Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro

Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro by TomVDB on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:15PM (#29145562)

Find me one laptop with a trackpad that works as well as a MacBook and we can talk.

I use a MacBook trackpad to make diagrams, for 3D modeling using Blender and FreeCAD, to draw schematics and route PCBs with KiCAD, and whatever else you’d otherwise do with a mouse, and it just doesn’t get in the way.

Over the years, I’ve been forced to use work supplied top-end Thinkpads, HP, and Dell laptops and none come even close to even the trackpad of my long retired, lowly 2009 MacBook Air 11”.

I don’t really care whether I use macOS, Linux or Windows: they all run the same applications. I also don’t care about the price of a laptop: what does it matter that a tool that I use day in day out for years costs $1000 more?

I care that it’s usable.

MacBooks are usable for things I use them for. The other laptops are not.

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Re:Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro by Uehreka on Monday November 08, 2021 @08:47AM (#29149205)

This right here, I got a Razer Blade from work last year, and found the touchpad so awful I assumed there must’ve been bad drivers installed. 3 driver installs later and I realized it just wasn’t as good as the MacBook trackpad, and I’d just need to pack a mouse everywhere I bring this laptop.

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