To the author of this piece: are you enlightened yet?

Have you decided yet to stop buying Apple hardware?

I made the leap last year. It’s been surprisingly pleasant. Everything we talk about where Apple hardware is untouchable and better than everyone else is outdated, if not outright propagandistic thoughts seeded Apple to its vast network of proponents.

Is my hardware as refined? No, not really. But it’s better, because it works like a normal PC without all the weird bespoke bullshit. Apple makes systems where it’s hard to see what’s going on and everything is put behind a curtain.

And really, all the innovation is outside of Apple.

Some examples: Look at the Zenbook Duo 2026, imagine carrying around a no-compromise dual OLED display laptop around with a processor with similar efficiency to the M5 with better graphics performance. And you get more storage space than a similarly priced MacBook Pro.

Look at the 2025-2026 Lenovo systems. They have haptic trackpads and top tier speakers, features that supposedly only Apple could accomplish.

Look at the Framework 13, a computer you can actually repair and upgrade on your own with first class Linux support, from a company that will actually engage with users rather than having a shroud of secrecy.

Look at the wide variety of laptops with Nvidia RTX 5000 series graphics, which Apple’s best and most pricey solutions can’t match for performance.

Where are the MacBook Pro systems with tandem OLED displays? Why is there still a notch in the middle of the screen especially when there is no Face ID? When is Apple going to refresh the MacBook Pro design that is now almost 5 years old?

Look at the Linux desktop, where the development experience is way less janky and compromised than macOS and you can run almost all Windows games after you’re done working, and you can actually customize your system rather than fighting with it. It also doesn’t just randomly get slower because Apple wants to fuck up the UI with Liquid Ass.

There’s never been a better time to leave Apple behind. Back in the days of the G4 and G5, Apple users dealt with worse processor performance and efficiency just to use a superior experience. Now macOS users are doing the opposite: using a terrible system with a terrible experience just to get the best shiniest hardware and the best chips, which isn’t even very much of an advantage anymore (hello panther lake).