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As someone who has been buying MacBooks since 2006, I'm starting to feel envious of the various PC laptops out there - in particular the XPS 13 and the Surface
by untog 11y ago
As someone who has been buying MacBooks since 2006, I'm starting to feel envious of the various PC laptops out there - in particular the XPS 13 and the Surface Book. With OS X not proving itself to be a fantastic OS in recent revisions I'm wondering how long it'll be before I give into temptation.
Maybe when someone finally gets a trackpad that's as good as the Macbook. Almost every PC laptop I've tried has paled in comparison.
- ant6n 11y agoIt would help if Mac OS properly implemented the track pad for people who use tap-to-drag. You cannot disable that tap-to-drag drag-release delay, which makes dragging behave wrong compared to Windows, Linux and Chrome OS. You need a third party app (BetterTouchTool) to make it work properly. Just another third party app you need to make MacOs behave like a normal operating system (on top of the one that enables proper tabbing, oh and one that makes the alt key work properly in the terminal).
- untog 11y agoJust another third party app you need to make MacOs behave like a normal operating system Normal is relative. Having used OS X for a long time, I assure you it is quite normal to me.
- ant6n 11y agoHa - I first thought you meant that it's normal that on Mac OS you need third party tools to change basic operating system behaviors. But you're really just telling me I'm 'holding it wrong' ;-)
- kunai 11y agoI tried a friend's Surface the other day and got blown away by how smoothly everything ran and how quick Edge was compared to Safari. No hang-ups, no "This application was forced to quit," no opening iTerm and having to kill a process by hand, better memory management, and pretty decent battery life. Of course, the trackpad and keyboard were still not as good as the ones on the MBP; there's some weird Apple magic going on there and while OEMs are catching up I wonder how much longer it'll take to actually match the performance of Apple's input devices. It's amazing how the tables have turned; I can't imagine myself saying anything like this 5-6 years ago.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoThe proper comparison for the Surface keyboard would be the awful keyboard on the MacBook, not the nice ones that they have on their other models.
- Bud 11y agoWhy is that "proper"? The Surface doesn't come close to the portability of the MacBook. The proper comparison is to Apple's mainstream models.
- basch 11y agoWhat type of places are you going that a surface book doesnt fit into but a macbook does? Are the openings really that small?
- Bud 11y agoSurface Book weight: 3.34 lb (in its lightest config without GPU) MacBook weight: 2.03 lb Not even remotely the same category.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoThe Surface Pro 4 is 1.7 lb.
- Bud 11y agoYes, with no keyboard, and without the heavy power supply you will need to carry to actually use it for any real work. Not a valid comparison, again. My point stands: the best comparison is to Apple's mainstream laptops such as the MacBook Air, not to an ultralight.
- basch 11y agobut what situation will you find yourself in that you need a laptop that weighs 2lb instead of 3.3lb? i just find it hard to believe that the extra lb will prevent you from getting any work done, or prevent you from fitting your laptop somewhere.