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For one, it tends to split group convos into random tabs at random intervals, black hole messages, crash randomly and silently and you don't notice until someone says you're offline(the window will still open! it's just hung), etc etc.
I've been sitting on my 2012 original retina waiting for them to sort this out. I've heard of the 15in 2016 model getting as little as 3 hours of relatively idle use(ie liveblogging), and my 2012 still lasts 5~ with a bajillion cycles.
This is categorically not true of apple or several other brands i've gotten gear this way from.
I will agree it was awesome on plane tray tables, but that was about the only "oh cool! obvious advantage!" location.
i found myself wanting a normal laptop that could hold itself up repeatedly, and kept switching back to my macbook pro
Unfortunately, it's saddled with probably the worst series of atom intel made, the original Z(with the awful powerVR gpu).
They still go for quite a bit on ebay, because people love the 1600x768 form factor. I had one for a while, but ended up selling it because i couldn't get over how bad the performance was(720p youtube was a no go, for example). The GPD is sort of a replacement in spirit, but i liked that form factor a lot.
Too many crap bidders, no way to block them. Ebays logic was that they "didn't want to discourage new users" or some nonsense.
Where is the 4k 17in MBP? The old one was 1920x1200, it would be a perfectly obvious upgrade
You can still watch netflix on an original Wii. That hasn't gotten any OS or software patches since like 2011. That's a long tail of legacy clients to have to deal with.
Additionally, group chats often split in to two windows where the conversation suddenly continues in a second thread even when no one joined/left... and then you try and reply and it jumps to another conversation on its own.
People in my office have recorded this because it's so obtuse and unbelievable.
I've had more than one surface, and quit using them every time because of how crappy they are to use on anything but a table. I've almost gone back a number of times for the reasons you mention, but know i would regret it at this point.
I find myself wishing the "book" and the "pro" were the same machine. Sometimes i just want a laptop, and sometimes the SP form factor is pretty awesome with how much thinner/lighter it is. It's never enough to get me back off of my MBP though.
(A friend of mine is about to order this, i've seen it, it's as awesome as you'd imagine)
Everyone i've talked to who got one laments the loss of magsafe, though. I've also heard at least one person offline say they were less interested in buying one because of that
There's one number to call, and they'll repair any part of the machine up to and including swapping out the whole thing. Anyone buying a machine that expensive they really need would(and should) be looking at 24 hour turn around on site service anyways.
And the only way to really get that is to buy a whole prebuilt machine from $BIGCOMPANY
We have those at my work, and we also have an iMac with a magic trackpad, and several of us have macbook pros.
It's a huge improvement, but it's maybe 75% of the way there. And the points at which it's NOT there are very noticeable and annoying. There's still regularly times where the trackpad just gets totally confused and you can't move the cursor for 1-2 seconds. Mehhhhhh
2.4ghz works perfectly, and always has. I think the real answer here is more dual band routers, even in cheapo ISP provided combo boxes.
The cheap CLA class doesn't feel that great inside either, and is really cramped. Plastic all over the place and weird design choices here and there.
They're on a much more level playing field here than they were in the model S price range, where it really did stick out like a sore thumb.
As a former POS engineer, this has been my gripe about these services from the get-go. Real payment processors, and POS software/SaaS vendors you... pay for guarantees about stuff like this, and have clear workarounds. Does it screw up sometimes? Yea. But you don't get opaque downtime like this, and you were given a clear workaround(and ALWAYS a clear offline mode you wont get locked out of flipping on, like the case here) in the first place.
This is a failure both on the customers side, and on squares side. They basically scaled a pickup truck up to a delivery truck without considering why a delivery truck was designed differently in the first place, at least in some ways.
This is an issue with a lot of weird or jokey project names, honestly.