Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by atmosx on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:47AM
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The butterfly keyboard was by all means crappy. The 17” M1 keyboard is really good though. Granted that I am not a keyboard expert but I use a mechanical keyboard with my iMac.
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by pixelesque on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:57AM
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The newer Thinkpad keyboards are getting worse unfortunately: I have a T480S which I really like the keyboard of (other than the annoying positions of the pageup/down keys), but I tried the T14S Gen 3 and preferred the M1 MBP 14's keyboard, so went with that (battery life and screen quality also played a part)...
The 2016-2021 Butterfly keyboards were bad, but in my usage of the M1 MBP macs they're good again now.
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by Reason077 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:00AM
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The crappy "butterfly" keyboard that Apple put on Mac laptops for years was indeed very crappy, but that ended when Apple redesigned the keyboard before the M1 came out. The current keyboard is great.
Strangely mac fanboys always make sure to carefully avoid the subject of their crappy keyboard.
It is worth using a lenovo over a Mac for the keyboard only. Who cares about a trackpad one barely use on a decent desktop. Mac users overly rely on a good trackpad because their desktop is terribly user-unfriendly. I spend all my time on the keyboard, not the trackpad.