency are 100% on the side of the Mac, it's the better machine end of story. The Mac is faster for essentially everything I do. But for a Windows laptop, I highly recommend the ASUS VivoBook 14X, I really quite like it. If I had to choose only 1 of these machines, I would choose the Mac, only because that is the most flexible for my work. I would have a harder time working if I only had the Windows laptop, using Linux on it to fill in the gap. For others, if you don't need a Mac the ASUS is a nice little machine, even if feeling a little retro these days when compared to ARM based machines like the MacBook.
She speakers of the Macbook models (especially the 16" version) are the best you can get in a laptop. The Asus Zephyrus G16 (2024) he showed in the video, also has fantastic speakers.
Yeah it was amazing these important factors were left out. macBook has the best speakers of any laptop I've ever tried, and obviously its battery life is sensational. MBP Pro has a 120Hz screen which is glorious for coding.
I’ve been using windows almost exclusively for 30 years (started with windows 95). Tried Macs back in 2003, graphics and image quality were superior but couldn’t get used to the system, gave it another go last year because I use the iPhone, iPad and AirPods and haven’t looked back. I still have a thinkpad for work related applications which don’t support Macs as well and I don’t game on PCs as I have a Ps5 and a steam deck. I’m finding the Mac faster for my workflow and much easier to use since my last attempt. Only thing I probably miss is the windows file system, but other than video and photo editing have been much better
My preference for Mac is for several reasons: 1. From what I've read and experienced, no one makes a touchpad as good as Apple. On my work Windows laptop, even with the touchpad sensitivity set to low, when I'm typing, sometimes my palm will inadvertently touch it and move the cursor somewhere else. Very maddening. And I love the Mac's haptic feedback and that you can click (not just tap) anywhere on it, vs. not being able to click at the top of a standard Windows touchpad (although I've read that there are a few Windows machines with haptic touchpads now, but they are still not as good as a MacBook's). 2. Rarely any fan noise on my MacBook Pro. Fans almost always run on my Windows laptop. 3. Find macOS to be much more intuitive, usable, and delightful to use than Windows. 4. Love the whole ecosystem, such as tightly integrating with my iPhone and being able to Airdrop files among Apple devices. 5. The hardware is premium, the laptop is thinner and lighter, and battery life is much better than the Windows laptop I'm using. 6. I generally need to make far less tweaks to a Mac to get it working the way I like. I will admit that Macs are more expensive, and it's a bummer that you can't expand the memory. But it's the sum of the parts that, for me, makes for a much better experience on a Mac.
At the end of the day it comes down if you like to do things the Apple way. Or you like do to things your way and have the freedom to mess up. Both are valid choices and really that's what all this comes down to. Its Apple's MacOS vs Windows + Linux.
Hey Tom! Big fan! I was actually wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing the Asus ZenBook PRO 14 OLED. I know it's an "older" model but I'd love your take on it vs a MacBook for a creator looking for the best portability. I'd really appreciate your thoughts! Thank you and keep up the awesome work!
My MacBook pro died recently. Lasted 13 years with no major issues. Cost of repair is the same as a decent windows laptop. Currently considering a all rounder laptop or waiting and getting a new MacBook. But 13 years with no major issues still impresses me.
Those that have been using Windows for a long time will find MACOS slowing down productivity. When you fullscreen in MacOS, it will fullscreen that application in another Desktop. When you hover over a open app, MacOS will not show all opened application.
@@Techfanatic73 you should try again.. for productivity, it is not even close, especially for the window management. for how less TH-camrs are talking about the lack of basic features, I was taken aback by the lack of simple, but useful features. 1. Tiling the windows/ saving those configurations (Stagemanager was worse than no stage manager, it took half the space in a 13 inch laptop) 2. you literally don't have a preview of your app on alt+tab, (causes a horryfing disease where people swiping trackpad 5+ apps before reaching their app) 3. screenshots are as feature rich as windows 8, no partial screenshots, no text recognition, no video recording etc. 4. The fck is wrong with the window buttons? you can't just yeet the mouse to close the app / icons are not recognisable, and maximising doesn't maximise the window 5. HOW HARD is it to implement proper multi desktops? pop os does it, windows does it, why make it a pain in the ass? and much more...
yes i feel windows is very faster, snappy to work faster due to snapping abilities on dual monitors. on mac animations are too smooth feels like slowing down productivity.
Used a Dell XPS 15 for 3.5 years at work (software engineer). It stopped working and the company bought me Macbook Pro (M2 Pro chip). It's a great machine. Took some time to get used to the OS, but the performance and battery life are far superior compared to the laptop I had before.
I actuality went the other way . Just broke free from Apple's walled garden. I do miss several things but love the open source and customization of Android and Windows. As you mentioned the gap is getting smaller and I'm hopeful for the future. Another great video, keep up the good work
The Zenbook and M2 Pro were the 2 laptops I had to choose between... Went with the M2 Pro in the endafter being a lifelong Windows (and occasionally Linux) user. We'll see how it pans out in the end.but for now I like the whisper quietness and the fact I can edit my pictures on the go and not need to worry about finding a power outlet to get through an average day of work
@@94ElectronicStill happy with it. But when it ever starts to struggle I might go back to Linux. We'll see what other ARM platforms bring in the future. Untill then I'll far from wholeheartedly pay the apple tax for the stability and battery life and non-plastic chassis. Not to mention it's so clutter free compared to bloatware galore Windows!
@@94Electronic i have downloaded rectangle and I feel no difference with windows snapping :) there’s also an app called “command x” and it does the ctrl+x thing :)
I’ve been using MacBook 13 Pro for the last 4 years, switched to the MacBook 14 pro briefly before i bought an ASUS Vivobook OLED for half the price and honestly, i don’t know why i didn’t do it sooner. I feel unshackled and free for some reason.
Would always go for a MacBook every time. Currently own both the M1 air from 2020 and the latest M2 air. Battery life is great for both, but I sometimes prefer the older (and cheaper) M1, just because it is so versatile and small. It's the perfect traveling companion. I can't count how often I used it just as a TV/streaming replacement in hotels or while traveling by train.
I switched to Linux from Mac Studio (and I'm still adapting to it), haven't used Windows since 2007 (and not planning to) and I use Macbook Pro as its simply the best laptop for my work.
Got an Asus Expertbook Ryzen 7 for work, absolutely can’t stand the lags and constant freezing… I then recently got ahold of a MacBook M1 it’s a different world and time saved, great investment
I'm a retired developer, FWIW. I bought an Asus CX34 Chromebook Plus recently for £245 and I'm in laptop heaven. Before that I ran ChromeOS Flex on an old laptop that my son used at uni.
If I'm not a "Video Editor", what are the chances I'll need a MacBook for in general? 1. Working 🧐 2. Gaming 😂 3. MS Office 🔜 4. Software development 🤨 Don't think so 😕
I am using a 14-inch HP Laptop, running on intel 11th generation processors, (Core i3) and it runs well with games (though Emulators) and my day-to-day tasks. I am hoping for an ARM-based windows machine cause Apple right now is killing it in the PC market with their M series SoCs
Laptop yes in some cases in PC apple is way way behind than desktop class CPUs and GPUs even the weakest 14th gen and 7000 AMD CPUs is lot more powerful than apple
@@-Blue-_ True, the arm for the Desktop doesn't seem ready at the moment, the Intel Core i9 14900K with an RTX 4090 destroys the Apple silicon in the Mac Pro.
@@Mekurukito1234 and i don't think apple will surpass Nvidia in GPU because Nvidia is the inventor of GPUs and have mastery in GPUs and Graphical Computing just look at Real Time Ray Tracing Nvidia is the first one to come up with Ray Tracing for consumer and now even apple is following this and many other companies
as a long time windows user, i changed to max 5 months ago and i'm really struggling lol. I love the battery life and the hardware of the Mac, but I find myself missing windows 11 lol.
Try a MacBook Air (or maybe even an IPad Pro with the keyboard) because I just tried Apple ecosystem this year, and I do love it, I think I’ll stick with Windows for now. Depends on what the M4 MacBooks look like… But if you wanna dip your toe in Apple ecosystem, start small because with Apple, a little goes a long way.
