I&#x27;ve had a lot of PC and Mac laptops, my first one being a Powerbook around 1994. But the --only one-- that ever died catastrophically was an Early 2011 Macbook Pro. Its problems are legion on the Apple support boards, and Apple wouldn&#x27;t admit that the problems existed.<p>It wasn&#x27;t until after I bought a new replacement laptop that Apple finally acknowledged the issues and started a repair program. I wasn&#x27;t able to just walk into my Apple store to get it fixed (I live in a major metro), so I ended up going to a local authorized dealer instead.<p>It was basically the last straw for me. I&#x27;m happily on Windows. I don&#x27;t miss the OSX Terminal because I&#x27;ve got CMDer, and just about everything else I was using on Mac for work is either available for Windows or has a decent equivalent. Windows is not the wasteland it was when I switched back to Mac a decade ago.