I have 2 Macbook Pros. One model 2017, and another late 2018 which I barely use. the 2017 keyboard feels more and more jammed, specially the space bar. The other just because has almost 0 use I can feel isn't that jammed. In the end I will start going back to a mechanical keyboard again. I'm thinking a $300 Topre. I managed to destroy all Apple Keyboards in less than a year, yeah.
MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
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#402I got a mid-2015 MacBook Pro 15" because of the keyboard problems. The screen is beautiful and the processor is fast enough for Java development using IntelliJ. Too bad I can't take this laptop with me when I'm flying because it's on the no-fly list. My options for Apple laptops are pretty much zero right now.
Doesn't Apple fix the no-fly problem for free, since the only ones affected by the no-fly are the recalled ones (any recalled lithium ion battery is no-fly)?
Sure it takes time to fix and the problem really shouldn't have happened in the first place, but if your machine is at risk of having the battery overheat or catch fire, it feels like the fact you can't fly with it ought to be the least of your worries.
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#403Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, as someone who's primarily used Windows (and a bit of Linux with xfce) for my entire life I find Macs basically unusable (seriously how do I browse the file system). I think it's more of a question of familiarity than anything else.
Finder is probably the worst part of using a Mac. But explorer isn’t that much better either I am currently forced to use windows and it’s near impossible to get anything done with it without feeling frustrated. It simply doesn’t follow my speed and line of thought on anything. I am quite shocked after using Mac for 7 years how little progress or even regression windows 10 went through. Without making this into a win…
I feel like much of that is a matter of convention. Why wouldn't you put extract in the right-click menu, which can be extended by any number of applications with whatever useful functions. It's just functional in a way that makes sense.
Renaming with anything other than Enter makes sense because Enter opens the file.
The file path thing is bizarre. Windows 10 supports a path length of 32767 characters. But last I checked you had to change a registry setting before it was the default. And getting W10 to respect a long file path in Python programmatically was a huge pain.
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#404Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Apple has consistently shown that it cares more about form over function. No one needs their laptops to be any thinner than they already are Well, this depends. Here's how a user put it: "I have to admit being a bit baffled by how nobody else seems to have done what Apple did with the Macbook Air - even several years after the first release, the other notebook vendors continue to push those ugly and clunky things.…
For a 13 inch or smaller laptop it is understandable to strike a balance between size, battery and specifications. A 15 inch laptop is never going to be portable or easy to carry. We don't care about thickness. Just make it a bit thicker to add a full-travel keyboard.
>A 15 inch laptop is never going to be portable or easy to carry. We don't care about thickness. Just make it a bit thicker to add a full-travel keyboard.
Well, I don't like the new keyboard, but I sure like my laptop thin and lightweight, and I use a 15.
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#405Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Apple has consistently shown that it cares more about form over function. No one needs their laptops to be any thinner than they already are Well, this depends. Here's how a user put it: "I have to admit being a bit baffled by how nobody else seems to have done what Apple did with the Macbook Air - even several years after the first release, the other notebook vendors continue to push those ugly and clunky things.…
I wonder what Linus would have made of the Compaq Portable or an Osbourn 1 back in the day.
He would have made do, for lack of alternatives (and a lack of technology to make things lighter then).
But that's hardly a justification when alternatives exist and the technology allows it.
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#407Earlier quoted context omitted.
> nothing beats usability of OS X I used to share same opinion, but Windows 10 is surprisingly good nowadays, I didn't expect it to be so nice to use.
Ads in start menu? Apps installed without my consent? No, thank you
Never experienced it. I don't advertise Win10, so no need for aggressive "no thank you", I don't give a fuck if you will use it.
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#408Just as a data point, I really like the keyboard on my MacBook Air 2019. I prefer it to the 2015 MacBook Pro chicklet keyboard. No reliability issues so far. We'll see if the latest gen is an improvement in that respect.
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#409The worst part is that I can tell this keyboard is actually having a detrimental effect on my typing abilities. Since being on these keyboards for years now, I've noticed that my typing speed has slowed, as I spend a significant amount of cognitive energy preparing to fix mistakes. The faster you type, the more annoying it is to go farther back to fix something. I'm not sure how to quantify the focus it steals from t…
> wait 3 days for a repair
My 2015 MBP is affected by the battery recall and they want 2-3 weeks to send it off to a repair centre to have the battery replaced. No chance to have it done in-store owing to safety concerns (which I'm not sure I entirely buy given that it's an overheating issue, but it's hard to tell without the full details). And no budging on the timeframe or possibility of a loaner. One of the more frustrating customer service experiences.
Not that I'd like to be in charge of organising a recall of 500,000 laptops.
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#410I switched to a Thinkpad after I had the horror of using a new Macbook. Running Ubuntu is lovely, so much so that for a developer there is little reason to be using a Macbook anymore. You can get a lot more bang for the buck using a Thinkpad AND have a functional keyboard. Apple should be very worried. Once they loose the developers, users won't be long to follow.
There are four of us at work that use Linux--the other 30 or so all have MacBooks. There are no converts, either you started a Linux person, or you started a Mac person. My little Linux enclave has some theories about the cognitive effect of all the polish that you find on Apple products, but we can't separate our biasses from good science, especially because there's nobody to ask that knows both worlds. So I have a…
Linux is pretty terrible for vision impaired users since at minimum OSX 10.3.