Dear Apple,
Its okay to not have to make your laptops ultra skinny if it means you avoid these sort of issues.
Sincerely, A customer waiting to buy a decent laptop that is sturdy and comfortable to type on.
Its okay to not have to make your laptops ultra skinny if it means you avoid these sort of issues.
Sincerely, A customer waiting to buy a decent laptop that is sturdy and comfortable to type on.
Just to iterate on the kind of abuse mine has already endured - without even the slightest dent or crack:
1) I put the Macbook on a chair and, without thinking, put a blanket over it while cleaning, causing my girlfriend to sit on it with her full weight for over 2 hours
2) I have dropped the laptop two times while carrying it
3) The laptop has fallen off my desk also two times because of the lack of Magsafe
4) The laptop was, in its silicone case, in the passenger seat in a 25-30mph car crash, got shot full force against the middle console
Not a single dent. Just some scratches on one edge from the car crash.
Pleasantly surprised so far - knock on wood.
Dear Apple, your keyboard looks like an almost perfect arrangement of squares. The only problem is that it's not ergonomic. Humans prefer keys that are not flat, but slightly concave, for a more organic feel (for example). Style over function/ergonomics is not going to win me over.
Surely I would prefer Dell for the support, I have 1 year of premium assistance (if there is a fault a technician will come where I am to make the repair, I don't have to bring it to a store that takes days to do the repair on a computer that I need for my job) and with like 20$ more I got the coverage even for accidental damage.
Apple doesn't have correct policy, first it doesn't recognize in warranty faults that should, and secondly repairs outside the warranty period cost more than buying a new computer, and it doesn't sell spare parts to others that are not Apple authorized repair center (that needs to apply the policy of Apple otherwise they will not send the spare parts): something called mafia.
Sure but now I have to use Windows if I do that, unless there are Thinkpads that come with support for Linux from the OEM.
I recommend taking a trip to best buy and feeling around the windows models on display to inspire more confidence in your new MBA :)
I can easily contort/bend the frame with my hand if I wanted to. I'd have no confidence in this thing actually being on the go (in and out of bags). Even just a fall from the couch could RIP this thing is how it feels anyways. I could be wrong of course. But, I do feel that this vs quality is at odds and this one has stepped into the other end. I hope I'm wrong of course as I have never had to deal with getting an Apple product repaired and the whole idea of it is foreign to me (again, 2013 is my last purchase other than phones and since then I read about all the issues with keyboards, etc and it seems like they just don't give a damn anymore).
Please buy a MacBook Pro - the new M1 and M2 models are nice, thick, sturdy, comfortable, fast, and have a beast of a battery.
The Macbook Air line is specifically for the non-Pro consumer who values portability and size over everything else.
Sincerely, Anyone that can Google this.
Which is all types, and the majority of models, they've produced since the aluminum 12" G4 Powerbook. YMMV.
Comfortable? The key travel is 1mm. I'd hardly call that comfortable, that's a concession to thin-ness.
And they're not that fast just looking at power specs - the new processors are impressively efficient, but if they prioritized professional performance and effective heat dissipation over being skinny, just imagine what that efficient processor could do with 70% more power dissipation/heat removal.
Also, "fast" and "beast of a battery" may be true for now, but in a few years, when memory and storage are cheaper and faster, you won't be able to update, and when your battery starts to degrade you won't be able to click in a new one. Again, because long-term performance, upgradeability, and repairability have been sacrificed for the sake of thin.
tl;dr if you have a use case where it's a significant difference you already know that.
No, my company provided work M1 Pro 16” isn’t going to beat my 5950X custom built tower or some of the high end Ryzen 6000 series laptops, but that’s fine. It’s still very fast and responsive while being inaudible 99% of the time, never hitting lap scorching temperatures, and having battery life measured in double digits.
I suspect that an unwieldy, hot, loud desktop replacement M-series machine would be very niche.