Apple MacBook Pro 13” M1 Review- Why You Might Want to Pass

Post by ianai » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 2:32 AM UTC

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Does {tab}/{space} not work in some forms?

As it happens, tabbing around a badly designed form often doesn't work correctly. Then there are UI with hundreds of focusable inputs where while tabbing might work correctly, is extremely cumbersome and slow to use. This is not to suggest replacing a keyboard with a touchscreen, any more than suggest a keyboard is no longer required since a mouse or trackpad is available. It's just an additional form of input, and o…

Post by Twixes » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 6:47 PM UTC

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Jobs famously said quite strongly that they'd never do one. There is a video around of him justifying it due to the user's hands getting too tired https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=S9ZJHy8QOso . After 12 years on Macs I picked up a touchscreen PC and would simply never go back to a non-touch machine, it is not essential, but it is incredibly convenient. Why shouldn't it be possible to touch rather than tap whe…

He also said “they’ve lost their way if they ever give you a stylus” and then Apple Pencil. But I do agree and even like the Apple Pencil. I wish they saw themselves a little more like a “batteries included” company trying to deck out their stuff with features people may never use than now. But I also think that’s always been a criticism of Apple. I will add this though. You can side car a tablet to your Big Sur Mac.…

Post by Closi » Wed, Nov 25, 2020, 10:33 AM UTC

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Plenty of companies have a mix of Mac and Windows. The last company I worked for had a mix of Windows & Mac devices, and everyone got the office suite on it (including Outlook). Additionally, my current company is a small business that runs on Windows computers and the office suite, however I have installed Outlook on my personal Mac as a single licenced user can install it on 5 devices, and use it for answering work…

There are a lot of alternatives to the MS Outlook binary though in a mixed environment, as your use of iPad and iPhone shows, and most mac users will be using those as opposed to the actual outlook app. There is a web version (increasingly popular amongst corporate users), and mail.app supports outlook accounts as does the ios version of mail.app. Perhaps some users prefer outlook.app on their mac, which is fine, and…