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I'll take the logo being a fingerprint scanner, so I can use it when my laptop is closed and hooked to a big external monitor on my desk.
by protomyth 7y ago
I'll take the logo being a fingerprint scanner, so I can use it when my laptop is closed and hooked to a big external monitor on my desk.
- wodenokoto 7y agoI don't know why you are being downvoted. You bring up a legitimate issue, although I'm not sure if your solution is very good.
- saagarjha 7y agoThat would be pretty awkward for anyone who uses their laptop while it’s open, which is the majority.
- ianai 7y agoPretty sure the majority use are people in cubicles with the machines connected to external peripherals and closed.
- threeseed 7y agoI've actually never seen anyone use a MacBook with it closed. For a start you've lost a useful screen. And the thermal performance must be awful.
- ch_123 7y agoThe exhaust on MBPs is positioned such that it blows out the bottom of the screen’s hinge when closed. I have two 27” monitors in my office, and using the MBP’s screen just does not feel useful to me... and yes, I have tried using it on more than one occasion.
- zimpenfish 7y agoAnecdata, I know, but upwards of 75% of the people I've worked with in the last 5 year who used Mac laptops either used them standalone or with a monitor as a second screen.
- ianai 7y agoAnd I’ve worked at places where everyone above a certain pay grade or closeness to the C-levels gets Mac pros and the nicest displays x2-3. I’m sure there are more corporate machines out there than home use because that’s where the money is in IT. Edit-though I could be wrong.
- saagarjha 7y agoMacBook Pro≠Mac Pro.
- bnchrch 7y agoAnecdotally this is very wrong. I work remote and don’t have an external monitor a lot of time. When I do my laptop stays open as a secondary screen. When I’m at HQ most people have the setup above. My wife has no external monitor. My entire non tech friend group has pros and don’t use them connected to any peripherals.
- dillonmckay 7y agoThat describes my office. Primary display is a 27” or 32” 4k monitor w/ standing desks. Most hate the butterfly keyboard. Lots of mechanical USBs. Some like the touchbar. Not our blind developer. I think of them as Mac Minis, before the recent line upgrade.
- ianai 7y agoExactly. I’m pretty sure the most common Mac OS user is still in media or marketing. People who demand the fanciest, largest displays and printers. They’re not going to tie themselves down to a laptop display unless that’s just how things are done there.
- dillonmckay 7y agoIt also is not comfortable, nor ergonomic (using the laptop without external peripherals).
- chrisseaton 7y ago> I’m pretty sure the most common Mac OS user is still in media or marketing. I see hardly ever see any developer using anything other than macOS (it's not called 'Mac OS'). I don't think the majority are in some niche like marketing or media.
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- saagarjha 7y agoNot everyone can afford a Mac: I suspect the people you see are skewed towards the relatively well-off.
- chrisseaton 7y agoThey normally get them provided by their employer.
- sho 7y agoThis is a great demonstration of the inadequacies of anecdata. No, I am pretty sure the _majority_ of MBP users do not in fact use it with the screen closed, connected to external devices, in cubicles. If you're going to do that, why even have a laptop? I don't doubt your observation - I merely point out that you are in a bubble. The vast majority of MBP users I have observed use it open. As you would expect.
- teilo 7y agoMy company has over 200 of them, and it's rare to see one closed, so your dead wrong. I drive 2 27" 4K screens with mine, and leave the laptop open as a third screen.