I had windows laptops too, I enjoy windows 11, but if I need reliability, great battery life and be sure my laptop and OS won't fail me when I need it, I only go apple. 1299$ is a crazy price? That's my weekly paycheck, so not really, windows as a system is way less stable than apple os. I have both , I can judge , just like iOS vs any high end crap phone on android, where my 1000$ note9 was like shit in 9 months including the battery, while my iphone 3 years in and still no problems. Same price though. Come here back here in one year with a gaming laptop I will see how much it had failed you lol, just like everyone else here with gaming laptops unless you use it once a week