Thanks for this I have been researching the macbook air M2 over the weekend for work and this comparison has helped. I'm a windows guy about to use my first Mac 😅
I have a gaming laptop and recently purchased a MacBook Air M2 last year. Been Windows pretty much all my life and honestly I use both even now. My laptop is basically my desktop and the Air is my portable travel computer. I'm an Android user in the US so super minority here but I've never felt the need to jump into the Apple walled garden. Both are excellent OS and fit into my personal workflow but it really depends on your use cases and what you want from your devices
"Andrew Marc David" got 15 hours of Battery life from HP Spectre 14 2024. Intel Core ultra 7 155H has faster video editing than M3 in Davinchi, Capcut and premiere pro.
@@HDRPCwho cares about faster video editing when your laptop dies in 3hrs. I'd rather lose a minute or 2 in video editing and get 10 more hours, than finish faster in a few mins with a dead laptop
I believe Microsoft should rather work on refining their windows, rather than doing crazy experiments like they did with windows 8. Imagine if windows 7 - 8 -10 -11 -12 were just continuations, and enhanced versions of previous one, windows would've been godly. They wasted thst going into win8 and then again going back to what they had in win 10. That's why I love win 11 because it actually feels like an improvement
At work there is Windows all day. At home I use a Mac Mini M1 and a iPad Pro, and I couldn’t be more happy. I don’t do video, but for photo editing it manages just fine with no lag. Will change out mi M1 at some point, but for now it serves me just well. Next time it will probably be a laptop again, but for photo, I don’t think I want to go Windows. MS is getting better, but for now, nothing beats the Apple ecosystem 😊
Serious question: Does anyone actually watch these Mac vs Windows videos to make a purchase decision? I feel like the pros and cons have been the same for the past 20 years and as such we all just watch these videos for entertainment reasons
I want to buy a new laptop, i have an old EliteBook and i am thinking to buy a new one and I was thinking about these 2 (ASUS Zenbook and MacBook Air) what should I buy for work not gaming?
Air Drop? MSFT has Drop in the Edge browser as long as you are signed in. I use it extensively on my iphone. Take a pic on my iphone. Open Edge. Go to Drop and then 'drop' the pic there. Edge on my laptop will notify instantly there's a pic waiting. Or it could be any file or document.
I went from a 10 year old samsung i3 with 2 gig of RAM to my Mac M1 512 with 8+8 cores. You can only imagine the diferance. My girl had the Macbook pro Intel i9 and the M1 walked it in almost every task. Still now it is way more than I actually need but the thought of going back sends shivers down my spine!!! I have always liked Windows and their laptops but yeah.......Im fully converted.
great review, I have both mac and PC, I would love someone to do a comparison of the 2 laptops seen here running premiere pro, with timeline scrubbing. Not render times.
I love Windows so much more. I am running Windows 11pro on a laptop and I like its functionality. Like the snapping of screen splits. Apple: Using an external drive is so difficult to set up and I always need to connect to my NAS manually.
I own a zenbook 14x, the reviews said it was great, but in my experience, the laptop had only 3 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE. Unfortunately i can't return anymore, so yay, I'm stuck now...
You can avoid most YT battery reviews, as the creators use a benchmark test that doesn't reflect real life. If they say 10 hours, that means 6-7 hours.
I have both Mac and Windows laptop and I have to say my Windows laptop absolutely smokes my M2 MBA at everything. My laptop has a i7 12700H/RTX 4070 combo for less money than my M2 MB. Huge bonus is that I can upgrade my Windows laptop.
Would like to add a bit of context, as this video portrays the two devices as being close as far as performance: Over the last 20 years i've owned & daily-drove 14 windows-based laptops. They had spanned a wide variety of brands & price ranges. Currently i run a fully-spec'd Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which I've had for 1 year and 4 months. During the same time period, I've owned 5 macbook offerings. The longest I've had a Windows laptop survive was a little over 2.5 years. Like clockwork, once they had hit close to the 2 year mark, they would either fail catastrophically, or would have degraded so far in performance they were rendered inoperable. On the Mac side, my 2006 MacBook & 2011 MacBook Air still run to this day. I use the MacBook Air as an emulation station, and the 2006 decorates one of my book shelves. My daily workstation is an original MacBook Pro M1 from 2021. I run this device 24 hours a day, and only restart when a software update is released; I've never had an issue with it. The other stark difference between the two is battery life. My Pro M1 can run for days without charging. It delivers almost 18 hours of battery for light TH-cam streaming. My Lenovo can achieve almost 3.5 hours, and the older devices were worse. The newest & best Windows devices are catching up finally, offering 8-11 hours of use for very light tasks, but the gap is still significant. Do not mistake sharing my personal experience as Windows-bashing: Windows is a fantastic operating system, and I enjoy the devices I have. I have a gaming PC which I run daily & love. Unfortunately, due to Windows having to cater to a plethora of brands & devices, the gap will continue to exist. Mac doesn't shoulder the burden of developing their platform to work for other brand devices, as well as their own. Windows is riddled with redundancies to play nice with all, which decimates battery & performance. As the old adage goes: Nice guys finish last. If you were looking to transition away from Apple Silicon expecting to purchase a Windows laptop of equivalent performance & battery life, you may find you regret the swap regardless of spec. Build quality, battery life, longevity, & compute power will fall short of your previous device. That said, for 90% of the populous a Windows device will exceed their expectations & be more laptop than they'll ever need. Please allow me to reiterate: there is absolutely nothing wrong with a Windows device, so long as you tailor your expectations. I love technology in every form, regardless of suitability for my current workflow. Having so many options is what fosters innovation & growth. My first introduction to computing was on a Windows Pentium II, and I've been enthralled ever since. This video has several excellent points, listing many key features for both parties. Just wanted to throw some personal experience into the mix, as most choose one platform & stick to it! And as for the 2 giants that are Apple & Windows, battle-away for platform supremacy; the rest of us only stand to gain from this heavyweight bout. (p.s... a non-laptop note: Comparing Apple's headset with a Quest device is ludicrous. Quest device is a headset that can enhance (using that term lightly) a laptop's usability in certain situations. Apple Vision Pro is a computer in itself, not requiring an external Laptop to achieve an infinitely-more polished experience. Highlighting the price-gap without explaining capability is unfair. You wouldn't compare a Toyota Corolla & a Lamborghini Huracán solely on price. That would be a disservice to the Lamborghini Engineering team, and more praise than a Corolla ever deserves. Again, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Quest headsets; tailoring expectations to align on costing & capability is key.)
One other important factor is the absolute absence of bloatware on macOS. When you first boot it up, it offers the cleanest possible experience. I am so sick of Dell and their bloatware, it takes hours to get rid of it when you buy a new laptop. No such issue with Macs.
Rocking an M2 Air and a Steam Deck. Seems like the best of both worlds for now but having to juggle between some compatibility issues on both with certain apps and games can be frustrating at times. Having said that, unplugged the Mac in the morning and I've been using it pretty much all day (had a long meeting, music, tabs and software on all day, edited an entire video... etc.) and I'm on 29%. The M2 air is an efficiency beast!
Love my 16” M1 Pro MacBook Pro. Just the workflow is amazing on Mac OS compared to windows. I use mine specifically for software engineering for work and everything else as well. My one computer I own and use for everything.
It's all a tradeoff. If you're fine with glossy screens and the shallowest keyboards in the business, a Mac has a lot to offer, but if not, you're going to be constantly uncomfortable.
@@villa_fan8882why? Mac is based on linux, android is based on linux. If ur not able to use linux even though they made it super easy to use then ur just dumb
@@Nemesis-db8fl 189,000+ views on this video and 3 people use Linux, tells you everything you need to know! I would be careful about calling people dumb when you can’t spell “you’re”! 😂🤣😂
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Tried to switch last year with MacBook M1. Normally both my wife and me use Dell XPS 15 for work and 13 when traveling. Macbook ended up being used 3x in one full year. Ended up selling Macbook. Point is, switching is hard, stick with what you have used to and with what you will enjoy more.
I've been a Mac user since 2007 and was forced to switch to Windows for work. They are both good OS's and Windows 11 has a surprising amount of attention to detail, but it seems that the Mac is just that little bit more refined somehow.
I just switched after trying to use a G14 and I am so much happier. Light with long battery life. Better advice is to know what you need and see if the alternatives will provide better value.
Tried macos for the first time last year and it has been good with working with my iPhone. Unfortunately, thats the only upside for me. I like windows more for laptops and ios more for my phone.
