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No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple's anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can't even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don't even own it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It sucks completely if you try to use it in different way so if you don’t like magic mouse (which sucks) and don’t like using their laptop keyboard (which sucks) and touchpad you will not enjoy it.

This isn't true for me. I use the same (cheap Logitech) mouse with Win11, Linux, and my MBPs. What's meant to be the issue? It's just like every other setup I've used in the last 30 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can't stand their keyboards. The keys have virtually no travel on them, they're all low profile, and for some insane reason that I can't work out, because isn't their core market supposed to be audio engineers and graphic artists, the keyboards have no buttons for bindable macros.

Meanwhile I can get an excellent keyboard with decent travel and macro buttons for very little money. I get why the keyboards have to be low profile on laptops but why do they also have low profile keyboards for desktops? They are objectively the worst possible keyboard for a desktop. But they look sleek and modern so I guess that's all that's important. And because they are anti everything they are anti-choice, so I don't get an alternate option, and have to buy an independent keyboard.