- I can't tell if my macbook is charging or not while the lid is closed. There is no light indicator - minimize/maximize buttons are very small given that I am using a the touchpad. I am not saying they are unsuably small but far from ideal. - If I fully deplete the battery. I cannot immediatly turn it on with adapter's power. Why? Every windows laptop can be run with adapter even with a dead battery.
> BSOD is a regular occurrence
I hate windows as much as the next guy, but are you really getting BSOD in 2025?
I like linux and I know its not exactly polished but it offers something as a trade off which neither MacOS nor Windows do.
Counter point: Light indicators are ugly and usually unnecessary. Most people charge overnight, and don't want/need a light in their face.
And if you really must have an ugly and un-necessary light indicator, Apple have an answer for that....
Do not charge off USB-C, instead buy an Apple magsafe charger. That comes with a little indicator light on the end of the cord.
Alternatively, if you are charging off USB-C all you have to do on a powered mac is to look at the battery indicator in the menu bar.
First you should not be depleting modern batteries, its not good for the battery health, or indeed storage health, recall that solid-state storage integrity is not guaranteed in the absence of electrical current (a reminder to those who have a habit of backing up stuff onto SSDs, unplugging them and forgetting about them for extended time periods).
Second, if you think about it, its a safety feature in to protect you from data corruption.
If they let you turn on a machine with a fully-depleted battery and you immediately yank out the power cord, then you risk data corruption.
Sure, modern solid-state storage (at least the high quality implementations) have power-loss-protection. But that relies on capacitors. And to charge up capacitors, you need what ... oh yeah, that's right, electricity .... ;-)
So that is most likely why Apple require you to have a minimal charge before allowing you to power-on from completely depleted.
And to be honest, what are you bitching about anyway. Most Apple devices I use only require a 5–10 minute charge from completely depleted to get you to the minimum required. So just go make a cup of coffee and remind yourself not to completely deplete batteries in the future.
I would remind those sorts of people of the 5 P's ...
Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance
Starting a zoom or presentation on low battery is just a fucking stupid thing to do. There's no other way to put it.
I think most modern devices already turn themselves off before reaching true ZERO.
> Second, if you think about it, its a safety feature in to protect you from data corruption.
No its to make sure that you can not use a perfectly functional compouter without replacing a battery once it has fully died.
> I use only require a 5–10 minute charge
Are you saying apple devices are not good for watching live content?
> You risk data corruption
With autosave (which most app have) data loss would be minimal.
Before I could afford apple products, from afar everything apple looked amazing but after using them I found out, Apple UI is just pretty and only slightly more polished than Windows.