Almost four weeks ago I got approved to move to a MacBook Pro at work after years on a Dell laptop. Thanks to the red tape of corporate ordering, the dang thing still hasn’t arrived. If I’m lucky, this week sometime.

The Dell Laptop, only a couple years old, has an 8-core i7 processor, 32 GB of RAM (after begging an upgrade from IT), 500GB SSD, and a 15" screen. It gets about 90 minutes of battery life when it’s not plugged in, gets hot and runs the fan all the time, and weighs 5.5 lbs.

The MacBook Pro M4 Max, when it arrives: 14" screen, 14-core CPU, 36 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD. 12+ hour battery life, and only 3.5 lbs - a full 2 lbs lighter.

All this and IT tells me that they don’t want to issue people Macs because the Windows PC provides a “superior user experience”. 😒