Joel Johnson reviews the MacOS vs Windows situation as it stands after Apple’s disappointing new MacBook Pro. Like a lot of people needing capable laptops, he’s switched back to Windows, and finds himself torn between two startlingly opposite visions of the computing experience.
Whereas MacOS is simple and powerful, “a path through a gloomy forest” hand-in-hand with a mentoring but controlling Apple…
Windows is a carnival in an open field staffed by drunk orphans. You can approach it from any direction, pulling a cart you first loaded up in 1998. There are signs posted everywhere, telling you a dozen ways to move forward. “TOUCH THE AMAZING SCREEN!” “BEND THE HINGES … ON A LAPTOP!” “SEE THE PEN! IT WORKS NOW!” “DARE YOU SAMPLE THE DELIGHTS OF THE CLOUD?”
I suspect this article was actually supposed to be a review of Microsoft’s Surface Book but it’s all like that.