JULY 2020 PCWorld 9Apple today is a 100-percent Intel shop.Despite some recent wins in corporate laptops
by AMD, Intel still has a huge lead among large
companies.
this year. Unless you’re willing to wait and
hope, your current choices are all Intel—
dozens and dozens of laptops with
Thunderbolt 3 ports.NO ONE EVER GOT
FIRED FOR BUYING
INTEL
There used to be a saying for
corporate buyers that “no one ever
got fired for choosing IBM.” The
phrase basically acknowledged
IBM’s once-dominant place in
technology, where risk-averse
corporate buyers would never
accept anything else.
IBM is no longer that forcein IT, but Intel is. Intel dominates corporate
laptops even more than consumer laptops,
due to the conservative nature of IT shops—
especially large IT shops—around the
globe. AMD will need to fight for a
foothold before anything changes. If you’re
buying to be compliant with your
company’s needs or you’re issued a
work laptop, the odds
are it will have Intel
inside.YOU WANT A
MACBOOK
As PC people, we can think of lots of reasons
not to buy a MacBook, from the PC’s lead in
innovation to the superiority of Windows 10.
That said, if you won’t give up your
MacBook until we pry it from your Butterfly-
keyboard-wracked fingertips, you have no
choice. From MacBook Air to MacBook Pro,