Actually, somehow I didn't realize that this had even happened, and then I hadn't updated.

You guys have had some findings, some some adjustments to my life, and I think you might want to know about him.

So I mean, you probably read the title is video.

You kind of know what it's about on the left hand side.

Here I have the 13 inch MacBook air.

Over here is the ThinkPad X one carbon.

Now, when this laptop came out, I made a very complimentary video about it.

The best laptop For most people, it was brand new.

And based on that evaluation, at that moment, it seemed like a really good bye for a lot of people, especially considering it's starting price.

The build quality, the association with the Apple brand, you know, just just a good package for a lot of people.

So I called it that, but I ran into problems with this shortly after publishing that video.

In fact, I kind of felt guilty, having called this laptop the best purchase for most people.

So I came on here and I showed you guys that the keyboard was not functioning as expected, had problems with the e key.

Jack has a Mac book pro.

Kirk has a Mac book pro and Will has a Mac book pro, and I do, too.

So this isn't coming from a place of just wanting Thio bash a particular brand apple, anything like that.

This is just a personal experience.

So anyhow, E key starts to give out that kind of put it down and went back to using the Mac book pro.

Then I come in tow work and will tells me his MacBook pros now exhibiting the same thing that this one was, then the email start to roll in for me of other people having experienced the same thing.

And I was like, Man, I think this issue is bigger than I had ever expected, and the guilt started to pile up for me.

Maybe I should be warning people.

Will apple fix it presumably.

But if this happens to you after your warranty expired, that could be a very expensive fix, and this is not an inexpensive laptop would not happen.

It kind of reconfigured my brain a little bit.

I was like, Man, I've been using Apple laptops exclusively for a very long time.

Almost 10 years.

I was like I should go back toe windows and see what's happening in Windows and search for some Windows based devices that I might actually like, so that took me down the ThinkPad path and guess what?

I loved it.

Wow, I really didn't look back.

I just tweaked it a little bit so that it was suitable for myself so that I liked it.

And I have fully switched over from Mac toe windows without much fanfare.

Obviously, without telling you guys officially and I'm not missing, it is kind of a flipped version of that ad campaign from back in the day when you got the guy who's the Mac and the guy who's the PC and the one guys in the suit and the other guy's cool that I'm going the other direction.

This became my main laptop X one carbon good battery life.

Surprisingly, I began to really like the mat display without the glare and the gloss, not the brightest display in the world.

But I lived with it.

I even lived with the chin on the bottom.

Here I live with the inferior trackpad on this thing pad when compared to the Mac book, I lived with the bizarre button placement.

I lived with the weird location of the fingerprint scanner live with all that stuff, and I did so because when I got to type on this beautiful keyboard, you see how I did that right?

Their jackets like Vanna White.

I just come across it.

When I typed on his keyboard, I had a sense of euphoria, an epiphany of sorts that I was like, Man, I've been missing out.

There are great laptop keyboards out there.

I'm talking about the actual experience having used this.

Even if this thing was completely functioning correctly, I would trade it in a second For this experience.

This thing invites me to answer e mails, and nothing does ever.

I never want to look a email, but here it's a pleasure.

It's a joy, and it got me thinking about laptops in general.

In the modern era, Apple used to have some pretty strong advantages in thinness, lightness, battery life, things like this.

But now we look at a product like this is a G's.

It's barely thicker.

It's lighter in fact with a bigger display.

14 inch display.

Two and 1/2 pounds 13 inch display £3 Pretty much as thin, light way Maur Interface capacity.

Here.

Type C to a breakout Ethernet USB.

There's an HD my poor, another USB port headphone Jack Sim card slot.

You could enable this device for full mobile connectivity along with the SIM card and a connection through your carrier.

So you're always connected.

It could be it always on mobile device, but the biggest thing was Windows itself.

I went with, like the simplest set up ever that I can show Jack here.

I took the number of APS that I use, like a relatively frequent basis.

I made them nice and small, wiping them.

And then most of what else I do just lives within the chrome browser a there and via tabs.

I mean, this thing is so clean.

That's basically what I interact with my daily life cup of coffee over here.

Maybe it's over here and checking, you know, a couple of different APS.

I mean, it's Windows.

Guys, what do you What do you really need?

It got prettier.

It really did.

It's not like it used to be.

It's more reliable.

It's smoother.

It's better looking.

I turned off most of the system based notifications that I didn't need, so they're less abrasive.

That, for me, was like That's way more seamless.

That's too easy.

And I should have been looking at these products a long time ago because they are valid substitutes for what Apple is doing now.

I should say that these two devices air not necessarily targeted at the same clientele.

I think most people going to say this thing looks prettier, of course, myself.

I like the industrial appearance of the ThinkPad.

That's the simple matte finish.

It's like it's a tool.

It's cool with being a tool.

It's a cool tool.

It gets like smudges on it.

It's so what?

I'm okay with that.

I don't think everyone will be.

The exchange you make there is.

You must go with this wonderful slick aluminum, which I have to admit.

It looks great, but I was surprised I enjoyed the switch, and I'm actually quite happy to be in the window space now and have the wide variety of laptops to choose from.

What is a laptop for most of us?

these days.

What do you really need here?

What are you paying for?

Durability, Form factor.

You need something that's light.

You need something that has good battery life.

And then after that, it's a keyboard and a display.

So ask yourself, how good are those components?

And I can pretty safely say not just based on my experience, but also on the reliability factor that these keyboards on the Mac books are flawed.

And that is a major, if not the most major component in a laptop.

It's a reason to pick up a laptop when compared to a phone or tablet or some other device that you have.

If you do this, experiment yourself.

If you move over to a keyboard like the one on the X one carbon, you'll never want to touch or tap anything like this again.

Windows is not that bad.

It's not as bad as it used to be.

It's actually kind of pretty now, and you can make this move.

I have officially quit using Apple laptops, and it kind of happened quietly.

I didn't even really expected, and I didn't even really set out to do it.