CrowDazzle

With the latest Macbook Pro 2018 pricing, I finally kicked Apple to the curb. Well sort of...I'm still rocking my 2014 MBP and it's performance is still solid but it's taking a back seat. I sold my 2017 MBP 15" a few weeks ago since it was the worst Mac I've ever owned. Listening to the sound of the fans under moderate load didn't warrant the $3K price tag. Last week I took home the 9570 from Costco and with some under-volting tweaks I had that XPS purring, killed most of the fan noise and extended battery life considerably. In a desktop environment, once paired with an eGPU and the 1050ti takes a back seat you'll never hear the fans spin up again. I tried making the switch last year and the PC's out at that time weren't cutting it as far as build quality goes. This year, Dell and Razer have some solid machines and their current track-pads have made it possible to switch. One problem that PC manufactures are missing is more than one Thunderbolt 3 port, not to mention Thunderbolt implementation on the Windows side seems to be a mixed bag. It's not the first time I've left Apple and I'm sure they will lure me back again at some point (like they did with that 2006 MacPro). Until then I will be rocking a quiet Windows machine with some extra cash in my pocket.