Comment by brobdingnagians
4 years ago
It's like being trapped in a beautiful plastic cage. I used a MacBook Air (2012) for years as my primary development machine and really loved a lot about it, and it had some fantastic apps in the environment like QuickSilver, especially since it just worked compared to some of the Linux distros I had before that. But I'm glad I jumped ship when mine went obsolete.
>> It's like being trapped in a beautiful plastic cage.
To be fair, it's like being trapped in a silver gray aluminum cage with uniform body and irreplaceable bars. I wish more companies would make a PC laptop that doesn't suck aesthetically. Even when they use aluminum, most PC manufacturers don't spend much time on designing a good keyboard (arrow keys not having the same shape comes to mind.)
The feel of the keyboard is far, far more important to me than the look. Lenovo Thinkpads (business class, not the consumer ones chasing after the foolish "thin" trend) are the only ones that have are the only ones that have a reasonable shape and response. This includes Apple, which tends to be one of the worst offenders in the feel of a keyboard. I want to have some amount of vertical movement to the keys, not to jam my fingers into a hard surface repeatedly.