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Such details also annoy me, but this one would be very easy to fix with a semi-transparent sticker, or a marker.

If I'm buying a premium machine, I don't expect and want to mod it with $3 tape and ¢50 markers. It's like buying a premium car and installing an aftermarket instrument cluster because the OEM one is too bright at its lowest setting.

I agree, but reality is often different, even for cars. Sometimes because of incompetence, sometimes because of dark patterns. Many newer cars do have space for putting your phone somewhere on the middle console, but it's arranged in ways to make it impossible to place your phone in a way that would make it usable for navigation. Why? Because they desparately want you to use their own navigation setup (which probably costs extra too).

If we exclude a Dacia which lacked a screen and a radio, all the cars I have rented in the last three years had Android Auto and Apple CarPlay built in. Even though my phone was tucked there somewhere, I always used my phone's maps and other features while driving via the USB cable or wirelessly.

And, that wasn't half bad even. Did phone calls, used maps, listened to some music. Got the job done pretty smoothly.

Easier yet - it can be controlled in software. Turn it up, down, off.

No extra software required - uses the standard APIs.

The LED is the lining of the power button so it's not so trivial to fix without affecting the power button itself. It's quite an annoyance too I think.

Thin tape

Smudged adhesive, sticky button, a dislocated tape, dirt, ugliness, etc.

It's also not hard to fix in software, just like the original poster has done, without any ugly patches that can slide off leaving sticky residue

Write better notes, you've missed all the more important reasons!

The rest of them are just as fastidious if not more.

Lowest screen brightness and color correctness of the said screen are not trivial issues. I used to work in a dimly illuminated room during late nights, and any screen which can't do low-light properly is blinding.

Color correctness, even if you don't hit "calibrated pipeline" levels is extremely useful for seeing and/or editing photos. Even if you're doing this casually.

They aren't, otherwise you wouldn't have to pick the lightest of them and pick only 1

The lightest one? What about the display colour mismatch, which is literally one of the first things I calibrate away when I get a new laptop, even on macbooks? Imagine moaning about two displays from completely different manufacturers and production dates showing different colours...

Or maybe the auto-dimming feature which can be disabled by software?

Or the touchpad which is 'too sensitive when scrolling'....

> first things I calibrate away

How? Do you expect every user to have an easier access to color calibration hardware devices to fix this issue compared to a software fix they could find after some googling???

> auto-dimming feature which can be disabled by software

He also disabled the led via software, so you failed to point out why this one is easier

> the touchpad which is 'too sensitive when scrolling'....

How is this lighter? Touching the touchpad is a very frequent action, so the deficiency will affect you every day, and you can’t fix it by looking up some systemd service unlike the LED, and you can’t put a sticker on it to dim it. So how is an unsolvable frequent issue more trivial than a solvable one?

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