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It’s fairly amazing the state of the laptop industry... the fact that we’d probably all be happy with worse screens, heavier chassis, smaller touch pads, worse
by erulabs 8y ago
It’s fairly amazing the state of the laptop industry... the fact that we’d probably all be happy with worse screens, heavier chassis, smaller touch pads, worse speakers, worse battery life - in return for a functioning keyboard and as much ram as a solid PC from almost a decade ago... If you had told me this in 2002 I would have bet good money against it, and yet here we are...
- RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 8y agoI don't mean to single you out, but I decidedly am not happy with at least a heavier chassis, and to a lesser degree worse battery life. I used to be sympathetic to the argument, until I was issued an older generation MBP for $JOB; my personal MBP is the "dreaded" touch bar model. Just looking at the specs they are only ~200 g apart in weight, but it's annoyingly noticeable during daily carry. The $JOB MBP also has worse battery life, necessitating me to carry its power adapter more often, which is another ~300 g. That said, $JOB requires me to run some battery-hungry software coughChromecough, that I don't run when I'm off, so it's not quite apple-to-apple comparison. For that matter, the keyboard doesn't really bother me, either, but TBF I'm probably a more forgiving typist than most. I have no issues typing on the cheap thrown-in Dell keyboards, and they're practically disposable that I don't feel so bad when I inevitably spill something over one. tl;dr: I like the current generation MBP over the previous generation.