[random3]

This is the most elegant critique to the current line of Macs I've read so far. I hope it reaches the right eyes and ears.

While Steve Jobs was unique, I believe Apple has the right people to continue delivering the same great products. They just need to let them do their jobs.

This said, I'm looking forward to test a Pixel 2 Chromebook.

[jseliger]

This is the most elegant critique to the current line of Macs I've read so far. I hope it reaches the right eyes and ears.

I tried a 12" MacBook. It was a gorgeous machine and wildly fast given its size.

But its trackpad is a grotesque monstrosity, and while I writing I too often activated it by accident, flinging the cursor to some distant spot by accident. Then I'd have to stop, recover, and reset.

I can't figure out what usability case would mandate a trackpad that large.

I returned the computer and suspect that the last generation of 13" MBPs may become "legendary," because they don't make the ginormous trackpad error.

[mgkimsal]

> I can't figure out what usability case would mandate a trackpad that large.

I couldn't figure it out either. Did they have a bunch of focus group feedback saying "this trackpad is too damn small... moving my wrist 1/4" to touch the trackpad from a resting spot is way too much work, I'd rather have my wrists touching the trackpad"? That's the only feedback I can see them getting to justify it. That or... it's a general trend towards the ios-ification of mac, and pushing towards "touch interface" for everything (except, of course, on the actual screen).

[ksec]

That is exactly the problem with current Apple, it felt like they are doing this for the sake of it, not because it is in any case better.