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Perhaps we can finally stop jumping down Apple's throats for daring to sell a computer this time around. There is legitimately nothing wrong with this computer. All of its previous shortcomings have been rectified - It has an agreeable keyboard - It's cheaper - It has a quad-core processor, finally
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.
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.
We all (most of us anyway) wanted them to go back to the scissor design. Are we going to now complain that they did what the community has been begging them to do? Was butterfly a mistake? Yes. Were they slow to correct the issue? Yes. Now that they fixed it we should be happy about it. As far as talking about it being amazing, its called marketing spin. This is how it works. However, those two sentences do not say a…
They tried a new design, which was horrible to use and had a high failure rate. They continued to claim the new keyboard was amazing, and stubbornly continued to use this crappy keyboard long after the problems were apparent.
And now they are touting a "normal" keyboard mechanism as if they've invented something new and wonderful... only Apple could get away with such transparent BS.
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A typical JS developer is not building/rebuilding docker containers constantly.
That's correct. Not building/re-building the containers constantly. However, the initial build takes forever and some containers tend to crash (e.g., Prisma). Plus, in our case where we're using Angular, the recompiling of the app on change sends the fan into overdrive and I get noticeable lag on application switching. Again, this is on a 2013 MBA, which is almost ridiculous, but I'm that type of person. Still proudl…
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We all (most of us anyway) wanted them to go back to the scissor design. Are we going to now complain that they did what the community has been begging them to do? Was butterfly a mistake? Yes. Were they slow to correct the issue? Yes. Now that they fixed it we should be happy about it. As far as talking about it being amazing, its called marketing spin. This is how it works. However, those two sentences do not say a…
Honestly, Apple's marketing has always been worse than the other companies when it comes to sell basic things as a revolutionary, life changing progress.
Further, it can take revolutionary change to maintain incremental improvements. Filling HDD with say Helium has a lot of knock on effects hidden by the spec sheet.
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.
You can trade-in for a new machine. Or do you mean partial refund when you say coupon?
I do not mean partial refund I mean a coupon for a significant discount so I can try to sell this one on eBay or similar.
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.
The inverted-T arrow keys help you fly through lines of code, spreadsheets, or game environments. That sentence made me check again... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macbook_white_redjar_2006... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MacBook_Air_1b.jpg ...and yes, it's the same layout of the arrow keys that was there 14 years ago. If they were advertising new full size arrow keys that would definitely be worth mentio…
- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.
- Quad core processor - Scissor keys - No touch bar MacBook Air, the new MacBook for Pros.
Exactly what I was thinking when I read the spec sheet: 'I wonder how many developers will go for the maxed out version.'
This is good news from Apple as I was not into any of their more recent laptops but I'll probably upgrade to this one
I only wish they had a 11" version but not a deal breaker