Not the best advice I’d say. It is better to know what you need and test things out. Might just be able to improve your workflow. Life is about taking risks and learning from them
@@kjeldkaj I have spent 1.3k to test, so I think its easier to say than do it. And when you move from Windows to MacOS, it is all about time to get things done. Mac is great, no question about it, just was slowing me down for many random things... One of the reasons I wanted to try it was also because of iphone (photos from phone to Mac etc), as I have it as my 2nd phone (android is of course main driver). In about same time I got Synology NAS... All in all, for me did not worked out.
I really cant wait till the snapdragon Elite X to see hwo Windows can compete then (especially with battery life). My only issue with most TH-cam reviews is that they focus on photo and video editing workflows rather than data workflows which is generally where Windows wins out.
True. Most people don't do video editing everyday on a sofa. Most people use a browser and productivity apps. It looks like youtubers must have a "normal" job in a real company if they want to make videos that makes sense 😊
Thank you. I’m in the same bucket. As I’m a data person first I can do all my editing on an iPad but need a computer for data and so lately after 14 years on a Mac I picked up a surface pro 9 and other than battery life I’m cool with it.
iPad fulfils my Mac need which really is browsing, photo edits and watching videos.
I hate when every single youtuber in the world goes on about video editing all the time yet only 2% of their viewers care about it at all.
@@derekhatake that’s right. You either edit video or play games all day.
All these video editors, you’d think there would be amazing content out there (obviously this channel is great, but just saying).
Think I’ll avoid that career. Clearly saturated already! Perhaps you can film your family vids in 4K edits.
lol@@RemofRenaissance
It would be nice if you'd put visual points or something to show which one is better in specific categories.
The zenbook 14 oled literally outperforms the macbook air m3 in 90% of categories. Apple tech is good but the price is bloated due to branding and reputation. If you want raw performance and the best bang for your buck, go for the windows machine without thinking about it twice.
Does the battery last longer? Does it still perform well after being unplugged?@@alexer071
macbook loses why would you need visual points for that?
You might want a MacBook, but you need a Windows laptop.
True 😂
nah MacBook + windows desktop
True
Truee
I want a PC but need a mac. I'm just going to hackintosh
I used to be an Apple die hard, even worked for them for 6 years. The reason I don't use them anymore is because of their 'warm, comfy, cozy Prison." Love that you said Prison! There is some truth to that.
I'm too much of a tech enthusiast to be limited with what devices I get and don't want to lose out on features just because I thought a phone with a fingerprint scanner is a better use case for me.
Apple has a tendency to decide what is best for it's users, and any amount of customizability you want to do either costs you more money, or features on the product you own. I started to get tired of that trade off, so embraced Android/Windows because they do play nice together. At least as nicely as they can given the huge variety of both.
Currently Using-: Work - Dell Lattitude 7970 i7 1260P 32GB Memory
Personal -Acer Swift X (Ryzen 5800U/ Nvidia 3050ti), Custom Built Desktop PC (Ryzen 5900X, Radeon 7900XT), S23 Ultra, Tab S9, Galaxy Watch 6.
woah sir, I saw that you are using acer swift x for your personal work, I am a uni student wanting to buy a personal laptop, how is the swift x ? Its battery on a single charge and is it fast enough ?
What about its thermals ?
Please answer, I want to know as much as I can about it !!
I use what works best for me, makes me more productive, has less hassle, and has the best support. Since I moved there, the Mac has easily been my choice as I have been in the Apple ecosystem for 15+ years. I am well past the days of tinkering, aesthetics, and choice. I do not see the laptop as an extension of me, only something that gets stuff done.
Windows obviously has a massive advantage in choice, as multiple OEMs give various takes. That is a naughty negative connotation as Apple is only a tiny player in the total PC market, around 9% share. The natural monopoly Windows has is a glorious advantage and almost impenetrable as people will generally stay with what they know.
Except all companies are like that. Example: windows obsession with the Edge-browser and soon also the Copilot that will be forced onto every windows user
@susiolu The Swift X has been great for me. The price to performance is very good. There are some things I wish it did better, like had a 16:10 screen, a bit better build quality, upgradeable RAM, and better back-lit keyboard (seriously, a white backlight on silver keys is pretty useless unless you're in absolute darkness.)
When I bought it though it was just under $1000 USD, and for the specs it has and price its a great all rounder. I came game on it with decent results, and do my work as a software developer with little issue. Having more than 16GB of ram would be nice sometimes, but it wasn't that much of a deal breaker to stop me from getting it. Maybe the newer models have more ram. I'm pretty sure the newer ones are 16:10 displays at least.
edge is actually the best browser for windows and co-pilot is a great tool, it should be promoted@@kjeldkaj
I have a Macbook pro 16" for work, and wanted a light travel/on the go laptop. I bought the Zenbook 14, and am happy with the choice. The only real issue with it is that it doesn't have "Instant on" like Mac, so when I haven't used it in a few hours, it takes about 20s to turn on. But battery life good (about 7 hours), display very good, got my 16GB ram that I need for software dev. Trackpad and sound good. Nice and light. It is actually a nicer consumption device than my iPad, especially in bed. If I was going to buy a Macbook Air/Pro, I would keep looking to move up the pricing ladder to get the spec I actually wanted, and would end up spending about 3 times as much. Go Asus.
What about the heat? MacBooks run cool most of the time and even when they get into the 90s the body of the laptop does not get hot, only very mildly warm. My biggest concern with the ASUS Zenbook is how quickly it gets warm, one reviewer said it got quite warm just using Word to type a document. I was interested in getting one as its performance was good and battery life improved but not the heat!
@@markmoriarty7760 I got a i5 equivalent from AMD, to get better battery life. It stays cool enough for me. Sits on my lap no issue. If heat vs performance is important for you, then yeah, maybe a MacBook air is a good choice. If I didn't need the ram, I would have got the M1 air.
I've never understood the "instant on" thing. All Windows laptops I've had were instant on just like the Mac. It's just Sleep mode.
@@martingifford5415 ikr lol.. recently some laptop window has IR cam which is make it more faster to open the laptop in just a second.. I would say faster than MacBook...
@@markmoriarty7760 and most of the Asus Zenbook models ships with crappy screens (low image and color quality).
With intel unison, my iphone can finally “airdrop” into my downloads folder!
- from iphone app: stable, but max 100 photos at a time
- from windows app: needs couple minutes to sync up large album changes, but can pull hundreds of photos directly from iphone. Also has albums view, sort & delete ur iphone photos on your windows laptop!
Not enough people are talking about this fantastic windows / iphone marriage, so I am.
I'm using both windows and mac so i think I can offer my two cents. I use both unison and phone link. Sometimes notifications duplicates lol. But the reason I use both is that sometimes one doesn't stay connect... But when it does work, it works almost as well, if not better than in the apple ecosystem. I can make a phone call from my pc, for example. I can still text on my pc. I can even check iPhone notifications from my pc. Windows has come a long way. @@smilorent
As a business productivity (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) focused user, I would never again go with Mac. I tried once in 2008 and again in 2022 (with a M1 Pro 14" Macbook Pro) and both times, my Mac laptop became a glorified table ornament used almost only for web browsing, music/video streaming and video chatting. Windows is a MUCH better platform for anyone who wants to use their PC for office productivity work. With that said, I fully acknowledge that my experience does not reflect that of creative type users. I will also readily acknowledge that Apple always has best in class hardware (which you pay a significant premium for) and their machines are very durable, but if you get a high quality Windows laptop, the same is true. It's just that yes there are $500 budget Windows laptops out there and so when those stop working after two years, that should be expected. If you spend $1000-1500 for a high quality Windows laptop, it will generally last you many years just like a Macbook Air. I'm not trying to knock Apple as they do make great laptops, but MacOS is not for everyone and to buy into the marketing shpiel that Macs are just better is a fallacy.
Whats your best windows laptop? Thinkpad?
@@Dasani31 go with precision line up
The cheap windows laptops will take you years also if you put an ssd in them. Other than hardware failure it will run a long time.
