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Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by righthand »

ghostpepper wrote: post #65
rjh29 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have used Thinkpads for over a decade and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I can't imagine any scenario where a MacBook M chip would be required to be productive, it feels like a weird hill to die on.

Battery life is not remotely competitive

Battery life that needs to last all day is a first world computing problem. Most people leave their laptops plugged in and as long as you don’t run 10 chromium apps or other reasource hogs in the background, you will easily get 10-12 hours of battery.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by righthand »

wiseowise wrote: post #53
rjh29 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have used Thinkpads for over a decade and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I can't imagine any scenario where a MacBook M chip would be required to be productive, it feels like a weird hill to die on.

Extremely noisy, flimsy keyboard, atrocious touchpad, rip-my-eyes out display.

Half of these can’t be real issues because macbooks had the same issues for decades and an aluminum body was enough to overcome that. What happened? Oh right the vanity shot through the roof.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by rewgs »

rjh29 wrote: post #50
who-shot-jr wrote: post #18

Would like to switch to Linux but hardware/laptop options are horrible compared to MacBook M series machines.

I have used Thinkpads for over a decade and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I can't imagine any scenario where a MacBook M chip would be required to be productive, it feels like a weird hill to die on.

I daily drive an M1 MacBook Air and a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 11 running Arch/Hyprland. Software-wise I absolutely adore the latter, but hardware-wise it falls short of the Mac on nearly every level.

Battery life is horrendous (despite extensive tuning). The speakers are complete crap (despite using Easy Effects). Fans get loud sometimes because, well, it's x86_64.

It's a shame, because even though the Apple Silicon CPU is faster on paper, the same task flies on the Thinkpad compared to the Mac. And of course the Thinkpad's keyboard is fantastic.

Honestly the one thing I simply can't look past are the speakers. I work from home so battery life isn't a massive issue for me. Fans I can look past. But I simply cannot stand listening to music or watch a YouTube video on it, they are SO bad.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by wdb »

MyFirstSass wrote: post #30

The number one priority must surely be fixing the keyboard, besides the horrible UX? Millions are having problems for years so it's not just me, honestly thought i was "getting old" but no incredible amount of threads and now this on YT with 1 mil views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo Wild typing on a 3210 was less stressful for me.

For some reason I have English&German, English&French keyboards and it always screws writing I just want a German or French keyboard when writing in that language. It's driving me crazy sometimes.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by wtallis »

vunderba wrote: post #26
smcleod wrote: post #6

I hope they invest some time in macOS, gosh it's become a right mess over the last 3-5 major releases - Tahoe is the worst of the bunch.

My Mac M1 is effectively permanently locked to Sonoma, and I have zero intention of upgrading beyond that. I was pretty happy with Monterey, but eventually some apps started requiring Sonoma as the min requirement. :(

What dissuaded you from upgrading to Sequoia?

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by jrnichols »

alberth wrote: post #17
krtkush wrote: post #16

They need to fix Mac OS first. It’s one of the worst OS I have ever used - apps keep crashing, random UI/UX glitches and bad decisions overall. I’ll probably ditch Mac if this degradation continues.

Are you primary using electron-based apps, or true native macOS apps? Maybe I’m lucky but I run macOS daily without any problems. (Yes, there’s annoying fit/finish issues in the UI - but no issues with stability)

Same here. While Liquid Glass might be a bit distracting, I don't remember the last time I had an app crash. It's been quite a while.

26.1 fixed a lot of the buggy/laggy feeling too.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

WheatMillington wrote: post #86
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #5

Good. Mac OS has become a richly productive bug farm, lately. I wonder if they'll ever get around to actually reading their bug reports, though...

This article is about iOS?

Yeah, but one of the reasons for using the same number for all OSes, was because they want to tie them together a lot more.

IOS is just as buggy as MacOS, but I don’t spend as much time in iOS, as I do, in MacOS.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by AnonC »

alberth wrote: post #17
krtkush wrote: post #16

They need to fix Mac OS first. It’s one of the worst OS I have ever used - apps keep crashing, random UI/UX glitches and bad decisions overall. I’ll probably ditch Mac if this degradation continues.

Are you primary using electron-based apps, or true native macOS apps? Maybe I’m lucky but I run macOS daily without any problems. (Yes, there’s annoying fit/finish issues in the UI - but no issues with stability)

> Are you primary using electron-based apps, or true native macOS apps? Maybe I’m lucky but I run macOS daily without any problems.

There’s an in-between abomination — Catalyst based apps from/by Apple (quickly migrated from iOS to macOS). Reminders, Notes and others are downright unnavigable and unusable with a keyboard and are so, so terrible in their UX. It’s a shame that Apple hasn’t spent any effort in fixing those and making them true native macOS apps.

For the last several years, there has been nobody at Apple who has good taste and a deep and committed interest in UX.

Re: Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

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Post by atonse »

MyFirstSass wrote: post #30

The number one priority must surely be fixing the keyboard, besides the horrible UX? Millions are having problems for years so it's not just me, honestly thought i was "getting old" but no incredible amount of threads and now this on YT with 1 mil views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo Wild typing on a 3210 was less stressful for me.

Geez lord I can’t believe this ever made it out of testing.

Even all the text selection stuff stinks.

Honestly I’m about to disable Apple Intelligence. I don’t know what’s going on there.

What is everyone working on over at apple?

Anyone checked if this still happens (it typed that as “halles” which isn’t even a word!) even after disabling Apple Intelligence?

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