Best performing Windows laptop is a Macbook

[paristotle]

Anybody have a chance to read this report from Soluto? https://www.soluto.com/reports
I currently have a couple of clients running only Windows on Mac hardware, but I didn't think it would be that popular. I wonder if Apple would ever consider making Windows laptops. They are primarily a hardware vendor so I don't see the harm.

 

[SprinterTech-WI]

Anybody have a chance to read this report from Soluto? https://www.soluto.com/reports
I currently have a couple of clients running only Windows on Mac hardware, but I didn't think it would be that popular. I wonder if Apple would ever consider making Windows laptops. They are primarily a hardware vendor so I don't see the harm.

Its called asus's higher end line..... they make a good chunk of the macbook pros

 

[paristotle]

That explains why Acer rated highly on this scale.

 

[Ccomp5950]

Flawed methodology, and arbitrary point system weighted far to heavily. (Number 3's points vs Number 2's points is absurd, for reference look at number 4 with the same stats but higher boot time and it's score).

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Gimme a good Lenovo Thinkpad series, option it out so it's equal to the Mac....and let me do a clean install of Windows, and run those tests again.

 

[gunslinger]

love it......lol......................................

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

thats no way to measure best performing windows laptop....and theres gaming laptops in that list which makes it incredibly flawed. How can you consider error rate, bsod, hangs when comparing a gaming laptop to an intel based video card laptop. Gamers are going to experience more errors, more hangs, and usually more bsods.

 

[paristotle]

I think the clean install option is key. It's something that they mention in the report as a possible reason for the MacBook's performance as a Windows PC.
As for Lenovo their build quality is not what it used to be. I was contracted to assist with a rollout of 400, T400 in 2008, and did another one for the same customer a few months ago. This time we went to T430s. We had much more RMA, with the T430 than the T400. Faulty keyboards (that used to be one of their strengths), defective SSD's etc. Really changed my view of Lenovo laptops.

 

[SilverLeaf]

Anybody have a chance to read this report from Soluto? https://www.soluto.com/reports
I currently have a couple of clients running only Windows on Mac hardware, but I didn't think it would be that popular. I wonder if Apple would ever consider making Windows laptops. They are primarily a hardware vendor so I don't see the harm.

The scoring method of this article is completely invalid and inconsistent. If your testing hardware performance and reliability, the only variable should be the hardware....not the software as well. Had all of these models had a fresh install of the O/S without all the pre-installed crap that some come bundled with, I suspect the results may be substantially different.

And why in the world would Apple want to make Windows laptops? Not only would they be giving up their tight control over the consistent total user experience that is the "core of the Apple", they would essentially be watering down the brand. Plus, why would they want to become a commodity hardware manufacturer, competing with everyone else (Dell, HP, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Acer,.......) when their current business model provides them with a high-margin, cult-status, proprietary cash cow?

 

[brandonkick]

This report shows you exactly how someone can make a report conclude whatever they want it to, and with some good marketing tactics they can make most uneducated individuals believe the line of garbage contained within.

First of all, WAY too much variation. If you read it, they say that some of these machines were reinstalled by the operators. Who knows how qualified these people are? I've had quite a few machines come in to me after a failed restore attempt, mainly because they aren't aware of the need to install drivers and where to get them, which ones are missing and so on.

So a machine that some "office tech" set up should NEVER be included in this type of testing. How fair is it to the actual hardware being called a dud because it has missing chipset software?

You can clearly tell that the point of the article is to give everyone the same boner for apple products that the person who wrote it has. The price for the apple machines do not include the cost of the windows installation? Why not?

Flat out garbage.

 

[phaZed]

So let me get this straight, the #2 Super-budget Acer Aspire has LESS crashes and less hangs than the #1 2012 Mac, and has a single BSOD every 1666 weeks (1 BSOD every 32 years?)

OMG, it's official, Apple's quality is slipping dramatically because the newer $2000+ Macbook Pro 15" Retina only ranked at #6, far behind the #2 $425 Acer, Dell XPS 13, Dell Vostro.. The apple has a bluescreen every 5 weeks! Oh noos!

I'm sure the Apple camp will be happy to herald the headline.. but not give much thought to anything else.. Oh, too late!

Oh, nevermind, the totally arbitrary scoring system is claimed to be "totally arbitrary" in the methodology section.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

One note...I am actually not surprised to see Acer do well in that article. A lot of people associate Acer with crap computers...and because of how they marketed their "home" grade computers (through walmart and radio shack liek the Aspire series)...yeah those were cheaper garbage. But little known to many, they actually made some decent business grade workstations and some decent smaller servers back in the Win9X days...a place I worked at back then, that's all they sold. IBM actually made most of the workstations for them.

But regarding their laptops....back in the Win3/9X days, Texas Instruments made great laptops. Acer bought TI and integrated those. Across my clients I have a few that have gotten Acers biz grade laptops...to be honest...they've lasted quite well.

I haven't followed Acer lately to see who owns them or who they recently bought or if someone else makes their stuff now.

 

[Jerry the Computer Guy]

Acer actually owns Gateway and Packard Bell (yes, they're still around, just not in the US). They also discontinued the eMachines brand (that Gateway had snagged after IBM disowned them). They are collectively known as "Acer Group".

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Packard Bell (yes, they're still around, just not in the US)..

Fond memories of all the hours spent playing "Aces over Europe" and "Duke Nukem 3D" on a Packard Bell 486. That's what got me into computer gaming again.