Given my need to use Adobe Premiere and Illustrator, it’s Windows or Mac for me. But in terms of basic usability, I’m shocked at poor Windows is compared to my Mac.
For example, this old rMBP 15 will drive three large monitors in addition to its screen. But when I try to run just one 4k monitor on my new XPS 15 (with better Nvidia GPU), I get laggy external display, and limited to 30Hz refresh.
With Windows, I can’t have Docker and Virtualbox. I have to use a 3rd party program to manage my ssh keys!? (And it doesn’t integrate easily with everything.) Outlook 2016 on Mac has unified inbox, which is good since I have 8 different accounts I need to check. Outlook 2016 on Windows doesn’t have that feature, and the party line on the official windows forum is that the feature is only possible for POP3 accounts (which is obviously not true). I have a much longer list than this… these are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Meanwhile, Apple won’t let me have their fastest laptop with an ESC key. Or > 16GB RAM. But now my complaints about my Mac seem insignificant.
