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0 pointsmonopoledance5y ago0 comments

Is it true still, tho? I got the impression there is a lot of myth around Macbooks, which kindof wasn't updated since 2015.

A lot of folks around me simply skipped the new Macbooks, since touchbar, keyboard, ... , were just unusable for them.

Then you had the major issues with dust getting into the keyboard messing it up, the screens dying after weeks of usage, USB things...

Now the Big Sur update bricks your machine, if you reset it, because there is a firmware bug. The M1 Macbooks are distroyed by USB-C PD hubs (not just the "cheap ones"; as if that would have been excusable..). Plenty users reporting the machines to panic once or twice a day.

People seem to be happy with the old non-retina Air's, the pre 2016 Macbooks, but I don't see this at all for the recent stuff. Apart from the M1 performance hype, which of course is legit, but doesn't cancel out the "just works" issues.

Seems rather like a long, long experimental transition, then reliable experience.

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Jtsummers5y ago· 1 in thread

I have the '17 MBP (because I wanted something smaller, I was traveling a lot and it replaced a 15" 2012 MBP). It's been perfectly usable, though I did have to take Apple up on their keyboard repair service because they did screw that up. The rest of the system has been entirely fine, and since the keyboard repair there have been no issues. As I recall the keyboard issue applied to the 2016-2018 laptops. If my only complaint is, "the 's' key got stuck and they had to replace the whole keyboard for free, which took 24 hours at a local repair site", then I'm not too worried about it. It's annoying, but compared to literally every HP or Dell laptop I've owned, it's a far better situation. Though I hear some people had even worse experiences than my stuck 's' key.

monopoledanceOP5y ago

Ultimately I think it's hard to come to a conclusion, since few people stick to a particular brand outside the Apple ecosystem. I think the only other bubble would be Thinkpads. So continuous comparison seems flawed anyway. On the other side, Mac users seem to be weirdly accepting of things not working out, the "you are not using it right" meme holds some truth from my observation.

Personally, I have bad experiences with newer Thinkpads and "QC" on dead pixels (lol, one shop won't sell to me anymore, because I keep finding dead pixels), which is why I was considering an M1 Mac for the first time. Sadly/gladly I found out about the various bricking issues in time. Let's see how Apple is going to handle these in the next months...

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