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It's funny you say that, like non-Apple products are so much better.

We ordered a fleet of Acer laptops years ago where I used to work, where after a few weeks of use if you unscrewed the bottom cover of the laptop and shook it, screws would just fall out.

We also had an entire fleet of HP laptops have their hinge plastics snap, due to poor design where the interconnection point of the two plastics would touch the case when closing the screen.

This wasn't one the odd laptop, it was 100's of an entire fleet.

I've owned two Macbooks in my life, one from 2008 that I broke spilling liquid all over it and the other that I have had since 2013. These machines are considerably higher quality than many other laptops.




Except for 2016-2019. Those have issues with keyboards, trackpads, and power management. if you deploy them in large enough numbers, you’ll have a not so subtle percentage encounter these issues.


I agree, I also think the reason you see every single pain point of the Macbooks is because they're so much more abundant than non-Apple laptops (perhaps aside from ThinkPads).

If you looked at the last 8 years of Acer laptops, you would see a large variety of designs, of which each iteration may have had its own flaws.


My brother in christ you are buying consumer garbage Acers and HPs for a professional fleet.




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