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I've looked at those. They are glossy. But that's not even the thing that turned me off. The keyboards did. One speck of dust and that thing gets stuck. The ke

by godDLL 5y ago

I've looked at those. They are glossy. But that's not even the thing that turned me off. The keyboards did. One speck of dust and that thing gets stuck. The keys have no travel, that's no good. And having typed on it a bit, I can attest there is not much difference between those keyboards and typing on straight up glass, feeling-wise. I love what they are doing with the CPU, GPU, no significant interconnect overhead so that everything is way snappy – like the big 2TB RAM machines I used to maintain back when I coded for a living. But they aren't thinking of me and people like me when they create those past-2015 products, let me tell you. There is much to hate about the current crop of them.

random_kris 5y ago
It is first MacBook for me, being a windows guy for whole my life. I started to love Linux few years ago for development and was using wsl fulltime since it was released few years ago. I started to hate slowness that this brings and overheating etc etc... Then I said to myself, you are a professional so get yourself a professional tool and then I decided to buy MacBook and God I am happy. It makes me so much more productive. The most important thing for me is that I can open my laptop and start working in 3 seconds. Without loading, waiting, something randomly freezing etc.. I have a good evidence for this effect being real. My git commit graph skyrocketed since I can open my laptop for 15minutes, do some work and then close it. With windows that was never the case. Either a long programming session or nothing
trevyn 5y ago
None of the M1s have the infamous glass keyboard; they switched back to the old style. (Which is still relatively low-travel, but much better than the glass one, and does not have dust issues.)
- godDLL 5y ago
  I've seen those and touched them. One speck of sand is all it takes, keyboard or screen. Bust. No thanks.

by godDLL 5y ago

random_kris 5y ago

It is first MacBook for me, being a windows guy for whole my life. I started to love Linux few years ago for development and was using wsl fulltime since it was released few years ago. I started to hate slowness that this brings and overheating etc etc... Then I said to myself, you are a professional so get yourself a professional tool and then I decided to buy MacBook and God I am happy. It makes me so much more productive. The most important thing for me is that I can open my laptop and start working in 3 seconds. Without loading, waiting, something randomly freezing etc.. I have a good evidence for this effect being real. My git commit graph skyrocketed since I can open my laptop for 15minutes, do some work and then close it. With windows that was never the case. Either a long programming session or nothing

trevyn 5y ago

None of the M1s have the infamous glass keyboard; they switched back to the old style. (Which is still relatively low-travel, but much better than the glass one, and does not have dust issues.)

godDLL 5y ago
I've seen those and touched them. One speck of sand is all it takes, keyboard or screen. Bust. No thanks.