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It's easy to explain why MacBooks work well and have a decent battery life. Because Apple has a very limited and predefined line of machines and in that situation it's not a problem to polish OS to work well with a limited line of devices.

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For what it's worth, I got an MBP from work and it's power supply has an annoying coil whine/hum. I've looked online and it is common enough I haven't bothered to ask for a replacement. Quality issues like that exist among all manufacturers. Likewise with the software side. OSX still has bugs and I still waste time working around behaviors like in Windows or Linux.

There are definitely benefits to it but there are drawbacks too.

Sounds like a good idea. Some OEMs should follow suit. Sometimes they try with their upper echelon hardware and they always fail somehow. Look at this XPS15 with all its annoyances. I still don't understand why they keep making consumer crap and tarnish their own brand, while they could take that design time of crappy stuff towards the upper echelon stuff, to make them truly great.

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