I had a hot date with Windows 8...

[james_s]

I like MacOS a lot but their current hardware lineup is a joke. My employer issued MacBook Pro is beautifully constructed and has a gorgeous display but the design is severely gimped in order to make it much thinner than necessary. The storage and RAM are soldered to the motherboard, the only ports it has are those stupid USB-C so absolutely every peripheral I use requires a dongle. The keyboard is crap too, it makes a clacking noise and feels like typing on a flip phone. Oh and the touchpad is at least 4x the size it ought to be, it's so huge that it's in the way and pushes the keyboard up to an awkward position. Oh and the touchbar is a gimmick, it's handy for adjusting brightness and volume but otherwise just gets in the way. I've accidentally bumped it much more often than I've used it deliberately. Putting the Esc key onto that instead of a real key was beyond stupid too.

Apple has full on become a fashion company, form over function has taken over design philosophy to the extreme. I would never invest my own money in that platform with its current trajectory.