u/Firm-Bed-7218

20+ years as a designer on MacBooks and Mac towers. Every single one has had problems. Batteries die fast, they shut off when they want, performance degrades within 2-3 years, keyboards fail, ports break, fans scream under loads that shouldn’t faze them.

Recently built a PC for 3D work and it’s faster and better in every way. Now I’m wondering, has PC actually been better this whole time and I just didn’t know because “Macs are the industry standard for design”? Or am I in a honeymoon phase?

Have I been drinking the Kool-Aid for two decades, or is there a real reason designers stay on Mac?

Edit: I should mention I posted this while having a hissy fit due to my most recent mac hardware issue on my $2500 computer. I still am genuinely curious if a PC laptop running windows at the same price point would perform drastically better or not. I know my souped up PC tower isn’t a fair comparison to a MacBook Pro.

Bucket 1, airport fiction lane: loved Dark Matter, Recursion, and Pines from Crouch (didn’t click with his others), plus Sakey’s Brilliance trilogy. High-concept, fast-paced sci-fi hooks, fast-paced sci-fi.

Bucket 2, on the other hand: Chiang / Ken Liu lane. Literary, idea-driven short fiction, philosophical, restrained, often melancholy. Already familiar with Three-Body Problem and Le Guin, so looking outside those.

Random side-note, I also really like Ken Grim wood’s Replay.

Tried a bunch of Goodreads lists and nothing stuck. There have to be more writers working these lanes, just need help finding them.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​