The ergonomics of using any mac laptop are terrible, unless you're indoors at a desk. My eyes are somewhat light-sensitive, and it can be difficult to work out

The ergonomics of using any mac laptop are terrible, unless you're indoors at a desk. My eyes are somewhat light-sensitive, and it can be difficult to work outdoors without the aluminum body of the laptop reflecting 90%+ of the light that hits it into my eyes. The body is so slick that unless I have at least one hand on it (gripping it from the side, not just pressing down with the heel of my palm on the wrist rest area), it will just slide right off my lap whenever I shift position or cross / uncross my legs. Likewise, if my lap is not perfectly horizontal (say, if I'm sitting on a couch any way except perfectly straight), macbooks just slide off. The aluminum body is so slick that the only safe way to carry them with one hand is like you're carrying a high school microscope, with your hand cradled under it and it tucked securely against some part of your body, otherwise the laptop turns into "Bilbo Baggins Going on an Adventure" / "Why Can't I Hold All These Limes?". I dropped my first work MBP onto a brick fireplace from waist height, it landed on one of its corners near the hinge -- to its credit, the aluminum deformed a bit but it kept working. I don't even have dry skin (which I think would make this problem worse?). Compare these two points with thinkpads: black body thinkpads reflect more like 10% of incoming light, and they're matte so there aren't any particularly bad angles for light to hit the laptop. I never have to worry about my x1 carbon sliding anywhere; it stays put on my lap no matter what weird position I'm in or how I move. I can pick it up with a thumb and forefinger and not worry about dropping it / can treat it almost like a trade paperback for all the care that's necessary to not drop it. (This is all not even mentioning that I don't have to change the way I type or position my hands to avoid spurious trackpad input on a thinkpad. To begin with, the problem isn't nearly as bad because lenovo is thankfully ceding the trackpad size arms race, but I can also just disable the damn thing in the bios and use the trackpoint.)