Every windows laptop I've bought has had a faulty hinge or hard drive failure. I've seen similar things with my girlfriend's computer. My next laptop I want to be more expensive but last half a decade.
Sadly XPS 13 and other "leading" windows laptops seem to fall victim to the same less than perfect manufacturing. Apple charges more, but there laptops are also well built.
Something I use every day for a long time I don't want to save a few bucks on it the short term.
Every Windows laptop I've bought has worked perfectly, with zero defects.
Same thing for my wife. And we're both heavy users who use our machines all day for work. We've had every brand of PC and never had any problems. Ever. Not even kidding a little.
The only problems I've ever had were with Apple hardware. Their laptops would overheat and the Mac OS would crash often. In every Macbook Pro I've had, the batteries died sooner than any other laptop brand.
Furthermore, upgrades and repairs are next to impossible or a real pain in the butt with Apple hardware. One of my Apple machines is a 2012 Mac Pro that I want to get a new video card for - but can I go to Amazon and just buy one off the shelf? No. I must go to www.macvidcards.com to get a card that works fully. I must also buy special, non-standard internal power cables for it.
Sure, but none of my problems with Apple hardware have had anything to do with reliability.
The fact that various Macbook Pro models get very hot is a well documented issue. I wonder if we can get some data on how much the Mac OS crashes though, relatively?
Apple's extreme efforts to lock you into their hardware and prevent upgrading are also very well known.
That last one is my biggest gripe. They are anti-choice and ultimately, anti-consumer. The Apple hardware lineup is small, sterile and boring to me. There's so much more, better and newer stuff going on outside of Apple's tiny little world.
Is there a Windows equivalent of Time Machine, which offers backups but also setting up your new computer with the old OS in no time? And how are the trackpads of your current machine?
These are my main concerns before I make any jump back to Microsoft-world (which I'm really considering).
I don't use touchpads, even on my laptops. I use a vertical five button wireless mouse because I don't like to rotate my cuff all day since I get repetitive stress syndrome. However, my wife does use the touchpad on her Surface Pro 3 and it works just fine for her. Actually there is one touch pad that I do use for my entertainment PC in my living room and that is a logitech K400R. It also works just fine with two finger scrolling, swiping etc.
Sadly XPS 13 and other "leading" windows laptops seem to fall victim to the same less than perfect manufacturing. Apple charges more, but there laptops are also well built.
Something I use every day for a long time I don't want to save a few bucks on it the short term.