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I might as well shovel on my very negative experience, I want to switch but no one can make hardware like this... PLEASE someone prove me wrong with a link. GO
by dillondoyle 10y ago
I might as well shovel on my very negative experience, I want to switch but no one can make hardware like this... PLEASE someone prove me wrong with a link.
GOOD:
- screen is amazingly bright and fantastic.
- sound noticeably better, even using the same headphones which does not make any sense, so I think that has got to be placebo?
The Horribleness:
- the mouse touch pad is so big on my 15" that my new default hand position on home has to hover and hands angled down and in. i'm resting like a few inches below my wrist on the edge of the machine, which is actually pretty sharp. If I go back to a better more relaxed home position my palms touch the touch pad randomly and when typing it jumps and clicks all around.
- I think Apple's dedication to security is mostly to blame.
1) went to apple store, they didn't have cases when the announced at end of Oct right?
2) had to get a usb c to usb female to use my external drives. The store only had usb 2.0 not 2.1, so my hd is half as fast as 3 year old laptop
3) - For instance did OS look at the machine? To turn down sound, I have to touch bar. In some apps it has the normal three sounds buttons. In finder it doesn't and I've found some other times when I'm working and listening to music and need to turn it down it sucks: the touchbar might not even be lit, so that's one touch. Then you can either touch mute or what looks like lower volume, which actually opens a slider two inches to the left. The slider seems to be 0-100 but on screen it's the same old sound overlay with 15 clicks or whatever, and I can definitely move volume in between the clicks. Also while I was type that sentence both numbers accidentally hit the touch bar and did weird shit.
4) could go on and on, ESP the iphone thing. I get wireless is the future but come on...
5) I will never enable siri or the finger print. i was able to remove siri on finder, but it still pops up in the right for most other apps who haven't made integrations yet.
6) os seems to sleep or hibernate but then when logging in it refreshes all the apps? like all 20 chrome tabs reload? maybe there's some setting I don't have but that has never happened and is very annoying. And 1/10 times I miss backspace it hits siri or whatever shit is on the bar.
7) no space above up and down key is the WORST. gamers are fucked. even my career using photoshop and writing shit is slowed down until I get muscle memory.
In the past everything has been so seamless, ready to go. But I think Apple is more concerned about a leak about the new millimeter they shaved off than get everyone working on the same team and actually using this product, with os, with iphone.
(plus these keys are really loud when you type somewhat fast, to the annoyance of my boyfriend trying to sleep next to me).
I can't WAIT until we get fast enough reliable internet everywhere so I can just stream a VPC in Amazon. Spin up a few Teslas when crunching a huge ML dataset or video project, no need to upgrade. AND Apple could do away with everything! So thin! Or quadruple the battery! That's the future I want, even if Apple controls the DC and my VPC.