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I also filed the corners off my MacBook
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Re: I also filed the corners off my MacBook
#142Wow never realized people cared about this. I think it looks better with sharp edges and haven't had any problems with ergonomics.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am in neither of these and nor is any of the many people I know with macbooks. I honestly do not understand why any average person would buy anything else than a macbook today.
Why would you buy a macbook if you use windows or linux.
Bad experiences with heat, fan noise, and poor battery life on Windows laptops.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
as an aside, I have a shimano e-bike and a bosch one, and the bosch one is leagues superior. Which feels weird when you consider the pedigree of shimano, but it makes sense when you think what kind of internals an ebike motor would need.. I guess.
Shimano is famously a company that people in about four seemingly random/unrelated fields/hobbies think of as a specialist brand in that hobby (e.g. fishing). (They are or at least were originally a bearings company, specialising in things that need to spin with very low friction, and all their seemingly unrelated businesses started from that)
I don't know about the other industries, but within old cycling circles they're also just seen as the group that was first to make good counterfeit goods that were actually high enough quality to use, and their entrance to the market was aided by the fact that existing players, campagnolo and schwinn mostly, were producing junk from junk proprietary alloys in order to compete with 'overseas' components at truly exorbitant costs.
that was 40-50 years ago, so who cares, but Shimano is truly interesting for cultivating so many different opinions.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am in neither of these and nor is any of the many people I know with macbooks. I honestly do not understand why any average person would buy anything else than a macbook today.
I use my home laptop once a month at most, a macbook would be an expensive paperweight. I use an old Thinkpad. This thread is full of people who are scared of changing the look of their macbooks. Jewellery? Or fear of standing out?
Taking metalworking tools to a very expensive machine with very limited spare parts availability seems rather extreme.
Re: I also filed the corners off my MacBook
#146There's a spelling mistake in the first paragraph. The expression is "lo and behold", and not "low and behold". Lo is an old English interjection for expressing surprise.
Re: I also filed the corners off my MacBook
#147There's a spelling mistake in the first paragraph. The expression is "lo and behold", and not "low and behold". Lo is an old English interjection for expressing surprise.
Amusingly, I've come to appreciate grammar and spelling mistakes in blog posts, as they hint the text wasn't written with AI
Re: I also filed the corners off my MacBook
#148It hurts even looking on it through the monitor.
Re: I also filed the corners off my MacBook
#149I've been using Macs for decades and never had these issues personally. It seems like some people do literally rest their hands / arms on desk / notebook body while typing. The "sharp edge syndrome" here to me seems to be a good thing then as it acts as a reminder for proper ergonomics / posture. First Google AI search result on the topic: "Never rest your wrists on your MacBook while typing. Instead, let your palms…
Agreed. The sharp edges are like a Victorian teacher whipping you for slouching
They could have put sensors on the body and made it alert you in MacOS, but you know, it is what it is
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah right, thanks for the hint. I try to be more precise in more wording, but English isn't my first language so comments like these are really useful.
I assumed it was a reference to early Apple user interfaces. I believe their corners are already/still rounded, though. If we have to be precise, however, perhaps blades would be a more appropriate term to refer to their products' edges .
That would have been a good reference, shame I didn't think of it. Blades definitely is the better term.
This reminds me, the backplate of the Mac is also sharp as heck. I actually cut myself once when I was replacing a motherboard on an older Intel Mac. You don't really expect it to be this sharp when you lift it up.