Lenovo ideapad 15ada05 with 2 cores and 16 gb ram = office and streaming stuff nowadays with good battery capacity (400 euros in 2019). I use Linux mint I must say because Windows 11 gets slow in this machine
@@Dasani31thinkpad p series are wonderfull for work
I have an Alienware desktop PC and a Dell G15 gaming laptop, which go perfectly well with my Galaxy phone. I use Office apps a lot both for my personal and professional life, along with OneDrive to save and share files and a bunch of other programs; I love the amount of programs / apps there are available for Windows. As Tom says, I use my gear to work by day and game by night.
Microsoft Office runs well on macOS, some say better, but I use it so rarely in Windows these days I wound't know. What I do find rubbish is Outlook in Windows. It's often 20 minutes later picking up my emails than Apple's Mail app. It's probably some configuration detail, but I didn't need to configure Apple's Mail app to deliver my emails promptly. Also, OneDrive, which is really useful, works perfectly on macOS. In fact I have it syncing across all my macOS devices, plus my PC laptop and both my Windows 11 VMs running on my MacBook Pro and my Mac mini. I used to enjoy gaming when I was younger, and still have an Alienware computer in storage somewhere, but it was a pain in the arse to configure it, and now I have no interest in gaming of that type - maybe Sudoku or Kukuro, but nothing that needs nVidia GPUs or processor cooling.
Hey Chaps! Are you team Mac or Windows?
Windows forever for gaming
Windows team
Mac
Mac, windows not more good
as someone w an m2 mac, should've got a windows
“…top notch” as you open the laptop with the notch glaring at me…
Yeah that notch is an eyesore
Yep, only one of those laptops is a "top notch"
I did get the app "topnotch" to get rid of the notch (which I despise).
Because it has a way better webcam and that part of the screen is the top of the window bar anyway. Not saying it's the greatest but it's better than crappy webcam and being able to see a useless silver window bar in the same spot.
@@Äpple-pie-5k Dell has an equivalent webcam with a thin top bezel and doesn't require a notch. Apple ONLY put the notch in because their phones had one for Face ID and they saw it as some perverse (because it's ugly) sort of branding feature.
I detest the notch but have thankfully got an app that gets rid of it.
I am using Macbook pro 14 with m1 pro, and also an Hp Omen with rtx 2070 as a windows laptop. I think windows is a little bit user friendly, start menu and screen using without a menu bar on top is a better experience. MS Office is better in Windows. Also as a software business user, I have to user some apps dont like using arm based chips such as MSSQL.
And there is some screen hz issue that i can not describe. MacOS is not native 144, I think you have to develop your app using high refresh rates. You can test using Edge and Safari while making full screen. You can see the difference while they are getting bigger or smaller. I see the same issue in my LG 144 hz 34 inch display, so it is not about monitor, it is about OS.
And also you can not see the copying speed while you copy files :) each time i have a little smile when i see that :)
I switched from my first ever laptop (a Celeron HP) to a 12’ MacBook Air 2015 at university, and then to the M1 MacBook Air a year after it launched. Absolute game-changer. I do miss Windows’ file management and window management system but that’s about it. I’m now looking to upgrade to a 14-inch M3 Pro since I made the mistake of going with an 8GB M1 Air, which isn’t enough for light work with lots of Chrome tabs, light photo editing, and Slack. Avoid 8GB MacBooks if you can - they are still awesome and super smooth but 16GB gives you headroom in case your workflow becomes a bit more demanding. And you aren’t really overpaying since when you sell it down the road, you’d get a bit more money if it has more RAM.
But have you tried a high end laptop? Celeron is the bottom of the barrel, so its not really a fair comparison. Of course the $1200 macbook is going to be better than the $350 celeron.
Had a Mac Pro from 2011. 2 years later the screen died. Mac store said needed to spend £450 for a new motherboard and wouldn't let me backup my drive even though it's a separate drive. Sent it to a aftermarket store, they backed up the drive for £20. Sold the device for £100. Buyer said they replaced the display ribbon cable for £15 and worked fine.
Decided never to go back to Mac
Especially refusing to lrt you back up your drive. Apple has a *VERY* distorted view of computer/device usage. To THEM the most important thing is the HW/SW itself, and the data be damned. Fothose of us who actually USE our devices, what we've edited or saved on them, the data is the ONLY important thing, and the HW/SW can go scratch. Yes, you're out some money, but you're using the devices to achieve some goal, not to pad the donut-and-sushi budgets of some computer maker.
To be fair, you're dealing with a large corporation that doesn't have a SKU for backing up yourself for you. And you had a Mac which literally has mindless fire-and-forget Time Machine backups. And you haven't yet talked about trying the same thing with Dell or HP, where you'd get a worse experience.
Oh no, it was 14 years ago
Old school Windows user, but macbook pro for last 10 yrs, switching back to Windows for the Asus Zenbook Duo. Innovative form factor ftw.
Team Windows PC.
- Adjustable RAM & SSD
- Better price
- Best for split screen.
- OLED screen option
- Better for 3D design and ML with Nvidia external GPU.
- Better software optimization for gaming, non-software engineering, finance, and data analytical work.
- Option to use Linux OS.
- Better for C# and C++ software engineers.
I do want to acknowledge the amazing features/traits of MacBooks. They just aren't part of my workflow or priorities. These are:
- Best battery life.
- iPhone synchronization.
- Best for photo & video editors.
- Amazing for DJs.
- For software engineers/developers using Java or JavaScript, works near flawlessly.
- Less likely to break down in less than 3 years. Usually, MacBooks last 10 years with 16GB of RAM and good maintenance.
- Best single core performance for simple tasks. Very important for those getting a MacBook Air or Imac.
I'm currently using an M1 Pro 14 inch MacBook Pro and I'm very happy with it. After using this laptop for over a year and a half, it would be hard for me to go back to a Windows laptop that didn't have comparable power efficiency (so either Windows on ARM or maybe an AMD-powered laptop). It certainly helps that I've been very deep in the ecosystem for a long time now & have a gaming PC at home (along with a PS5, Switch & various previous-generation Xbox & PlayStation consoles) I can use when I do want to game.
apple is efficient in terms of battery. but their OS is really not user friendly. i used it for 4months and i hated it. hard to change settings. hard to minimize maximize windows. external softwares wont work.
Intel latest arc series, the Intel Ultra Chipsets are a direct competition to the M1 chip in terms of efficiency and power.
@@nourishcherish9593 yes, their app snapping ability is really bad compared to windows. i can work faster on dual monitor because of windows snapping rather than mac. in mac i always have to resize windows.
Does any Windows laptop have true all day battery life while being near silent? Looking for a Mac alternative.
So far I found only 1. The framework 16 with ryzen 7 and w/o dedicated GPU
Or you can Msi prestige 14 evo b13m with 15+ hrs of battery life
Remember battery life will vary according to the usage! That battery life mentioned to " typical use case" scenarios !
No, Windows’s chip allocation does not allow that, too many configurations, and Microsoft does not customize their OS for every single configuration, even their best business partner, Intel, has trouble with their recent big little core designs with OS not allocation the cores most efficiently.
Thinkpad T14S Gen4 or any other thinkpad, preferably with AMD CPU.
I grew up using PCs and then I bought a macbook pro in 2015 and havent gone back since. This macbook from almost 10 years ago still runs really well. Every laptop PC I used to use would maybe last 3-4 years tops before I noticed a downhill in performance and battery life.
odd im using a thinkpad t410 and only thing thats gone is the battery but its fine cause its easily replaceable, meaning this laptop has lasted 14 years without breaking down
it's a lie. Then u definitely bought a cheaper PC. Some of you do unnecessary comparisons. if u would be true to yourself, just buy a Windows PC at the same selling price as the Mac. The Mac is just overpriced because of the brand not because of performance.
@@addoconstant How you gonna say someones else's experiences is a lie? The mac book pro literally out performs a lot of flagship laptop PCs just look at the performance comparisons for the M2 & M3 pros.
How much was the PC and how much was the Mac?
@@addoconstantwell tbh that argument is getting a little old since macbooks of the same price are often using better hardware for everything when compared to contenders. The case itself, trackpad which is haptic, speakers, cpu which is still quite ahead in technology especially compared to intel, and screen which has often best brightness and color accuracy and contrast (no oled doesn’t automatically mean its better than mini led), and all if that while mostly matching or enhancing performance while staying quiet. Because benchmarks are nice but you are never going to use the performance of your laptop if it means the fans get insanely loud or the battery will die in just an hour
I was choosing a laptop for work about a half year ago, and after lots of consideration, I took Lenovo Yoga 7 on Intel 13700H with a dedicated 4050, 1Tb SSD and 16Gb of RAM. Sometimes it drains the battery faster than I want and has some other minor issues, but on the other hand, it's far more versatile than Mac. You just can do so much more with it that is impossible to do on Mac!
what can you do on this laptop that you can't on a Mac?
