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Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

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Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

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Post by dijit »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #67
ponyous wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Changing music on Spotify doesn't work for me 80% of the time. Physical keyboard worked 100% of the time. I hate the touchpad greatly. 0 benefits to me but tons of annoyances. I keep touching random buttons I never intended. I cannot press the correct button without looking (used to put volume to really low in bed)

I don’t mean to belittle any issues you have, but > I cannot press the correct button without looking does this seem like a really really minor problem to anyone else? I can’t imagine using function keys often enough that this would actually become annoying.

I disagree, I don't look at my keyboard at all, my head doesn't tilt down during the whole day for any reason other than I want it to.

Adding something that changes the ergonomics of that should be treated as being a high price, so the benefits should be huge.

Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

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Post by nakodari »

Great writeup! I am still on Macbook Pro 2013, the best 13” laptop ever build by Apple. I refuse to upgrade. All new Macbooks have disappointed me. I hope the upcoming 14” Macbook Pro will be better and without the touchbar so I can finally upgrade.

Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

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carlesfe wrote: post #57
paulcarroty wrote: post #12

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Please don't post pictures of myself into a third party website :) Can you please remove the imgur post? Fixed the broken link: https://cfenollosa.com/blog/img/cam-se.jpg

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Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

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Post by leetrout »

ct520 wrote: post #63
leetrout wrote: post #23

I bought the 2018 air. I loathe it. What a waste of money and junk keyboard. That said my new job gave me a System 76 laptop and I’ve been delighted all week with it. I don’t care for the offset keyboard but at least it actually works correctly. If it had better palm detection on the trackpad it would be the best laptop I’ve owned since my 2013 MBP (which is still goin strong).

I hear you, trackpads have kept me in Mac camp for awhile. I loathe the glass ones Apple switched to though. I bought the 13 inch with emjoi bar when it came out. Returned it. Recently bought the 16inch when it came out. Like the new keyboard but ended up returning it as it got insanely loud when plugging in external display. Hard to beat my 2013 mbp retina I guess I’ll stay with it for now.

My previous job gave me a 2019 MBP and it was always whirring away. It would have spells where nothing would be stable. IntelliJ (Ruby mine) would hang for a couple seconds every 20-30 seconds, zoom would crash repeatedly and say there was an error with the system audio and if it would start back up with out restarting the system everyone would sound like they were a robot. I installed boom audio (which is one step away from adware / malware these days) and it surprisingly got more stable.

I’m excited to try windows with WSL2 soon. I don’t see going back to a new Mac any time soon based on how easy PopOS / Ubuntu has been.

Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

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Post by tuesday20 »

ubercow13 wrote: post #71
fuzzy2 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows (the technology) is okay. Not good, but okay. Windows (the experience) degrades every day. Everything is slow even though the specs are good. Granted, corporate “additions” like O365 ATP don’t help and aren’t part of the core system. But many users have to bear with them nonetheless. And have you looked through the diagnostic data Windows sends? That cannot be turned off without hacks? They get live notificat…

>Everything is slow even though the specs are good Have you tried running without antivirus? Some parts of Windosw are still slow eg the filesystem, but the main thing making everything slow is antivirus software IME, including Defender.

I had the same experience. Windows became noticeably faster without antivirus. Also other problems like not downloading large files disappeared too.

Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

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Post by pritovido »

"Apple engineers, do you know who is the target audience for these machines?"

I believe Apple knows who is the target audience for those machines better than this man.

Pro means "Professional" and that includes Graphic and sound designers, web programmers and (specially if you spend a little time in Apple Store and just observe) entrepreneurs that need (or want and could pay for it) powerful portable machines.

Not being able to display "IBM VGA8" being a screen "drawback" is like calling a drawback of mother cars that you could not pick cherries like with old cars, too fast and too low roof.

Most people prefer antialiased fonts instead of blocky, so his drawback is a feature for most people.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

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Post by sylens »

This is a really solid, nuanced review that I felt was pretty fair given my experience with this latest crop of Macbooks.

I've posted in the past that I feel like Surface Book is a device that is not aimed at me. Sadly, I am starting to feel the same about Macbooks. The touchbar is an active hindrance to me and them replacing core macOS applications with Catalyst alternatives (like Apple Music replacing iTunes) makes the experience more frustrating and less useful.

Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

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Post by _fullpint »

pachico wrote: post #62
cameronbrown wrote: post #39

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Because the experience is terrible for the uninitiated. And this is coming from someone who ran Arch as their primary OS since I was 10. Laptop Linux on the whole is not a fun experience for those who just want a machine to work (which was what MacBooks were supposed to be about). I just bought a Surface Laptop 3, and the machine is great. The hardware is nice, Windows on a laptop has improved tenfold since I've last…

I must disagree with you. I have been installing Linux for people who barely know how to use a mouse and the experience was always successful. Of course, I choose a distro with simple UI and software with GUI every time. I don't want to get into the typical "if my mom gets it everyone can" (also because she is a power user) but trust me, the people I installed it for had the same problems they would have had with any…

I attempted to but the driver support just wasn’t there for my laptop.

WSL2 works fine and it also means that when I want to game I have a wider selection of games to play.

Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it

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Post by fuzzy2 »

ubercow13 wrote: post #71
fuzzy2 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows (the technology) is okay. Not good, but okay. Windows (the experience) degrades every day. Everything is slow even though the specs are good. Granted, corporate “additions” like O365 ATP don’t help and aren’t part of the core system. But many users have to bear with them nonetheless. And have you looked through the diagnostic data Windows sends? That cannot be turned off without hacks? They get live notificat…

>Everything is slow even though the specs are good Have you tried running without antivirus? Some parts of Windosw are still slow eg the filesystem, but the main thing making everything slow is antivirus software IME, including Defender.

Corporate IT says no. :)

I don’t know what’s wrong with my work PC. Home PC also has Windows (because games) and is super fast (even with Defender, but without ATP).

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