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I’ve had both at work. At work I’ve come to the conclusion that windows > Mac. All of the firm apps were designed to work with windows and PowerPoint in windows is far superior to Mac. Also if I needed a *nix like environment I could just jump on a Linux vm.
For home use where you have admin rights I’d probably go Mac. The screen is nicer than any windows laptop I’ve used; Asus MacBook air like laptop, MacBook air, dell xps and hp elite books. I also like the keyboard and I thought that I would hate it at first. Macs have hands down the best trackpad, and I find my hp track pad nearly unusable in comparison. Macs also have the best structural build quality I’ve encountered.
Downsides to Mac. I do not like the Touch Bar. I’ve had one fail and I hate not having F keys. the keyboard can be temperamental and people often get stuck keys. If you are hooking it up to external devices you will be in dongle hell. Only supported 30hz on my widescreen display. Take performance measures with a grain of salt. The design of the MacBook means the CPU will thermal throttle relatively quickly. This will matter with tensor flow. You should probably buy Apple Care with it.
The only other laptops that look interesting too me are the Razer ones. They are built for gamers but the specs and design are quite similar to apples and the form factor is nice.
Now what I might do if I wanted to work on analytics projects would be to get a MacBook air for general use and then build a PC or buy an old server for analytics and just ssh into it. If you use R you could setup Rstudio server on it. And when I say might I really mean that's what I actually do.
Interesting. I haven’t had a windows at home since Vista so I don’t trust it
If you go with windows Gigabyte aero is the way to go. Long battery life, GeForce GTX so you can install CUDA, and doesnt look like a laser show compared with most other gaming laptops. Also has the thinnest bezel you’ll find on any laptop.
Go with the cheapest Macbook Pro
It’s the 13 inch. My eyes. 😖
If you code in most languages other than C# or other Microsoft specific stuff, then I'd go with Mac. It's just so much easier to have a Unix OS. No need to precompile certain python packages, deal with Windows weird file system choices, etc.
I personally prefer running Linux since I'm too cheap to buy Apple, but I will admit, most flavors of Linux are not for everyone.
Excel shortcuts are hard on Macs
Get a 2011 MacBook air
2011??
I’m also older and the 13 inch doesn’t work for me lmao. I’m looking at the 15 inch MacBook Pro. But just wondering if it’s better to get a windows computer and why or why not. I lost use R, python, sql, and i am starting to learn tensor flow. My last job I had windows and it was a good computer. Buuuuut all the “hardcore developers” had MAC. 🤷♀️.
I got the MacBook but 13 inch 😒