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Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by donw » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

cytzol wrote: post #19

The refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm of travel delivers a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience. The inverted-T arrow keys help you fly through lines of code, spreadsheets, or game environments. This isn't progress. This is the baseline. Apple have gone from bad to OK, and they're celebrating as though they've achieved something amazing.

So is this a not-broken keyboard design? I have the (now) previous-generation Air, and need a keyboard repair.

Would be seriously tempted to just buy a new one if I was confident the keyboard wasn't absolute garbage. Typing on it was fine when it worked, but it double-spaces, and a couple of the other keys are now wonky.

Never had a keyboard die on me before this -- Mac or otherwise.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by solat » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 1:35 PM UTC

snemvalts wrote: post #37

solat wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While this MBA turned out really well, current Windows featuring WSL2 is quite impressive though. Having a full Ubuntu or Debian on your machine is priceless. Or you develop on a remote server, then you just need a good terminal. So currently both macOS and Windows are good for JS dev. It's a matter of taste and price.

i think most people prefer to not sell their souls for advertising when it comes to their desktop environments.

Do you mean the start menu? I never open it, just use Win + number for pinned apps.

Windows is not perfect but it excels in many regards nowadays and the last years, Macs were really expensive and risky. They were too expensive to just have a fall-back machine lying around (if you make serious money with you gear, every hour counts). I have 3x 2.5lb notebooks here, if one needs to be sent in, so what.

Edit: just opened it but there are no ads... what do you mean?

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by gigatexal » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 1:36 PM UTC

Now give me a 14.1 inch MacBook Pro with this keyboard, 32 or 64GB of ram and 8 real cores.

... I think though this new MacBook Air is going to be my next portable

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by xenonite » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 1:36 PM UTC

neogodless wrote: post #9

More comments here on somewhat duplicate thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22615803

The other one was submitted later according to the ID. Could one move the comments from there to here?

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by skohan » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 1:39 PM UTC

solat wrote: post #46

re 'doubled perf': AMD Ryzen 4000 Notebooks are coming these days, not sure if the Macbook is then again old tech.

How long would it realistically take for Apple to pivot to AMD? If things continue as they have been, it's hard to imagine the "premium brand" sticking with Intel.

Of course they might just shift everything to A series chips instead.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by kasey_junk » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

ehutch79 wrote: post #48

kasey_junk wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems pretty typical for js backend systems to be heavily containerized such that I’d say it’s approaching the default deployment mechanism.

Why would you keep rebuilding the container constantly though?

Typically build flows don’t mount the js with volumes they embed it in the image. I’m not cognizant enough of the trade offs to know why.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by hahamrfunnyguy » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

Apple makes nice laptops, but I am not interested until the come out with a convertible option. I bought a HP Spectre a couple of years ago and I am very happy with it. The convertible option is very nice for traveling in coach.

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by ryanlol » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

baybal2 wrote: post #7

I like it how they have to almost shout "no butterfly switch keyboard there" now Thank you Louis Rossmann!

What does the weird conspiracy theorist dude have to do with this decision by Apple?

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by latenightcoding » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 1:41 PM UTC

leetrout wrote: post #5

I wish they would offer customers of the previous gen a coupon. Mine has been serviced and given a new keyboard and it still double types. No chance I’m buying another one any time soon.

Same thoughts, I have the MBA 2018 and the keyboard is a deal breaker, I regret buying it and this is probably the last laptop from apple I will every buy

Re: New MacBook Air

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Post by jamesrcole » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 1:42 PM UTC

I wish they provided an easy way to compare it to older MacBook Air models. I have a 2018 model - I’d like to be able to easily compare them and see the exact differences and where they’re the same.