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This is really funny considering how high people were about their MacBook pros during this era.
by soperj 4y ago
This is really funny considering how high people were about their MacBook pros during this era.
- darkteflon 4y agoFunny, I remember we all complained about this issue ceaselessly.
- soperj 4y agoI remember hearing people complain about their keyboards, not that they couldn't video conference.
- darkteflon 4y agoIn just about any HN thread on Apple’s Intel-powered laptops, you’ll find plenty of actual users complaining about excessive fan noise and getting heat-soaked under load - compilation and video calls being a big one - with the problem being greater for the higher-powered i7 and particularly i9 machines. We were definitely complaining.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoI can believe in the conspiracy theory that i9 models were released purely to show how bad Intel processors were and to make Apple Silicon look better.
- darkteflon 4y agoHaha, I probably wouldn’t go that far, but yeah. I had a 15” i9 and they definitely weren’t worth the premium. Doesn’t help that it had what was probably the worst Pro chassis in the past decade or so.
- giantrobot 4y agoWith COVID lockdowns a huge population of people suddenly started video conferencing with Zoom/Teams/etc. If pre-COVID you only conferenced occasionally with those apps or used FaceTime or some other conferencing better using hardware encode/decode the keyboard was likely your biggest problem.
- soperj 4y agomight be it, definitely wasn't hearing from people as much post-covid.