@@chloe-dl4kw obviously, CUDA-related stuff and even some gaming (Cyberpunk is playable). 6gb VRAM is a good thing to have.
After 4 Macbooks Pro since 2004, I finally bought a Windows' laptop for my post-production workflow. My last Macbook Pro died two weeks ago, the second time in three years and for the same problem (burned motherboard). Apple's prices and lack of repairability make me reflect, and I decided that for the moment they are not worth it for me. My new Windows' laptop does not have the same battery efficiency, but for a fraction of the price of the M3 Max Macbook Pro, I have the performance and quality that I need from my professional equipment. Windows is not Mac OS, but I am enjoying its customization.
Your windows laptop die even faster.
@@nnnnnn3647 I will take my chances. The next device to bite the dust maybe yours. But who knows.
@@Motion_PM I had a dozen or so laptops. Only the wintel ones were broken.
@@nnnnnn3647 For me It has been three iPhones, with problems that could not be fixed. All the problems were after the 1st year of warranty expired. Also, all my Macbook Pros (for the exception of my 2012 Pre-Retina Macbook Pro) had to go to the repair shop at some point. Apple is not the epitome of quality that many people believe or preach.
@@nnnnnn3647liar. My neighbor has like 5 laptops all of them work but they look beaten up one is 2014.
I sold my HP EliteBook 820 G1 and got myself Macbook Air M1 (found a brand new for €700) - and it's a great laptop for traveling. Sure I have Windows PC at home but if I want to go somewhere and need a computer with me, M1 not only delivers what I need with incredible battery life, but is also silent (no fan), light, secure (if I forget to lock laptop with my Apple Watch it locks automatically the moment I get far enough and unlocks when I return) and it is so easy to work with it with my iPhone - as you said airdrop is amazing. I take a photo or video and bam it's also available on my laptop. Not to mention the ease of use with my Airpods and how easy it connects to my phone for internet without needing to make hotspot myself.
Would I trade my desktop PC for Mac? No. But a laptop? Yes and I'd do it again.
Stop yapping
You forgot the part where every picture you take gets looked over by Apple and numerous 3 letter agencies. 😂
@@Hunter_Bidens_Crackpipe_ with Google there's another thousands of 3rd parties they sold it too for profit after giving it to 3 letter agencies 😂 And same with Microsoft. Nobody is clean.
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@@heavenlypot stop fapping
Once Windows laptops offer arm chips, this will be a more interesting conversation. Longer battery and the same power without being plugged in is the biggest advantage Apple has. But for most users, that's huge.
assuming we have good app compatibility. But yep looking forward to Snapdragon X Elite in the summer
I can buy TWO interesting laptops or one laptop one desktop with money to spare for ONE Macbook..and upgrade them both.Battery life? I can take my TWO WiN machines,and use them yet really when i travel I am not away from an outlet for more than 4 hours..Let's be logical..
It depends on where you work. If you are at a coffee shop or on an Indonesian beach, then MacBooks are the best choice. Also, college students fighting for spots at the library with a charging port.
If you only work at home or an office with tons of charging ports, the battery life advantage goes away. Who needs 13+ hours of battery life when you are finished with work after 8 hours?! Most want to watch TV, do some activities, or spend time talking to family & friends instead of being on their laptop. Cellphones can cover text messaging or social media apps.
Just as thetechchap mentioned it depends on app compatibility, which is really the only strong-force of windows
@@akin242002 Most folks do not work in places where there are not adequate numbers of charging spots..Common sense is why I have a powerbrick that charges multiples devices for the day, and if I go far a solar charger as well. If you have $7000 for a laptop, fine get one, because I would ,yet folks on YT pretend they are so important, just to do it.
I like how fast my MacBook Air is but it has been a whole week and I still don’t understand how to use this thing. I still have to pick up my hp laptop to do my schoolwork because it takes me longer with the workarounds on Mac 😞
"Hardware canucks" got 21 hours of battery life from zenbook 14 in light browsing test.
Core ultra 7 155H has faster video editing than M3 in Davinchi, Capcut and premiere pro.
I bought the zenbook a week ago, and i cant stress how much value this machine compared to the macbook alternative. Only bummer is battery life which usually lasts 8-10 hours on medium load.
get a powerbank, it will extend battery life
Intel Core ULTRA has MacBook 2023 level of BATTERY LIFE.
That's amazing.. another Asus Laptop with dedicated RTX graphics from 2022 gives 3-4 hours on medium work load.
@@HDRPC macbook 2020 level
The Zen Book is hands down better valuable, it's not much of a competition to be honest, the OLED display alone is more than enough for me. I currently have a Vivobook Pro 15 OLED and every time I use it I think "man this screen is so nice".
I've been a Windows user since the mid-90s, even got Microsoft Certified back when that was a thing, and I still have a modest gaming PC (an upgraded SFF Dell OptiPlex 7010 with an RTX A2000 GPU) and an ASUS VivoBook S15. About six years ago I started the transition to the walled garden, more for the fun of something new than anything else, with the 2018 Mac mini. Once the M series chips were introduced I made the full transition (desktop, laptop, tablet), but I'm not getting rid of my Windows PC, and my wife has taken over the ASUS laptop.
A balanced review Tom, good job! I was comfortable and warm in the Apple Walled Garden as well, but got tempted away by the Galaxy Fold. Now my next Laptop will probably be a Framework as I want to be able to upgrade and repair my own things.
Or you can stick with the MacBook and not have to fix and repair junk in the first place?
@@ArthropodSpidey what, just buy new junk then? ;)
@@ArthropodSpideyor he can ditch piece of junk that has to be thrown in the trash when it inevitably dies on him.
@@ArthropodSpidey That's right, you don't fix and repair Apple devices, you just throw them into toxic landfills when they break.
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I recently tried switching from a Macbook Air M1 to a Dell XPS 15 9510. The XPS had a wonderful display, great build quality and a very large and comfy trackpad. I was fully expecting a bump in performance, but to my surprise, for the tasks I do for a living it didn't offer more performance and had horrible battery life in comparison (tasks like graphic design, simple motion graphics etc.) I would often be slightly bothered by the fan noise of the XPS where the MBA is basically silent. Another issue for me is that the experience of using a trackpad in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign is far better on Mac than on Windows, which is sad because its honestly just a software issue, an issue I didn't experience in other apps. I really wanted to keep the XPS but it didn't make sense for my needs. I think its always just a matter of finding the tool that you like the best.
I like having a Windows desktop and Mac laptop. Get the best of both worlds.
That's how I'm rolling right now as well.
Another youtuber ran tests on the useage of Macbooks from M1 to M3 (all in each range) for music production/ audio mixing et al and found that ironically the M2 and M3 are less equiped to handle pro projects with larger track counts, than the M1 range in a number of DAW instances.
This includes logic, which was surprising, until you see that the increased cores aren't apportioned to performance but to efficiency. That will work well for multi-tasking , but not necessarily for apps that haven't yet been optimised for the changes.
That goes some way in explaining why used macbooks (and macs) don't stick around long enough to buy them at better pricing.
Thanks
@@driftone-ti6qd you're welcome.
That’s so interesting, I am about to study Music Composition at uni soon and will need to get a laptop to run apps like logic, Sibelius etc. Should I keep looking into Macbooks or focus more on windows?
@elleeross4301 Are you aware that the two applications you mentioned can not run natively on windows?
I think the xps 16 would be my ideal laptop with a decent GPU right now
King of overheating is not worth your money.
@@theworldoffun8997 undervolt
@@ZOOOKAGEno physical fuction keys is deal-breaker to me, g16 2024 is better in overall, xps line up always has poor reliability, overheat and overprice laptop
Like @TechChap I was a serial XPS owner until Apple Silicon came along and now I’m also trapped in an ecosphere of MacBook, iPad, iPhone, Beats etc. Meanwhile the quality and customer service of Dell has plummeted - countless bad experiences of the enterprise laptops at work and the Black Edition I bought my son for uni. 🤬
Use case & software needs are the decider but the Apple user experience, sales & after sales support are streets ahead of any other brand. Also worth pointing out that Windows laptops are increasingly coming with soldered in RAM etc. I would buy a Windows laptop again but only with an AMD chip. Intel is a busted flush.
