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The screen and the track pad are the best out there. From a coding perspective, the Mac is one of the few 16:10 ratio screens still out there, which means you

by heelix 7y ago

The screen and the track pad are the best out there. From a coding perspective, the Mac is one of the few 16:10 ratio screens still out there, which means you get a bit more vertical height than 99% of the other 16:9 ratio resolutions. While 16:9 makes for better movie watching, coding/surfing/etc is far better on the taller screen. As a bonus, it is a really quality screen too. I'm less enamored with the rest. My daily driver laptop is a 32G i9 from 2018(?). While I have enough RAM to run a couple docker containers, most of the folks I work with are stuck with the 16G version, which are constantly out of resources and have no upgrade plan. For being a 'pro' spec machine, it does not have the cooling it needs to be pushed like I do.

ekianjo 7y ago
> The screen and the track pad are the best out there. Aren't most Mac laptops screens glossy though? I don't really care how good the screen is if it acts like a huge mirror all the time. As for the trackpad, if you are proficient with the keyboard (or use a tiling wm) it does not really matter anymore.
- read_if_gay_ 7y ago
  The screens aren’t matte, but they have a pretty decent anti-glare coating. There’s also no way around using the trackpad sometimes. Using i3 and Vim keybindings wherever possible, I still need my trackpad enough that its relatively poor quality is annoying.
  - 1over137 7y ago
    >The screens aren’t matte, but they have a pretty decent anti-glare coating. I guess it must be subjective, because I find they are horribly glossy. I'm still using an old matte Macbook for this reason.
    - proverbialbunny 7y ago
      The earlier glossy MBPs were pretty reflective, and I stuck with a matte MBP for years too because of it, but for a while now using the current "glossy" MBP screens I do not see reflections in them if the screen is on. It's to the point I forgot the screen is glossy. Thankfully it just works the way you want it to.
- mmcnl 7y ago
  There's glossy and there's glossy. MacBook screens are laminated and they're the least reflective kind of glossy screens available.
ngrilly 7y ago
Looks like the new XPS 13 has a 16:10 ratio screen :)
- cevn 7y ago
  Yes... and it's amazing :)
- mixmastamyk 7y ago
  When the 15 comes out, I’m buying.

by heelix 7y ago

ekianjo 7y ago

> The screen and the track pad are the best out there. Aren't most Mac laptops screens glossy though? I don't really care how good the screen is if it acts like a huge mirror all the time. As for the trackpad, if you are proficient with the keyboard (or use a tiling wm) it does not really matter anymore.

read_if_gay_ 7y ago
The screens aren’t matte, but they have a pretty decent anti-glare coating. There’s also no way around using the trackpad sometimes. Using i3 and Vim keybindings wherever possible, I still need my trackpad enough that its relatively poor quality is annoying.
- 1over137 7y ago
  >The screens aren’t matte, but they have a pretty decent anti-glare coating. I guess it must be subjective, because I find they are horribly glossy. I'm still using an old matte Macbook for this reason.
  - proverbialbunny 7y ago
    The earlier glossy MBPs were pretty reflective, and I stuck with a matte MBP for years too because of it, but for a while now using the current "glossy" MBP screens I do not see reflections in them if the screen is on. It's to the point I forgot the screen is glossy. Thankfully it just works the way you want it to.
mmcnl 7y ago
There's glossy and there's glossy. MacBook screens are laminated and they're the least reflective kind of glossy screens available.

ngrilly 7y ago

Looks like the new XPS 13 has a 16:10 ratio screen :)

cevn 7y ago
Yes... and it's amazing :)
mixmastamyk 7y ago
When the 15 comes out, I’m buying.