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> There's an ongoing joke in the military, MIL-SPEC just means it's a piece of crap that's going to break pretty soon. Yeah well, my M1 MacBook Air just friggi
by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> There's an ongoing joke in the military, MIL-SPEC just means it's a piece of crap that's going to break pretty soon.
Yeah well, my M1 MacBook Air just friggin' screen-died overnight ten days ago. On the other hand my military grade LG Gram is still working fine after years and years.
I can hold the LG Gram's screen with both hands and start distorting it and it keeps working flawlessly: the screen is very flexible. That's how it was demo'ed to me and that's how I always demo it to people.
That and it's lighter than a M1 MacBook Air (yup).
It doesn't have a retina display. But it still works.
I think Apple screwed up big times and I think these M1 laptops would never have passed any MIL-SPEC. They're brittle little things.
- dereg 4y agoTo counter anecdote with anecdote, my M1 MBA is still kicking and has survived untold abuse. I carry the computer by the display, have dropped it multiple (over tens) times on to hardwood, linoleum, and concrete floors from 3'-4' high. The computer was on the ground and I accidentally dropped my phone on it, which left a nick in the screen but nothing greater. I spilled an entire pitcher of water on the keyboard and every component is working as usual. So maybe my computer would pass MIL-SPEC ten times over.
- SpelingBeeChamp 4y agoI haven't spilled anything on it, but I have a mid-2013 MacBook Air running Sierra. It still works great, and the hardware doesn't have any defects that I know of. The most surprising thing about using that machine is that it's shockingly fast. And I own an M1 Ultra Mac Studio.