So my sister is leaning toward getting her daughter a MacBook Air but my neice is insisting on a windows based laptop. Anyone have recommendations on brands that reliable and half way decent? My neice isn't a power user or power gamer. Minecraft seems to be the biggest game she plays.
I am tempted to tell my sister to go with the MBA and I'll install Parallels and Windows 11 on it for my niece. I feel thats the best of both worlds.
no.. that depends on what your niece is using it for...
my parnets are also trying to get me a MBA, but i literally cannot use one (im a minor, just for clarity, lol)
why? because i run a repair business, so things like 3utools, balena etcher arent avablive on mac (ik there are mac friendly alternatives, but i prefer my software im already famillar with, okay?)
also gaming isn't really good on macOS, but if you did install 11 on it, that would work for gaming... i don't know how well though.
i would also recommend looking at a framework laptop, as the are more repairable than most laptops
and its a windows laptop (or chrome os.. but im assuming you might not want that if you want a iphone to sync, but i use one with an iphone, and kinda collect chromebooks, lol)