I also use Windows for gaming and the built in mouse functionality is far from mind blowing. It works sufficiently, not great but good enough for day to day stuff when I'm not using the trackpad. I typically buy gaming mice that don't necessarily have Mac support and just let macOS handle the mouse. Are you trying to say there aren't also tons of mouse tweaking software for Windows and Linux? Do you even know what this app does? Who is complaining exactly? I think a developer identifying a weakness and building a tool to fix those weaknesses is great. I agree that MacBooks have gotten less “pro” and now seem to cater to college kids who probably don’t need them more than they do to folks like Digital Imaging Technicians working on movie sets, but they’re still quite popular for the latter, even if some level of Windows and Linux machines have started taking up some of the roles (especially for things like VFX, see eg ) and sound and music recording / production / editing (plus Windows has had Cubase for a very long time, and before that, plenty of studios had Cubase for the Atari 520ST and Atari 1040ST back in the late 80s). Plenty of the software that runs the internet is written, compiled, and tested on MacBooks, even if it may get rebuilt for production on some x86_64 server or AWS instance (possibly even an ARM-based Graviton instance). Docker works fine on M1 MBPs and it’s not much of a chore to target amd64 with a Dockerfile egįROM -platform=linux/amd64 python:3.7-alpine MacBook Pros definitely “do the trick” for hundreds of thousands of us software developers in Silicon Valley every day. Don't they have QA teams that tell them how bad it is? Haha, why is it so hard for OEMs to get the hint?Īt the very least, OEMs like Dell could try using a MacBook and mimic the trackpad. I wish someone would just make a shameless 1:1 rip off of the MBP with first class Linux support. The power adapter is enormous, heavy and essential. The trackpad is physically exhausting to use and the speakers sound tinny like I am losing consciousness. Aside from the battery life, it compiles things in literally half the time, IO bound tasks are, no exaggeration, an order of magnitude faster. It's mostly the trackpad that does it, I can use a MBP trackpad for a full 8 hour work day and never think about reaching for a mouse.īy contrast, my Dell is better for my workflow in every way. I dislike Apple and find a lot of their choices distasteful - but I just haven't been able to find a laptop that I could use portably that feels as nice (I like to work from cafes/libraries, so the docked experience doesn't matter - the Dell crushes in that context). Due to the M1 laptops being poorly suited to my workflows, I have now changed back and am on a Linux powered Dell Precision laptop and am overall happy with the decision - though I had to compromise on a few things. I used PCs for decades before transitioning to Mac based laptops for work which I continued to use for the last 6 years. What issue did you have pairing a Bluetooth keyboard in Windows 11? I've done that and had no issues even with ones that want me to enter a pairing code. They also for some mind boggling reason don't support volume control over HDMI/DP with most monitors which is infuriating.Īnd the fact you need to spend $2000+ to get a laptop from them that can handle 2+ external monitors is NUTS. And sometimes you have to use a 3rd party app to even enable Apple's HiDPI support on some displays because for whatever reason Apple hasn't blessed it.Īpple also removed sub-pixel rendering in 10.14 so on non-HiDPI displays text looks particularly bad compared to Windows or Linux. Windows does fractional scaling correctly, a straight line is a straight line, fonts are sharper and rendering 4K is always rendering 4K and not 5K taxing a crappy GPU. It's not as big of a problem anymore but on lower end Intel Mac GPUs like the 2018 Mac Mini scaling a 4K display to "Look like 1440p" takes more than the GPU can really muster and animations lag horribly and drop frames all over the place. To have it look really good you need a ~200ish PPI display which at 27" means 5K and all the added expense of that. For HiDPI because of the way Apple handles it something like a 27" 4K display (really the sweet spot of sharpness and price right now) will either have to be run at "Looks like 1080p" (which is huge at 27"), tiny native 4K or some non-integer scale leading to overall blurriness and problems from that (different thickness lines).
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