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I'm convinced that the UI and more importantly the touchpad is what really drives continued interest in MBPs as developer laptops. If another vendor makes a sol

I'm convinced that the UI and more importantly the touchpad is what really drives continued interest in MBPs as developer laptops. If another vendor makes a solid touchpad Apple might suffer a bit. I've yet to find one that comes close.

_0w8t 5y ago
A touchpad on the latest ThinkPad X1 from Lenovo is much improved. While it still does not match Apple, a better keyboard more then offsets it. What is puzzling is the screen. Lenovo does not have high DPI mate screens and their non-mate screens are way more reflective compared to Apple offerings. Why cannot they order screens from the same vendor as Apple?
- akvadrako 5y ago
  Matte screens are just a coating -- you can get the same effect buying an after market film.
  - _0w8t 5y ago
    It is not the same. I have used one 5 years ago on Dell XPS 13. It still reflected more then on ThinkPad X1. And the whole experience was worse then on MacBook Pro.
    - akvadrako 5y ago
      It is. Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_display > Matte displays feature a light-scattering antireflection layer You can turn any glossy screen into a matte one, but not the other way around.
  - ncmncm 5y ago
    Immediately orders one
treis 5y ago
I feel like I am in bizzaro world with Macs. People say they have good UX but my experience has been different. When I started work today one of my external monitors was missing. A few unplugs/plugs fixed that. Then I was in launchpad and accidentally tried to add an app to whatever that home screen is called. Somehow that caused the icon to get stuck and show on top of all applications. I had to kill the dock to get it to go away. And twice my dock has migrated to a different monitor and I've had to go into settings to move it back. Admittedly, it seems like my laptop has a case of the Mondays because it's an unusually bad day. But none of that happens with Linux on my desktop. Also, with the M1 chips Docker is excruciatingly slow and having to resort to Rosetta is an unattractive alternative. Personally, I don't get why Linux isn't the standard. But then basically every tech company out there is Mac first or Mac only so realistically I'm probably the problem.

_0w8t 5y ago

A touchpad on the latest ThinkPad X1 from Lenovo is much improved. While it still does not match Apple, a better keyboard more then offsets it. What is puzzling is the screen. Lenovo does not have high DPI mate screens and their non-mate screens are way more reflective compared to Apple offerings. Why cannot they order screens from the same vendor as Apple?

akvadrako 5y ago
Matte screens are just a coating -- you can get the same effect buying an after market film.
- _0w8t 5y ago
  It is not the same. I have used one 5 years ago on Dell XPS 13. It still reflected more then on ThinkPad X1. And the whole experience was worse then on MacBook Pro.
  - akvadrako 5y ago
    It is. Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_display > Matte displays feature a light-scattering antireflection layer You can turn any glossy screen into a matte one, but not the other way around.
- ncmncm 5y ago
  Immediately orders one

treis 5y ago

I feel like I am in bizzaro world with Macs. People say they have good UX but my experience has been different. When I started work today one of my external monitors was missing. A few unplugs/plugs fixed that. Then I was in launchpad and accidentally tried to add an app to whatever that home screen is called. Somehow that caused the icon to get stuck and show on top of all applications. I had to kill the dock to get it to go away. And twice my dock has migrated to a different monitor and I've had to go into settings to move it back. Admittedly, it seems like my laptop has a case of the Mondays because it's an unusually bad day. But none of that happens with Linux on my desktop. Also, with the M1 chips Docker is excruciatingly slow and having to resort to Rosetta is an unattractive alternative. Personally, I don't get why Linux isn't the standard. But then basically every tech company out there is Mac first or Mac only so realistically I'm probably the problem.