[niemenmaa]

Quite many people are unhappy with their newer Macbook experiences! Sad to see the quality drop in Apple products.

I'll add mine to the list:

My 2012 MacBook Air has been my favourite laptop I used it for five years and my parents two after that. One of the best 700 hundred euros (student discount) I've spent. Then for my work I got previously used ~2014 MBP it worked well. Solid "Apple quality". Then I got an "upgrade" (i think it was 2018 MBP) and it was the most unpleasant experience I have yet to have with computers. Luckily I didn't have to pay for it, but still - so many problems that are unacceptable for any laptop. It really got me out of the Apple fanboy train.

- Keyboard didn't work if the computer got too hot (which it did) - Some buttons didn't properly as dust or some particles got under them - Same problems with the trackpad than the article writer - Don't even get me started with the touchbar (why?!) - Battery life disappointed as I was expecting it to atleast compare with the 2020 Air's (of course my expectations might have been the problem here) - If external monitors were hooked up and you woke up the laptop there as 25% that it froze completely and you had to reboot

The laptop got sent to maintenance - they dusted the keyboard but other problems persisted. After one year of that pain I went back to studying and bought used Thinkpad X220 and installed Arch. That is now my favourite computer!

Last month I bought XPS 13 for programming since x220's CPU doesn't support virtualization. It runs manjaro and is like 2014 MBP was - does the job really well. After finally going full into Linux world I wonder if I'll ever come back.