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Taika Waititi Slams Apple's MacBook Keyboards After Winning Oscar
- qmmmur 7y agoAbsolutely reeks of inorganic product placement.
- Traster 7y agoSorry but who exactly are you suggesting is paying him to slag off Apple products but not actually paying him to mention any other brand of laptop?
- qmmmur 7y agoLinux isn't even a reasonable, statistical assumption to be making in the consumer space. If you slag Apple, in effect you are promoting their biggest competitor - MICROSOFT. He even explicitly uses the phrase "PCs" which most people understand to mean Microsoft devices.
- jbarberu 7y agoWhat? PCs means personal computers, they can run all sorts of OSes. In some cases I would even consider a device running macOS a PC. To jump to him promoting Windows is a bit of a stretch.
- qmmmur 7y agoYou're thinking like someone who has knowledge of computers. That's not who this kind of astroturfing is aimed at.
- jiveturkey 7y agoSurely you jest. Are you seriously not aware of the "Mac vs PC" war? PC = Windows.
- 45ure 7y agoIG-11 : You have suffered damage to your central processing unit. The Mandalorian : You mean my brain. IG-11 : That was a joke. It is meant to put you at ease.
- qmmmur 7y agoNot sure how this is related
- 45ure 7y ago'Taika Waititi jokes about what writers should be asking for in the next round of talks with producers' It is right there in the tweet.
- TheReveller 7y agoAnd Taika was the voice of IG-11, in case that also wasn't clear.
- DanCarvajal 7y agoand directed that episode.
- remote_phone 7y agoTo be fair I have the 16” MacBook and the new keyboard is much, much better. I almost bought a Windows laptop but the MacBook came out just before in bought it. The touchbar is still 100% useless. I don’t want my keys to keep changing on me, did no one do any usability studies on it? It’s absolutely stupid. And the previous keyboard is pure incompetence. But the new keyboards are better. They should really just go back entirely to the 2015 keyboard.
- tracker1 7y ago2009-2014 iirc.. the bad ones started in 2015.
- DanCarvajal 7y agoI believe they mean the 2015 rMBP which was still for sale with the old design at the time but relatively up to do spec wise (I'm typing on one right now).
- runjake 7y agoThe MacBook Pro 15 2015 still had the good keyboard. They went to the bad keyboards in the Pro line starting in 2016. However, the MacBook 12" had the bad keyboard from the beginning. It came out first in 2015.
- AgloeDreams 7y agoOddly there were not any major complaints (With reliability) on the original (2015) MacBook. It was also really quiet vs the 2016 15 Pro I had. (Low-key loved the clack on the 2016). I think the change they made is what screwed with it.
- forgotmypw 7y agoThe touchbar is useless, but the whole keyboard is about as useful as any other laptop keyboard out there. They all fucking suck terribly. I've given up on the lot of them, and I now carry around a standard-layout 104-key keyboard with me wherever I carry the laptop. It's not that bulky, and I'm way more productive on the standard layout I've used for two decades compared to whatever moronic, or even intelligent compromise some committee of designers came up with to squeeze it down to 2/3 of its original size.
- prvc 7y agoAny reason why screenwriters don't just use Windows laptops?
- dhosek 7y agoMacs are magic
- chipperyman573 7y agoYeah, I always hear "Mac is great for writers/artists/video editors/etc" but I never have been able to find out exactly why.
- klodolph 7y agoI’ll take a stab at it. This is less true than it was, for sure. A big part of this was also pure marketing. Even so, there are reasons. I could go into details, but the audio APIs for Windows and Linux were complete hot garbage in the 1990s and 2000s. Not so big a deal for games or web browsing but a pain in the ass for audio production. In the same era, the software for working with video on the Mac was just miles better. QuickTime was really amazing. Everything was super editable. If you had iMovie and iDVD you could easily create an amateur movie and hand people DVDs. Famously, there’s an email from Bill Gates in 2003 where he just rips into the terrible experience he had with Windows Movie Maker. Desktop publishing is a similar story. Installing fonts and working with printers sucked on Windows in an era when it was super easy on the Mac. The desktop publishing apps on Mac had a much better UI when it came to integration. You could just drag and drop images however you wanted between applications and it just worked. This is no longer true but people still remember it.
- andor 7y agoThe difference is mainly not technological, but about user experience. Mac OS doesn't bother users with alerts and notifications [0]. There is no busy start menu with distracting ads and Apple doesn't push ...gems... such as Candy Crush to everyone's computers without asking. It just quietly works and lets users focus on their jobs. Windows has come a long way but they're not there yet. For people who aren't interested in tinkering with technology, spending a bit more to get a nicer experience is a no-brainer. [0] except for the software update prompts
- post_break 7y agoI really hope Apple goes back to the previous or updates the cheaper laptops. I have an XPS13 running OSX and it's much better to type on. Then I bust out my thinkpad and the display is garbage but man, it's like getting massaged while typing. Please update the Air or cheapest MBP to the old keyboard please.
- lozaning 7y agoThey've got all kinds of crazy screen mods for thinkpads these days. I've got a 51nb 2k mod in my x230, which gives it a 2K IPS display. That x230 is a tactile pleasure to do work on and I've got like 4 spares for backups since they can be had for so cheap these days.
- post_break 7y agoI had the 1080p display and the pepe mod, but backed out and sold it since I didn’t think it would be worth it for my x230.
- lozaning 7y agoI think I might do the nitromod to one of my backups ones. The 2K display is bitch'n, but not always worth the reduction in battery run time. I'd kill to get my hands on one of the fully custom 51NB X330 builds.
- yankcrime 7y agoYou don't have to kill, you can just buy one from many places such as http://www.cnmod.cn/x330/ http://www.cnmod.cn/x330/
- screye 7y agoThat's exactly the kind of thing I would expect of Taika Waititi. He sounds like such a bloke. Like you could go drinking with him. (But then again people said that about Bush, and how did that turn out)
- grzm 7y agoEarlier discussion (12 hours ago, over 30 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22286351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22286351
- Y-Bopinator 7y agoApple makes overpriced garbage
- sylens 7y ago2020 is when they are due to refresh the Macbooks (based on the four years of the 2012->2016 cycle), but I'm afraid the improved keyboard on the 16" is all they will change. Might have to wait until 2023/2024 to get rid of the touchbar
- fortran77 7y agoAbout half of our consulting work is for Hollywood companies. I'm seeing more and more people on Lenovo now. I'd say about 60% of people.