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Mac or Windows for office work – current pros/cons?

2 pointsby chasehaover 3 years ago
All,<p>Starting a new job in a few weeks and have been given the choice between a Mac or a Windows laptop. Similar specs - Mac will be a Macbook Air, M1 chip, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD. Windows is a Thinkpad w&#x2F; i7, same RAM&#x2F;SSD.<p>Used a MacBook in college back in the day, but have used Windows machines since for work and play. I will not be developing, it&#x27;s a management role, so mainly Office apps, MS Teams, web browsing.<p>Word&#x2F;Excel&#x2F;etc for Mac used to be terrible, but I understand in recent years MS has done a better job on those. I work w&#x2F; multiple monitors and understand that MacOS doesn&#x27;t have the same windows snap &#x2F; tiling features natively, but that can be added. The native integration w&#x2F; my phone to be able to iMessage on the laptop is appealing for sure. Wondering if there are other pros and cons I&#x27;m not thinking about - appreciate your thoughts.

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R0flcopt3rover 3 years ago
Note that the &quot;old&quot; M1 doesn&#x27;t support more than one external display natively. You can get around this with displaylink adapters, but docking stations that support this is annoying to find.
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yuppie_scumover 3 years ago
Mac