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Absolutely not. I have the top of the range 15" MacBook Pro and I despise it, it's without question the worst computer I've ever owned. 1. The Touch Bar is app
by drcongo 8y ago
Absolutely not. I have the top of the range 15" MacBook Pro and I despise it, it's without question the worst computer I've ever owned.
1. The Touch Bar is appalling if you're at all a touch typist. It puts destructive actions just an accidental brush of the finger tip away.
2. The keyboard is failing all over the place. My left command key has fallen off, and three keys occasionally stick resulting in double entries.
3. The trackpad is so big that there's nowhere to rest one hand while you scroll with the other, resulting in exposé happening when you're just trying to scroll a web page.
4. It crashes a LOT. I reckon roughly one kernel panic a week since I've owned it.
It's absolutely killed my confidence in Apple hardware and after owning Macs for over 20 years I doubt I'll ever buy a Mac again. It's made me a permanently angry person.
- MaxLeiter 8y agoIf you’re crashing once a week you’re definitely doing something incorrect on your end. Apple may have poor QA, but there’s no way it’s _that_ poor.
- joefarish 8y agoI don't see how you can blame a user for repeated kernel panic issues.
- NullPrefix 8y agoYou are user spacing it wrong.
- haasisnoah 8y agoIsn't the point of a user space to protect the kernel and keep the OS from crashing?
- reitanqild 8y agoNo. What userspace is is where you work happens. It has no universal obligation to protect the kernel. You could possibly say that the point of working in userspace (instead of in kernel space) is to protect the kernel.
- reitanqild 8y agoSeems I'm either wrong or I'm punished for being rude. In the latter case, sorry. I honestly agree I should have caught that. In the first case my thought process goes as follows (hoping someone knowledgeable will correct me): - user space may very well contain hostile processes (trojans, rootkits, - even intentionally in the case where a user inspects malware in some kind of container or chroot environment. - user space may contain mechanisms that attempts to protect the kernel, but a typical kernel (linux, and I guess most other free kernels) cannot rely on it. - I tried searching for userspace protect kernel and the closest thing I found was the act of separating userspace from kernel space protects the kernel which is what I tried to point out in my post above.
- xfer 8y agoApple fan logic in a nut-shell.
- badestrand 8y agoMy MacBook Air is also crashing weekly and I don't even do anything demanding (no VMs or video editing or the like).
- FabHK 8y agoI had very frequent cornel panics on my MBP, but running diagnostics (hold “D” during startup) revealed a hardware issue. After the Apple shop replaced the motherboard, the crashes are gone.
- georgebarnett 8y agoIf you feel your laptop has made you a permanently angry person, why not sell it and cut your loses?
- saurik 8y agoAfter spending a decade optimizing your workflow to work with Apple's operating system, and after investing tons of money into software and peripherals designed for this ecosystem, it isn't so easy to just give up on it all, even if it is pissing you off and making your life miserable: you essentially just sit around having regrets and building up anger at the idiots who screwed it all up.
- some_account 8y agoNo, really, you have to leave. If you don't switch, are you going to use only Apple products your entire life from now? Seriously? There are many, many devs right now who is switching from MacBooks to Linux machines because Linux on the desktop is really nice (just not perfect), and you suddenly feel very much alive again when you don't sit and wait for Apple to fix your problems. You fix them yourself, and you no longer care for the next version of IOS or the next MacBook etc. t's freedom, honestly, truly. You are single again. You have left the bad relationship. You are free and happy. So much choice all of a sudden. It's great!
- sieabahlpark 8y agoI don't want to spend the time to fix them myself.
- nolok 8y agoThere is very little to fix anymore unless you go for exotic hardware. Granted I went very safe with an XPS and Xubuntu, but I don't think I've had a single "how do I make this work" moment. Ah yes wait one, I had to activate the keyboard switch for the webcam to be detected, but that would have been the same on another os.
- universenz 8y agoBruv, look into BetterTouchTool to only enable the touchbar input by using a modification key like fn being pressed first. Still displays info but doesn’t respond without the modifier. It’ll remove at least some if your frustration.
- ajeet_dhaliwal 8y agoI wonder how many people in the world outside the London UK area know what Bruv means.
- richrichardsson 8y agoUnless you live under a rock, I'd say everyone in the UK understands what that means, otherwise it's no great leap of the imagination to hazard a guess, or there's always that new-fangled search thingamy that can help ;-)
- Someone1234 8y agoIf you don't understand what it means it is confusing, if you do understand it is disrespectful. In either case they shouldn't be starting out posts to strangers with "Bruv, look..."
- SheinhardtWigCo 8y agoDisrespectful? It’s short for “brother” and is used the same way as “mate” in those parts.
- richrichardsson 8y agoCould have been worse with an Australian, then it might have been c... :)
- forgot-my-pw 8y ago
- pritambarhate 8y agoAre you running Docker by any chance? I have seen that if I have Docker running and I close the lid of the machine, next time I want to use it, it reboots from a crash. But if I remember to quit Docker ok once I am done with it, I don't see this problem.
- mr-ron 8y agoCouldn't agree with you more. The new MacBooks are lemons. The giant trackpad is a huge complaint of mine I don't hear a lot. Why on Earth would apple make it so big??
- Macha 8y agoPeople who like trackpads seem to enjoy it bigger. Personally I'm not in the camp, and bring a USB mouse with me anywhere I'm using my work Mac to avoid it. We definitely seem to be in the minority though, I've heard more complaints that the XPS 15 trackpad is too small than complaints that the Mac trackpad is too large.
- mr-ron 8y agoI like trackpads, I use the native trackpad and keyboard exclusively in the mac and almost never external.
- wingerlang 8y agoWhat's wrong with it? The only thing I could imagine is maybe accidentally touching it? It happens maybe once a month for me, not nearly enough complain for me. Personally I love the size of it.
- forgot-my-pw 8y agoAs a 2012 iMac user, I'm saddened that every macOS upgrade slows down the computer even more...