I know we don't like 'Reddit-esque' pointless posts like the one I'm about to make, but I really enjoyed the author's use of 'hyperbolic chamber'. Bravo!
- ed. and it didn't deserve the preëmptive footnote disclaimer
The M1 MacBook Air: Perfection
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#22It's still a highly user-hostile Apple. Though you can tell this review was written by a true iSheep from the part where s/he talks about the dictation key. "Apple thinks I should use that functionality more, so I will!"
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#23Is there a restocking fee? If I'm reading this correctly he buys multiple laptops, uses them, then returns the one he no longer wants?!?
Apple typically has a very generous 14 day return period with no restocking fee. Currently, it’s even longer as they have a extended holiday return window.
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#24I love the idea of the M1 and think it would be great to leave the hot Intel + separate GPU architecture for a smaller, cooler and faster RISC architecture, but Apple seems to have taken this as an opportunity to lock down even more. That's no good to me.
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#25Is there a restocking fee? If I'm reading this correctly he buys multiple laptops, uses them, then returns the one he no longer wants?!?
Apple typically has a very generous 14 day return period with no restocking fee. Currently, it’s even longer as they have a extended holiday return window.
Probably a really silly question: but can they sell the product as new thereafter?
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#26With the ability to run iOS apps, the lack of a touch screen leaves me scratching my head. The only reason I have resisted buying one is that the lack of a touch screen is, in my view, going to make it feel like I missed the boat once that's inevitably added.
Problem is that many, if not most, iOS apps would have a terrible user experience with a laptop touch screen. Most apps have swipes that assume a phone or tablet form factor and virtually all games expect you to use your thumbs. The better play is to have iOS developers update their apps to better work on a laptop. I don’t see how a touch screen will improve this.
I don't really want to run iOS stuff on my laptop, but I'm sure there are times it would come in handy. They would be terrible, but functional. They would be terrible, but functional.
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#27A perfect laptop would also be waterproof, user upgradable hardware (eg add more memory), user serviceable, hardware buttons for camera & bluetooth, more travel for keyboard (I know that's hard when its thin but I can ask).
>more travel for keyboard
I am glad I am not the only one.
.7 mm - butterfly keyboard
1 mm - new 16” MBP scissor keyboard
1.3 mm - old scissor keyboard
I dont want a 0.3mm thinner MacBook at the expense of typing experience. To me it is a world of difference.
Edit: I guess there are too many M1 news this is now being flagged.....
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#28With the ability to run iOS apps, the lack of a touch screen leaves me scratching my head. The only reason I have resisted buying one is that the lack of a touch screen is, in my view, going to make it feel like I missed the boat once that's inevitably added.
It just feels like stubbornness to me at this point. I don't think there would be enough overlap that adding touch to the mac would reduce tablet sales... totally different experiences in a lot of ways.
I've had touch on my last 2 Thinkpads and find that I utilize it quite a bit. I haven't noticed a ton of fingerprints, but I also take care of my equipment (probably a little more fastidiously than most...). Having the ability to do a little pen work in certain apps has been clutch, and if I wanted to utilize the pen or touch more... I would get a more dedicated device(e.g. Thinkpad Yoga or Surface Pro). Feel like this would be similar workflow in the Apple world... Macbook with some helpful touch... iPad when you need to focus on touch...
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Run your OS of choice
Can't be doing that now!
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#30With the ability to run iOS apps, the lack of a touch screen leaves me scratching my head. The only reason I have resisted buying one is that the lack of a touch screen is, in my view, going to make it feel like I missed the boat once that's inevitably added.
I'm tired of paying for touch screens and then never using them. Most screen resolution upgrades come bundled with a touchscreen but I hate smudges on my screen. That people willingly to that to themselves on a regular basis is baffling to me. Especially because you've got to move your arm further to touch the screen than to touch the trackpad. It's just less efficient for most computer interactions.
What annoys me the most is the fact that it moves your screen.
I don’t understand why Apple didn’t just put a sensor like FaceID in the Macs and went for motion tracking for hand gestures or just turned the entire trackpad which is already capacitive into a touch screen like interface.
Touches are easily emulated with mouse clicks the rest of the gestures are also simple enough for a trackpad.
Heck from my limited experience with the M1 it seems that swipes work like they should in normal apps but not so much in iOS apps which left me scratching my head as to why.