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Sort of a mini review. Using it at home on my MacBook Pro 2015 Intel Machine. Big Sur on M1 was fine ( if not great ), mostly because M1 is extremely fast. But Big Sir on x86 was slow, really slow. I am in the group that reported Big Sur was slower than Catalina, and Catalina was slower than Mojave. That is with both the OS itself and Safari. So Big Sur was not a smooth experience for me. Monterey so far brings back…
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Many popular Windows laptops e.g. Thinkpad look like that. And since they are targeting younger people for Facetime maybe not surprising they didn't choose the most expensive, flagship phone.
And yet iPhones are flagship phones... Taste is subjective. Anyone arguing that the MBP is objectively better than, say, https://icdn.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/dell-xps-... is just expressing their preferences. And I say that as someone who is waiting on delivery of the 14" MBP.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
So taste maybe subjective. But there is simply no argument that if you care about performance or battery life then the MacBook Pro is objectively better.
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Dell uses a low quality 720p camera on their XPS line. And the notch gives them room for a future FaceID sensor stack.
And Apple only just with the new MBPs upgraded to 1080p. And Dell supports Windows Hello 3D face recognition without a notch. It's not quite as unbalanced as you imply.
MacOS major version release are so underwhelming to me. They're not so much OS updates as they're updates to built-in apps I don't use or use at a very surface level: Safari, Facetime, Apple Maps, Messages, etc. I'm not really sure what I'd want out of a new MacOS, though. It's been stable and (for my purposes) feature-complete for many years now. I don't remember the last time a MacOS upgrade added a feature I wante…
The abomination that would get me off of Big Sur is the ridiculously low contrast difference for titlebars between foreground and background apps. Turning on the contrast accessibility option looks horrible. However, it's looking like thanks to HazeOver, this is a wait-for-EOL cycle.
Am I the only one that's really excited about Universal Control? If nothing else, it's extremely impressive from an engineering perspective (if it works as seamlessly as they make it seem). To be able to take your work from your iPad to your iMac like that would be pretty incredible.
Any of the awful UX functions been rolled back? Notifications and the bluetooth menus are an abomination.
For me at least it's much better than the implementation Chrome has gone for which tries to shoehorn groups into an already overburdened tab bar.