I use Autodesk Civil3D everyday as part my job and I have a unique situation where I'm not tied to using a corporate managed machine. I use the Dell for photogrammetry so the 64gb of ram is useful there. The Dell of course is much higher specced since the Mac only has 16gb of ram and a comparatively anemic GPU. I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 15' (Radeon pro 455) as well as a decked out Dell Precision 5530 (64gb ram, 1tb 970 Pro, Quadro P2000, i7 8850h). I have an interesting take running Windows via boot camp vs just buying a windows laptop from another manufacturer. If they have to use Windows software and only use Apple hardware they must either be using boot camp or virtualizing it. It would be fascinating to know what software they use when designing all the different aspects of their hardware. Most of the full featured CAD design software that I know of is Windows only and I would guess that Apple themselves use it. I notice a lot of people complain about boot camp drivers not being very optimal when running Windows, but I wonder if Apple themselves use Windows for their CAD and some design software. After all, it took how years of iphone sales to finally kill adobe flash? I don't think most windows OEMs care? So maybe it's best to vote with your wallet. They've had 3 years to catch up for quality speakers. I'd say the competition is 'catching up' but they've had 7 years to catch up to Retina.

But it's hard to complain when 95% of windows laptops are just as bad in this regard aswell. The only thing I wish this laptop had was more key travel and more ports.

They're also heavier and have worse battery life. There is no way I'd pay that much for such poor QC and reliability. I only play dx8.1 era games mostly (which you'd be surprised running does require gtx 1050 like performance) But for me apple's gpu performance has finally caught up. You are kinda forced to tho still for gaming. I don't think anybody wants to use windows, most apps/programs are cross platform these days anyway. But maybe my memory is failing me since I never had a mac? 10 years ago apple's microphones were not that good. 10 years ago the difference in battery life was not that big. 10 years ago apple's ssd's were not that fast. 10 years ago the difference in speakers was not that big. 10 years ago you could get non-16:9 aspect ratio displays. 10 years ago the difference between mac and pc was not that huge. Really? I feel like it's the complete opposite.

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