My HP laptop has been running without a hitch since 2014-15, can’t recall exactly ... its memory is better than mine.
Nary a Mac I’ve had lasted that near that long and they cost 2-3x as much.
No Mac no more.
My 2012 Mac run just fine. 10 years and use it 1 to 6 hours a day. Never shut it down.
I won’t argue Mac’s are overpriced, but haven’t owned a Wintel machine yet that has been as dependable as the mac’s I’ve owned.
OF course I also stayed away from the crappy macbooks where they got rid of the USB-A ports and put in that craptastic keyboard etc as well
Far as I’m concerned the Macbook Pro Peaked in 2015. Only recently in 2021, did they finally undo the fiasco that was the crapbook pro.
Still have a touchpad that is needlessly gargantuan and the absolute pointless gimmick they call the touchbar. But at least they returned to having decent and proper ports, and left USB-C Dongle mania behind.
Far as I’m concerned Jony Ive’s should have been fired for the 2016 Macbook lunacy, and the entire company should be b1tch slapped for sticking with it for 6 years. Lets not even get into the keyboard nonsense... How the hell do you break a Keyboard Apple?? I have keyboards from 1982 that still work perfectly but your insane desire to just make it thinner broke the most basic interface component of the computer.
Honestly, I think with Cook at the helm they are shadow of the company they once were, at least from the hardware side.