@@QuanNguyen_2710macbooks are not overpriced? you must be living in a rock to not know that?
My eldest boy wanted a Macbook for university and his little brother got a Dell XPS 13 for his start at university. My eldest said it would be his first and last Apple PC and he would be rejoining the windows fold when he needs a new laptop. Meanwhile my youngest loves his XPS and will hold onto it for as long as he can.
I was there, I bought ultrabook, gaming laptops and MacBooks but I always went back to MacBook.
Noise and batterylife consistency was key! I don’t want to hear a fan when I open word. Fucking word!
Using a M1 Pro and don’t think about moving back to windows.
Like Mac doesnt use the fan. Dont you want a macbook that matchs the color of your eyes?
@@Teluric2my macBook is basically silent for 95% of its life. Even then, the fan is MUCH quieter than any Windows lappie. But the fan is minor compared to the battery life issue.
@@Teluric2 well on Macbook Air there is no fan. It doesn't need it. And on Pros fans are most of the time unused.
@@karmatrainingcan you upgrade the SSD and RAM in your MacBook ?? For me this is the deal breaker and second don't like crapple products
Ideally, I want both. And you're not "stuck for life" with either. I use OneDrive on Mac and when I need to switch I have my most important files. I also have Apple ID, so if I need to switch between both I have this option.
One reason for me to stick with Windows based laptops is the option for a num pad. It's nice to have when you are working with Excel or accountancy software. Also if you want to run Linux, AMD or Intel based laptops still are the better solution.
Why not buy an Apple keyboard with num pad
@@happysinghrocks I don't want to carry an extra full size keyboard in my backpack when there are excellent thin and light Windows laptops for sale with a built-in num pad.
Also, Microsoft apps don't have hotkeys on MacOS!!@@breaky73
nice video... finally got the right info to clear all my doubts ❤
Compliments for the video Tom, you did an excellent job! Could you tell me, where can I find those fantastic wallpapers? (specially the Zenbook's one)
It comes in with the laptop, you could maybe find it online "asus zenbook 14 oled base wallpaper"
I just ordered last years Zenbook 14x oled, can't wait to get it.
Such an awesome device. Great choice.
I will always use both for the different types of work and hobbies I have
same with me. privately, with the photos from my iPhone, I like my Macbook. I only use a Windows device for work. I like them both.
just got a refurbished m2 air and I love it. Feels like brand new could never tell the difference.
I can never get used to how terrible Finder and multitasking windows are on Mac. It's an absolute dealbreaker, and I'm saying this while typing this on my MacBook lmao... I won't be going back if I ever get a decent Windows laptop.
I use finder alternatives like forklift. But yea finder can be a pain
Having to use the Macs at work on occasion finder feels like something from decades ago 😂.
Software at a core level iOS or MacOS just seems behind really. Multitasking is just a basic example of that
How is multi-tasking worse? It's literally a Unix OS. Unix was doing multi-tasking a full 14+ years before Windows even existed.
@@driven01 in iOS it's basically non existent. Well you can bounce back and forward between apps. Maybe that's why they thought one computer screen in the vision pro was ample 🤷♂️
In MacOS window management is just clunky.
@@Spoonfed78That's not at all what multi-tasking is. (Sorry, CS professional here, terms actually have meanings). That's a UI feature to organize your visible apps. You are talking about YOUR multi-tasking, not the computers.
But to that point, you can use CMD-Tab, you can use the 3 finger spread on the track pad to get an overview of all your apps, you can use multiple desktops. I can actually get more done on MacOS in that regard than Windows. (One of the reasons I use it as my daily development / creative OS).
As for the Vision Pro, I have NO idea. If I had $3,500 laying around, I'm doubt I'd use a Vision Pro as a productivity tool. But regardless, it's a first gen product. That can be fixed with software, and it likely will be.
Good talk, thanks for that.
I just tried macbook and fell in love with it. It works so good not stupid updates
Tom you can't just generalize Windows to that one laptop and can't compare Mac vs Windows in this way. It's much broader discussion than that. Laptops vs desktops - specific usecases for laptops vs desktops, type of applications and their availability, interaction behavior with other OSs, then is the actual OS usability, spirit of upgradability and generalization vs no upgradability and specialization etc etc.
I'm sticking with the advantages of the PC platform.
This video is just about laptops. And the video talks about all sorts of windows laptops. Just for the visual aspect, I've selected 1 from each side to have on my desk. But if you watch the whole video I am talking about much broader points
This is the best review on this topic that I’ve seen. It’s honest, unbiased, and accurate. Subscribed.
For me, the question isn't Mac or PC. It's notch or notchless.
U Got that rigjt, also do not forget stupid ssd soldering
Dumbest comment ever. Thats like picking your new vehicle cause you like the speedometer....smh
@@Techfanatic73 it's like buying products based on design. And that's absolutely OK.
This comment makes no sense
The notch is stupid and distracting
This is quite relatable to me; I'm a old Software Engineer, and my 2 computers are a 14" M2 Pro MacBook Pro, and a ASUS VivoBook 14X OLED i9 (20 thread) RTX2050. It is an interesting comparison, things like battery and efficiency are 100% on the side of the Mac, it's the better machine end of story. The Mac is faster for essentially everything I do. But for a Windows laptop, I highly recommend the ASUS VivoBook 14X, I really quite like it. If I had to choose only 1 of these machines, I would choose the Mac, only because that is the most flexible for my work. I would have a harder time working if I only had the Windows laptop, using Linux on it to fill in the gap. For others, if you don't need a Mac the ASUS is a nice little machine, even if feeling a little retro these days when compared to ARM based machines like the MacBook.
How about speakers, battery, brightness test ? It’s all very important to make a decision
MacBooks battery does laps around windows
She speakers of the Macbook models (especially the 16" version) are the best you can get in a laptop.
The Asus Zephyrus G16 (2024) he showed in the video, also has fantastic speakers.
Yeah it was amazing these important factors were left out. macBook has the best speakers of any laptop I've ever tried, and obviously its battery life is sensational. MBP Pro has a 120Hz screen which is glorious for coding.
Dell XPS brightness: 380 nits. Macbook Air: 503. Macbook Pro: 565
I’ve been using windows almost exclusively for 30 years (started with windows 95). Tried Macs back in 2003, graphics and image quality were superior but couldn’t get used to the system, gave it another go last year because I use the iPhone, iPad and AirPods and haven’t looked back. I still have a thinkpad for work related applications which don’t support Macs as well and I don’t game on PCs as I have a Ps5 and a steam deck. I’m finding the Mac faster for my workflow and much easier to use since my last attempt. Only thing I probably miss is the windows file system, but other than video and photo editing have been much better
My preference for Mac is for several reasons:
1. From what I've read and experienced, no one makes a touchpad as good as Apple. On my work Windows laptop, even with the touchpad sensitivity set to low, when I'm typing, sometimes my palm will inadvertently touch it and move the cursor somewhere else. Very maddening. And I love the Mac's haptic feedback and that you can click (not just tap) anywhere on it, vs. not being able to click at the top of a standard Windows touchpad (although I've read that there are a few Windows machines with haptic touchpads now, but they are still not as good as a MacBook's).
2. Rarely any fan noise on my MacBook Pro. Fans almost always run on my Windows laptop.
3. Find macOS to be much more intuitive, usable, and delightful to use than Windows.
4. Love the whole ecosystem, such as tightly integrating with my iPhone and being able to Airdrop files among Apple devices.
5. The hardware is premium, the laptop is thinner and lighter, and battery life is much better than the Windows laptop I'm using.
6. I generally need to make far less tweaks to a Mac to get it working the way I like.
I will admit that Macs are more expensive, and it's a bummer that you can't expand the memory. But it's the sum of the parts that, for me, makes for a much better experience on a Mac.
Thanks for such a big review mate.... really appreciate that!
At the end of the day it comes down if you like to do things the Apple way. Or you like do to things your way and have the freedom to mess up.
