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Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

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Re: Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

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Post by odiroot »

freetonik wrote: post #3

>The Unibook’s keyboard is pretty good, and its trackpad is pretty bad. Just like 98% of non-Apple laptops. Amazing how after all these years nobody could replicate the feel of macbook's trackpads.

It's the opposite feeling for me.

Not sure about other brands but pretty much any ThinkPad I use, the touchpad just feels right. Whereas on Macbooks it's just off, at least ever since the first Retina generation (my first contact with it).

Macbooks' touchpads are usually also way too big and, sadly, even Lenovo follows this bad trend in some of their models.

Re: Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

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odiroot wrote: post #21
freetonik wrote: post #3

>The Unibook’s keyboard is pretty good, and its trackpad is pretty bad. Just like 98% of non-Apple laptops. Amazing how after all these years nobody could replicate the feel of macbook's trackpads.

It's the opposite feeling for me. Not sure about other brands but pretty much any ThinkPad I use, the touchpad just feels right. Whereas on Macbooks it's just off, at least ever since the first Retina generation (my first contact with it). Macbooks' touchpads are usually also way too big and, sadly, even Lenovo follows this bad trend in some of their models.

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Re: Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

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Post by televisionsaval »

auggierose wrote: post #19
Peanuts99 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is mostly a solved problem. My ThinkPad track pad is as good as any Mac.

> mostly a solved problem > as good as any Mac Yeah, no. If you don't feel or care about the difference, good for you. The rest of us will have to use a mac.

I think the whole trackpad idea is stupid and unusable (like anything that needs software correction for physical layout idiocy) and I blame Apple for its prevalence. Apple could make an entirely worthless product and within 4 years everyone would have to copy it.

Re: Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

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Post by [deleted] »

pizza234 wrote: post #17

As a previous owner of a Chuwi laptop, I think Chuwi is a wasted opportunity. They essentially make product bottom-quality knockoffs, at the lowest possible price. If they just decided to invest, say, 20% more on quality, they'd have very competitive products - but they just don't.

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Re: Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

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Post by greatgib »

It breaks my heart how Dell messed up totally with it's XPS 13 since the good time of the Ubuntu dev edition.

It was the almost perfect laptop, high end, classy, and even more awesome with everything needed to have a smooth linux experience.

And then, generation after generation they made the XPS worse and worse. Keeping the brand but destroying the value. And when I see now this new "cheap" 600$ XPS 13 with 8gb ram, everything basic and a core 3, it makes no sense to me at all...

Re: Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

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Post by bschwindHN »

televisionsaval wrote: post #23
auggierose wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> mostly a solved problem > as good as any Mac Yeah, no. If you don't feel or care about the difference, good for you. The rest of us will have to use a mac.

I think the whole trackpad idea is stupid and unusable (like anything that needs software correction for physical layout idiocy) and I blame Apple for its prevalence. Apple could make an entirely worthless product and within 4 years everyone would have to copy it.

That's like, your opinion man.

The trackpad is a fantastic input device. I use it exclusively when on a laptop, and on a desktop I'll use both a mouse and a trackpad.

Re: Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

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Post by nsonha »

televisionsaval wrote: post #23
auggierose wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> mostly a solved problem > as good as any Mac Yeah, no. If you don't feel or care about the difference, good for you. The rest of us will have to use a mac.

I think the whole trackpad idea is stupid and unusable (like anything that needs software correction for physical layout idiocy) and I blame Apple for its prevalence. Apple could make an entirely worthless product and within 4 years everyone would have to copy it.

Not to support the idea that good touchpad is apple’s monopoly, but I and most people I know stop having wrist pains by giving up the mouse. If we’re talking about a stupid idea that’s both inefficient and a health hazard, the mouse is it. All the other pointing devices (trackball, trackpoint, rolling mouse etc) make sense one way or another

Re: Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

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Post by cyanydeez »

auggierose wrote: post #19
Peanuts99 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is mostly a solved problem. My ThinkPad track pad is as good as any Mac.

> mostly a solved problem > as good as any Mac Yeah, no. If you don't feel or care about the difference, good for you. The rest of us will have to use a mac.

you guys are talking about a trackpad.

Re: Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

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Post by televisionsaval »

nsonha wrote: post #28
televisionsaval wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the whole trackpad idea is stupid and unusable (like anything that needs software correction for physical layout idiocy) and I blame Apple for its prevalence. Apple could make an entirely worthless product and within 4 years everyone would have to copy it.

Not to support the idea that good touchpad is apple’s monopoly, but I and most people I know stop having wrist pains by giving up the mouse. If we’re talking about a stupid idea that’s both inefficient and a health hazard, the mouse is it. All the other pointing devices (trackball, trackpoint, rolling mouse etc) make sense one way or another

Needing a 3rd hand for a peripheral is naturally a flawed idea. The only reason I prefer the mouse over the palm trackpad is because it can't interfere while probably still having to use it occasionally. The track point and trackball were better interfaces than both but they weren't a great platform for making Apple look innovative.
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