It’s kinda neat it can do that, I just can’t think of a good reason to bother. Can any of you? I mean would anyone complain if it “only” went to 150°?
Overall, it’s nice looking. I just found that one detail odd.
Yes, several. I sometimes use my laptop on my ... lap, and the 150 degree angle is not enough to get my gaze perpendicular to the display. Or I can use it while lying in bed/cough on my back and prop it on my lap with the display towards my knees and 150 degrees doesn't work.
But the most common daily use, I also bought one of those adhesive kick stands/feet from Amazon that lifts the back of your laptop off the table by a few cm, useful for cooling and for ergonomics by bringing the keyboard at an angle and the laptop screen higher up so you can view it while looking more straight ahead rather than hunched down looking towards the table to strain your neck and ruin your posture, and again, if your laptop only opens 150 degrees than you won't view the display perpendicularly but at an angle which sucks. 180 degree hinge means I can prop it up as high as I want and still view the screen at the right angle.
>I mean would anyone complain if it “only” went to 150°?
Yes, I only buy laptops that open >150 degrees which sadly automatically means no Macs. It's sad that Apple and others have conditioned users so much to only restrict themselves and their working positions to places that only accommodate the limited hinges of their displays, that somehow a rudimentary feature like a 180 degree hinge now baffles people and requires an explanation.
It's like learning to walk on one leg your whole life then asking people walking on two legs why they'd want that. Once you get to know this freedom, you can't go back to the old ways.
Like what's their problem? The manufacturers I mean. Why can't they all make their hinges 180 degrees? Are there users out there who would be bothered if their screen could tilt over 150 degrees, or does Apple think tilting the display more than 150 degrees looks ugly and ruins the product's sleek aesthetic in the Apple store? It just feels like a stupid arbitrary restriction and not a technical one.
the main benefit for me was always accident resilience. something could thwack a bezel and it would just lay flat rather than stressing the hinges.
it's also very handy in at-desk and road-warrior scenarios. since it can basically stand on its thin edge, you can position an adjustable laptop stand to hold the laptop nearly vertical. puts the screen in a much more neck friendly position and frees up more of the desk/table for a full-size keyboard and mouse.
Now I mostly use it for comfortable position in bed, as many others say.