Both are valid choices and really that's what all this comes down to. Its Apple's MacOS vs Windows + Linux.
This!
Thanks for the info.
Hey Tom! Big fan! I was actually wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing the Asus ZenBook PRO 14 OLED. I know it's an "older" model but I'd love your take on it vs a MacBook for a creator looking for the best portability. I'd really appreciate your thoughts! Thank you and keep up the awesome work!
My MacBook pro died recently. Lasted 13 years with no major issues. Cost of repair is the same as a decent windows laptop. Currently considering a all rounder laptop or waiting and getting a new MacBook. But 13 years with no major issues still impresses me.
Those that have been using Windows for a long time will find MACOS slowing down productivity.
When you fullscreen in MacOS, it will fullscreen that application in another Desktop.
When you hover over a open app, MacOS will not show all opened application.
Completely incorrect. Try again. Lol. Workflow will increase.
2+ external monitors = windows is faster/easier. Single screen without the need to constantly switch between “windows” = Mac.
@@Techfanatic73I disagree. I’m going back to Windows because of productivity.
@@Techfanatic73 you should try again.. for productivity, it is not even close, especially for the window management. for how less TH-camrs are talking about the lack of basic features, I was taken aback by the lack of simple, but useful features.
1. Tiling the windows/ saving those configurations (Stagemanager was worse than no stage manager, it took half the space in a 13 inch laptop)
2. you literally don't have a preview of your app on alt+tab, (causes a horryfing disease where people swiping trackpad 5+ apps before reaching their app)
3. screenshots are as feature rich as windows 8, no partial screenshots, no text recognition, no video recording etc.
4. The fck is wrong with the window buttons? you can't just yeet the mouse to close the app / icons are not recognisable, and maximising doesn't maximise the window
5. HOW HARD is it to implement proper multi desktops? pop os does it, windows does it, why make it a pain in the ass?
and much more...
yes i feel windows is very faster, snappy to work faster due to snapping abilities on dual monitors. on mac animations are too smooth feels like slowing down productivity.
I recently switched to windows. The thing i learn is that mac makes basic things complicated while windows is easy to handle. I easily used to it.
Solid Video ,I Use Arch BTW ,use old ThinkPads and they Brilliant
Used a Dell XPS 15 for 3.5 years at work (software engineer). It stopped working and the company bought me Macbook Pro (M2 Pro chip). It's a great machine. Took some time to get used to the OS, but the performance and battery life are far superior compared to the laptop I had before.
I actuality went the other way . Just broke free from Apple's walled garden. I do miss several things but love the open source and customization of Android and Windows. As you mentioned the gap is getting smaller and I'm hopeful for the future. Another great video, keep up the good work
The selection and quality has never been better!
The Zenbook and M2 Pro were the 2 laptops I had to choose between... Went with the M2 Pro in the endafter being a lifelong Windows (and occasionally Linux) user.
We'll see how it pans out in the end.but for now I like the whisper quietness and the fact I can edit my pictures on the go and not need to worry about finding a power outlet to get through an average day of work
Any update. How is the other side?
@@94ElectronicStill happy with it. But when it ever starts to struggle I might go back to Linux. We'll see what other ARM platforms bring in the future. Untill then I'll far from wholeheartedly pay the apple tax for the stability and battery life and non-plastic chassis. Not to mention it's so clutter free compared to bloatware galore Windows!
@@94ElectronicI also made the switch and couldn’t be more happy.
@@GamingPIPI What about the window snapping. Isnt Windows superior an that aspect?
@@94Electronic i have downloaded rectangle and I feel no difference with windows snapping :) there’s also an app called “command x” and it does the ctrl+x thing :)
I’ve been using MacBook 13 Pro for the last 4 years, switched to the MacBook 14 pro briefly before i bought an ASUS Vivobook OLED for half the price and honestly, i don’t know why i didn’t do it sooner. I feel unshackled and free for some reason.
Would always go for a MacBook every time. Currently own both the M1 air from 2020 and the latest M2 air. Battery life is great for both, but I sometimes prefer the older (and cheaper) M1, just because it is so versatile and small. It's the perfect traveling companion. I can't count how often I used it just as a TV/streaming replacement in hotels or while traveling by train.
I switched to Linux from Mac Studio (and I'm still adapting to it), haven't used Windows since 2007 (and not planning to) and I use Macbook Pro as its simply the best laptop for my work.
Battery life is the real deal breaker .
Got an Asus Expertbook Ryzen 7 for work, absolutely can’t stand the lags and constant freezing… I then recently got ahold of a MacBook M1 it’s a different world and time saved, great investment
I'm a retired developer, FWIW. I bought an Asus CX34 Chromebook Plus recently for £245 and I'm in laptop heaven. Before that I ran ChromeOS Flex on an old laptop that my son used at uni.
A developer needs more than a Chromebook.
@@desistarrecords I run Android Studio and VSC on my Chromebook. I also ran them on ChromeOS Flex.
@@markbracegirdle7110 Good to know that.
@@desistarrecords I was gobsmacked when I got Android Studio running well on a Lenovo G50-30, running ChromeOS Flex.
@@markbracegirdle7110 That's surprising
If I'm not a "Video Editor", what are the chances I'll need a MacBook for in general?
1. Working 🧐
2. Gaming 😂
3. MS Office 🔜
4. Software development 🤨
Don't think so 😕
I am using a 14-inch HP Laptop, running on intel 11th generation processors, (Core i3) and it runs well with games (though Emulators) and my day-to-day tasks. I am hoping for an ARM-based windows machine cause Apple right now is killing it in the PC market with their M series SoCs
Laptop yes in some cases in PC apple is way way behind than desktop class CPUs and GPUs even the weakest 14th gen and 7000 AMD CPUs is lot more powerful than apple
@@-Blue-_ True, the arm for the Desktop doesn't seem ready at the moment, the Intel Core i9 14900K with an RTX 4090 destroys the Apple silicon in the Mac Pro.
@@Mekurukito1234 and i don't think apple will surpass Nvidia in GPU because Nvidia is the inventor of GPUs and have mastery in GPUs and Graphical Computing just look at Real Time Ray Tracing Nvidia is the first one to come up with Ray Tracing for consumer and now even apple is following this and many other companies
as a long time windows user, i changed to max 5 months ago and i'm really struggling lol. I love the battery life and the hardware of the Mac, but I find myself missing windows 11 lol.
I wouldn´t even touch an apple product with a ten feet pole.
Ex windows users say it's good and they have no regrets. Im still on the fence thou. Vivobook s16 vs mac air 15"
@@alexbelikov6660 Then just go with linux.
apple products are very good , but also very overrated .
Well done, the most unbiased review I've ever seen
Zenbook, any day of the week.
Yep, I agree, I am currently using a Zenbook Flip that I bought 3 years ago. Never owned Asus before, but so far a great experience.
The issue is i may wanna use revit in the future , but i really want to try the Mac experience. What do you guys recommend in my case
Try a MacBook Air (or maybe even an IPad Pro with the keyboard) because I just tried Apple ecosystem this year, and I do love it, I think I’ll stick with Windows for now. Depends on what the M4 MacBooks look like…
But if you wanna dip your toe in Apple ecosystem, start small because with Apple, a little goes a long way.
Thanks for this I have been researching the macbook air M2 over the weekend for work and this comparison has helped. I'm a windows guy about to use my first Mac 😅
glad it helped! :)
I have a gaming laptop and recently purchased a MacBook Air M2 last year. Been Windows pretty much all my life and honestly I use both even now. My laptop is basically my desktop and the Air is my portable travel computer. I'm an Android user in the US so super minority here but I've never felt the need to jump into the Apple walled garden. Both are excellent OS and fit into my personal workflow but it really depends on your use cases and what you want from your devices
"Andrew Marc David" got 15 hours of Battery life from HP Spectre 14 2024.
Intel Core ultra 7 155H has faster video editing than M3 in Davinchi, Capcut and premiere pro.
@@richiemohanty5107 Fellow Android + Mac user here. I get it!
@@HDRPCwho cares about faster video editing when your laptop dies in 3hrs. I'd rather lose a minute or 2 in video editing and get 10 more hours, than finish faster in a few mins with a dead laptop
I believe Microsoft should rather work on refining their windows, rather than doing crazy experiments like they did with windows 8. Imagine if windows 7 - 8 -10 -11 -12 were just continuations, and enhanced versions of previous one, windows would've been godly. They wasted thst going into win8 and then again going back to what they had in win 10. That's why I love win 11 because it actually feels like an improvement
Use rectangle, free version of Magnet.
