> But all in all, I am actually quite happy with my Pixelbook purchase. If the hardware/firmware experience could improve a bit, then it would have been a very, very good purchase despite all the hates from Youtube reviewers.
How do you forgive something like that? The LTE on my Lenovo X1C 6th gen fails randomly (with recent driver updates, it’s just once a week). I’m never buying a Lenovo again, basic functionality like that should just work. Laptops are solved technology. They should not have bugs like this.
It's just code bugs, they're easy to forgive when they get fixed. How much code is in a laptop prior to installing an operating system, it must be a lot with modern hardware.
Management bugs on the other hand are harder to forgive, like that time Lenovo shipped rootkits, or the many times Apple has simply lied about bad hardware design, or that time Facebook decided not to refund children based on if it was their parents asking...
I disagree. Apple hardware has had some quirks, but over aggressive throttling is far more forgivable than basic functionality simply not working. My laptop is a tool—it needs to work.
How about when Apple denied 2017's keyboards were shit then they denied it again and again until in 2018 whilst continuing to deny it they iterated on the design to fix the problem and launched a 4 year replacement program for devices otherwise likely to last 10+ years? How much is the EU going to spend in 2021 fighting Apple when the keyboard replacements are still required and cost $700...
How about bent iPads, badly soldered nVidia chips, fraying cables etc?
Code mistakes (sometimes) just get fixed instead of shielded with lies to avoid liability for avoidable mistakes.
Code mistakes, especially when it comes to firmware and drivers generally don't get fixed the same way hardware issues often don't. Neither is acceptable and I don't see why you're trying to argue Apple is worse when they're both terrible companies with terrible behavior.
The problem is, if you are a Linux user, what else can you buy but Lenovo? Maybe some Dells, but the durability of the laptops is definitely not on par with Lenovo laptops. And other than that? System76? Last time I heard, their laptops were rebrands of another brand, and the quality actually really bad (though this was some years ago, maybe it has changed).
How do you forgive something like that? The LTE on my Lenovo X1C 6th gen fails randomly (with recent driver updates, it’s just once a week). I’m never buying a Lenovo again, basic functionality like that should just work. Laptops are solved technology. They should not have bugs like this.