So I choose OSX (and I also have no issues with the butterfly keyboards).Īs an IT Director who's managed multiple companies - each with a marketing department that always demands Mac's - I hear this statement a lot. I'm much more productive in OSX than Windows, and Im a pro-Microsoft guy writing. Now OTOH, if the complaint is about clinging to status symbol brands no matter the cost in wasted productivity, not sure this is the right forum to discuss such matters.
So vote with your wallet, this is the only language they ever seem to understand. It's always useful to keep in mind that (rather than our opinions on their designs) public companies only care about a single thing: $$. Yes, WineBottler does help with that sometimes, but at the end of the day it's about the software, not the OS.
Not to say anything of the cornucopia of fantastic software now available to me, compared to the lackluster offerings that run on OS-X.
Keeping the status symbol in the coatcheck hasn't been as difficult as anticipated, and Windows 10 or Ubuntu are pretty damn usable for most tasks. clickety-click.Īfter decades of supporting their hardware, including these fancy overpriced hipster-oriented designer laptops with as few ports as possible I've recently moved on to more practical offerings at down-to-earth prices, be it from Dell, ASUS or Lenovo. And over the years it's been getting progressively worse. This obsession with sleek form at the expense of (!) the purpose of the machine itself hasn't been something I've found very enticing. The author is a junior engineering program lead at Culture Amp, an analytics platform that specializes in staff surveying and analytics. This keyboard would be, by far, the part of the MacBook Pro that is used the most by everybody who owns one, and it is so poorly engineered for the pursuit of thinness. A company with more money in the bank than several countries combined. This keyboard is a catastrophic engineering failure, designed by a company that should know better. It feels like I am typing on a concrete slab. This keyboard has a key travel distance that, I am sure, is measured in microns or perhaps nanometers. I only care about it when I store it away, in my backpack. I do not care about the thinness of this device while I am using it. Maybe I use it on the couch from time-to-time. For the most part, it sits on one of two desks that I use or it sits on my lap on the train. I do not particularly care about the thinness of this device. Words like "times" that inexplicably get spelled like "timies", or "about" that gets spelled like "abouot"Īpple is all about the thinness of their laptops. Even writing this blog post now on the train and there's:ĭuplicated "o's" that I've had to go back and fix, or missing ones - guess how fun it is to write a book about a Toy Robot with this particular problemĪ Command key that registers 9 out of every 10 times So I've been using this computer as a work computer for almost 3 months now and, my god, the keyboard drives me mental. Ryan Bigg: I recently upgraded from a 2015 MacBook Pro to a 2018 MacBook Pro.