^^ This post above is referring to how to get MUCH better window-snapping on Mac than on a PC in under 12 seconds of setup.
At work there is Windows all day. At home I use a Mac Mini M1 and a iPad Pro, and I couldn’t be more happy. I don’t do video, but for photo editing it manages just fine with no lag. Will change out mi M1 at some point, but for now it serves me just well. Next time it will probably be a laptop again, but for photo, I don’t think I want to go Windows. MS is getting better, but for now, nothing beats the Apple ecosystem 😊
Windows for gaming, Linux or Mac for programming!
You can game on Linux @@darthvader1191
Serious question: Does anyone actually watch these Mac vs Windows videos to make a purchase decision? I feel like the pros and cons have been the same for the past 20 years and as such we all just watch these videos for entertainment reasons
I want to buy a new laptop, i have an old EliteBook and i am thinking to buy a new one and I was thinking about these 2 (ASUS Zenbook and MacBook Air) what should I buy for work not gaming?
M1 macbook pro has 10 cores and 8 are for performance.
Air Drop? MSFT has Drop in the Edge browser as long as you are signed in. I use it extensively on my iphone. Take a pic on my iphone. Open Edge. Go to Drop and then 'drop' the pic there. Edge on my laptop will notify instantly there's a pic waiting. Or it could be any file or document.
I went from a 10 year old samsung i3 with 2 gig of RAM to my Mac M1 512 with 8+8 cores. You can only imagine the diferance. My girl had the Macbook pro Intel i9 and the M1 walked it in almost every task. Still now it is way more than I actually need but the thought of going back sends shivers down my spine!!! I have always liked Windows and their laptops but yeah.......Im fully converted.
great review, I have both mac and PC, I would love someone to do a comparison of the 2 laptops seen here running premiere pro, with timeline scrubbing. Not render times.
Just bought the MacBook Air M3. Happy with it!
I love Windows so much more. I am running Windows 11pro on a laptop and I like its functionality. Like the snapping of screen splits.
Apple: Using an external drive is so difficult to set up and I always need to connect to my NAS manually.
What do you guys mean by refined mac os I can’t get it
Everything is quality, feels polished, well designed, nice graphics
A real world comparison of these two laptops would be great. the Zenbook seems like a great option on paper to replace an older macbook I have.
you used macbook before, why you want to switch to windows?
@@ahmadafnan3756 something different
I own a zenbook 14x, the reviews said it was great, but in my experience, the laptop had only 3 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE. Unfortunately i can't return anymore, so yay, I'm stuck now...
You can avoid most YT battery reviews, as the creators use a benchmark test that doesn't reflect real life. If they say 10 hours, that means 6-7 hours.
@@andyH_England yeah, it's just that i also own an m1 MBA, and those battery tests were accurate, so maybe i was unlucky?
@@recordedanemone6399 That is possible; QC can vary from one chip to another.
@@andyH_England yeah true...
I have both Mac and Windows laptop and I have to say my Windows laptop absolutely smokes my M2 MBA at everything. My laptop has a i7 12700H/RTX 4070 combo for less money than my M2 MB. Huge bonus is that I can upgrade my Windows laptop.
Best performance?
Great video!
Which MacBook do you recommend for 4K video editing?
M1 Pro MacBook pro and above.
Would like to add a bit of context, as this video portrays the two devices as being close as far as performance:
Over the last 20 years i've owned & daily-drove 14 windows-based laptops. They had spanned a wide variety of brands & price ranges. Currently i run a fully-spec'd Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which I've had for 1 year and 4 months. During the same time period, I've owned 5 macbook offerings.
The longest I've had a Windows laptop survive was a little over 2.5 years. Like clockwork, once they had hit close to the 2 year mark, they would either fail catastrophically, or would have degraded so far in performance they were rendered inoperable.
On the Mac side, my 2006 MacBook & 2011 MacBook Air still run to this day. I use the MacBook Air as an emulation station, and the 2006 decorates one of my book shelves. My daily workstation is an original MacBook Pro M1 from 2021. I run this device 24 hours a day, and only restart when a software update is released; I've never had an issue with it.
The other stark difference between the two is battery life.
My Pro M1 can run for days without charging. It delivers almost 18 hours of battery for light TH-cam streaming. My Lenovo can achieve almost 3.5 hours, and the older devices were worse. The newest & best Windows devices are catching up finally, offering 8-11 hours of use for very light tasks, but the gap is still significant.
Do not mistake sharing my personal experience as Windows-bashing: Windows is a fantastic operating system, and I enjoy the devices I have. I have a gaming PC which I run daily & love. Unfortunately, due to Windows having to cater to a plethora of brands & devices, the gap will continue to exist. Mac doesn't shoulder the burden of developing their platform to work for other brand devices, as well as their own. Windows is riddled with redundancies to play nice with all, which decimates battery & performance. As the old adage goes: Nice guys finish last.
If you were looking to transition away from Apple Silicon expecting to purchase a Windows laptop of equivalent performance & battery life, you may find you regret the swap regardless of spec. Build quality, battery life, longevity, & compute power will fall short of your previous device. That said, for 90% of the populous a Windows device will exceed their expectations & be more laptop than they'll ever need.
Please allow me to reiterate: there is absolutely nothing wrong with a Windows device, so long as you tailor your expectations.
I love technology in every form, regardless of suitability for my current workflow. Having so many options is what fosters innovation & growth.
My first introduction to computing was on a Windows Pentium II, and I've been enthralled ever since.
This video has several excellent points, listing many key features for both parties. Just wanted to throw some personal experience into the mix, as most choose one platform & stick to it!
And as for the 2 giants that are Apple & Windows, battle-away for platform supremacy; the rest of us only stand to gain from this heavyweight bout.
(p.s... a non-laptop note: Comparing Apple's headset with a Quest device is ludicrous. Quest device is a headset that can enhance (using that term lightly) a laptop's usability in certain situations. Apple Vision Pro is a computer in itself, not requiring an external Laptop to achieve an infinitely-more polished experience. Highlighting the price-gap without explaining capability is unfair. You wouldn't compare a Toyota Corolla & a Lamborghini Huracán solely on price. That would be a disservice to the Lamborghini Engineering team, and more praise than a Corolla ever deserves. Again, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Quest headsets; tailoring expectations to align on costing & capability is key.)
One other important factor is the absolute absence of bloatware on macOS. When you first boot it up, it offers the cleanest possible experience. I am so sick of Dell and their bloatware, it takes hours to get rid of it when you buy a new laptop. No such issue with Macs.
What a trash comment
thanks for the additional experience sharing
Rocking an M2 Air and a Steam Deck. Seems like the best of both worlds for now but having to juggle between some compatibility issues on both with certain apps and games can be frustrating at times. Having said that, unplugged the Mac in the morning and I've been using it pretty much all day (had a long meeting, music, tabs and software on all day, edited an entire video... etc.) and I'm on 29%. The M2 air is an efficiency beast!
That's because Intel x86 CPUs were designed for desktop computers!
Love my 16” M1 Pro MacBook Pro. Just the workflow is amazing on Mac OS compared to windows. I use mine specifically for software engineering for work and everything else as well. My one computer I own and use for everything.
It's all a tradeoff. If you're fine with glossy screens and the shallowest keyboards in the business, a Mac has a lot to offer, but if not, you're going to be constantly uncomfortable.
Linux user attendance here 👇👇
That’s a bit cringe! 😬 You and 2 others!
@@villa_fan8882why? Mac is based on linux, android is based on linux. If ur not able to use linux even though they made it super easy to use then ur just dumb
@@Nemesis-db8fl 189,000+ views on this video and 3 people use Linux, tells you everything you need to know! I would be careful about calling people dumb when you can’t spell “you’re”! 😂🤣😂
@@villa_fan8882 well that's because lack of knowledge. Most people don't even know what linux is even though they use it in some form
£7000 and it doesn't even avoid flash frames, like yours at 1'39?
Apple fanboy raise your ✋
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I use a MacBook Air for daily use, including travel, a custom PC desktop for gaming at home, and a Steam Deck while traveling.
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Get a life man