I used to be able to slam an MBP down on the woodworking table, open it up and start typing. Now there is no slamming, because they flimsy. No typing near dust, because they get stuck in the keyboard. Every app is a single window, so you can't chat with two people at once. Everything is in the cloud, so you wait on your very fast computer to do networking all the f.in time (even opening Finder). The UI has lost so much of it's legibility that I don't know what I'm looking at half the time anymore. Active window? Maybe not? What does that label say? Why is this a modal? Where is the "don't ask again items" preference pane?
We have parted ways, I think. I'm not riding with them anymore.
Keyboard is/was a valid concern. But flimsy, I’m not seeing.
Pretty sure I could murder someone with my M1 MacBook Air, clean it, and then write code.
There used to be a thick glass panel in front of it, but no more.
Open your new MacBook Air, place a single grain of sand smack in the middle of the keyboard between the G and the H. Close the lid.
Turn around and sit on it.
Tell me all about glass then. If you record it I'll have a listen.
Alternatively, throw a pinch of sand on the keyboard, close the lid, bag the Mac. Now, with some vigor, take it out blindly by any corner and trow it down on the thick wooden table, slamming it with it's own weight.
A few times.
And tell me how that gentle test went for you. :)
This isn't a rare occurrence, I'd say ⅓ of my acquaintances do this. The power of marketing at its finest.