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
#2why don't you return it back then and buy something better? Isn't there a money-back guarantee for the first X days?
Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
#3Thank you this confirms my moving away from MBP because of touch-bar, perhaps somewhat easier as I love Windows so the Surface range was perfect.
Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
#4Oh God.. First time I was hearing someone doesnt like mac book pro.
Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
#5I should note that most of this is rather subjective. It's a personal blog so that's totally fine, but I don't think it should sway you doing your own analysis. I've owned nearly every MBP release/bump since 2007 and the 16" MBP is by far the best IMHO and certainly a huge jump up from the 2016-2018 era disasters. Also as a touch typist, I was worried the huge trackpad might be an impediment, but it hasn't turned out to be so I can only assume we have different hand posture.
Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
#6Wsl 2 is incredible. Got a 1000 dollars dell desktop and it is insanely faster than my Mac. Windows has improved a lot, and Linux based development on windows is a lot easier now.
5 years ago I would have quit a job if they asked me to use windows.
Macos is still marginally better but not worth the cost IMHO.
Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
#7why don't you return it back then and buy something better? Isn't there a money-back guarantee for the first X days?
Isn't the money-back/satisfaction guarantee primarily a US thing? (OP is in Barcelona.)
Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
#8why don't you return it back then and buy something better? Isn't there a money-back guarantee for the first X days?
Isn't the money-back/satisfaction guarantee primarily a US thing? (OP is in Barcelona.)
EU requires a mandatory return policy of atleast 14 days for online purchases afaik
Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
#9Wsl 2 is incredible. Got a 1000 dollars dell desktop and it is insanely faster than my Mac. Windows has improved a lot, and Linux based development on windows is a lot easier now. 5 years ago I would have quit a job if they asked me to use windows. Macos is still marginally better but not worth the cost IMHO.
+1 for WSL 2. I'm a huge advocate of it at work where people are very pro-Linux. I have noticed a few issues with it that don't make sense seeing as it's meant to have a full Linux Kernel (such as sockets not appearing) but that could be Ubuntu-20.04 being the one at fault to be fair :)
Re: Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't the money-back/satisfaction guarantee primarily a US thing? (OP is in Barcelona.)
EU requires a mandatory return policy of atleast 14 days for online purchases afaik
Devil is in the details.
Also, somehow, the "buy-test-return" mentality simply isn't present around Europe, at least never seen it as anything other than exceptional.