Comment by raffael_de
10 hours ago
Most of those advantages are practically irrelevant for the majority of users or a matter of having gotten used to things being a certain way.
10 hours ago
Most of those advantages are practically irrelevant for the majority of users or a matter of having gotten used to things being a certain way.
That just isn't true. Battery life, for example, is definitely not irrelevant for most users.
Mac battery life is insane - I agree. It is very impressive what they have done. Still, I prefer my ThinkPad running Arch even though it probably has 1/2 the battery life of my Macbook.
Most people sit at their desk with the laptop plugged into the socket and use the battery for meetings or in a cafeteria. Either takes maybe an hour or two, three hours tops.
So what? Most people don't care about battery, so let's just have a crap battery? That argument would work, if Apple released a super light laptop with a tiny battery, specially made for "most people who sit at their desk".
No, people do care about battery life. That's where Macs excel. (I'm saying this as a Thinkpad user, where getting 6-8hrs of battery is doable, if you don't do anything on the laptop).
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No, the touchpad alone puts it way above every laptop I’ve tried
The touchpad is great, yes, I like it, too. But I'm anyway mostly using mouse and keyboard and occasionally the 3-finger-swipe which is possible with Thinkpad+Linux as well since a few years. Thinkpads are also famous for their touchpad/trackpoint if one doesn't fancy using a mouse.
> I'm anyway mostly using mouse and keyboard
Have you considered that you're using the mouse because the touchpad doesn't work as well on any other OS?
It's not the hardware, it's the software somehow that makes the touchpad usable in Mac OS.
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