Should I get a macbook?

[finance1993]

I've been thinking about this and I wanted to get a macbook for a long time already. I heavily rely on MS excel and concerned that my excel shortcuts might work differently on mac, and all of my work files are in onedrive

 

[solidsnake1298]

It sounds like you have a lot of reasons to NOT get a Macbook. It also doesn't sound like you have much, if any, experience using MacOS. So, I have to ask, why DO you want a Macbook? Also, I'm assuming you are talking about a M1 Macbook.

 

[mikeymikec]

My advice to people thinking about getting a Mac is to actually try one out first, if possible get an hour or so doing the things you'd normally do with your own computer. My feeling is that if the Mac UI works well for you then by all means go for it.

For me, to find a worse file manager than Finder I have to go back to Windows 3.11. I'm not impressed with the build quality either of what I've seen either: My brother's Mac desktop has had three graphics card replacements, and their Macbook laptop range did things with SATA cabling across three revisions that any building noob should be able to tell you is a bad idea, and sure enough they have to sell SATA cabling replacement spares.

 

[ptthomas]

Why exactly do you want a macbook? If you just want one for the gist of it then i won't recommend getting one.

 

[Oyeve]

My work MBP 2019 is collecting dust under my desk. I wish the job let me sell it.

 

[Oyeve]

Why, what's wrong with it?

Nothing, it's just useless to me and pretty much the company. It was used by an ex employee who convinced management that he needed a top level mbp.

 

[ptthomas]

Haven't heard back from OP.